Glens, Ravines and Historic Village

OK, so that OP Pack woz rite.  They sayed they betted I would be hiking again this weekend.  I had tolded you all that coz the wevver woz supposed to be hawt and hoomid on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, mom taked vakashun Fursday and Furiday coz those woz not hoomid days and we hiked on Fursday.  Howefur, I checked the wevver last nite and the wevver man changed his mind but fur the better - no hoomids TODAY! The hoomids is late and they be here on Sunday instead.  We did not has a hike planned so we had to scramble to come up with something rilly fast coz if'n we woz going to leave early, it woz bed time alreddy!  We had this hike on our "to do" listie but the hike be too short so we nefur did it.  Well, seeing as we hiked 14.6 miles on Fursday, a short hike was pawfect fur today so we did this one wot woz 7.5 miles.

The hike do start out through this Millbrook historical village where there be some furry interesting things. Come along and I show you some of the hilites.

This be the old turnpike wot woz the main road thru the village in the olden days.

Oh my woof! A historical dog howse hidey spot from the olden days!

Obedience school fur childruns or mebbe that dog from the dog house.

I is allergic to hay (fur real) - see how it maked my hed all fuzzy?

Then once we got out of the village we seened something ofur unner the trees and went to check it out.  OMD, it do be a grave fur a dog! But he lived way after that village so I don't think he lived in that dog house.

This is wot we found on the innerwebs at http://nynjctbotany.org/njaptofc/watergte.html about George Busch and Bozo and that area wot be called Watergate Picnic Area:

Watergate was the 1950s estate of George Busch. There are only remains now, such as a stone dam with a Victorian turret and the grave of Busch's dog Bozo.
1952 – his wife Helene died at age 49.
1970 – George died in his sleep.
Source: www.buschfamily.net/Garrett/George/

(Pee Ess - no relashun to the presidenshul Watergate or George Bush.)

Now the fun part begins.  Follow me.  Into the glen...

Van Campen Brook!

Van Campens Falls!

Swimming!

Then we leaved the glen and went looking fur this old cemetery wot is supposed to be off the trail somewhere.  We founded it! And not many peeples must know how to get to it coz it be in good shape, no vandalisms or litter bugs or stuff like that.

This be the DePue Cemetery (not to be confuzzled with PePe Le Pew) and the oldest tombstone seems to be from 1839 but they is all from the 1800's.

Back on the trail, OMD, look wot else I founded!

Sorry I missed Mr. Turtle but I gibbed his hidey spot a smooch and left some Shawnee slobber on it (see the shiny stuffs?) so he knowed I been here to say HEY!

Then we went by some old falling apart farm howses...

See, wot happened woz back in 1955 they woz going to build a dam on the Delaware River and that would has made a lake 140 feets deep and flooded all of these houses (and the bootiful Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area where we hike lots).  So the governmentals made peeples move out of their howses wot would get flooded.  But then the dam woz nefur builded coz it make peeples too mad and they stopped it from happening.  So the howses just sitted empty and rotted away.  I think this old jalopy must be from back then, too.

Then we commed back around to the udder end of that Van Campens Brook and I got to get my furs rewetted.

After I had my final fur wetting, I taked mom back to the car.

Eggsept fur we had to go thru big grasses and mom has pulled seben tickies off of me so far. ICK!  I use K9 Advantix wot is supposed to repel ticks.  NOT!  At least it makes the tickies fuzzy in the hed like that hay made me so mom can grab them and yank them off udderwise I has to bitey them with my teefs and try to pull them off myself but mom duss not approve of that fur some reason. I HATE TICKIES!