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Stopping for Sunflowers

I’m stuck at the dog hotel and I take no responsibility for what’s posted here.

This time of year the sunflowers are out. I don’t see any of them when I’m on my trails, but they show up along the roadsides and they even show up in my backyard. And this year they showed up at the beginning of my trails. We didn’t have a bike rack here last year. That must be the attraction. The sunflowers wanted to hang out with the bike rack.

I was getting pretty tired of hanging around while my person kept taking pictures. There’s trails calling out to me. I’m ready to go on an adventure.

I figured as long as I had to hang out anyway I’d keep busy and get a good whiff of those sunflowers.

That whiff reminded me of something. I can’t believe I was so excited to hit the trails that I almost forgot to do this.

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Posted by Bongo on October 4, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Sunflower, Trail

Dots, Dots, and Hats

02 Oct

I’m stuck at the dog hotel and I take no responsibility for what’s posted here.

The other day I was walking on my trails and I saw a pile of dots.

I’ve seen these things on my trails before, but now there were a lot more. My person says my younger person used to shoot dots like this out of his airsoft gun.

Now I remember. I used to go jumping after that gun every time he shot it off.

So that mystery was solved and I headed down the trail with my person.

But a new mystery was about to develop. Because I saw more dots – and these weren’t the same kind of dots at all.

One dot here.

Two dots there.

Oh no! Double dots.

And this dot’s surrounded!

I put on my Detective Dog hat and started sleuthing around. And just when I thought I was getting to the bottom of this…

Is somebody making fun of me?

Those dots turned to hats.

I’m putting my paw down on this one.

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Posted by Bongo on October 2, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Airsoft, mushrooms, Pets, Trail

Little Yellow Flowers

26 Sep

This time of year everything seems to turn yellow. Well, I don’t mean everything. I don’t turn yellow, and neither does my person. And the rocks around here don’t turn yellow. But there are bushes everywhere with little yellow flowers on them.

There’s so many that I have to sort through them just to get to the good weeds.

And I have to sit around while my person takes out her camera to take pictures of them.

I thought this time of year was going to be so good. No more thunder and no more heat. Who would have thought that little yellow flowers would be my downfall? I think I’ll bury my person’s camera under a log.

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

Tags: Flower, Pets, Photography, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Trail, yellow flowers

A New Kind of Mischief

17 Sep

Check me out! Do I look different? Suave and debonair in my black and white?

All summer – at least since the beginning of July – I’ve had to wear my anxiety vest almost all the time. This has been the worst thunder season I can remember. My person has been around a lot longer than me and she says it’s the worst she can remember.

But it’s over! Yippee! Check out that blue sky. Not a cloud in it. And this picture was taken in the afternoon when most of the clouds build up.

I just have one problem now. Thunder season is when I get into the most mischief – at least when I’m left alone in the house.

I’m going to have to come up with a new kind of mischief. And I’ve got the perfect thing.

Since we’ve had so much rain there are lots of green juicy weeds on my trails.

My person doesn’t like waiting around while I stop to chomp. Actually, she doesn’t even like me to eat those weeds. She says I have plenty of food at home.

I don’t agree. The more food I can find the better.

So when my person tries to get me back on the trails, I’m digging in.

How’s that for mischief?

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

Tags: mischief, Pets, Thunder, Trail

Finding Fruit

12 Sep

Today my person and I went on a different kind of walk. We went on the same trails and were out about the same amount of time, but we didn’t go very far.

I can’t complain though. I had fun.

My person brought along some tongs and a bag and said she was going to pick some prickly pear fruit.

You go right ahead, person. I think I smell something better over here.

It’s got to be here somewhere.

Maybe it’s over here.

Got it!

Look what I found in the bushes. I don’t even mind that I had to get stuck to do it.

I have to what, person?

I’m not dropping my bone until you drop your prickly pears.

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Posted by Bongo on September 12, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

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

Found and Lost

07 Sep

Someone’s at it again – leaving strange things on my trails. But this time they left something, and then they took something away.

I found a wire today – a very long wire. It kind of looks like a big crack in the rock, but if you look really hard you can see that wire going over my paw – not under it.

I don’t know if I’ll ever figure out how that wire got there. My person says since it’s in a wash the water probably brought it there last time it rained.

Okay – so what was it doing further up the wash. There’s nothing there but trees, bushes, and more wash.

I wonder what I could do with that wire.

I could string it across the trail so it would trip the javelina when they came to eat the prickly pears.

I could form it into a cage and put Scratchy in it.

I wonder if I could capture the thunder in it and then throw it away.

While I was figuring out what to do my person made me leave that wire where I found it. How am I going to do anything with it if I can’t take it with me?

As we headed down the trail I came across another mystery. A tree that we pass almost every day was missing a branch. I know that branch was there yesterday.

I looked everywhere for it and I never did find it. I guess maybe the rain sent it down the wash.

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Posted by Bongo on September 7, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: branch, Pets, Trail, wire

Cactus Alert

23 Aug

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

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

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

The Case of the Boots

10 Aug

I think it’s time to put on my Detective Dog hat. I haven’t worn it in awhile. But today I saw the strangest thing on my trails – or actually at the trailhead before I got to my trails.

A pair of boots.

Why would anybody leave a pair of boots here? I mean, boots are made for walking aren’t they? My person wears boots whenever she takes me out on my trails.

Yeah I know, I don’t need boots, and neither do any of my dog friends. But people are different. They’re wimps. They get out there with their soft little feet and go ooch, ouch, this is hot – or this is too prickly – or a snake might bite me.

Something must be seriously wrong for a person to leave a pair of boots here.

I’d better check them out. Maybe I can get some clues.

Maybe there’s a suspicious odor around these boots.

Not much here, but at least now if I see a person on my trails without any boots – especially one that’s gimping along and complaining about pricklers and things – I’ll be able to smell their feet and I’ll know if that person belongs to these boots.

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Posted by Bongo on August 10, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Boot, Pets, Trail