I putted on my most saddest face and mom fell for it. I got to go back to Cheesequake State Park with my sisfurs for a little hike afore the big snow storm gets here! I can be rilly bad when I is wif my sisfurs and I woz, I admit it. I cried and woofed and would not settle down. Hiking by myself wif mom I is always a little angel but wif my sisfurs, I is a devil BOL! I donnot knows wot comes over me. But mom gotted rilly mad wif me and gibbed me a stern talking to so I had to get back on best behavior or she said she would take me back and leave me all alone in the car. I does not doubt she would do it so I behaved after that.
Like the boy says, Sydney gets in "the zone" on walkies and it is strate forward, stop for nuttin, keep it moving. And we all follow along.
There was snow flurries wot woz makin Dixie look full of dandruffs. The lake was looking more frozened than yesterday:
And when we was done and gotted back to the parking lot, the snows was starting to stick:
We had a grate time togedder and all gotted back in the car to goes home and has breakfast.
This is the second time now that in her whole life wif us Sydney has not barfed in the car on a trip longer than 1 mile. Yay Sydney.
On the way home we seened cars coming from the south wif snows on them:
The big storm's a comin' our way and this is wot the wevver peeples is saying about it
Mom hadded a vakashun day from werks today so we hiked in Cheesequake State Park. It is only 15 miles from our house and it is a no hunting park so we could goes there on a Friday. They does not has lots of trails but we did the green, bloo, yelloh and an unmarked trail and managed to get 6.75 miles in. Oh, and there is no cheese in this park. (bummer) It woz either go hiking today or not at all coz big, big blizzard snow storms heading our way tomorrow! We is where the red star is. So looks like we is getting 6-12 inches, which is totally funs in the yard, but too much snow to drive on slickery roads for hikings.
It woz cold today (in the 20's) so I did not go in the waters for swimmings. The waters was freezing into ice.
But we hiked some pritty trails with lots of diffrent things to see and sniff.
Then look wot I sawed - a skwerrel! I is not allowed to chase them while on hikes (in my yard they is fair game altho I has yet to akshually catch one) so I thunked this might be a good time to write Santa Paws.
Dear Santa Paws,
Hi Santa Paws. This is Shawnee here. I would like to has a real skwerrel for Chrissmuss pritty please. I promiss I has been a rilly, rilly good gurl.
Kbaithanks.
Shawnee
Ok, so mom says coz the snow is not supposed to be comin till about noon tomorrow, she is going to git up early and take Dixie and Sydney to Cheesequake Park coz the trails is short, it is close by the house, and they can has a little hiking. Hey, wate a minnit, you is not leaving me at home, is you, mom? Puhleeeeeese take me wif you. Puhleeeeeeeeese???!?!?!?!
Does you has stacks and stacks of book at your house? Our books (mostly the boy's) woz spilling over into my hidey spot and something had to be done!
So mom founded out about this place online called Paperbackswap.com and she signed us up. Mom posted a bunch of books wot we woz offering for adopshun and that first nite three books gotted homes! We has founded new homes for many of the udder books alreddy and when you find a new home for a book, you gits a credit to git yourself a book for free. Rilly! You has to pay the postal peeples (avg. $2.50) to send your book to it's new home but you pays nottin to get a book for yourself. So we gotted hiking books for free so we can find more hikes to do! When you figger to buy a noo book you spend at least $8, usually more, you is saving lots of monies. For examples, the books above would has costed $48.85. Mom had to send 3 books to noo homes for 3 credits to get these hiking books. She paid the postal peeples about $8.34. She saved over $40! That's a lot of treats and squeakies you could get with the monies your peeples is saving!
My furend Bob did his bloggie bout this today and I thought I should pass on the word too since this is a rilly good thing and you can donate some of your points to pore schools where chilluns need books to read. We did that after we read Bob's bloggie. So hop on over there to visit him if you has a minit, he describes this in more deetale than wot I did. Grate idea you had, Bob!
It mite sound too good to be troo but I has sniffed it out myself and can tell you firstpaw that it is not a scam, it is rilly, rilly legit. So wot is you waiting for? Has you hoomans clean out the bookcases to make room for all the noo books Santa is bringing, click on the logo below and git signed up!
We had plans for hikings in the mountains tomorrow but the wevver is supposed to be freezing rains starting in the morning so no hikings tomorrow. Saturday is not a good hiking day coz of hunting. But we founded out about a park close by wot has no huntings until January and then only on Tuesday and Thursdays. The boy runs in this park sometimes and he has been saying we should check it out for hiking so we wented to South Mountain Reservashun today and hiked 8.5 miles.
We started later than normal coz we had to stop at a store to buy a map. The one online was rilly, rilly bad but we used it to color in the trails wot we hiked.
So this park is about 20 minutes from our house and it has the Rahway River in it wot goes rite by our house too. So I wonner if'n we will make it back home afore the water here makes it to the water by our house?
There woz lots of udder creeks wot we had to cross over on rawks. Sometimes the rawks woz slickery with ice so we hads to be carefuls.
And some even had ice in the waters. BRRRRR!
It woz a cold day, about 30 degrees, but we did has bloo skies and sunshines.
Then we climbed up this mountain and camed to a place called Washington Rock Lookout where George Washington could stand up high and watch enemy troops moving below. I dinnot sees any enemies only highways and buildings coz this is a very populated area around the woods. Mebbe the highways and buildings woz not there when George Washington woz.
As we woz leaving Washington Rock Lookout, we seened a Christmas tree! Yes, rite there atop of the mountain. Peeples had come by and putted ornaments on it. Had we known, we would has brought an ornament along for the pritty tree. If'n you bring one, don't bring glass ornaments coz there woz lots that had fallened down and brokened all over. Some peeples wot was there taked my pikshur with my mom in front of the tree then we taked their pikshur and gotted their email address to send it to them.
So we gotten back on the hiking trail and you will never believe wot we seened in the woods! Santa's raindeers! For real. We got it recorded - see for yourselfs.
See, told ya so. All of the raindeers woz there.
Then we camed by Hemlock Falls which woz very nice cept for brokened glass all over and graffiti from peeples wot has nottin better to do. Hemlock Falls woz big waterfalls! See how little I look? It woz almost dark by then and we maded it back to our car just afore it gotted too dark to sees our car. Whew!
Believes it or not, I used to be very skeered of Christmas dekorashuns. They freaked me out something terribul. I would not walk by houses with dekorashuns. It woz very traumatic. But I has gotten over that now and they don't skeer me no more, even if'n they does turn me green.
Here is some more houses we seened around our neighborhood.
This one should have skeered me but it did not. It has more dekorashuns than I has ever seened on one house afore with things twirling and flying in the air and musiks playing. Mom said it woz quite tacky. Is that a good thing?
The pore raindeers seems to has fallened over at this house:
And now the for the grand finale, the one you has been waiting for, my house! Ummm, mom, why does we not has any dekorashuns? Mom says coz we not has little chilluns here, we is not dekorating our house and is too much werk. That's OK, we will just borrow the udder houses to look at when we does our walkies.
Well, we woz supposed to go hiking up north in the mountains today but yesterday the rains turned to snows and there woz supposed to be more snows in the mountains. We did not want to drive all that way and has it be too slickery to climb up rawks so we changed direkshuns and headed south to Wells Mills County Park in the Noo Jersey Pinelands where we hiked 8.4 miles on the Penns Hill Trail. We woz kwite impressed with this park. It woz very neat and tidy and you could see the park peeples taked very good care of it.
So furst I has to show you this pikshur wot we taked on the way to the park driving south on the Garden State Parkway (although at this moment we woz going east towards the sunrise.) It looks like mountains on the horizon but that is impawsibul coz there is no mountains in the south of Noo Jersey! It was the storm clowds from yesterday with a gold line across the top where the sun woz starting to peek out over the clowds! It woz very spektakular to see. You can also see some of the snows wot falled from those clowds.
So furst we hiked by Wells Mills Lake wot woz very beeootiful.
It would has been halpful had I seened this sign sooner coz I woz crossing a little bridge, slided on the slickery board and falled into the water! It woz deep water and I woz in up to my NECK! Mom had to grab my collar and halp me out coz the sides woz slickery and I could not get out by myself. So I woz soaking wet in 30 degree wevver for the whole hike. Thank goodness for thick undercoats wot I shed all over mom's house all the time. See they does serve a good purpose. As long as I kept moving I woz not cold. But if'n mom stopped I whined at her to get a move on it, wot is something I normally does not do.
There woz lots of beeootiful seenery along the way.
Then look wot we founded! A merry howliday howlly Christmas tree. Only one we seened in the whole park. It woz very festive. How nice that the wildlifes has a tree for their howliday celebrashus.
At the end of the hike we camed back around to Wells Mills Lake.
It turned out to be a beeootiful hike but it woz cold. The sunbeams had maded our car nice and warm and that felt rilly good with being all wet and stuffs. I will has to be more careful from now on coz I rilly does not like to go in the waters when it is this cold.
Shocking, shocking news last nite. My new foster cuzzin-in-law Lexi went to the Rainbow Bridge unexpectedly. Lexi became my foster cuzzin-in-law last week when her mom adopted my foster sis Buttons. I met Lexi in Illinoy when we taked Buttons to them. Lexi-Lou June 13, 2000 - December 4, 2009
Lexi's mom reskood her when she was 2 year old. Lexi was borned by a "breeder" wot woz trying to make "mini" shih tzus but maded a genetic mess instead. Then the "breeder" gibbed Lexi to a V-E-T wot let his udder dogs beat up on her and steal her noms. Lexi's mom taked her and made her safe and all better. But coz of Lexi's poor breeding, she had lots of health problems. Lexi was on seben pills twice a day. She had liver failure, both types of bladder stones, a heart murmur, among udder problems. A week afore Lexi and Buttons metted, both of the girls had UTIs. We thought that was funnee that they woz both alreddy on the same skedule. Lexi's mom commented when we metted that Lexi's UTI woz not better. Buttons' woz all gone. So yesterday morning Lexi went to the V-E-T for more tests. Her mom picked her up at lunchtime. That night her mom rushed her back to the V-E-T when Lexi could not stand up. She had acute congestive heart failure and pulmonary embolism. It was a total shock since the symptoms woz not there in the morning.
Our eyes is leaking not only for Lexi but for her mom coz we knows how devastated she must be. She knowed this day would come wif all of Lexi's problems but nobody knowed it would be now. Is so very, very sad. If'n you has werds to make Lexi and Buttons' mom feel better, you can leave them on Lexi's bloggie. There is also lots of pikshurs from the past week of Lexi and Buttons' furst week togedder.
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About Me
Shawnee the Shepherd
Central New Jersey, United States
Hi. My names is Shawnee and I is 8 years old. Oh, and I is a girl. I has been asking my mom for a blog and now I gots one so I can writes about my adventures. As a young puppeh I did not wants adventures because I was feral and scardy of everything. But I gots out of the animal shelter and I is not scardy no mores ('cept for of that Dyson vakuum thingie) and now I say the more adventures, the better. Brings 'em on!
