Back In Bizziness!

The pooter lives!  Here do be a few woofs of advice fur those of you wot is technologically challenged like yours trooly - if'n you try to reboot your pooter and it keeps getting frozened afore Windows loads up ofur and ofer again.  Yank the powah plug out of the back of the pooter, wait a few minits, plug it back in and wahlah - pooter fixed.  We did think that pushing the button on the pooter to turn it off and back on again accomplished the same thing but apparently not.  You has to pull the plug completely.  Lights out.  Adios.  Then plug back in and it comes back to life.  At least it be werth a try if'n the same thing happens to you.

My sis Sydney surfs the innerwebs.

Anyways, so many thanks fur all of the birfday wishes.  We do be celebrating all month long seeing as we duss not know wot day of the month my birfday is.  (That be one of the perks of being adopted, BOL.)

So now I has to share this video with you.  I dussn't unnerstand wot there be to BOL about but mom is LOLing so hard her eyes be leaking.  I think I need to unplug her and plug her back in again.

Happy Birthday, Bye Bye Winter, Hello Spring Hike

Whew, we had lots to cram into one hike today. Mom has two use-it-or-lose-it vakashun days to take this month so since we did this hike to Mount Minsi in Pencilvania the same time last year, we decided to make it a tradishun and celebrashun combo.

So furstly, we isn't sure when my birfday is coz I woz just a baby puppeh when I woz birfed so I dussn't rememmer. I woz gotted out of the shelter in Jooly and woz 4 months old so my birfday be sometime in March and this year I turn dubbull digits. Yup, I be 10 years old now!

Then when we do this hike we always find the furry last patch of snow or ice up atop the mountain and yup, we founded it today.  This do be the last of it.

Afore we get started I has two training videos I putted togedder fur you today.  Furst up we has how to climb rawks:


And secondly, how to jump logs:


OK now on to the hike.  I is heading towards Mount Minsi on the right in Pencilvania.  The mountain on the left do be Mount Tammany in Noo Joisey and I has hiked there afore.  Rememmer where I found the poopy baby diaper last year?  So when I get up high on Mount Minsi I will be able to look ofur at Mount Tammany and see where I standed afore.

Me and Mom in Front of Mount Tammany

Me and Mom Atop of Mount Minsi

It do be foggy on the horizon today so you can't see so much of our seeniks today.  We then went on to Totts Gap on the Appalachian Trail.  You knows, some peeples has alreddy left Georgia where the Appalachian Trail starts and be heading this way.  They be hiking rite here in a cuppull of months:

They is going to be needing to watch where they step coz I did find some coyote poo:

Here I be at a seenik right afore Totts Gap - this be looking west into Pencilvania:

So then we headed back and let me show you my litter haul fur the day:

Wot's this? BACON AND EGGS?!?!?!?!  *DROOL*

Hark - Who goes there?

It do be my noo furrend Diesel!

We did about 5 gabillion laps of zoomies! It woz fun! And that woz at the end of the 10 mile hike!

I is going to leave you with some Shawnee Cam pikshures of the hike but let me tell you furst that I mite not be able to get around to reading your bloggies fur a few days coz when we gotted home today, the pooter broked!  The pooter fixer man is coming Saturday.  Mom is letting me use her werk pooter rite now but she rilly is not allowed to do pawsonal stuffs on it and it duss not werk well at all fur posting bloggies coz mom has to use a rilly old vershun of IE for her system at werk so we has rilly had a hard time writing this one coz nuttin wants to werk rite.  Grrrrr.  So if'n my bloggie looks funny, that be why. So I be back visiting efurryone just as soon as our pooter be fixed!

Do Shepherds Howl?

The boy is always telling mom that when she takes Dixie and Sydney fur walkies that I howl fur 10 minutes straight like AWOOOOOWOOOOOWOOOOOWOOOO. Now dussn't that sound like you huskies? Has I been framed? The boy claims to has recorded this on his phone from up in his room with the door closed while mom was taking Dixie and Sydney fur walkies tonite. He says you has to turn the volumes way up to hear it but it woz crazy lowd. Yeah rite.

Watchung Reservation

So with an hour being stolened from us today and all the flooding in Noo Joisey from all the rains we woz hasing, we decided to stay close to home and hike the 10 mile Sierra Trail at Watchung Reservashun wot is only about 6 miles from our howse.

So you mite wonder why we duss not go to this park more often seeing as it is so close by us.  It has been a good  5 years since I hiked there and that woz with our furrend Courtney afore she moved to Collah-rah-doh.  She reads my bloggie so sit tite a sec while I gibs her a shout out, k?

"Hai Courtney! We lubs you and miss you lots!  Shawnee, Dixie and Sydney"

Courtney used to stay at our howse when mom woz out of town and take care of us and it woz one wild pawty we had the bestest time!  Anyways, mom dussn't like that park so much coz no matter where you is in the park you hear traffic from the I-78 innerstate wot runs smack along side the park so you nefur feel like you is away from civilizashuns.  But it woz a good choice fur today and made us think lots about when we hiked with Courtney.

Here be where all the trails start but we be staying on the white trail the whole time:

The trails woz pritty much dry eggsept fur some spots.  Well, OK, a lot of spots.

But wot duss I care? These paws be washable.

We went thru a pritty pine forest:

Then up high:

But the only seeniks we seened woz icky howses and roads and cars - not furry seenik.

Wot is this?

Helloooooooooooooooooo down there.......................

So I think you be getting the pikshure as to why this not be our fave place to go hiking but it woz not all bad. There woz some nice parts on the trail.  I snagged a pritty decent pikshure of the woods with the Shawnee Cam:

And a pikshure of mom:

Mom got a pikshure of me on the boardwalk while I taked a picture of the boardwalk with my Shawnee Cam:

Then I metted a new furrend.  His name be Sonny and he be a lab/bloodhound mix just like the dog Sherlock wot mom had afore me.  Sonny was a stray wot woz founded in Washington State and his mom adopted him from the shelter when she lived there then they moved to Noo Joisey.  He gets to go hiking lots with his mom and he is crazee ofur sticks.

We had impawtant pee mail to sniff:

Sonny's mom woz carrying a bag wot she was putting litter in wot she woz picking up.  Mom told her I pack out litter in my backpack and she thought that woz such a good ideer that she is going to get a backpack fur Sonny.  Woofing about litter, this do be my haul:

We went by this old barn with a fence around it coz they do be restoring it as a historical barn. Mom did not get a pikshure but I did.

Then we went through the Deserted Village of Feltville wot woz a town in 1845, eggsept fur it not be completely deserted coz the park ranger do live there in one of the houses.

Then there do be an old cemetery from the Revolushunnary War back in 1776!

It do be a good thing we woz not planning on taking this red trail...

It do be better suited fur Mr. and Mrs. Duck rite now:

So we got back to the car and tried out mom's new invenshun.  She put some warm waters with just a drop of oatmeal shampoo in an old cooler jug to bring along fur my paws coz we knowed it would be rilly muddy.  I calls it "Baf in a Carafe."

Ta da!  All clean and reddy to get in the car.

Trust me on this - it be so much better than a real baf or (shudder) the cold garden hose.

Anipal Photo Hunt: Mardi Gras!

Yay! Cokie the Cat has bringed the Anipal Photo Hunt back!

So this week's photo hunt do be Mardi Gras.

I don't want no beads - throw me some COOKIES!

OK, so Cokie do be using a new linkie thingie coz the old one costs green papers now but I cannot figger out how to put the new one here so you has to go back to Cokie's bloggie to add your pawticipashun linkie rite here.

Schiff Nature Preserve

This do be the fancy nature center at Schiff Nature Preserve where we hiked 8.5 miles today.  Do you efur has that feeling that eyeballs be watching you?

Around the udder side of the bilding, we has this shot:

See that box up there on the wall?  That do be a bat howse and they has the Batman thingie on it so the bats knows where they is supposed to go.  That do make it furry clear, no?

So mom starts humming this toon and it be sticking in my brane all day now:



So on that note, we woz off across the Great Meadow:

We did still find spots with lots of snow wot had not melted yet:

But we did find a sign of spring wot is skunk cabbage sprouting:

I is snickering in the pikshure below coz mom woz hasing to cross ofur the water on those blocks.  It so always be such a sight and it do take her furefur.

Fortoonately, she maded it both ways without falling in.  Me, I walk on through and it did wash some of the muds off but I just gotted new muds on my furs again.  This do be why I did not has the Shawnee Cam on today.  It do be spritzing in the morning and with all the muds sploshing up on me...

We did see historic stuffs, too.  We dussn't know eggsactly wot this is, it do just say "historic site" on the map but it do look to be the basement of an old howse wot is being eggskavated:

Then there woz this sign wot sayed George Washington do be here.  He be efurrywhere we go!

Here do be a biggifikashun of the sign if'n you wants to read it:

They do say they has founded arty facts rite there from back in the days of George Washington.  And this do be the Olde Colonial Road wot the soldiers marched on:

And here do be the lost and found in the park.  Anybuddy missing a hat or a glove?

We did get some pritty sunbeams fur a little while:

But they is gone now coz there do be big rain storms moving our way.  Hopefully mom won't be hogging the pooter like she has been all week long so I can catch up on reading bloggies.  This do be wot mom has been watching on the pooter:

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