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Play date!

Peep and me working on some obedience.

Peep and me working on some obedience.

Katie here.  Some of you have already seen the pictures of my latest adventure.  My mama is stepping up her efforts to make sure I have some fun and it’s about time if you ask me.  Which you don’t have to ask me, cause I’ll just tell you.   She owes me about a gazillion adventures but she says she can only take me on weekends.  I personally think she should take me on an adventure every single day, don’t you?  Sure she might have to quit her job, but it’s all about me anyway, so that should be no problem!

Hurry up mama!

Hurry up mama!

So anyway, we went to the park that my friend Peep showed me last spring.  And guess what?  Peep was there! (OK, so my mama and her mom planned it that way.)  Peep and I pretty much ignore each other but we get along fine.  We’re about the same size and we don’t get in each others face’s and besides it’s not like I have time to play when I’m exploring!  Peep feels the same way so it works out.

Pretty trail!

Pretty trail!

We walked on a trail along the lake.  There were big frogs sunning themselves along the bank and they jumped into the lake in front of us.  I thought about chasing one of them into the lake, but then I remembered that I got myself all pretty on Friday at the groomer and I didn’t want to get my feet wet.

Staying on the trail

Staying on the trail

We saw lots of pretty leaves though and had a fun time.  I like going to the park with Peep and her mom.  I go on new trails and I get to hang out with another cute dog!  I’m hoping my mama takes me on another play date with Peep soon!

See ya soon Peep!

See ya soon Peep!


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Adventuring we go

Pretty picnic area

Pretty picnic area

Katie made me feel guilty enough to make sure she got to go on an adventure this weekend.  Knowing that it was going to rain most of Sunday Katie and I headed over to a park late Saturday.  We were introduced to this park by Katie’s doggie friend Peep last spring and it’s taken us all this time to visit it again.  Because we went on the spur of the moment we couldn’t coordinate with Peep this time but we’re pretty sure we’ll be able to get together again this fall.

Katie and Peep

Katie and Peep

This park has a lot of trails through the woods and I figured I’d find a trail head and we’d just walk for a bit.  The first place I parked turned out to be the parking lot for disc golf so it was a bit too busy for us, but the picnic area was pretty.  The second place we stopped was also a picnic area, but it was empty and had a trail leading back into the woods.  So we were off!

Exploring

Exploring

It was a lovely afternoon; no bugs and lots of sunshine.

A walk in the woods

A walk in the woods

There are a couple lakes at the park too, and we walked down through a boat launch to explore a fishing dock.  It moved and squeaked a bit as we walked on it making Katie jump at first.  But after she figured out there wasn’t anything scary there she was happy enough to be near the water.

Fishing dock

Fishing dock

Mostly though we walked on the paths through the woods and enjoyed being out in nature.  Lots of squirrels chattering and chipmunks squeaking, but Katie was very good when we did a little recall.

Recall!

Recall!

She loves doing recall when we’re at a park.  But I only do it once, and only if she is focused on me.  She didn’t let a little chipmunk distract her.  She’s a very good girl.

And she wants to know what we’re doing next weekend.  I don’t know little one…but I’m sure it will be fun!

Riding home

Riding home


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Photo challenge – saturated.

This week the photo challenge from WordPress is to provide a photo that represented the concept of saturation.  The post was talking about saturated color so here’s just a tiny piece of the color in my yard at this time of the year.  The garden is trying so hard to be spectacular, as if it knows frost could arrive at any moment.

buzzzzzzz....

buzzzzzzz….

Of course before I read the complete instructions I was thinking more along these lines:

Saturated!

Saturated!

I guess the flower is prettier.  But don’t tell Katie that, she gets her feelings hurt easily.  Don’t you know.

Light

Light


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I’m being ignored!

Hi guys! I've missed you!

Hi guys! I’ve missed you!

Katie here.  Have you noticed that I have not been featured on this blog for days and days?  Months maybe?  Well.  I’ve noticed it too, and let me tell you I’ve been telling my Mama off.  After all,  what in the world is more important than me?  Right.  NOTHING!  That’s what I’ve been telling her too.  Even Dad noticed that she hasn’t written about me!

Tonight when she finally got home from work she said we’d go on an adventure.  Yea.  Right.  She says that all the time and then do you know what happens?  Absolutely n.o.t.h.i.n.g.   So when she got my leash down I was all excited.  And you know where we went?

Big purple flower. Yawn.

Big purple flower. Yawn.

We went on a walk around the yard.

Little purple flower. Double yawn.

Little purple flower. Double yawn.

Yea.  Exciting isn’t it.  My own darn yard.   And she made me pose next to flowers and stuff.  This did not feel like an adventure at all.  I have been gypped once again.

So I stole a tomato out of the garden.

Yum!

Yum!

Cause I deserve it.

I want a real adventure!

I want a real adventure!


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Mama says

Katie and I went camping last night.  In the yard, back behind the big blue spruce.  Just about where the tent is pitched in the header of this blog.  Yep.  A nice spot.

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She did good, climbed right on top of her big pillow and went to sleep at 11 when we ventured out.  I slept good too.  Until 3:22 when Katie barked once.  And then stood on me to look out the window and slowly watched something move from right to left while growling under her breath.

I convinced her it was all right and eventually she gave up guard duty.  But then she was up!  And she wanted nothing to do with hanging out in the tent and going back to sleep.  I gave up asking her to go lie down at 4:15 and we wearily (well I was weary, she was prancing) walked across the yard to the house.

Her Dad took her out the front door to do her business in case that was the problem, though why she couldn’t do that on the walk to the house is beyond me.  Apparently you can only do your business if you go out the front door.

Then we went back to bed.  But she wasn’t having any of that either.   After a bit of jumping on and off the bed and barking to be let out of the bedroom I used my school voice and told her to LIE DOWN!  She did and we all fell asleep.

Until 6.  Because, don’t you know, 6 is when we get up….right Mama!?  So I took her out again and as we wandered the front yard she starts staring out into the shadows and growling, then lunging at our shadows.  And doing some spins.  We went inside.

Now we’re both up.

But I’m going back to bed.  And I’m not promising that I’ll be awake in time for doggy school.  I’m not setting an alarm either.  She has lost all brownie points and any possibility of an adventure this weekend.

Oh look.  Now she’s asleep on the sofa.  Looks cute doesn’t she.

Uh huh.

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Tomato Thursday

What?  That’s not a popular concept?

Huh.

After years of no crop we almost gave up and didn’t plant any tomatoes this year.  Still…it’s hard to give up on the hope for fresh homegrown tomatoes.  So husband planted 6 plants.

Guess it worked out.

Yum!

Yum!

Katie loves tomatoes.  She heads right out to the garden to see if she can pick any for herself whenever we’re outside.  She’s feeling a bit put out that her dad picked so many for us.  If any were to accidentally fall on the floor she wouldn’t complain about cleaning them up.

She’s still waiting.

waiting....

waiting….


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#1300

This is the 1300th post on the blog.  I wanted to write something meaningful, heartfelt, something about one of my favorite causes.  But instead let me tell you about today’s morning trip out into the 6 a.m. darkness to find the perfect spot.

I had been dreaming about my mother.  I lost the dream when I woke to find Katie standing on me asking to go out.  But I was thinking about mom when I clicked Katie’s leash onto her collar and we ventured out into the cool morning air.  The stars were out.  I glanced up and saw Orion’s belt, my representation of my mom, in the sky.   I don’t think I’ve seen it all summer and it felt good to have her overhead again.

We walked down to the end of the driveway, Katie, mom and I; Katie  sniffing her usual places where other dogs leave her messages.  I was watching the sky and thinking about mom when I realized Katie wasn’t sniffing anymore. She was staring intently over at the neighbor’s yard.  “That’s just our shadows silly girl” I told her.  And I moved a little just to prove my point.

And then we heard this;  you only have to hear the first few seconds to get the effect.  The sound was just over our property line…perhaps 20 yards away.  Katie didn’t even bark back.  She looked at me.  I looked at her and together we hustled back to the house.

We were creeped out, but not as much as if Katie’s dad hadn’t heard this last week when he was out with Katie around midnight.  He described it and found it on youtube for us to hear.  So I wasn’t so surprised once I got my heart rate back down and could think about it.  I don’t think the fox would have come toward us.  Katie wants to go back outside.  But I’m not taking any chances.

Not till the sun is up anyway.


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No adventure? REALLY?

Katie here.  I just wanted to tell you guys how disgusted I am with my Mama.  Yes.  My Mama.  She was home for three whole days and did we go on an adventure?  No we did not!  She sat around and said she was tired.  And told me to go lie down. 

Oh sure I got to go to doggie school and I love doing that.  I especially like running recalls and coming in crooked.  I like how that makes my Mama look all frustrated and stuff.  Makes me grin, but you can’t tell cause of all my fur.  And I get lots of attention from everyone else there.  Sort of makes up for being ignored at home.  Doesn’t make it totally OK though.

She says I should be happy that we camped out in our yard for two nights straight.   B.O.R.I.N.G!  I’ve graduated from the stupid back yard!  Didn’t I prove that when we went camping at a real campground?  There were lots more interesting sounds and smells there.  At our house it just smells like grass.  And sometimes a stupid bunny.  Geeze.  I’m not a baby anymore.  I want to go on a real adventure.

Face it Mama.  You let me down.  I think you’re getting too old for adventures.

Geeze Mama!

Geeze Mama!