Two Hikes in Two Days

I rilly thought I would has a break from the B&B but it only lasted a short time before we filled up again.  I did manage to get in some hiking fur my Furginia trip training so I will tells you bout that now.  Furstly, we hiked in Noo York on Furiday.

So follow me and off we goes.

We has to climb up this mountain to a seenik.  We doesn't has a bike or skis so we is good.  Paws is allowed.

Not there yet.

How nice that the trail maintainer peeps cut out this step just fur me!  I used to sail ofur these logs like a gazelle but I cannot do it so much any more.

But I can still beat mom to the top so I has to wait on her pokey self.

Wah lah!  The seenik.  We climbed so high that we is above the clouds, BOL!

That be a lake unner that cloud and it just be a cloud of fog ofur the lake.  We is not rilly above the clouds.

We is heading down to that lake now and I hopes that cloud of fog be gone by the time I gets there.

That fog prolly will be gone coz I had to wait like an hour fur mom to take pictures of this spidey.

Unner werks better than ofur fur me.

Hey, a dog could get lost in here!

I see the lake down there!

Yay, the lake!  Now to find a spot where I can get in to get my furs wet.

"Come on in Shawnee!  The water feels nice!"

Thanks fishies, your home do be pawsome!

When we was leaving the lake, I got chased by a SNEK!  Fur real!  Mom yelled (she can yell rilly loud) and the snake ran fur hims life in the udder direction!

That was a nice lake!

So then the next day, on Caturday, mom had to go help with the produce co-op (BLECH!) down by the shore so I went along and waited while mom was bizzy, then we stopped by a park on the Raritan Bay fur a short hike.

It do be like a big litter box fur the kittehs here.

We got on the boardwalk, butt....

... it do still be brokened from when Sandy nommed it last year.

We hads to walk in the litter box where there was good sniffs but I was not allowed to get my furs wet becoz ...

... there be lead pawlootion.  Yikes.

I is gessing that peep cannot read signs or sniff pee mail coz he be out there in the pawlootion with his little two-leggers.

See, I keeped mom on the walking string so she would not go out in the pawlootion and glow in the dark and stuffs.

I did take mom out on the pier ...

... fur some seeniks.

In Training

Well furrends, now that things has quieted down at the B&B and we has found that Deramaxx helps some with Arthur Itis in my knee, I is in training coz, is you reddy fur this....  I is going hiking in Furginia again next month!  Fur real!  I gots my own pawsonal cabin reserved in the Shenandoah Furginia State Park.  I cannot do any crazy rawk climbing or 10+ mile long hikes like I used to so we is keeping the hikes shorter and a little easier fur me.  So I show you yesterday's hike where I is getting in shape fur finding seeniks.

If'n you click on the linkie, a little blue ball starts running around on our track and that be me!
Stering Forest State Park, NY - Wildcat Mountain at EveryTrail

We get to the park in Noo York and mom is all like "BRRRRRRR! COLD!"  Wot cold?  This be pawfect fur my furs.

And we is off!  Gotta get mom moving afore she gets all frozened.

Oh wait, in a minit... pee mail.

Now we I is reddy.

I is liking this moss on my paws - cushy!

I do think we be coming up on a seenik here.

Oh doggie!  Check it out!

That be the Noo York Thruway ofur there and Noo Joisey where I live!

There be nuttin better at a seenik than chickun jerky (but mom missed it with the camera),

butt skritches,

and a soft bed of grass fur my old bones.

OK, break ofur.  We is heading fur that mountain ofur there on the left.

OMD, can you beleef fall do be coming alreddy?

Sumbuddy lost their traction device ofur the winter.  I wonner how they made it out with just one?

So mom woz all SQUEEEE ofur this burd.  This do be an ovenbird and they is called that coz their hidey spots looks like Dutch ovens.

So we has arrived on that udder mountain and my snooter do be telling me a seenik be up ahead.

Yup, sure enuff.

Thank dogness these ants be bizzy hauling their breakfast home so they leave my ...

... chickun jerky alone!

And here do be my bed of grasses.

It do be a bootiful day fur seeniks.

So towards the end of our hike mom made a video of how I is walking with that Arthur Itis in my knee.  Not my normal graceful self, that be fur sure.  But we just be making the bestest of it.

Catching Up

Hey efurrybuddy!  I is hoping that after Laboring Day things quiet down a little here coz I needs a break from this B&B laboring!  OK I did has a day off the udder day and I will tells you bout that in a minit but I want to show you my hike furst with my boarding buddy, "he ain't nuttin but a coonhound" Bruno.  You knows, before he came to stay with us (this be his second stay) he was kicked out of 3 B&B's in ONE WEEK fur being naughty, BOL.  But my mom, she do be rilly bossy, so he lissens to her.  I told him to trust me, easier to do wot she says then she shuts up.  Plus mom say if'n we keeps him tired, he be a good boy so I has to take him hiking.  So anyways, here do be my hike with Bruno.

Did you see how I had to SHOW him how to get his furs wet?  It do be an outrage that he knows nuttin about that.  Well, now he do.

So then on Furiday I had to go to the V-E-T fur mom to LEAVE ME THERE!  NOOOOOOOOO!  Well, I do get the speshul treatments becoz mom is furrends with my V-E-T so she stays with me until I goes to sleep then the V-E-T calls mom to come get me when I is waking up coz I gets rilly freaked out being left at the V-E-T.  But you would not beleef wot mom did while I woz getting my toofers cleaned and my bum leg x-rayed.  Well, see fur youselfs.

This woz the look on my face when mom walkied in telling the V-E-T how much funs she had.

Not amused.

Keep in mind my mom has not been on a bike in ofur 30 years.  She could has brokened her neck and nefur come back to get me!  Do she be crazy?  So anyways, I has clean toofers now but the V-E-T stole two of them.  She say it be furry strange coz it be the same toof on either side of my mouf and they both had the same hole straight thru them.  I is not telling how that happened, BOL.  Now, my bum leg...  The V-E-T say that long ago I had a partial cruciate ligament tear but it didn't make enuff owies for me to let mom know about it.  But it made a great home for that Arthur Itis to move in and he has quite a mansion going in my knee.  We do want to do the Adequan needles (Thanks Otto, Ruby and Bart ofur there at the Rottrovers fur telling me how good the Adequan werks!) but they is not making the Adequan now.  They say they going gib it back to the V-E-T end of August.  So we is waiting.  And waiting.  And waiting.  The good news do be that I is under the V-E-T's orders to keep on hiking.  Yay!  We just has to keep it shorter than wot we used to do but it gibs us a chance to visit all the smaller parks that was not big enuff fur me before.

Oh, and I almost furgotted, I has to answer a question fur Sam.  He do be asking from my last hike

What was the little yellow square with the umbrella on the one tree?

That do be a trail marker, Sam.  It woz a picture of a tree on the yellow square.  That do be so the peeps can find their way and not get lost.  We just use our snooters to find the way but peeps doesn't has good snooters like us so they need markers to follow. 

Still Here!

So sorry efurrybuddy that I has been slacking so badly on my bloggie.  I has been so bizzy at the B&B this summer.  We is turning dogs away efurry day coz we is so booked.  So by the time I gets done entertaining the guests and mom gets done doing the B&B bloggie so their peeps can see that their dogs is hasing a better vacay then they is hasing (neener, neener) we is just all bloggied out.

I has still been hiking but between that Arthur-Itis and the hawt, hoomid wevvers we was hasing, it was hard to hike fur me. The heat gets to me more now and I has been furry gimpy with my Arthur-Itis leg.  That means I follow behind mom so I is not in any pictures to show you.  But yesterday we hiked, it was cooler, I taked some Rimadyl, and I was hasing more fun so I is in the pictures!  I show you.

See, here I is, leading the way like old times.

Gather your peeps around so they can all SQUEEEEEEEE ofur the baby.  (Mom did, sigh.)

You coming, mom?

Did you efur feel like somebuddy be watching you?

OMD, anudder one.  You can just call me the Deer Whisperer.

Here we come to a seenik ....

Wot kind of seenik do this be?

OMD, it do be a quarry, like...

...THIS!

But I did find us some falling waters and the water noise made the quarry noise go away.

Ahhh, nice and peaceful and quiet here.

Oh.  Hai!

Almost finished. 

While mom was bizzy with the bugs,

I rested in the grass.

Here do be a couple of videos of me entertaining the B&B guests.

Hiking with Daisy

Well furrends, I has been out of hiking commission fur a couple of weeks.  By order of my chiropractor.  My right back leg has been all gimpy after hiking and mom could tell I was not hasing much fun towards the end of the hikes coz of my leg.  So I rested.  I was bored.  I entertained Frankie Furter and Ernie's great-great-great-great-great-great gramma last week.  Well, she could be.  See fur yourself.

This do be Annie.  She stayed at my B&B.  She be 16 years old and do be blind and deaf.  We rested togedder. 

So I went back to my chiropractor yesterday and he did say I can start hiking again.  Mom has been emailing with my V-E-T and they has decided that I should take Rimadyl only on hiking days coz I rilly do not need it efurry day yet.  My V-E-T has been saying fur years that I has Arthur-I-Tis in my knee and he might be gibbing me troubles now but because of Arthur-I-Tis, I needs to keep hiking to keep my muscles in shape.  I has been taking the Glue-Co-Za-Mean and stuffs fur years.  I is 12 years old and mom do take the Advils so she can hike.  Only fair, no?

So yesterday I did a little short hike, not even 3 miles, with my furrend Daisy who be staying at my B&B this week.  Daisy be a 4-year-old Malti-Poo.  She would only hike if'n I was leading the way.  If'n I wanted to hike behind mom, Daisy would not hike.  So I had to be the leader the whole time.  OK, so here do be the video of our hike.  The YouTubes did mess up the beginning but it get's better in a sec.