Waterfalls Hike

So today me and mom went to check out some waterfalls in Pencilvania.  On the way we had to stop and let about 20 gabillion turkeys cross the road.

"Gobble Gobble" Translashun:  "Thanks fur letting us cross the road safely."

So when we got to the hike, we went rite down to the waterfalls.

I dussn't think we can go on this trail any more.

Well, our way be blocked by frozened waterfalls and if we would has slided, we would has ended up in the cold water.  This reminded us of Bunny's frozened waterfalls.  Mom woz not game.  So we turned around and went back and found a higher trail around that pawt and it woz a furry pawsome trail!

I be up high ofur the frozened waterfalls now.

Thank dogness it do not be slickery up here coz that be a big fall down to the bottom.

On the udder side where it not be so steep they has railings.  OK, I is just a dog but duss this make sense?

So after the falls we commed to this observashun deck.

Ummmmm, NO

Mom went up without me and I squeezed my eyes shut coz I can't look.

Waiting payshuntly fur mom.

Mom bringed me back a pikshure of wot it looked like from up above.

On the udder side of the lake they has anudder observashun towah but it be the Leaning Towah of Pencilvania.  The one mom went up in woz strate.

So we hiked around in the woods some but it be mostly woods roads and they is not furry interesting and mom woz getting a splitting head-ake wot would not go away with the Advils.  So we started to head back but we had to take a rilly boring gravel road to get back.  So mom seened a woods road and sayed, "Let's see if this takes us back a more interesting way."  Oh, I know we be in trubbulls fur fun times when mom say that.

Furst we had to climb through blow down after blow down and you knows how much I love doing that.

Then we ended up in a swamp!

Mom insisted we keep going through the swamp.  Sage would has LOVED this.

Swamp Monstah

So we made it back to the hemlock ravine...

... and the waterfalls...

... and just as the sunbeams finally came out...

... back at the car.

 

My Peep is a Flake Contest, Part 2

Furrends, I has thought long and hard about this one from the comforts of my hidey spot and I has come to the conclushun that yes, this constitoots flakiness on the part of my mom on so many levels so I just has to tell all afore My Peep is a Flake Week is ofur.

Efurry udder week, mom goes and picks up her organic froot and veggie share from the co-op (BLECH!).  Why she duss not join an organic CHICKUN COOP is beyond me. (flaky)

Snootering around fur chickun.

WARNING FUR PUDDLES:  TELL YOUR MOM NOT TO LOOK! BUG ALERT!
I thought I found chickun but it woz only this:

Wot did mom do with him?  Turned him loose outside.  (flaky) 
OK, Puddles, your mom can look again.

So when mom peels the appulls (BLECH) she throws the peels and cores OUT THE WINDOW!  (flaky)  Efurry day the peels and cores be gone when she throws more out.  Well, yesterday mom got an eggstra froot share coz she wanted to make applesauce (BLECH) to put in the freezer.  (How about some CHICKUN SAUCE?????)  She had lots of peels and cores (BLECH) and she throwed them ALL out the window.

Who duss you think be nomming on those appull peels? 

Yes furrends, today we has Grand Central Skwerrel Stashun outside our window coz they has a mudderload of skwerrel take-out at Chez Shawnee Fine Dining fur Rodents.  So you is thinking wot be so flaky about that?  Your mom do be fattening up the skwerrels for YOU.  Well that would be all fine and dandy if'n she throwed the skwerrel noms in my BACK YARD to lure them in but no, she puts it on the side of the house where I can't reach the skwerrels. FLAKY!

My Peep is a Flake Contest

So Frankie Furter, The Road Dogs and Sarge do be hasing this contest .  Here be the rules:

Is your peep a flake? Does your peep do weird, strange, funny or generally flaky things? Here's your chance to tell the world.
1. Post on your own blog from January 1 to midnight Eastern time January 7. Post once or multiple times if your peeps give you that much material! Tell us all about how your peep is a flake.
2. Comment on Sarge's blog, Frankie's blog, Road Dogs' blog and the Blogville Community Calendar so that we know you've done your post. Why all three you ask...so we don't miss anyone! Why you ask again...because there are...
3. Three prizes to be awarded on January 11, 2012.

So I had to think long and hard on this from the comfort of my hidey spot coz mom's flakiness just seems normal now, we is so used to it.  Blonde moments, senior moments, she has them all.  But suddenly I rememmered the flakiest thing efur wot she did and I went digging in the pooter hoping the pikshures woz still where I had buried them back in 2008...

So when mom woz doing the rescue group, the animal control officer called her one nite asking fur help coz he woz raiding a hoarder's house.  Mom went there and helped get 112 animals out of this house and into boarding and to rescue groups.  She brought 2 kittehs home with her to foster - the one with one eye and the one with one ear.  You can read their story HERE.

Amelia and JoJo

So you say WAH? That's not FLAKY!  I beg your pawdon, butttttt, these kittehs WERE flaky!  Fur real.  They had RINGWORM!  Their furs falled out and their skin woz flaky from the ringworm.  That do be common in a hoarding situashun where cooties get passed around like wildfire.  So mom had to dip them once a week fur 8 weeks in lime sulfur dip.  If'n you has nefur smelled lime sulfur afore, it be like rotten eggs a gabillion times worser. Even us dogs consider it gross and stinky so you know it has to be rilly bad.

So it woz winter time and mom and her furrend Sue decided to do it in the attic.  They buyed a wash tub at Home Depot and put a bucket unner the drain hole to catch the stinky dip wot did not stay ON the kitteh (and there woz lots of that).  They opened the attic window and put a fan in it blowing outside to suck the stink out.  At least that woz the plan.  Then they put the kitteh in the wash tub and poured the lime sulfur dip ofur the kitteh and sponged it in until the kitteh woz soaking wet and ORANGE.  Let me tell you, kittehs DO NOT like this.  Anyways, mom and Sue did not want to get lime sulfur all ofur themselves and make themselves orange and stinky so Sue brought Hazmat suits in size XXL fur them to wear.  Now who be the bigger flake, I ask?

Becoz the lime sulfur stinked up the house anyways, fur the next 7 weeks, once a week, mom and Sue would crank up the space heater in the garage, put the kittehs in carriers and take them out there.  The neybors would see mom and Sue suited up as above walking across the yard and disappearing into the garage carrying kitteh carriers (complete with howling kittehs).  They would shut the garage door and all you could hear woz mom and Sue giggling and kittehs yowling and sniff the stench of rotten eggs coming from the garage.  So furrends, there you has it, my peep, the flake.

First Day Hike

So fur the furst hike of the New Year we did go to Pencilvania and hiked 11 miles on wild and rustic trails with lots of rawks and creeks and stuffs.  Pawlese note the sunbeams during most of this hike.  It woz a bootiful and WARM day with, and I kwote the wevver peeples, "Just a slight 20% chance of a shower."  Now rememmer this, k?

Ahhhh, soaking my paws in creeks with little waterfalls.

I can just walk rite thru the waters to get to the udder side but then I has to wait fur mom coz she be thinking those logs be kinda slickery and she had to go upstream to find enuff rawks to step on to get ofur.  I crossed back and forth about 87 times afore mom crossed ofur.

OMD, I found that Appalachian Trail again!

We got off that Appalachian Trail to go see a seenik at Eagle's Nest but we had to climb up big rawks to get to the seenik.

Shhhhh, sneks be sleeping unner the rawks fur the winter.  We dussn't want to wake them up.

Here we is at the seenik.  There used to be an eagle nest but it be long gone now.  No eagles today.

Here be the seenik and I is seeing this fur the furst time along with all of you coz the sunbeams be in our eyes and we could see NUTTIN!  So we taked pikshures and hoped we could see the seenik on the pooter when we got home.  (Remmmer now about the bloo skies and sunbeams...)

Then we takes this long, long, ho hum BORING road back to the Appalachian Trail.  (But it had some pritty green efurgreen trees.)

After we got back on that Appalachian Trail fur a bit, we left again to go find the this hiker hotel wot be called the Eagles Nest Shelter but it be on the udder side of the mountain from the Eagles Nest we woz at afore.

Wowser, at this hiker hotel seenik we did not has sunbeams in our eyeballs coz they be ahind us.

On the way back to the Appalachian Trail we stopped at this old log bench fur a break and snack (chickun jerkey - YAY!) but I told mom she mite want to be careful where she sits down.

Then I met some new furrends and their dad woz passing out SALMON treats, NOM!

Then there woz more creeks to get my paws wet in...

..... and more, and then....

How's about 100% chance of DOWNPOUR, wevver peeples?

(Puddles, this be speshul fur you:   ♫ Raindrops keep falling on my head...♫)

Yup, mom had to break out her rain gear and we finished the last cuppull of miles of the hike in the pouring rains.  I dussn't need rain gear coz I drip dry.

Then mom say "Shawnee, what is on your face???"

Biggified.

Yes, furrends, mom did not pull just ONE icky ticky off of me, no she pulled THREE icky tickies off of me in JANUARY!  Has they no shame?  They should be sleeping, or better yet, DEAD.

So on the drive home...

Rain thru the rest of Pencilvania

The sunbeams woz ofur in New Joisey.