Use It or Lose It Vacation Day Hike

Mom has more of those vakashun days wot she has to use up by the end of the month so we be picking out the nicest wevver days and yesterday woz one of those.  Our furst sebenty degree day this year!

We got there early in the morning when the sun woz coming up so we would not get stuck in traffic with peeples going to their werks.

The moon had not even gone back to his hidey spot yet.

Follow with me on the Beaver Brook Trail as I go snootering around in search of Lost Lake.

Lost Lake, is you here by this rawk pile cairn?

Nope, no Lost Lake here.  The lake still do be lost.

No Lost Lake down there...

OMD, could it be?  Lost Lake?????

Yay!  Lost Lake be lost no more.  You see the big beeber dam?  The beebers made this lake with their dam.

The beebers also has some clubhouses in Lost Lake but I did not see any beebers.

But coz we woz the only ones at Lost Lake and we woz furry quiet we seened all of these burds.  Pawsome!

I just furry quietly slipped in to get my furs wet.  It woz sebenty degrees after all.  How you like my duck impawsonashun?  Quack.

I ♥ Lost Lake

Hiking is for the Birds

So on Sunday we hiked anudder piece of the Appalachian Trail in Noo Joisey.  (We only has 11 more miles of Appalachian Trail in NJ to hike afore we has done the whole NJ part!)

We started out in the woods....

... through creeks...

... up mountains...

... thru swamps (thinking about you Sage) ...

... all the way up to seeniks.

Here be a better shot of the seenik with big ole me out of the way.  We be heading to that water down there.  That be the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge.

Here we is down at the wildlife refuge.  Notice how I has mom on my walking string.  That be coz...

... I duss not want her running amok and skeering all the burds.

Shhh, walk quietly, mom.

These be just some of the burds wot we seened:

That be the  mountain we has to climb back ofur (and 2 more ups and down ahind that one) to get back to our car.  This be why I is napping instead of blogging.

Wordless Wednesday Hiking

Hats of Hope

I do not know Miss Judi ofur at SASS with Sammy, Andy, Shelly and Sierra but efurrybuddy in Blogville be rallying togedder today in suppawt of Miss Judi coz she be waiting fur test results from the doctor and the odds is not good.  So in order to sway the odds in her favor, we here in Blogville is all wearing hats today.  Even tho I do not know Miss Judi, a furrend of animals be a furrend of mine so I wear my mom's hiking hat fur Miss Judi today.

Permit Hiking

So if'n you remmemer, last Monday afore my chiropractor appointment mom went to the watershed office and buyed us a hiking pawmit so we can hike on watershed lands.  That be wot we did today.

Do this pee-mail seem a little high up to you?  Tucker or Rory, woz any of you guys here?

Waiting.... Mom woz pawticularly slow on the uphills today.  She defrosted the freezer in the basement yesterday so she sayed her legs feeled like rubber after up and down the basement steps all day long.  And you ask why I do not do steps?

We woz on the Two Brooks Trail so I is gessing that meaned we had to cross two brooks.  I pawsent to you Brook Nummer One.

Brook Nummer Two with a snazzy log bridge.

Oh look, a few sunbeams.  There wozn't many sunbeams today.

Here be a reservoir and a few more sunbeams.

I think this big rawk look like a fish.

It do be warm enuff today to sit down fur a break.  We has not been able to do that since fall coz it be to cold to sit on the ground.

Got more chickun jerkey?  No kiwi bread, BLECH!

The trail used to go ofur that way but the beebers builded a dam and flooded out the trail so the trail do go a different way now.

So fur our break we seened the reservoir from up high and now we be rite at the reservoir down low.

There woz lots of old ruins on the way back to the car.

So thank you all fur the birfday wishes.  Seeing as we dussn't know eggsaktly wot day my birfday be on, we is still celebrating!  It be one of the perks of being a shelter dog.  (See Puddles, there be a method to my madness, BOL!)

Happy Birthday to Me and Dr. Seuss!

So today we is suppose to write a rhyme in honor of Dr. Seuss' birfday and gess wot?  It just mite be my birfday, too! I is turning 11 years old.  We isn't sure eggzaktly when my birfday do be but sometime in March so I say Dr. Seuss and I do our celebrashuns togedder!

If’n we didn’t has birfdays
I wouldn’t be me
If’n I had nefur been borned
Then wot would I be?
If’n Dr. Seuss had never been borned
Then wot would he be?
I mite be a skwerrel
Or I mite be a flea
Dr. Suess mite be a kitteh
Or a dog just like me.
I is wot I is
That’s a great thing to be
So I woof to myself
Happy Birfday to ME! 
And not to furget
He not be a goose
So I woof to him
Happy Birfday Dr. Seuss!