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Safe Walk?

I decided to take my person for a walk a little earlier than usual today.

We had the trails to ourselves – except for the lizards and birds, that is – because nobody uses my trails in the middle of the day in the summer.

The clouds were covering the sun and it was not quite as hot as usual.

But that’s what I was watching.

The clouds.

Pretty harmless so far.

I think we can keep going.

The sun’s still around.

Let’s walk further.

We’d better hurry.

That cloud’s beginning to look like something.

I’m not sure what, but it’s something.

Ummmmm…

Alright, I’m outta’ here.

That’s enough walking for today.

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Posted by Bongo on August 15, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: clouds, Pets, Photography, Thunder Mountain, thundercloud, Thunderstorm, Trail, walk

White Fluffy Clouds

08 Jul

Check out these white fluffy clouds.

They look pretty, don’t they?

And how can such a pretty thing be anything but harmless?

Well, I’m here to tell you – looks can be deceiving.

Every year about this time, these clouds start showing up.

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They even sneak up from behind the big rocks.

And these clouds are up to no good.

They’re full of all kinds of mischief and devious things.

Things like thunder, and lightning.

And every one of them is out to get me.

It might not be so bad if they showed up every once in awhile.

But they hang around my trails and my house for almost three months every year.

I’ve got to figure out something.

There must be some way to get them to go away.

If anybody has any ideas please let me know.

Because I’ve just about had it with these soft looking, fluffy clouds that aren’t so soft and fluffy.

See, I told you.

Their true nature is finally coming out.

Dark and nasty looking.

That’s what they turn into when they give off their thunder.

Oh no! There’s more over there.

I’m outta’ here!

Could somebody come get me when it’s all over?

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Posted by Bongo on July 8, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: clouds, Lightning, Pets, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Thunder, Trail

The Rain Changes Everything

07 Jul

It rained last night.

Really hard.

For a long time.

It’s been a very long time since we had rain.

So today when I went out on my trails, everything looked different.

The first different thing I found was my girlfriend Lucy.

The rain must have brought her out, because I haven’t seen her in a very long time.

And then I saw…

Hey person, look over there.

No, not that direction.

There’s nothing for you to take pictures of that you would be interested in looking at in that direction.

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There have been no flowers on my trails for awhile now.

It’s been nice.

But a late blooming prickly pear popped out after the rain and of course my person had to take a picture.

At least there were only two blossoms on all of my trails so I got my person moving along fairly quickly.

And then I saw it!!!

My puddle!

My puddle had returned!

It’s been so long since I’ve seen my puddle that I almost forgot about it.

But my person said we couldn’t stay forever – it was getting dark.

So we saw a few ho hum things on our way back from my puddle.

Javelina tracks in the mud.

And some clouds.

Boring.

Click here to find more mischievous pets.

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Posted by Bongo on July 7, 2014 in Bongo, humor

Tags: clouds, javelina, Pets, prickly pear, Puddle, Rain, Trail, walk

What’s the Mystery?

02 Apr

What mystery?

Where?

I met one of my neighbors on my trails today and he said there was a mystery.

I’m trying to figure out what he’s talking about.

How can Detective Dog solve a mystery if he doesn’t know what it is?

Maybe I’ll figure it out if I put on my Detective Dog hat.

Okay, where’s that mystery?

My neighbor was talking about what?

The mystery of the clouds?

If they’re not on my trails and I can’t smell them, then it must not be a mystery worthy of Detective Dog’s time.

Besides, what’s so mysterious about clouds?

Strange cloud shapes?

I’m leaving the mystery of the strange cloud shapes to my neighbor.

I’m heading back inside. It’s awfully windy out here.

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Posted by Bongo on April 2, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: clouds, Detective Dog, Mystery, Pets, Photography, wind

No Snow

28 Jan

You see this picture here?

It didn’t happen today, or this week, or even this month.

This snow happened a very long time ago.

I haven’t had any snow to play in at all this winter.

And some of my friends have way more snow than they want.

You’d think it could get evened out a little better.

So I’m trying to figure out how I can get some of those clouds down here to play in.

They look like they might be as much fun as snow.

It looks like God’s paintbrush almost ran out of paint when He was brushing those clouds across the sky.

Oh wait, I think I’ve figured out how to get those clouds down here.

Almost anyway.

Hey, what’s this?

Isn’t that little colored spot in the sky called a sun dog?

Now that’s my kind of cloud.

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Posted by Bongo on January 28, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: clouds, Pets, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, snow, sun dog, Trail

Erasure

21 Dec

Today there wasn’t a single car parked by my trails.

This doesn’t happen very often.

I had to check under the rocks to make sure there were no cars hiding there.

But there weren’t.

And we didn’t see any people or dogs on my trails either.

I don’t know what happened to everybody.

But I think they were all erased.

Because I caught somebody in the act. Somebody trying to erase my rocks too, and they hadn’t finished yet.

I’d better be careful so nobody erases me.

Because my trails are extra fun today.

For some reason there are more puddles than usual.

I love splashing through all the puddles – and tasting them too.

And today I found something really unusual.

I hope they weren’t behind all that erasing, because I’ve never seen anything quite like them on my trails.

Maybe they’re here checking out what’s happening, and they’re here to help.

But what if they’re the cause of the erasures?

I think I’d better keep my distance.

Watch out everybody.

Stay away from those bubbles!

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Posted by Bongo on December 21, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: clouds, Hiking, Outdoors, Pets, Puddle, rock, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Trail, walk

Creepy Cloudy Days

27 Nov

Cloudy days can be creepy here.

You never know what you might step on when you’re creeping along in a wash.

Hey, wait a minute!

Person, you put up the wrong picture.

I don’t get creeped out in my wash. I like stepping in puddles.

Put that other picture up.

The light goes away on cloudy days.

Or it’s up way too high to reach.

This isn’t right either.

I can find my way by smelling things.

I don’t care if there’s not much light.

You’ve still got the wrong picture, person.

That’s better. That’s what I’m looking for.

Or is it?

That looks like you got some black dots on your lens.

I think you need to clean your camera, person.

I think you cleaned your camera the wrong way. Now those black dots are bigger.

Oh yeah, that’s what I was talking about.

On cloudy days the ravens fly low over that rock on my trails.

They always look like they’re up to no good.

At least they don’t come down and dive bomb me but they sure flock together on days like this.

I tried to talk to those ravens and find out what they were doing up there.

I even threatened to get my Detective Dog hat and investigate.

But nothing seemed to work.

I don’t think those ravens understood what I was saying to them, because they kept repeating the same word over and over again.

I asked them if they were going to come back every cloudy day and all they said was…

Nevermore.

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Posted by Bongo on November 27, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Arizona, clouds, Nevermore, Pets, raven, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Trail

What Happened to the Sky?

21 Nov

I know this isn’t so strange for most of my blogging buddies this time of year, but for me it is.

What happened to the sky?

I’ve been looking at blue sky almost every day, but today it’s gone.

Where’d all that gray come from?

And it’s soggy too. It’s a good thing I’m a water dog.

I’ll take water in any way, shape, or form – soggy or not.

But I don’t know what to do with my person.

She’ll look for any excuses to get her camera out and she found some today.

Go ahead person. Keep taking pictures here.

I found some good weeds to munch on.

I finished those weeds and had to drag my person on.

That worked until she found a lost little mushroom that had popped up out of the soil.

It looks like that poor mushroom got dimples from shivering so much. All the other mushrooms hung out when it was warmer.

I finally convinced my person that that mushroom was fine all by itself, but when I stopped in one of my favorite sniffing spots she found something else.

I’m not sure I want to hang around these things for very long.

Some of them have some pretty mean looking teeth.

Let’s get outta here!

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Posted by Bongo on November 21, 2013 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Agave, clouds, fungus, manzanita, Mushroom, Pets, Photography, sky, Trail

Into the Clouds

28 Jan

We’re going up where, person? To the top of Sugarloaf? But person, we hardly ever go up there and it looks like it’s starting to disappear. What happens to us if we’re up there and it disappears?

I’m not going up there.

You see this? There’s water here. There’s never water on my trails except sometimes when my puddle shows up.

You go and disappear on Sugarloaf. I’ll be up a creek if you want to find me.

Wait a minute. I said I was going up this creek. Where are you taking me? We never go this way.

See person, you shouldn’t have gone this way. If that cactus hadn’t been there to stop you, you would have slipped all the way down the hill in that squishy mud. You didn’t get any pricklers did you?

Do you think you can pick those pricklers out at home?

I’m feeling all washed up.

What!? We’ve got to keep going?

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Okay, I think I’m in the clouds now.

Can you see me?

You mean I haven’t disappeared yet?

Good, because I’m ready to go.

What do you mean, this isn’t the right way to go?

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Hey, look at my puddle! Why didn’t we just come here? I’ve never seen it this deep before. Do you think the deepness has something to do with those boys who dug the dirt out of it?