Superfund Hike

Did you think I make a type-oh with my big ole paws and writed Superfund instead of Super Fun?  Nope, did not!  It woz a Super Fun hike on a Superfund site in Pencilvania!  If'n you dussn't know wot a Superfund be, that be where pollushuns has made the earth deaded and full of contaminashuns so nuttin grows and no plants or animals can live there.  When the plants died there woz no roots holding the ground so it washed into the river and leaved all rawks behind.  See, there used to be pollushuns blowing on the mountain from the udder side of the river:

I biggified the sign fur you so you can see the icky pollushuns coming out of the chimneys. Ack. Ack.

So now the Nature Center peeples is trying to restore the mountain to a thing of bootifullness once more.  They flied airplanes ofur wot shooted grass seed and fertilizers out.  That would be poop to us dogs and kittehs - do that mean airplanes has poop shooters?  So now grasses be growing and later when it be pawsibull to grow trees again, trees will be planted.  But fur now while the mountain be almost nekkid with only some little trees and grasses on it, OMD, do it has some pawsome seeniks.  So lets go enjoy the seeniks.  Hold on to your collahs, furrends, here we go...

Wheeeeeee......

Did you think I woz going to walkie rite off the mountain? Hehehehe.

Nope, see the trail goes along the edge and it not be skeery or nuttin.

Sumtimes there be big rawk sekshuns like this where nuttin can grow.  Takes mom furefur a long time to get across.  I wait pashuntly.

Super Fun time on the Superfund!

There be an ugly communikashuns towah on the mountain.  Us dogs, we dussn't need no communikashuns towahs, we has an eleborate system of pee-mail distribushuns invisibull to the nekkid eye but not the canine snooter.

So then we had to go down steep rawks to the Devil's Pulpit.  It be a little skeery and mom sayed we didn't has to go there if'n it be too skeery but I sayed no, let's gib it a try so we did and made it all the way down.

This be the way down these rawks, YIKES!

Here I is at the Devil's Pulpit.  We maded it all the way down.  You can see that udder mountain ahind me is still deaded coz they has not done any restorashuns ofur there.  That plane must has runned out of poo. 

See me up at the top waiting fur mom?  She do be so slow climbing back up.

There be test plots all ofur the place coz they has to see wot kinds of grasses can grow there coz it can't just be any kind of grass.

Break Time!  Blooberry/Pear Bread?  No thank you.  BLECH!  (No worries, I had chickun jerkey.)

Ohhh, see up there, those communikachuns towahs where we woz afore.  We is down in the grasses now.

Hiking in the grasses wot that airplane shooted out.

Then at the end we hiked back to our car at the bottom of the mountain on a trail where trains used to go in the olden days

Mom did not want me to has pollushuns from the ground on my paws (the heaby metals will always be in the ground) so my paws got wiped with STINKY (PHEW) wipes.

Then when I got home my paws got a bucket baf to get the rest of the pollushuns off coz I did not want to glow in the dark...

... like this.

Orijen Review for Mr. Chewy

So I woz checking email the udder day when, OMD, there be an email from Mr. Chewy!

So I had done a review about MrChewy.com and he woz asking if'n I would want to review Orijen foodables fur him if'n he sent me a bag to try.  OMD, I know Orijen do be a top rated foodable and I has been wanting mom to get us some.  It has NO grains in it coz us dogs rilly is not supposed to eat grains.  Gib us our MEATS!  Drool.  And Orijen be 75-80% MEATS!  It be free range meats, too, not the icky factory farmed meats.  The rest be froots and veggies (BLECH!) but there be so much meats I mite not notice the froots and veggies (BLECH!).  You all know how I feel about froots and veggies and if'n you furgot, let me remind you - BLECH!  So seeing as me, Dixie and Sydney is all seniors I asked Mr. Chewy to pawlese let us try the Orijen Senior.  (Oh, and fur you kittehs, Orijen makes 80% MEAT kitteh foodables!)

So the packaged woz delivered to my house!

I smell foodables in there.

Sydney confirms there be foodables in the box.

Dixie mite be a rilly old geezer but nuttin wrong with her snooter!

OMD, this smells DELISH!  I did say GRRR at Dixie and got into trubbulls.  Sorry mom, I not do it any more.

Mom, serve some up, pawlese!

So you all knows when we get speshull treats we do silly nomming faces.  We nefur do it fur the regular foodables, coz, well face it, kibble just is not the same as nommy treats.  So wot did we do when mom started passing out Orijen?  See fur yourself:

Tasty!  This cannot be kibble.  Tastes like treats.  No froot or veggie aftertaste.  I will has more, pawlese.

Old geezer sis Dixie sayed she could nom this WITHOUT mom mixing in incentives to make her finish her dinner.

I has no werds fur this.

Oops.  I drooled in the bag while trying to helpie selfie.  (Mom be too slow with the distribushuns.)

No wonner we like it.  Check out the ingredients!  You can see the full list on Mr. Chewy's web site but I want to show you the furst 15 wot has the ingredients wot is impawtant to ME - the MEATS and FISH!

 1  fresh boneless chicken*
 2  chicken meal
 3  fresh boneless salmon*
 4  turkey meal
 5  russet potato,
 6  herring meal,
 7  sweet potato,
 8  peas,
 9  pea fiber,
10  fresh boneless turkey*,
11  fresh whole eggs*,
12  fresh chicken liver*,
13  fresh boneless lake whitefish*,
14  fresh boneless walleye*,

* DELIVERED FRESH, preservative-free and never frozen

The only thing we did not like about Orijen is mom PUT IT AWAY coz she say we has to transition to a new foodable gradually and we cannot nom the whole bag all at once.  We so would have if'n she would have let us.  We is all in agreement that we ♥ Orijen!  Thank you Mr. Chewy fur letting us taste test fur you.

Pee Ess - Mr. Chewy sent us the foodables fur free to try and gibs our opinion on and it be our honest opinion and our opinion only, not influenced by Mr. Chewy or mom.  We woz not offered eggstra treats to write nice things coz you know me, if'n I dussn't like sumpin, I spits it OUT - like froots and veggies, BLECH!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I found this old hiking blaze on a tree ofur the weekend while hiking and can you beleef it be shaped like a Valentime heart?  So this be my Valentime to all my bloggie furrends.  Happy Valentimes Day to YOU!

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Cold Day Hiking

Even tho the wevver peeples sayed it woz going to be furry cold and windy on Sunday, me and mom decided if'n we hiked way down in a gorge, we would not get frozened by the wind becoz it would not be able to reach us.  Brilliant!  But I wore my new ofurcoat just in case to keep my unnercoats warm.  Mom had to put on eggstra unnercoats. 

So at my house we nefur got the snow we woz supposed to get but this hike woz only 45 minits away from my house and OMD, they has some snow!  Check out wot the cold snow and winds did to my water bottle!

Brrrr.  My water bottle had an ofurcoat on too but it got frozened and mom had to break thru the icy sickulls to pour me a drink of ice cold water!

I found sumpin furry interesting ofur here...

Nobuddy be home but I wonner who lives here?

Skooze me, I is reading pee mail, but this is supposed to be a seenik of Solitude Lake and Dam but, the waters has been leaked out and the falling waters of the dam be shut off coz they is doing construkshuns on the dam.  Wowser, wot an ugly seenik!  (All the pee mails agree with that assessment.)

We is walking by the ugly dry lake when wot do I see?

Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom.  Hey, who duss this look like to you?

So I hurried mom away from there and then wot do I see...

...eggscaped snowmans from Frankie's house!

Finally we made it to the pritty part of the hike along the river in the gorge.  The icy winds did not reach my furs down here.

Later we be going atop that bridge on the Columbia rail trail but now we go unner it.  That bridge woz built in 1891 after the furst wood bridge broked when a freight train went ofur it in 1885.  The bridge, freight train, efurrything went down into the river.  Only one person woz deaded.  You can read the whole story here.

Can you beleef there be a man fishing IN the ICY river?  Brrrrr.  Mom asked him if'n he wozn't frozened and he say no, it feel good in there and we should come on in.  We sayed to him thanks, but no thanks.  Brrrrr.

I is on that rail trail now where the trains used to go in the olden days.  Now it be joggers and bicycles and ME!

The rail tail even has speshul posts fur leaving pee mail on and they even has nummers on them wot say how far to the next pee mail!

Now I is going across that bridge wot I went unner afore.

We only had 2 more miles to go on our hike and it woz only 10 o'clock in the morning coz the hike had been all easy peasy flat so mom asked if'n I wanted to hike ofur to anudder park 2 miles away and grab a map to plan a hike fur anudder day coz they did not has their maps online.  I say "Bring it!"

So we got to that park and decided to do a little hike there anyways while we woz there.  I slipped off the rawk crossing a creek and BRRRRR my paw got cold!

We found some Fred Flintstone rawk chairs in the middle of the woods. Not furry comfy coz they has no stuffins.

The park has an observatory where you can look fur aliens but they woz closed.

Then we commed to a seenik of a reservoir that did not has the waters leaked out of it.

The seenik biggified.

So mom and I started figgering out how many miles we needed to hike to get back to our car and OMD, we made a miscalculashun somewhere.  I mean, I is a dog and I is not eggspected to know math but mom could use a remedial refresher course.  Let me just tell you we needed to head on back coz we had a long, long, long, long, long, long, long way to go.

A long, long, long long, long, long, long way back...

Finally heading back down into the gorge.

The rail trail went by these peeples' house and they had a silly skeery crow.  He not be looking so skeery to me.

I found some more FURniture but it has no stuffins either.

So we finally got back to our car and you will nefur beleef how far we hiked.  SEBENTEEN (yes, 17) miles!

This be wot a Shawnee looks like after hiking sebenteen miles.

Can you beleef I is not stiff or gimpy or nuttin today?  I had a good nite sleep next to the warm radiator in my hidey spot and I is good as new.  Mom do not be stiff or gimpy either.  Thank dogness coz we need our meals served.