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Cactus Alert

I really can’t figure out my person sometimes. My trails are full of pricklers. You’re supposed to stay away from them, but lately my person has been stopping and taking pictures of them.

Come on, person. Let’s get on with our walk. What do you want pictures of those darn pricklers for anyway? They’re here all the time. It’s not like they’re something special or anything.

I’m really losing my patience, person. Can’t you at least just click and walk?

Do you believe it? She’s stooping down to get closer to those pricklers.

What was that you said, person? I thought it sounded like “Ouch!”

You what? You got pricked? See, I told you that would happen. Will you listen to me now?

Oh no, now what are you doing? There aren’t even any cacti here. Well at least you won’t get stuck.

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

Tags: Cactus, Pets, Photography, prickly pear, Trail

Bugs or Mice

22 Aug

Strange things have been happening around my house lately. I know things happen on my trails, but not in my house. I’m not supposed to have to put on my Detective Dog hat in my house.

First, I heard my person complaining about some bugs that she didn’t like. I’m not sure why. There are lots of bugs around here and usually my person isn’t bothered by them. It was something about putting mud on the stair railing and making funny little mud pies in the yard.

At least they weren’t tracking mud on the carpet. I get in trouble if I do that.

Then my people made a bunch of racket under the house and they didn’t even let me come join them. I had to stay in the normal part of the house. Now there are bags of stuff in my back yard. I don’t know why, but it’s cramping my Frisbee style.

But today was the strangest of all. Some guys were hanging out outside our house all morning, making all kinds of racket. I don’t know what they were doing, but I think they were up to no good.

My person didn’t seem to mind though. She even talked to them.

When I looked outside I saw that strange thing in the picture. I’m not sure what it is. Maybe a cross between a mouse and a bug.

I’m afraid that maybe my people took all the bugs out from under the house and filled those bags with them – and then those guys filled up the space under the house with mice.

I don’t know what I’m going to do. I only have one cat to take care of all those mice. I really don’t want to have to get more cats.

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

Tags: bugs, Cat, mouse, Pets

Too Dark

21 Aug

This time of year my person and I usually go out on my trails when it’s almost dark. That’s because it’s too hot during the day, but when the sun goes down it gets really nice. But it’s too dark to take a picture.

So how am I going to prove that I went out and saw so many of my dog friends today. I guess they all had the same idea we did.

First I saw one of my neighbor dog friends. I don’t get to see her very often because she lives way down at the other end of the street.

Then I saw a little dog that was so little she had to be carried. I guess her tiny legs couldn’t go that far. What seems like a few feet to me must have seemed like miles to her.

Then there was my bike dog friend. This little dog is always running behind his person who is riding a bike. He never stops to say hi because he’s too busy keeping up with the bike.

A brown dog got off the trail when I showed up, and then my person made me get off the trail for two more dogs.

I know you’re not going to believe I saw so many dog friends within five minutes of walking on my trails, but what can I say. It was too dark to take a picture.

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Posted by Bongo on August 21, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: dark, Pets, Trail

Do We Really Have to Walk?

20 Aug

Maybe you can’t hear it anymore person, but I sure can. I don’t think I want to take you for a walk today.

Fine, I’ll go – but I’m not taking the lead. You’re going to have to be the one who decides where we go.

I don’t care if the trail is skinny here. I think this is a good time to practice my heeling. I’m really good at it, aren’t I?

I know this is the way back to the house, but that’s the way the thunder is coming from. Maybe we could go on a little longer walk.

Hey person, look who it is.

It’s sure a good thing I decided to take you for a walk today. Otherwise we would never have seen Ghost Dog. It’s been months since we’ve seen him.

Hey Ghost Dog, come back!

He hasn’t changed a bit. There he goes disappearing again. I guess he still likes to live up to that name I gave him.

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

Tags: Ghost Dog, Pets

Plethora of Plagues

19 Aug

This must be it, right? God is really going to give that mean old Pharaoh what for. What’s he going to do?

Person, I’m listening. I can’t wait for God to give Pharaoh what for. So what did he do?

Moses went back to Pharaoh again and once more told him that God said to “Let my people go.” But Pharaoh still wouldn’t listen.

So what did God do?

No way! That’s not fair. God put a plague on the animals and all of the Egyptians horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, sheep, and goats died. Person, I don’t like that plague at all.

But none of the Israelites animals died? Okay, I think I’ll go hang out with those sheepdogs that belong to the Israelites.

But Pharaoh still wouldn’t let the Israelites go? I don’t believe it. He should be very upset about losing his animals.

I’m listening, person.

The Lord told Moses and Aaron to take handfuls of soot from a furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in front of Pharaoh. God would make the soot turn into fine dust all over the land and cause festering boils to break out on men and animals.

When Moses did this even those pesky magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils. But Pharaoh still wouldn’t listen.

Maybe Pharaoh wants God to turn him into a punching bag.

I am listening. What happens next?

God told Moses to tell Pharaoh that He could strike him and his people with a plague that would wipe them off the face of the earth, but He wanted to show His power so that His name might be proclaimed in all the earth. So this time God warned Pharaoh to have everyone bring their livestock and everything they had in the field to a place of shelter, because He was going to send the nastiest hail storm they’d ever seen. Some people feared the word of the Lord and did what He said, but others ignored Him. The hail came down and destroyed everything except the crops that hadn’t yet come up. But there was no hail where the Israelites lived. Pharaoh asked Moses to stop the hail and then he still wouldn’t let the Israelites go.

Person, do I have to give Pharaoh what for myself? Nothing God does is getting to him.

Okay, I’ll listen. But Pharaoh better let those Israelites go soon.

God sent Moses to tell Pharaoh that if he still wouldn’t let his people go He would send locusts that would eat everything the hail hadn’t destroyed. Pharaoh’s officials had had enough and they told Pharaoh to do what Moses asked.

Pharaoh told Moses that he would let the men go worship God, but the women and children would have to stay. That wasn’t good enough so Moses stretched his hand out over Egypt and the Lord sent a wind that blew in so many locusts that the ground was black, and they ate everything. Pharaoh asked Moses to take the locusts away so God sent a wind that blew every one of them away.

Hey, I bet those locusts would have been tasty treats.

Person, Pharaoh won’t listen. Why should I listen?

What? A plague might come on me? Okay, I’m listening. I’m listening.

This time the Lord told Moses to stretch out his hand to the sky so that darkness would spread over Egypt – darkness that could be felt. And it was dark for three days. No one could see anybody else, or leave his place. But there was light where the Israelites lived.

And Pharaoh told Moses that his people – even the women and children – could leave to worship the Lord. But they had to leave their flocks and herds behind.

Moses told Pharaoh they needed some of the livestock for worshipping the Lord, and until they got there they wouldn’t know which ones.

And God hardened Pharaoh’s heart again and he told Moses to get out of his sight and not to come back. He said the day Moses saw his face again he would die.

Hey person, I bet God is going to give Pharaoh a really serious what for, but I think Pharaoh is in the dark about this.

Back on His Word Again (bongodogblog.com)

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Posted by Bongo on August 19, 2012 in Bongo, Dogology, humor

Tags: Bible, dogs, Egypt, faith, God, Israelite, Lord, Moses, Pets, Pharaoh

That’s as Far as I Go

18 Aug

That does it! I’m not going any further. We’re going back.

I’m not one to shorten a walk on my trails, but enough is enough. You wouldn’t believe what my person did. We’ve been having that rumbly thunder stuff all afternoon and I’ve been curled up in my hallway hiding under my blanket. But then you know what my person did? She made me go outside and that thunder stuff was louder out there. I mean, it boomed.

I did need to go outside so I didn’t argue at first but we could have gone back in the house instead of heading out to my trails. I tried to get away from it

but it was everywhere.

So I finally had to dig in and put my foot down.

And then we still had to go back through it.

I hurried as fast as my person would let me.

But I did have to stop and check where that thunder was coming from.

Once I reached my yard I pulled my person into the house.

I’m now safe and snug inside my hallway under my blanket.

But I still wish that thunder would leave.

P.S. I take no credit for those dings at the end of my hallway. They were all caused by old thunderstorms.

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Posted by Bongo on August 18, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Thunder, Trail

Dream Come True

17 Aug

I can’t believe it! This just happened to me a few days ago and now my person did it again. She dropped me off at the dog hotel!

I knew something was coming up because her suitcase came out this time. But where do you think she was going? To see my younger person in his new apartment. That one he got so he could go to that college place. He’s my younger person, so why don’t I get to go? I could go to college too.

I thought I’d be at the dog hotel forever. It seems like I usually am when I go there, but my person picked me up and I only had to stay there one night.

So we came home and I was taking a serious nap like I always do when I come home from the dog hotel, when somewhere in a dream I thought I heard a familiar sound.

But it had to be just a dream because that sound wasn’t here anymore.

I woke up just in case and the sound was still there. My younger person’s car!

How could that be? He went away to that college place. I ran to the door and in he came.

And he gave me loves! I guess that college place did my younger person some good. My person says he takes classes there. He must be taking one on how to love your dog and he had to come home to do his homework.

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Posted by Bongo on August 17, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: college, dog hotel, dream, Pets

Happy Blogiversary to Me!

16 Aug

Woo woo! Today is my blogiversary! That means I’ve been blogging for a whole year now. I’m not sure how long a year is, but my person says this year goes from thunder season to thunder season. I guess that means we’ve had one snowy season, one windy season, and one season where every day is perfect out on my trails.

I don’t care much about numbers, but my person wants me to tell you that this is my 367^th post. There’s an extra one in there because February had an extra day this year. I’ve written (well, my person helped) over 95,000 words. I’m not sure how many that is, but it sounds like a lot and I’m amazed that you’ve been reading them.

I thought this would be a good time to tell you why I have this blog. In case you haven’t realized it yet, I sometimes get into mischief. My person decided it was better to laugh at my mischief instead of crying about it – or getting mad at me. I’m sure glad she decided that. Anyway, she started posting funny things about me on her Facebook page and soon her friends that hadn’t even met me were asking her how I was doing when she saw them. Hey, I was famous before I even had this blog.

My person decided she needed to be writing on a regular basis and that maybe I should be writing too, so her Facebook comments morphed (did I write that word?) into my blog. I thought I would run out of ideas after about a month, but God has been bringing me so many adventures that I’ve had something to write about every day.

What I didn’t realize when I started blogging was that I would make so many friends through my blog. I’ve got some great friends that have been with me since almost the beginning and more that have come along throughout the year. I want to thank those of you who have stuck with me while my person has been doing this “busy” thing and hasn’t had time to visit your blogs very often. I hope she unbusies herself soon, but she keeps having more things come up.

All I can say is she’d better let me keep taking her for walks on my trails.

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Posted by Bongo on August 16, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Blog, Blogiversary, Facebook, God, Pets

Flying Away

15 Aug

Things have been flying around doing strange things on my trails today. If you look really hard and long at this picture you will see a little white dot around the middle of it. It’s a helicopter, and it hung out in that same spot for a long time.

And then it flew away.

And after the helicopter left we spotted a couple hawks talking back and forth to each other.

And one of them flew away.

And the hummingbirds were flying every which way. Two of them buzzed my person. Right next to her face. And then they flew away.

I wish I had my own camera so I could have taken a picture of that. Note to self: convince person to get me a camera.

And then the most amazing thing happened. That helicopter that had flown away flew back.

I hope someone tells that helicopter that this story is about flying away – not flying back.

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Posted by Bongo on August 15, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: hawk, Helicopter, Hummingbird, Pets

Award Hoard

14 Aug

I can’t believe it, person. You mean to tell me you’ve been hoarding all my awards since March. What will all my friends think who gave me those awards? They probably think I forgot about them. And now everybody will think I’m this famous, awesome blogger because I get so many awards, but most of my friends probably got lots of awards too. They just posted them more often. On second thought, I kind of like that famous, awesome blogger thing. Never mind, everybody. Just pretend I got all of these awards last week.

First, I want to give a delayed – in some cases very delayed – thank you to all my friends who took the time to give me awards. All of them have great blogs, so if some of them are new to you I hope you will click on their link and check them out.

This will be a colorful post because people and dogs like giving colorful awards – so here they are:

The Sunshine Award came from my friends Diane and her dog Lola at Diane’s Kitchen Table, Bella and DiDi at Paws to Talk, Jet at Hey it’s Jet Here, Dianda at Cats n Co, Angels Whisper, The Thriving Pessimist, Angel and Chaos, and Jessica at I Adopted a Dog.

The Versatile Blogger Award was given to me by The Thriving Pessimist, Bella and DiDi at Paws to Talk, and Lounge Lassie.

One Lovely Blog Award comes in multiple varieties. I received one from Jet at Hey it’s Jet Here and from Fluffy Popcorn.

This one came from Zen and Genki and the Thriving Pessimist.

I received this one from Bella and DiDi at Paws to Talk and Angels Whisper.

The Beautiful Blogger Award came from Monica and her dog Henry at Monica’s Tangled Web.

The Very Inspiring Blogger Award was given to me by Zen and Genki, Chuck and the Collies at Collies of the Meadow, and The Thriving Pessimist.

This award is a lot of fun. It’s the Hot Potato Award from Bella and DiDi at Paws to Talk.

Not So Fancy Nancy is a fairly new friend. She gave me the Reader Appreciation Award.

My good friend Bassa gave me the You Make Me Shine Award. Bassa was one of my first blogging friends when I started blogging and has been an encouragement to me ever since.

Jet and Misaki both gave me the Blog on Fire Award.

Bassetmomma and her two dogs Fred and Gloria honored me with the Sisterhood of World Bloggers Award – or maybe that one was for my person.

This award is really unique. It’s the Beautiful Karma Award from my friend Jaz.

Lazy Hippie Mama gave me the Tell Me About Yourself Award so I guess I have to tell seven things about myself.

For some reason my person won’t leave me in the yard alone. I’m not sure why. I don’t jump the fence every time.
I love to get loves from cute girls.
I love to catch Frisbees, balls, and anything else someone will toss my way.
I’m terribly afraid of thunder.
I was a rescue dog. My people adopted me from the Humane Society of Sedona and gave me my forever home.
If I could be anywhere in the world it would be on my trails.
I have two girlfriends, but I haven’t seen either one of them for a long time.

I was also tagged by Bubba, my dog friends Bella and Beary, and their mama at Bumpy Road to Bubba, and by my friend Cee at Cee’s Life Photography Blog. I’m supposed to answer some questions and since Cee made up a set of questions I thought I’d answer those.

1. Where do you want to retire?

My trails in Sedona are the best place I can think of.

2. Which country/city in the world (that you have never been to) would you most like to visit and why?

I want to visit Chandler, AZ because my younger person just moved there.

3. If you could give $100,000 dollars to one charity, what would it be?

A charity that helps rescue dogs.

4. What is your favorite item of clothing and why?

That would have to be my Anxiety Vest that helps calm me during thunder storms. I’m wearing it right now.

5. Do you take the shampoos and other sundries from your hotel room when its time to check out?

My person has never taken me to a hotel room – but I would for sure take any dog treats.

6. What made you smile today?

Dog treats and a walk on my trails.

7. For your computer Mac or PC?

I’m confused, but my person says she uses a PC to type up my blog.

8. Do you plan out things usually or do you do them more spontaneous (for example if you are visiting a big city you don’t know?)

I’m totally spontaneous.

9. What is your favorite comfort food?

Dog treats.

10. Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?

Elevator?

11. What chore do you absolutely hate doing and you can’t say clean the bathroom or any part of it?

Having to do my business when it’s thundering.

I am so worn out now. This is probably the longest blog post I’ve ever written and I don’t even begin to know how to sort out who to pass all these awards on to. I have too many good blogging friends and bunches of them have already been mentioned as they passed these awards on to me. So if you have managed to read this post all the way to the end and you haven’t yet received one of these awards, please consider it yours. I’m going to take a nap.

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Posted by Bongo on August 14, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Award, Pets