Day two at the dog hotel and another photo turned into a painting.
Here I am in colored pencil.
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Dog Hotel Paintings – Day 1
Do you believe it?
I got all excited when my person told me to get in the car this morning.
I should have suspected something when I saw the suitcases.
I was hoping to end up somewhere adventurous and fun – but here I am at the dog hotel.
And I can’t even tell you about my adventures here, because if my person finds out that I have fun sometimes she might make me stay longer.
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And I don’t like it here that much.
So here’s the deal.
A couple weeks ago my person went to a camera meeting and they had a drawing for some photo programs.
And my person won!
She won a program called Snap Art that makes photos look like paintings or drawings.
So you get to see me in art all week.
It looks like my person spent hours with her brushes, but she really only spent a few minutes on the computer.
So here’s the first one.
This is me in impasto (a technique where the paint is laid on thickly).
Butterflies and Birds
What a terrible day!
My person put on her shoes and I thought she was going to take me somewhere.
But she put me in dog jail instead.
And she left.
She does that all the time but this was different.
I just knew she was going somewhere special.
And she didn’t take me.
Her camera got to go though.
Somehow I think that camera is more important than I am.
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So if you want to see what her camera was up to you can look down below.
But don’t tell my person that my younger person came home early and let me out of dog jail.
And don’t tell her that I got to go for a walk with Toby.
I said don’t tell.
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Do you believe my person wanted to take pictures of butterflies when she could have taken pictures of me?
She even found an angel butterfly.
I’m the perfect angel. Where are the pictures of me?
But to make it even worse, she had to rub it in with some pesky birds.
I think I’ll go over to Toby’s house.
Mischief on Me
Today is Monday Mischief Day and if it was up to me I wouldn’t have a thing to write about today.
After all, I am the perfect dog.
I never get into mischief.
Well, if I do it’s all Scratchy’s fault.
But this weekend my people were totally full of mischief.
They locked me in dog jail and went off hiking without me.
I can’t believe they didn’t take me.
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And they used some excuse about me going over the cliff.
Well yeah, there was water down there that time.
I wanted to get to the creek.
I won’t go down a cliff with no water at the bottom.
But not only would my people not listen to me, now my person is stealing my blog so she can post pictures on it.
And I’m not in a single one of them.
Talk about rubbing it in.
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Trail Block
There she goes again.
Taking pictures of flowers.
I’m in trouble from now till the end of summer.
There’s much better things to do than make your dog sit around and wait just so you can take flower pictures.
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Didn’t you hear me?
I said there’s much better things.
Like maybe you should take notice of what’s going on around you.
Like this, for instance.
Just look at this!
Some do gooder is trying to block up my trails again.
They seem to do that all the time.
If there’s two ways to get somewhere they decide you only need one way and they block one off.
It doesn’t matter that everybody’s had those two options for years.
Don’t they know that variety is the spice of life?
Hey person, aren’t you going to do something about this?
Because this do gooder only blocked off one of the entrances to this trail.
So if I enter the trail on the unblocked side – I’ll eventually come around to this blocked part.
And if I’m an obedient dog that obeys all the trail blockings I won’t be able to cross over so I can continue on down the trail.
Then what do I do?
Hey person, if you take a picture of those flowers you’re going to have to cross over this blockade.
No Fair!
Sometimes life just isn’t fair.
Like today for example.
I got stuck in my kennel all day.
All day, mind you.
While my person went off and had fun all day.
And then she had to show me pictures to rub it in.
She hung out with ducks.
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I don’t know why she didn’t take me.
I could have gone swimming and duck chasing all at the same time.
I would have broken up that fight.
But I guess my person didn’t like the duck violence because then she started checking out a crane.
Something was chasing that crane off.
I’m not sure if it was the duck fight or my person’s camera.
So my person left those birds and found more fun stuff – without me.
I bet I could have gone for a ride in that pink car.
Or maybe not. I guess if the car took off they’d have to change the name of that road.
But here’s the worst part.
My person actually hung out with other dogs – without me.
At first I thought she went to visit my friend Kevin…
But my person said there was no way she could have gone to Japan and back in a day.
I’m not sure I believe her.
Curly Competition
I thought I was safe this time of year.
No wildflowers are blooming, so my person isn’t getting her camera out every few minutes and making me wait while she takes pictures.
So I couldn’t understand why she pulled her camera out.
I mean, it’s the middle of winter – well, I think it is. The calendar says it is.
So what is there to take pictures of?
Except me, of course.
And I wasn’t doing anything spectacular at the time.
Nothing to take pictures of anyway.
And then my person gets up close and personal – with a weed.
I guess she’s pretty desperate.
She wants to take pictures so bad that she’s even willing to take pictures of weeds.
Maybe she should get another hobby.
I think I ought to help her along.
No, not with another hobby.
I don’t want her doing anything else that would take her attention from me.
No, I’m going to help her along by doing away with her subject matter.
By eating it.
Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day
Do you know what today is?
It’s one of my favorite days.
Well, it’s going to be one of my favorite days. I didn’t know about this holiday last year.
Today is Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day.
I was really looking forward to splashing…
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Or maybe even swimming and splashing.
As long as I could get my people all wet.
But here’s what happened.
I went to my favorite puddle…
And it was gone!
Without my puddle how could I celebrate this special holiday?
So I talked my people into taking me on a new trail.
One that I’ve never been on before.
And I heard that it ended up at a creek.
So we wandered around and up and down and finally we ended up…
At the top of the world!
I sat there with my younger person…
And it didn’t seem like he was going to move.
I’ve got to figure something out – because now I know where the puddle is.
And I’m going to find a way to get there.
Over there looks like a good place to start.
Yup, this way’s going to get me there.
Hey guys, this is the right way. Come on down here!
What do you mean, I’ve got to climb back up?
You’re missing the whole point.
I haven’t splashed in a puddle yet.
When are my people ever going to learn?
Flames on My Trails
This is terrible!
Someone is trying to burn down my trails.
I walked around a corner and found this Manzanita bush on fire.
What am I going to do?
My puddle is a long ways away and there’s no other water around to put this fire out with.
I couldn’t bear it if my trails burned down.
How would I have any adventures if there was nothing left but black char?
Maybe if I blow on it hard enough and kick up enough dirt the fire will go out.
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Oh no! There’s more fire here.
I’ll never be able to get it all out in time.
Run for it!
Call 911!
Do you think they have a fire truck that’s skinny enough to drive down my trails?
Hey, wait a minute.
These bushes are on fire but they’re not burning up.
This is kind of like the burning bush that Moses saw.
Maybe God lit this fire to remind us of Christmas.
You know, Jesus being born and all that?
I’m not sure about God’s color choice though.
Shouldn’t these bushes be burning in red and green?
I guess you never know about God. He seems to have a mind of His own.
Hey person, I think we’re doing it all wrong.
You’ve got to take down all those red and green lights on our house and put up orange ones.
The Aliens are Coming!
There’s something happening on my trails.
I’m not sure what’s going on, but I think somebody is shining a giant spotlight on my rocks.
Who would do such a thing?
Oh, that’s right – this is Sedona. It’s probably a giant UFO.
That UFO must be hidden among the clouds so nobody can see it.
I bet the aliens in that UFO want to see what’s under the clouds – so they found a hole in the clouds and they’re shining a beam of light right through them.
And that light is hitting my rocks and making them look really strange.
I’d get my Detective Dog hat on and investigate this – but I think Detective Dog is scared of aliens so I’m going to leave this one for someone else to investigate.
I’ll just show you some pictures of what I’ve been seeing and maybe one of you can help me figure this out.
Anybody see any aliens?
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