It’s been raining out and my person says she’s under the weather so she won’t take me for a walk.
I don’t know what else she expects.
When it rains you’re always under the weather.
My person must have forgotten what it’s like.
We haven’t had any rain in over a month.
Do you think maybe if I took her flying up over the weather she’d take me for a walk?
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It’s kind of hard to have adventures when you can’t leave the house.
Guess I’ll take a nap.
Hmmm. This is the place that my person has decided is our turnaround point.
We usually go out this far on my trails and then we head back when we get here.
Most of the time I want to keep going, but my person won’t let me.
She always has an excuse.
She’s too busy, or it’s too cold, or whatever else she can come up with.
She pulls that busy one most of the time though.
But there’s something different here today.
I’ve never seen this here before.
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There’s an arrow here pointing further out on my trails.
That’s got to mean something.
Today’s the day we keep on trekking.
I’m following the arrow!
Hey person, come on. This way!
What do you mean, what am I doing?
I’m following directions.
I’ve watched you driving before.
When there’s a sign pointing a certain way you follow it.
Well, there’s a sign pointing this way on my trails.
We have to follow it.
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Person, I don’t believe it!
You’re going to ignore this sign and make me go back?
You know, you’re taking your chances.
I sure hope the trail police don’t find you and give you a ticket for failure to follow directions.
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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!
There they go again.
It’s them!
My neighbors that I don’t even know.
You’d think I wasn’t very neighborly or something, but it’s not true.
I’d be all over those neighbors if my person would let me.
My person and their person. Neither of them are cooperative.
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Oh, how I long to sniff those butts.
Come on, person. They’re not that far ahead of us. We could walk faster and catch up easily.
What do you mean, we’re not going to walk faster? We’re just going to hang back?
What kind of a neighborly neighbor are you?
Come on. Let’s go!
We would not get into a tousle!
You know I’m the perfect dog. I’m sure they’re perfect too.
Look, that one dog is stopping to take a sniff.
I bet he would rather be sniffing me.
I bet he’s waiting for me to catch up.
What do you mean, we already finished our trail walk?
What about my streets? We hardly ever get to walk on my streets.
I sure wish I didn’t have to keep such a close watch on you person.
If I thought I could trust you I’d let you off the leash and go after those dogs myself.
But you might wander in front of a car and get hit.
Guess I’ll have to wait to sniff meet those dogs.
Oh, the things a dog has to go through for his people.
I needed something for my blog post so I headed out to my trails looking for adventure.
There’s always some potential adventure on my trails.
Well, I found it.
But you know what?
My person, who drives me nuts with all those pictures she takes – Did I say nuts? Nuts are good treats. Hey person, where’s the nuts?
Oh. I got off the track, didn’t I?
Well, my person, who is always taking pictures until it drives me bonkers, didn’t take any pictures of this adventure.
She’s failing on the job. I don’t know what’s wrong with her.
She even had her little camera with her.
She could have whipped it out and taken pictures.
But she didn’t.
So here’s what happened.
I was walking along my trails, minding my own business. I had my person attached to my leash so I could keep an eye on her, when I heard somebody yelling, “Clyde, come back here!”
Well, Clyde didn’t mind very well and he came running right over to me.
And Clyde started picking a fight with me.
I would have given Clyde what for but I had to protect my person.
Who knows what Clyde might have done with my person. He might have tried to steal her from me.
Clyde’s person came and attached Clyde to her leash so he couldn’t fight with me anymore.
And she said Clyde had never done that before.
Which got me thinking.
I am a famous blogging dog, and everybody knows that these are my trails.
I bet Clyde wanted to chase me off my trails and steal them from me.
I bet Clyde heard about my girlfriends that hang out on my trails and he wanted to steal them too.
From now on I’m going to be watching for Clyde.
And if he comes back I’m going to make sure my person takes a picture of him.
And then I’m going to hang it with a big Wanted sign underneath.
Person, I have no idea how this towel got out here under my leash because I wasn’t out getting wet in the rain.
No, I was a good dog. I spent all day while you were gone hanging out in my dog jail. You’re the one who let me out. You know I was in there.
By the way, that wasn’t very nice of you to send that nasty thunderstorm last night when I was stuck in my dog jail. I wanted to try to escape it. I couldn’t go anywhere.
I am not changing the subject. I was here all the time.
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Can we go for a walk now?
I don’t care if it’s raining.
Toby wouldn’t let me go far enough to check on my puddle – I mean, I want to see how my puddle is doing. I haven’t seen it all day.
There’s some pretty cool waterfalls on my trails right now – I mean, I bet there’s some waterfalls right now with the rain and all.
What!!?
What do you mean, you saw a text message between me and Toby on your cell phone?
What do you mean you know I went out in the rain and got all wet?
You have no business checking my text messages.
I don’t care if it was on your phone. You’d better get me my own phone.
Well, can we go for a walk anyway? You need your exercise, person.
See, I told you there were waterfalls on my trails right now.
Look what happened to my puddle!
It turned into a mud puddle.
At least my puddle left some suds nearby. After I get all muddy I can wash myself off.
This is the second day in a row with gray skies. That’s got to be some kind of record for here.
I really don’t mind the weather.
It’s not windy, and not too cold.
Actually a really good day for a walk on my trails.
The only problem is that nobody else seems to think so.
I didn’t meet a single person or dog on my walk today.
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And without other people or dogs it’s kind of hard to have adventures sometimes.
So I had to look for something else adventurous.
I didn’t find much.
Some berries enjoying the gray day.
And a mushroom with a face.
Well, I thought I saw a face on it, but my person had to enhance (is that an adventurous word – enhance?) the eyes so that you could see them too.
So much for adventures today.
Guess I’ll go take a nap.
I was really excited today because my person let me head up the dry wash.
I’m always trying to pull her up this wash and most of the time she says no and pulls back.
So I figured we’d get a nice, long walk today.
Well, I figured wrong.
We got a little way up the wash – a few feet, no more. And then what does she do.
She pulls out her camera.
She didn’t want to go on a walk with me. She wanted to take pictures.
And she picked the strangest things to take pictures of.
If she wanted to take pictures of me, that would be one thing.
But no, she wanted to take pictures of…
flowers,
and fairies.
And this is the worst one.
She took pictures of catclaws.
Couldn’t she at least have found some dog paws to take pictures of instead?
Hey person, I’m over here. Point your camera this way.
Now start walking.
Hey person, there’s something out there.
Can you hear it? Can you smell it?
I think it’s somebody that wants me to play.
What? What do you mean it would show itself if it wanted me to play?
Maybe it’s shy.
Maybe it’s scared of people, but likes to play with dogs.
Person, you’ve got to realize that maybe not everyone that likes me likes you too.
Come on. Let me go.
I’ve got to check this out.
Person, would you let go of my leash.
You’re not going to get lost.
I’ll come back for you when I’m done playing.
Now let go!
I don’t believe this. You’re going to make me leave that poor lonely creature behind and head home with you.
Hey person, my new friend followed me. My friend must really be lonely.
Maybe scared too. I’ve got to go check it out.
Person, let go of my leash now!
You’re not going to get lost. Our house is right over there.
I’ll be home as soon as I’m done playing. Maybe I’ll even bring my new friend home with me.
Don’t be scared. You’ll be fine.
Hmmm. What’s going on here? My trail seems to be blocked.
And just when I was getting ready to head home.
After a nice, long walk I was so looking forward to a nap.
And now my trail is blocked. How am I going to get home?
What’s going on there, anyway?
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It looks like mountain bikers, which is strange.
Mountain bikers don’t stay in one place. They’re always moving.
Why are they hanging around blocking my trail?
Are they doing it to me on purpose?
Did they say to themselves, “Here comes Bongo. Let’s block the trail?”
Now I think I see what they’re doing. They’re trying to get that guy behind the tree to take a picture of them.
That’s even worse. Blocking a trail just so someone can take your picture.
Who wants pictures of themselves anyway?
I only like pictures taken of me when I get paid in treats.
I’ll give those guys a treat if they keep blocking the trail.
But it’s not going to be the kind of treat I get when my picture is taken.
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