The Shawnee Cam, Part 2

So if'n you rememmer last week I writed about hasing to take my Shawnee Cam off of life suppawt coz it do be brokened. Mom writed Uncle Milton Industries (aka Uncle Milty) and the furry next day they taked the manual fur the Pet's Eye View Cam off they innerwebs. We thoughted that be furry fishy and that Uncle Milty be dissing me. Howefur, OMD, OMD, OMD, I gotted pee-mail from Uncle Milty today!!!!! He did write:

"I apologize about the delayed response, but if you would respond with a full name and shipping address, I can have a replacement Camera sent to your location."

I do be getting a brand spanking noo Shawnee Cam. YAY! I be wating fur the go postal man efurry day until it comes.

Anipal Photo Hunt: You Lookin' At Me?

My furrend Cokie the Cat is going to be posting a noo theme efurry weekend fur hasing a photo hunt. Here be how Cokie say it werks:

Each Sunday I'll post our anipal photo theme for the week & a pic (or a few) related to that theme here on my blog. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, would be to post an anipal pic (or pics) of your own on your blog, then come back and click the CLICK HERE TO ENTER link at the bottom of this post. That will add your blog pics to the Photo Hunt! Check out all the fun anipal photos & make new friends and followers!

So today I do be posting pikshurs of my sis Sydney coz she duss has the most eggspressive eyes.

"Why you lookin at me?"


"You lookin' at me like I has something in my mouf."


"Just hand over that cookie while you be lookin' at me!"


You lookin at ME?

West Mountain/The Timp/Doodletown (Bear Mountain State Park, NY)

Today we hiked 10 miles. We furst wented up two mountains, West Mountain and the Timp. We seened lots of nice views of the Hudson River:


We seened some real life akshual Appalachian Trail thru hikers wot had hiked here all the way from Jordja! We founded the shelter where they had spented the nite:


Wot a grate view they had from they shelter:


Well, you can't akshually see it in that pikshur so I has to biggify it fur you. To the left they could see the Hudson River:


And strate ahead the Noo York City skyline:


We had to climb hi atop this mountain...


... and it taked mom so long I founded a shady brake spot and wated for her...


Mom sayed that duss be a grate brake spot so we chilled there fur a bit.



Mom's hed duss be in the way but this is wot we be looking at:


And mom capshurred a pritty good shot of some kind of raptor burd:


We climbed up the next mountain and look at wot we seened - rememmer that shelter we woz at on the last mountain? We could see it from The Timp mountain. I cannot beleeve we hiked that far!


Then after all that hard mountain climbing hiking, we has some rilly easy hiking while we woz dilly dallying around Doodletown. This do be an old road wot wented thru the town but the town is not there any mores coz now it do be a ghost town.


They duss has some signs around wot tells you wot used to be there in the olden days like this one:



And here do be that old, old oak tree wot they writed about:


And wot kind of ghost town would this be without a cemetery? We seened an old toomstone from 1816 but some had no werds on them any mores so they could be even older.



We thought we founded a motherload of litters until mom looked closer and seened that these duss be old artifakts like old brokened bottles and dishes. Peeples had prolly finded them and put them up on this wall fur efurryone to take a look at.


We did, howevers, find some reel litters. Mom snagged this bag wif her pole wot woz stucked in some bushes:


And we added a few more pieces to our litter collekshun afore we finished:


Well, afore I goes to take my nap coz I is rilly tired, let me hop on over to the Blog Hop!

Friday the 13th

Hoo did say that Furiday the 13th be unlucky? Fur me, it woz a furry lucky day coz sumthing speshull do be cooking for dinner! Wot could it be? OMD! It do be incredibull, edibull chickun eggs!


Mom duss only buy the organic eggs coz the chickuns be treated better than chickuns wot lays regular eggs and the organic eggs duss be better for us.


It do be hard to wait while the eggs is being smashed and cooked...


Then the hardest part, wating whilst the eggs get kewl so they not burn our moufs...


SYDNEY! DIXIE! COME AND GET IT!!!!!


Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom....


Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom....


Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom....

The Shawnee Cam, RIP

It do be wif grate sadness that I must repawt that we has pulled the plug and takened the Shawnee Cam off of life suppawt (disconnected from the pooter) and it do be pronounced DOD (dead on dog).

I mean, it would has lived furever prolly on life suppawt, but when the plug is pulled, the Shawnee Cam do be ded. That woz not rite.

Mom googled fur the instrukshun manual last nite to see if'n there be any udder life saving meshures we could take. We has a hard copy here. Somewhere. But we had googled it afore and founded it. It do be here:


Mom founded it on the innerwebs again, readed efurry werd and tried restoring to factory defaults. That werkded for just a few minits then the Shawnee cam started flashing red/green/red/green again and that do mean it be in terribull pains. So mom founded a pee-mail address fur the Uncle Milton peeples wot maded the Shawnee Cam and sented them this pee-mail:


Now we knows it be too soon to eggspect an ansser from Uncle Milton, however, we duss find it furry odd wot happened this morning. Mom tried to pull up the manual again and this do be wot happened:


OMD! We is thinking Uncle Milton gotted mom's pee-mail and rilly quick like taked the manual off the innerwebs. Wot duss you think? Coincidence? Or not?

Happy Birthday Smokey Bear!

Today do be Smokey Bear's birfday coz he sayed so on hims Twitter:


It do be furry sad that on Smokey Bear's birfday, there do be a huge wildfire in my own back yard wot we seened while hiking on Saturday. It do be on the impawtant big wildfire map on Smokey Bear's web site:


It has been confirmed in the New Jersey Herald that the wildfire woz started by a hooman wot maded a campfire.

A wildfire that has burned 250 acres in Worthington State Forest was ignited by a campfire that was in an area where campfires are not allowed, a state Forest Fire official said Monday...

The fire do still be burning. So for Smokey Bear's birfday all he asks is that efurryone does they part to prevent forest fires just like he sayed in hims moovie here:


HAPPY BIRFDAY SMOKEY BEAR! I GOT MY SMOKEY ON!

Raccoon Ridge - Worthington State Forest, NJ

So today we hiked 11.3 miles on the Raccoon Ridge part of the Appalachian Trail. We hiked up high atop the mountain:


And I founded a pillow wot somebody must has lefted when they woz camping:

Mom putted it up high on a rawk next to the trail so it be furry visibull and she sayed if'n it still be there when we commed back that way, then we would pack it out but when we commed that way later, it woz gone. Mebbe a bear founded it and taked it fur hims den. Mebbe it woz the bear wot this poo belonged to:

No worries. I woz not nomming it. I woz just checking out all the booberries and stuffs wot commed out whole.

There woz lots of nice views up on the Raccoon Ridge:





Then we heared a lowd noise and OMD, it woz a helly-koptah!

I had to biggify it coz it just be a teeny dot on the horizon in the pikshure. We did not knows at the time wot the helly-koptah woz doing but we woz soon to find out.

We woz headed to Sunfish Pond to take a break afore turning around and heading back. Then we seened the forest pawlice who putted up this sine:

OMD! A FOREST FIRE! The forest pawlice sayed the helly-koptah woz bringing water to dump on the fire but they had to close down the trails so fire fighters could use them to get to the fire. The pawlice sayed we could go to the lookout at the pond but no farther so that is wot we did. We tried to take a break there...


...but the smokes woz getting in our throats and making us coff so we had to head back. We is furry sad that a stoopid hooman did something so rilly stoopid and irresponsibull coz that is the only way a forest fire gets started. And they say the fire will not be out until in rains. That could be many days.

On the way home I woz sad thinking about all of the animals wot is losing they homes and many lose they lives. I even feel sad fur the chipmunks, skwerrels, mouses, burds, snakes and bugs, well, eggsept for fleas, tickies and skeeters.


Here do be an article we founded about the fire when we gotted home: New Jersey Herald and here be a wildfire repawt.

We will be thinking about our animal furrends in the forest and hoping fur the bestest fur them.