Appalachian Trail - Wawayanda State Park, NJ

We had set out to do a completely different trail but the road we needed to get there was closed so we just randomly picked anudder trail off the map wot we could get to in the car. We dinnot noes until we got started hiking that we was on the Appalachian Trail! We could has hiked all the way to Georgia but instead we hiked 11 miles.


At first there was lots of pritty flowers along the trail...


Then some pritty scenery in the distance...


Then all of a sudden... Wot is this? Does a gnome live here in the middle of the woods wot gets mails? We looked at it closer and it had notepads and pens inside. (Yes, we was being nosy and snooped inside the mailbox but mom putted everyfing back the way it woz.) We think this is so peeples who hike the whole Appalachian Trail can leave messidges.


Then the trail got steeper and there was lots of rawks...


See me up in the top rite corner? I is saying "Common mom! Wot is taking you so long? I has 4 legs to get up this mountain and you only has two. Step it up. Feel the burn!"


But it was so worf it coz when we gotted to the top, look at the amazing view! It took our brefs away.



I nowed not to step on those rawks coz if I falled off the udder side, I would has gone boom way down the side of the mountain wot we had just climbed. It was beeootiful and we sat there for a while to rest. Mom tooked a video of the birds of prey wot was flying around. The moovie is not very good coz mom could not see the pikshur on the camera the way the sun was shining on it so she never knowed if a bird was in the moovie or not. But listen to wot the winds sounded like up there. It was pawsome.

There was some waterfalls where I could get my furs wet but no waters deep enuff for swimming.


Then, just as we was getting off at our exit going home, we sawed this truck. Mom did not have time to get a good pikshur but on the back of the truck it sayed "Caution: Working Border Collies" and on the side of the truck it sayed "The Geese Police". I suppose some dawgs has to werk for a living. I just gets to play and has funs :)


On October 2, 2009 this article was published wot describes the exact part of the Appalachian Trail wot we hiked!

And Wild New Jersey featured the mountain wot we climbed!

I Got Mail! (#pawpawty August 28/29, 2009)

I got more mails today for anudder pwize I wonned at the Woodstock #pawpawty! It commed Royal Mails from my pal Emmy the Cat (@EmmytheCat) in the UK!


Oh look! It commed in a plastic body bog coz the package had gotten torned open. The plastic bag says this on it:


Hmmmmm. I noes how that happened. Does these two not look gilty, or wot?


I bet they was sniffing the mails at customs and nowed there was dawg toys in my package and ripped it open. Here is some evidences I found of that on the innerwebs that this does happen. Skeery but true.


I rest my case. But it made opening the package easier coz I could just stick my nose in the hole:


Wow! Look at the pawsome toys I gotted from Emmy the Cat:


Notice how Sydney has been hovering (mebbe she was a customs dawg in her previous life...)


She wates for just the right moment and then...


Well, thank you so much for the grate toys, Emmy the Cat! We is ALL enjoying them lots!

Postcard from Germany!

My deer fwend Mookie, a guinea pig from Germany on Twitter, collects postcards from his Twitter pals all around the werld so I sented him one from New Jersey. I had to put my scents on it so he knowed it is fwom me.


Then Mookie gotted my card in the mails. See Mookie sniffing my scents on the card - they made it all the ways to Germany!


And today I gotted a card from Mookie all the way from Cologne, Germany! His town has a nice park wif a choo-choo twain wot you can rides. He has a big fish market and a chocolate museum. Wot an exciting town Mookie lives in. My mom was there a very, very long time ago so she rilly enjoyed seeing the pikshurs, too. Thank you, Mookie, for letting me and mom visit your town through your lovely postcard.


This is so much funs. Wot a grate idea Mookie has to collect postcards!

Farewell to Foster Dog Calvin!

It was unexpekted, but foster dog Calvin went to hims furever home today! Last week mom had talked to an applicant wot seened him on Petfinder.com and was interested in adopting him but she said she had to think bout it some more coz her mini pini had gone to the bridge in June and she did not noes if she was reddy yet. The laydee called today and asked mom if she could come over to meet Calvin. So she drived over to New Jersey from New York wif her roomate.

The laydee was amazed at how fwendly Calvin was. She said her last mini pini was not a nice doggie and he put the bitey on her and lots of peeples and would grrrr all the times. Mom showed her our "Hoo Dunnit Mystery Moovie" starring Calvin and she LOL'd at that! She rilly liked Calvin in spite of his dumpster divin' ways (and she noes to keep Calvin away from garbage cans) and asked if he could go home to New York wif her. Calvin rilly liked both laydees. Me and my sisses gived the paws up coz when mom went to take the adopsun pikshur, she had to lock us up coz we wanted to be in the pikshur and would not gets out of the way - partie pooper. So mom packed Calvin's bag wif his foods, bitamins, his fave flappy toy, a noo leash and paperwerks wot shows he has his owie shots, microchip and was nootered, and off he wented wif his new peeples.

This is the linkie to Calvin's web page.

Sussex Branch Trail / Kittatinny Valley State Park

We has done part of the Sussex Branch Trail afore so today we picked up where we had lefted off to do the 3 mile part wot goes thru Kittatinny Valley State Park. Then we hiked anudder 9.8 miles on hiking trails in the park for a total of 12.8 miles today. The park has 4, count them FOUR lakes! And I was in THREE of them - WOO HOO! The pink lines is the trails we hiked and the red stars is the lakes wot I swimmed in.


The weather.com peeples was rite about the wevver for a change and on the way there we knowed it was going to be the most beeootiful perfekt hiking wevver.



So we hiked on the trails and up this hi mountain where there was all these rock walls (dunno why) and where we was on top of the worlds!


Then coming down the mountain we sawed the first lake, Twin Lakes!


And I wented in but I felted like a fwog wif all the lily pads!


We crossed over a field


and hiked some more and then there was Lake Aeroflex:


We found lots of spots where I could go into the waters as we hiked along the lake.


And then I found two new fwends. Meet Fred and Felix wot lives in Lake Aeroflex:


At the end of Lake Aeroflex (which was the hugest lake I has ever seened) there was the Aeroflex-Andover airport. We satted on a bench and rested while mom got rocks out of her shoos.


Then some more hiking...


Then we gotted to White's Pond


In case you ever wonders what I does when I gets home after hiking, wonders no mores. Of course my bed is getting durty coz I is still wet when I falls asleep in it. I will has to remind mom to wash it tomorrow.

I Got Mail! (#pawpawty August 28/29, 2009)

For those who dunnot noes, we has contests when we has #pawpawties on Twitter where we can wins pwizes. I wonned some pwizes at the last pawty! The go postal man camed today and ranged the doorbell to let me know there was mails for me!


Yes, is confirmed, it is for me. Out of the way everyone...


Oh it is from... (Click on their logo to goes to their web site for lots of nommy treats!)


Lookie, I gotted Callie's Peanut Butter Bones and a sample of MacGregor's Greens!


OK everyone, you can come back now for sharing. Put on your silliest nomming faces and let's has a cookie pawty!





Thank you very much Lucky Dog Treat Company (@luckydogtreatco) for the pawsome cookies which we highly recommend to our fwends. You will ♥ them!

Oops I Ate It

My fwend Anna the German Shepherd Dog had gotted this Oops-I-Ate-It passer-on thingie wot she was wanting to pass on. When you gets it you has to tell a storee bout somefing you nommed wot you was not sposed to. I volunteered to axept it cos I needs to fess up on this xact subjekt.

Not long ago we was on the D&R Canal Towpath and every so often I would see a way to get into the canal for a swim. I would head down to the waters while mom waited for me.

This one time as I was coming out of the waters I stopped to sniff some cold cuts somebody had lefted wif a bottle of water. Must has been some fisherman's lunch wot he forgotted. Mom said "LEAVE IT!" Yes ma'am! So off we wented. I has a rilly good memorie and I knowed that on our way back I was gonna member xactly where the smelly stuffs woz even tho mom would has totally forgotted bout it. I had this so carefully planned out in my brane. Wif perfekt exekushun I nonshalontly turned rite pwetending to go into the waters for a swim but instead I stopped and started nomming rilly fast. Mom gotted suspishus rite away when she no heared the waters splashing (note to self: splash waters while nomming next time) and she caughted me snarfing down the rotten cold cuts. You would not believes how rilly lowd my mom can skreem! Here is a pic of wot was left wot I did not gets to eat coz mom caughted me afore I finished:

Mom was kreeped out coz she said it smelled like somefing had died. That is xactly why it tasted so nommy. I was very sad to has to leave that last piece for the flies. You see, mom is a veggietabulatarian so we has no cold cuts at our house. I will never has any again *sniffle*. (Pee Ess: I never horked it back up or gotted diareeas fwom it. In my opinion it was purfektly good foods wot should not has gone to waste.)

OK, so anyone else has a storee to share? Grab the passer-on thingie rite here below and let's hear wot you has nommed wot you was not sposed to.