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Suds

Today I was walking along on my trails minding my own business when suddenly I saw it. It couldn’t have been snow – the rain from the last couple days washed away the little traces that were left. It was something more unusual that that.

My puddle, which had been getting pretty scungy, now had water flowing into and out of it and it was much cleaner. But then, when I passed by my puddle and followed the little stream running away from it – I found it.

At the bottom of a rock, sitting there in all its white foaminess, I found a pile of suds. At first I thought it was snow, but it was much too frothy for that.

So maybe it wasn’t the water running through it that cleaned up my puddle. Maybe, just maybe, someone gave my puddle a bath. I never heard of giving a puddle a bath, but here you have it. First class evidence.

Or maybe someone thinks I need a bath, and they put those suds there so I would scrub myself before heading back home. No, that can’t possibly be. It’s got to be the puddle they were cleaning. I wish I had a camera hanging on a nearby tree. I want to know who that person was that gave my puddle a bath.

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Posted by Bongo on December 16, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Hiking, Pets, Puddle, Trail

Famous

15 Dec

I think my person is famous and she didn’t even tell me. When we go on the trails near our house we see lots of people and dogs. Most of them come to the trailhead in their cars and we don’t know them, but my person says hi and I sniff them as they pass.

Some people and dogs live in the neighborhood so we see them on the trail all the time. I recognize the dogs, and my person recognizes the people because we share the same trails a lot.

Well today we were walking along and we passed two people. We stopped and said “Hi” and I got some loves. I always like that. Then the man asked my person if she worked at the post office. Well, my person used to work at the post office and that man had been her customer.

I know all the trail people that my person knows, so if someone that I don’t know on the trail recognizes her, doesn’t that make her famous?

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Posted by Bongo on December 15, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Post office, Trail

Strange Behavior

10 Dec

My person behaved very strangely today. She got up while it was still dark. Sometimes she does that, but this time she put on her hiking boots and started heading out the door. Well of course I wasn’t about to let her go without me so I got up too.

We headed for the trails and it was still so dark my person needed a flashlight. And she was stopping and taking pictures. What the heck? I think there’s something wrong with my person. I’ve never seen her act this way.

We started heading toward the trail that goes up Sugarloaf. Then my person changed her mind. She said something about the moon hiding behind Thunder Mountain when we walked that direction. Since when has she ever cared where the moon was before?

I don’t know what had gotten into my person because then she took me up toward a ridge but we weren’t even on a real trail. Come on person – there is a trail up here where you don’t have to walk right next to cactus and jump over rocks. You just have to go back down to the road first.

We hung out on that ridge for awhile and my person took more pictures, but she said she needed to get a better camera – and a telephoto lense (whatever that is). It started getting light and my person said we could go back home now – that the moon had sunk behind Thunder Mountain right before it went into total eclipse.

I’m not sure what she was talking about, but by then it didn’t matter. All I cared about was getting back to my warm bed – and the rabbit that ran across the street in front of us.

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Posted by Bongo on December 10, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: eclipse, Hiking, Pets, Thunder Mountain, Trail

Me – Scary?

09 Dec

Shortly after my person and I hit the trails it started raining. It was cold too – cold for us, that is. But we’re troopers so we headed on out. We could have gone back home – it wasn’t far – but what fun is that?

I didn’t think we’d see anyone on the trails. Nobody much comes out when it’s rainy and getting dark.

Well, my person was taking some pictures of the disappearing rocks before they disappeared completely in fog and I was hanging out on the trail waiting for her. Very patiently mind you. I heard some footsteps coming toward me and around the bend here comes a guy running along on the trail. He was pretty cool, but right behind him here comes the good part.

Behind that running guy was a little black dog – about the size of Scratchy. No, that dog was smaller than Scratchy because Scratchy is a pretty big cat. And that little black dog was afraid of me.

I wasn’t doing anything. I didn’t think I looked that scary. No dog’s been afraid of me before – but that dog was. He wouldn’t go by me until my person grabbed my collar and pulled me aside. Then he crept by on the far side of the trail. Slowly, slowly he crept until he made it completely past me. He went a little ways and then looked back to make sure I wasn’t following him. Then off he ran after his person.

I wonder what he’d have done if my person had let me run after him?

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Posted by Bongo on December 9, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Trail

Only Dog

30 Nov

The weather was perfect for heading to the trails today. A nice, sunny day and the temperature felt just right. Not too hot and not too cold. I felt a little disappointed that the mud had disappeared, but the ground was still moist which makes it more comfortable to walk on than when it is hard and dry.

My person and I saw lots of people on the trails today. When we started out we found people heading toward us from three different directions. It made it hard to decide which way to go. Which person looked the most likely to give me loves? We kept passing people – even on the trails that hardly anyone else uses.

Something was really strange though. I felt like an only dog today. I began to wonder if they’d banned dogs from the trails and nobody told me. We almost always see other dogs on the trail – but not today.

I’m trying to figure out if I should round a few of my dog friends up – or keep all the trail people to myself.

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Posted by Bongo on November 30, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Recreation, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Trail

Love on the Trail

17 Nov

Today was the coolest day on my walk. It was cool outside but that was okay. My person put her jacket on and I was warm enough, but that’s not the kind of cool I meant. Not only did I get a walk today, but I got lots of loving too.

At the trailhead we met four guys with cameras. My person said they looked like they might be from Japan. I think one of them took my picture. Maybe he has a famous blog and I’ll be on it.

But that wasn’t the best part. When we pass people on the trail my person always pulls me to the side and lets the other people pass. She won’t let me go near anyone unless they come to me first. She said something about some people not liking dogs. I’m not sure what she’s talking about. Everybody likes dogs – don’t they? At least they should all like people loving dogs.

Well today, three separate people came up to me and gave me love. Three, mind you. Some days we don’t even see three people on the trail. It was the best!

Come on person. I know you’ve got a flashlight. I’m ready to go back for more.

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Posted by Bongo on November 17, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Hiking, Pets, Trail

Shrinking Rocks

14 Nov

Something really strange happened today. The big rocks near my house got shorter.

I had a really fun time on my walk. There were lots of puddles and mud. My person doesn’t like the mud. She says she sinks into it and it sticks to her boots – so she tried to walk on the dry spots, but sometimes there weren’t any. Me, I like the mud. It’s soft and squishy and feels good to walk on.

I got a surprise when we went further along on the trail. My puddle that has been around for awhile had turned into a lake. It had lots of good smells in it too.

By the time we came back from our walk the big rocks had gotten back to normal size. I’m not really sure what was happening with those rocks.

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Posted by Bongo on November 14, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Mud, Pets, Puddle, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Trail

Half a Hike

04 Nov

It’s not fair! Only half a hike. I only got half a hike. It’s all my person’s fault. She got home late, and she said if we went out any longer we’d be coming home by flashlight. That’s okay by me. I’ll hold the flashlight. She wouldn’t go for it.

You know what she was doing? She was helping a friend – a little friend – younger than my younger person, to set up a blog. After all that I’ve taught my person about blogging, she goes and teaches it to someone else, and then comes home late. She goes off and blogs with someone else and then cuts into my time. How ungrateful can you get?

I know what I’ll do. I’ll invite this little friend over here and I’ll tell her she owes me half a hike. Actually I think I’ll hit her up for a hike and a half, because I’ll have another hike coming by then. I’m getting excited already. I think I have a new hiking buddy. My person can go off on her own.

My New Blog

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Posted by Bongo on November 4, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Hiking, Pets, Trail

Where’s the Treats?

01 Nov

My person told me I couldn’t go out looking like myself yesterday, so she dressed me up as a Cub Scout and took me for a walk. I’m not sure what she was talking about, and I don’t even know what a Cub Scout is, but she said something about treats. I’ll do anything for treats. Well, almost anything.

We went walking along the trail – me all dressed up. We met a few people on the trail but none of them had treats for me. Hey, what gives? I thought if I wore this silly thing that everyone I ran into would give me treats.

Then I figured out what the problem was. I didn’t run into anybody. My person pulls me off the trail whenever someone comes walking by. How does she expect me to get treats when I’m standing out of the way?

Once I realized that, I moped all the way home. We didn’t even see any more people. Darn. I really wanted to check out that running into theory. Anyway, I guess my younger person felt sorry for me when we got home because he gave me an end of the trail treat. And I didn’t even have to run into him.

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Posted by Bongo on November 1, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Cubscout, Pets, Trail

Coyote Attack

31 Oct

I got to be a hero once. It was a long time ago – not too long after I came to live with my people. It had snowed the night before – you know, that cold white stuff – and my person wanted to take me for a walk in it. I’ll go for a walk in any weather, as long as my person goes along with me. The snow wasn’t very deep – only about to the top of my feet when I stepped in it. My person said it was really pretty – it just looked white to me.

There are trails near our house. That’s where we usually go walking. Other people and dogs share the trails with us and usually a few other animals as well. On this day we were walking along minding our own business. The snow covered up all my favorite smells so I paid attention to the cold, crunchiness of it as I stepped. We rounded a bend in the trail and there they were. Three coyotes attacking a little dog! Those coyotes took one look at me and ran off. The little dog ran the other way and and when his person showed up my person had to tell him which direction to go.

I knew I had to give those coyotes a what for so I went off after them. Boing-o! I came to the end of my leash. Come on person, what are you thinking? I’ve got to go get those coyotes. I looked back at my person and I couldn’t figure out what she was doing. She was lying on her stomach in the snow – still holding on to my leash. She’d gone all the way through the snow so she was really lying on red mud. I don’t know what she was thinking. All she had to do was let go of my leash. It would have been so simple.

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Posted by Bongo on October 31, 2011 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Coyote, Pet, Trail