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Moving In

This is amazing. Truly amazing. I had no clue anything like this could happen. What am I going to do?

Oh. My person says I’d better explain what’s going on. I’ll put up a picture, because I hear that people say a picture is worth a thousand words.

I guess you understand now. Just look at that. Isn’t it terrible?

What, person. I have to explain it in words? But I just put up a thousand words. It’s pretty clear to me. That picture explains everything.

Oh, all right. I guess that picture wasn’t enough. I have to give you some words anyway. I’ll try to make it less than a thousand though.

That place you see in the picture – with the walls and the doorframe and the rocks to sit on – is where the litter bugs hang out.

It looks like those litter bugs are moving in permanently. This is terrible! Truly terrible!

What am I going to do?

I might have to move in myself to keep those litter bugs away.

Well, I’ll be. Those litter bugs picked up most of their litter. Maybe if all litter bugs made houses over their trash piles we’d have less litter in the world.

Woo woo! I’ll have to promote that. I may have just solved the world’s trash problem.

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Posted by Bongo on October 27, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Litter Bugs, Pets, trash

Today I found more of those people on my trails with the long things and the square things. You know, those paint brush things and canvases. My person says the people are artists with the Sedona Plein Air Festival and they’re in town all week.

Well this morning my person left me home and went to see all the artists painting at the Sedona Heritage Museum. She said it was a show for people, not dogs. I think she’s wrong and she should have taken me.

But three of those artists are pretty special because they came to my trails to do a show just for us dogs. They let my person hang around and watch, but I don’t think she would have been allowed if it wasn’t for me being there too.

I made two new dog friends and we got our own special show.

I’m not sure though if my new friends got tired, or they liked the lady artists better, or they just found the smells on the ground to be better than the art show.

I’m going for the smells. Maybe those artists could throw a little jackrabbit scent into their paintings.

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Posted by Bongo on October 26, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: art, En plein air, Paint, Pets, Sedona Arizona, Sedona Plein Air Festival, Trail, visual art

Flower Unseason

25 Oct

I’m working on another mystery, and as usual, this one has to do with my trails. You see, a couple of days ago my person and I were trekking through a part of my trails that we don’t usually go on, and we saw something strange.

We saw flowers.

That wouldn’t be so unusual in itself, except that it isn’t flower season anymore. Of course my person had to stop and take pictures of them. At least there were some weeds to munch on next to the flowers. Otherwise I would have been upset about having to wait while my person took pictures – again.

But I’m still working on that mystery. Why were those flowers there at the wrong time of year? There’s something really suspicious going on here.

Wait! Something’s coming to me. When we saw those flowers, weren’t we on our way to see the artists who were painting on my trails?

That’s why we saw those flowers – because we went a different way so we could get to where they were.

And what were those long sticks called that those artists were using?

That’s it! Paint brushes.

And what are those flowers called?

Yup. Indian Paintbrush.

I’ve got it! I’ve solved the mystery.

Those artists left those flowers there. They were painting pictures of red rocks and I bet that since they were in Sedona they wanted to use Sedona paintbrushes. But then when they got all the red paint they needed, they left those Indian paintbrushes in the ground.

Woo woo! Detective Dog figures it out again.

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Posted by Bongo on October 25, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, Indian Paintbrush, paintbrush, Pets, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Trail

Tangled with Excitement

24 Oct

I finally saw it. And I got so excited I got all wound up – and now I’m tangled up.

Do you see it? You might have to look really hard. Behind me.

I’ve been looking all over for this. I’ve heard about it this time of year. Some places get tons of it, but on my trails it’s hard to find.

All the trees around here are green, and they stay green all year. The only things that have a lot of red on them are the rocks, and they stay red all the time. They don’t suddenly explode in red at certain times of the year.

So I’ve been looking everywhere for some fall colors. My person says there are some in other parts of Sedona, but on my trails they’re hard to come by.

So I’ve been looking, and I finally found the spot. It was hard to find. It’s not on the main part of my trails. But I found it.

The fall color spot.

At least, the fall color bush.

Well, the fall color part of a bush.

Anyway, here you have it.

Happy fall everyone!

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Posted by Bongo on October 24, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: autumn, Autumn leaf color, fall, leaves, Pets, Trail

Long Things and Square Things

23 Oct

I see the strangest things on my trails sometimes, but today I found people doing strange things. Usually the people I see are busy walking on the trail, but these people weren’t. I’m not sure what they were doing, but I guess my person wanted to know too so we went over to investigate.

Sorry person, you cannot share my Detective Dog hat with me. That’s for me alone, even if you do help me with the investigation.

We wandered off the trail and went over to where these people were, and we found a bunch of guys mixing colors with long things and then wiping the long things onto some square things.

It didn’t make any sense to me but my person talked to them and found out the guys were part of the Sedona Plein Air Festival.

I’m not sure what that festival is, but I always thought we had pretty nice air here. I didn’t know it was plain. And why would people want to have a festival for plain air anyway?

We hung around for awhile and my person talked to the guys and looked at their square things with the color on them. I’m not sure what she was looking at. I think they had used up all their rags and those square things were all they had left to wipe stuff off on.

But then something happened and I decided that having a festival for our plain air wasn’t so bad after all.

Because I made a new friend.

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Posted by Bongo on October 23, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: art, Outdoors, Pets, Plein Air, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Trail

Sneaking Out?

22 Oct

There’s somebody in my yard. And they’re not supposed to be there.

It’s some of those coyotes – or javelinas.

And I’m going to get ‘em.

I’ve got to be quiet though. If I start barking I’ll wake up my person and then I’ll never get to them.

They’re out this way. Maybe I can get through this window. I’ve got to get up on this table to get to it.

Oops, I knocked the stuff down. I’ll just drag this pillow and the sheet to the center of the room so it’s out of the way. The note cards can stay where they fell. They’re little. I don’t think my person will notice them there.

This window’s not working. I can’t seem to get through it. What about the door? No luck here, but I messed up the doormat. I’d better put it in the pile too.

Hey, wait a minute. I think there’s a secret way out through the bathroom. Let me check.

What’s this bathmat doing in my way? I bet it’s covering the secret entrance. I’d better get it out of here.

Nothing.

I’ve got one more option and these boxes are in front of this window. How am I going to get them out of here?

Wow! They tear apart pretty easily.

Oh oh. I hear my person. She never comes out to this room in the middle of the night. What kind of coincidence is that? I didn’t bark or anything so there’s no way she could know I was here.

Hey person, I’m sure glad you decided to come out here. Check it out. I was just straightening up a few things for you.

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Posted by Bongo on October 22, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: mischief, Pets, stuff

Quail in the Desert

21 Oct

Mount Sinai (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Hey person, haven’t Moses and all those Israelites been hanging around Mt. Sinai a long time? Are they stuck there forever?

He did? My person says that God gave Moses the instructions for building a tabernacle, and they hung around Mt. Sinai while they were building it. And when they got it done the Lord covered it with a cloud, and at night the cloud looked like fire so they could still see it.

Wow! Was that kind of like a bonfire over the tabernacle? Could they roast wieners in it?

I’m listening, person.

Finally, after about a year, the cloud lifted. That was the signal for the Israelites to set out.

So the Israelites broke camp and headed out, but after about three days they started complaining. They were tired of the manna they’d been eating for the last year. They wanted meat.

I guess they’ve got to follow that cloud so they can roast wieners again.

What do you mean that’s not in the story? They wouldn’t be whining if they could roast wieners.

Okay, I’ll listen.

God got angry with the people for complaining, and Moses was totally frustrated. Moses told God he didn’t want to put up with the whiners anymore. They wanted meat and he couldn’t give it to them.

So God told Moses to tell the people to get ready to eat meat, because he was going to give them meat for a whole month – so much meat that they would get sick of it.

I would never get sick of meat. Can I go where all that meat is?

Oh, it was a long time ago? Can you give me some meat then?

I am listening. But I could listen better if I had some meat to chew on.

Moses couldn’t see how there would be enough meat for all those people for a month, but God assured him that He could do it. He sent a wind to drive quail in from the sea and it brought quail down all around the camp to about three feet above the ground. There were quail as far as a day’s walk in any direction.

But the Lord’s anger burned against the people who had complained and He struck them down with a severe plague.

Hey person, that plague sounds nasty. I wasn’t complaining about meat. I only asked nicely. But I’m perfectly happy with my dog food.

But you could give me some meat if you feel like it.

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Posted by Bongo on October 21, 2012 in Bongo, Dogology, humor

Tags: Bible, dogs, faith, God, Israelite, Lord, Moses, Mount Sinai, Pets, Quail

You’re Not Supposed to Yell

20 Oct

I don’t believe it! I just got back from the dog hotel – again. And this time my person didn’t give me enough warning so I could put it on a blog post. I mean, she didn’t even get her suitcase out until after she dropped me off. Of all the nerve! I wanted everybody to feel sorry for me – but how can you feel sorry for me if you don’t know what’s going on?

At least she picked me up after only a couple days this time. But then she kept yelling at me. You think she’d be really excited to see me – but she yelled at me instead. I got so excited when I got into the car that I started loving on the back seat – and my person yelled at me for it.

And then, after we got home, I got caught red pawed. My person went outside to get the mail and I figured since Scratchy hadn’t eaten all his food in the whole time I was gone that I’d do him a favor and finish it up for him. My person came back in the house while I was just getting started.

Come on, person. You take pictures of everything else. Get your camera out and take a picture of me with my paws up on the counter. That’ll give me time to finish this.

But, no – my person wouldn’t go for it. Sorry, Scratchy. I guess you’re going to have to eat that old food.

Then to make matters worse, my person made me take her for a walk before I had a chance to take a nap. Something about it getting dark soon. I could have led her just fine in the dark. I got her back though, because I got some good loves on the trail and she didn’t get any.

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Posted by Bongo on October 20, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Cat food, dog hotel, Pets, Scratchy, Trail

Jet Trails

19 Oct

My trails are not the highest trails around. They’re underneath another set of trails. Jet trails.

Lots of jets fly over my trails. You can see where the setting sun is lighting up one of the jet trails in the top of this picture.

Usually those jets don’t bother me – I hardly notice them at all. Except when it’s cloudy outside. I guess they figure that I can’t see them, and they want to make sure I know they’re there anyway. So they turn up their jet noise, and it sounds a lot like thunder.

When that happens I have to calm my person down. She gets all excited when she thinks it’s thunder, and I’m afraid she’s going to grab me by the leash and drag me home. I have to convince her that it’s not thunder at all.

But there are a few of those flying things that don’t seem to understand that they have to stay on the trails. I get in trouble if I wander off the trail. Shouldn’t all the flying things stay on their trails too?

This one looks like it’s having a race with the clouds. I’m not sure who’s going to win, but I bet if that flying thing stayed in the jet trails the clouds wouldn’t have a chance.

I can see the jet trail in this picture and this flying thing is way off of it. Actually, I think this flying thing lost its way in time too. There must be a time warp somewhere in those jet trails, and I bet this flying thing popped out of it and got confused.

Wait a minute! This one looks like it’s trying to come down and steal my trails. I hope someone tells these flying things that if they want to be flying things, they’ve got to fly.

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Posted by Bongo on October 19, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: biplane, Cloud, Contrail, Helicopter, hot air balloon, jet, Pets, Thunder, Trail