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Under the Tree

Around Christmastime my person receives large cardboard boxes in the mail from her sister and brother. The boxes are filled with smaller boxes wrapped in brightly colored paper – mostly red and green. My person used to put the smaller boxes under the Christmas tree and leave them there until Christmas Day.

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Sometimes my people would visit their family when it wasn’t Christmas. On the way between my person’s parent’s house and her sister’s house is a candy store and my person would stop there and buy malt balls for her sister. Then my person’s sister discovered that a grocery store near her house had very good malt balls, so when my people visited her she would have malt balls for my younger person.

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It was my first Christmas at my house, there were presents under the tree, and Scratchy and I were the only ones home – and something under the tree smelled very good. So I sniffed around and found which package that smell came from.

It didn’t take much to tear into that package and the contents tasted extra special. Don’t worry younger person, I left you the malt ball wrapper.

I’m not sure why, but my person never leaves brightly colored boxes under the Christmas tree anymore.

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Posted by Bongo on December 19, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Christmas, Christmas tree, Pets

It’s at the Mall!

17 Dec

My people left me again today. They both took off and left me alone in the house – well, alone with Scratchy, if you can call him company.

They were gone for awhile and then they came back and my person showed me something. I couldn’t believe what they showed me. It was amazing!

My person said they went to a mall to go Christmas shopping. I didn’t know what a mall was so my person told me it was a place where you can buy lots of things. I asked her if you can buy dog things there and if they went Christmas shopping for me. My person wouldn’t tell me. No fair!

Well, my person said when they went into one store in the mall they saw it. They saw my name on big signs all over the place. I’m so excited! That means that my blog has gotten so famous that people are advertising it in the malls. I hope my people will take me with them to that mall. I think I might have to make some public appearances.

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Posted by Bongo on December 17, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Christmas, Pets, Shopping mall

Suds

16 Dec

Today I was walking along on my trails minding my own business when suddenly I saw it. It couldn’t have been snow – the rain from the last couple days washed away the little traces that were left. It was something more unusual that that.

My puddle, which had been getting pretty scungy, now had water flowing into and out of it and it was much cleaner. But then, when I passed by my puddle and followed the little stream running away from it – I found it.

At the bottom of a rock, sitting there in all its white foaminess, I found a pile of suds. At first I thought it was snow, but it was much too frothy for that.

So maybe it wasn’t the water running through it that cleaned up my puddle. Maybe, just maybe, someone gave my puddle a bath. I never heard of giving a puddle a bath, but here you have it. First class evidence.

Or maybe someone thinks I need a bath, and they put those suds there so I would scrub myself before heading back home. No, that can’t possibly be. It’s got to be the puddle they were cleaning. I wish I had a camera hanging on a nearby tree. I want to know who that person was that gave my puddle a bath.

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Posted by Bongo on December 16, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Hiking, Pets, Puddle, Trail

Famous

15 Dec

I think my person is famous and she didn’t even tell me. When we go on the trails near our house we see lots of people and dogs. Most of them come to the trailhead in their cars and we don’t know them, but my person says hi and I sniff them as they pass.

Some people and dogs live in the neighborhood so we see them on the trail all the time. I recognize the dogs, and my person recognizes the people because we share the same trails a lot.

Well today we were walking along and we passed two people. We stopped and said “Hi” and I got some loves. I always like that. Then the man asked my person if she worked at the post office. Well, my person used to work at the post office and that man had been her customer.

I know all the trail people that my person knows, so if someone that I don’t know on the trail recognizes her, doesn’t that make her famous?

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Posted by Bongo on December 15, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Post office, Trail

Chasing Robins

14 Dec

For the last couple of days the large puddle on my trail has been occupied when we walk toward it. By the time we get there everyone has scattered. Flown up into the trees to get away from us. My person was disappointed because she wanted to get pictures of those birds hanging out around my puddle. I just wanted to chase a few.

Those birds have red breasts and I don’t see them around here very often. My person said the birds are robins and she used to see a lot more of them when she lived in Seattle. She thought it was strange that birds were migrating this late in the year, so she looked online and found out why. She says robins stay wherever they can find food – so some don’t migrate at all, but many have to leave their breeding grounds in winter since there’s not as much food around.

Okay, so much for Bongo facts. When we came back home today we found more robins in a neighbor’s yard. My person got a picture of one but it wouldn’t let us get very close. My person says she’ll Photoshop the robin into the puddle for me.

I don’t think that’s quite the same. I haven’t figured out how to chase a Photoshopped robin.

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Posted by Bongo on December 14, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Bird, Pets, Photoshop, Puddle, Robin

The Christmas Elf

13 Dec

Ever since my younger person was little my family had a Christmas tradition. As soon as the tree went up a special visitor came to their house every night. That visitor was the Christmas Elf. The elf would leave candy for my younger person in special containers under the Christmas tree. A couple days before Christmas the elf would even leave some small gifts.

My younger person used to look forward to getting up in the morning and checking to see what the Christmas Elf had brought him. It was kind of like a mini Christmas.

That all changed when I came to live here. I’d been here for several months before Christmas finally came around so I was pretty much part of the family by then. Well, they put the tree up and that night the Christmas Elf showed up. There were chocolates here and there under the tree. They smelled so good and since they were left where I could reach them I figured they must be for me – so I ate them. Mmmmm delicious!

The next day I didn’t feel so good and my person noticed that all the candy was missing. I didn’t get in much trouble because my person figured the natural consequences of my actions were punishment enough (What did I just say? I was sick and that was bad enough.)

I was never tempted by chocolate again so I guess you could say I learned my lesson. Actually, I’d probably gobble it right up if I ever found any chocolate, but that was the last time the Christmas Elf ever came to our house. I’m not sure where he went, but it isn’t here.

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Posted by Bongo on December 13, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Christmas, Christmas Elf, Pets

Unwelcome Visitors

12 Dec

I don’t bark very often – unless someone I don’t know comes into my yard. Then I’m going to give that trespasser what for and let him know he doesn’t belong there.

Last night was one of those times. I heard someone out in the yard and I gave a warning bark. I don’t know much about time, but my person says it was around 4:00 in the morning. Well that warning bark didn’t work. Whoever it was out there didn’t leave – so I barked some more. And I barked again.

I guess I woke my person up because she came out to see what I was barking at. She opened the blinds to see who was out in the yard and said she didn’t see anything. That changed quickly. We both saw them at the same time. Not one, but two of them nonchalantly walking around the yard.

I got really excited and started jumping at the window blinds so my person raised them for me. She didn’t even yell at me when I got up on the back of the couch.

They had elliptical bodies, short stubby legs, and big snouts. My person says they’re called javelinas. They look kind of like pigs, but they’re not.

I finally barked enough to scare those javelinas away. My yard seemed to be popular though. Awhile later I had to get up and bark at a howling cat. I’m sure glad I don’t have to get up early like my person does. She’ll be okay though. She wasn’t the one doing all the work.

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Posted by Bongo on December 12, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: javelina, Pets

Strange Behavior

10 Dec

My person behaved very strangely today. She got up while it was still dark. Sometimes she does that, but this time she put on her hiking boots and started heading out the door. Well of course I wasn’t about to let her go without me so I got up too.

We headed for the trails and it was still so dark my person needed a flashlight. And she was stopping and taking pictures. What the heck? I think there’s something wrong with my person. I’ve never seen her act this way.

We started heading toward the trail that goes up Sugarloaf. Then my person changed her mind. She said something about the moon hiding behind Thunder Mountain when we walked that direction. Since when has she ever cared where the moon was before?

I don’t know what had gotten into my person because then she took me up toward a ridge but we weren’t even on a real trail. Come on person – there is a trail up here where you don’t have to walk right next to cactus and jump over rocks. You just have to go back down to the road first.

We hung out on that ridge for awhile and my person took more pictures, but she said she needed to get a better camera – and a telephoto lense (whatever that is). It started getting light and my person said we could go back home now – that the moon had sunk behind Thunder Mountain right before it went into total eclipse.

I’m not sure what she was talking about, but by then it didn’t matter. All I cared about was getting back to my warm bed – and the rabbit that ran across the street in front of us.

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Posted by Bongo on December 10, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: eclipse, Hiking, Pets, Thunder Mountain, Trail

Me – Scary?

09 Dec

Shortly after my person and I hit the trails it started raining. It was cold too – cold for us, that is. But we’re troopers so we headed on out. We could have gone back home – it wasn’t far – but what fun is that?

I didn’t think we’d see anyone on the trails. Nobody much comes out when it’s rainy and getting dark.

Well, my person was taking some pictures of the disappearing rocks before they disappeared completely in fog and I was hanging out on the trail waiting for her. Very patiently mind you. I heard some footsteps coming toward me and around the bend here comes a guy running along on the trail. He was pretty cool, but right behind him here comes the good part.

Behind that running guy was a little black dog – about the size of Scratchy. No, that dog was smaller than Scratchy because Scratchy is a pretty big cat. And that little black dog was afraid of me.

I wasn’t doing anything. I didn’t think I looked that scary. No dog’s been afraid of me before – but that dog was. He wouldn’t go by me until my person grabbed my collar and pulled me aside. Then he crept by on the far side of the trail. Slowly, slowly he crept until he made it completely past me. He went a little ways and then looked back to make sure I wasn’t following him. Then off he ran after his person.

I wonder what he’d have done if my person had let me run after him?

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Posted by Bongo on December 9, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Trail

Where are the Toys?

08 Dec

Since we’ve had snow in our yard and I’ve been stopping to eat it whenever I go outside I’ve been forgetting to do something. I can’t carry my Frisbee around and eat snow too, so I have to put my Frisbee down somewhere. Then I forget to bring it back in.

That doesn’t do me much good when it’s time to go out again. My person is supposed to grab the Frisbee so she can toss it for me. She keeps telling me it’s already out in the yard. She could go out there and get it, but she doesn’t.

I’ve got to have something with me when I go outside so I grab one of my squeaky toys. When I’m heading out the door my person tells me to drop it. She says it’s an indoor toy, and of course I’m very obedient so I drop my toy. My person didn’t tell me I couldn’t pick it up again.

I’ve just got one problem now. I haven’t been able to talk my person into getting me some more indoor toys.

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Posted by Bongo on December 8, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Frisbee, Pets, squeaky toys, toys