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.

Catching Up On Memorial Day Weekend Hikes

Hi furriends!  I has a minit to catch you up now.  Been bizzy, bizzy again and yesterday I had to go to the V-E-T coz I had an owie in my ear.  It do not be an ear infection down in my ear but an ulcer and inflammation right inside the opening of my ear.  Efurry time mom would try to look at it or put stuff in it (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!) I would suck my ear shut, hide my head, whimper, whine, you know, the whole Drama Queen act.  So yesterday at the V-E-T I sat pawfectly still, did not make a sound, and let the V-E-T put her instruments of torture in my ear.  I taked it like a man.  Mom woz shocked.  Hehehehehe, I so like to toy with her sometimes.  Anywoo, I has to let mom put meds in my ear now (with the full whining and whimpering routine) but it be getting better now so we is hopeful this be the fix fur it.

So furstly I start you off with a video of my hike with Kacey, our B&B guest ofur the weekend.  But I must warn you:  KEEP YOUR PEEPS AWAY FROM YOUR MONITORS!  Why?  Coz they will be all SQUEEEEEEEEEE when they see Kacey.  She be a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel and peeps get all gaga ofur her.  Sigh.

Then Monday we had to leave Kacey at home coz we woz doing a big 12 mile hike in the mountains and ravines and stuffs and it would have been too hard and too long fur Kacey.

Here I goes off into the woods.

These be trails fur horses but hikers is allowed too.  We did not see any horses.

It woz dark in here but the pine needles is soft on my paws.

Mom wanted me to put this in.  It had no pee mail on it so not impawtant to us.

Ah, some nice refreshing waters!

Check out the mess that Sandy made.  These trails just opened up last month after being closed coz of that Sandy.

Some pawts is still closed coz the roads is brokened.

This be a belted kingfisher and they be loud and noisy.  I would get into trouble fur woofing as much as he chatters.

Pritty forests.

Stopping fur chickun jerky reenergizations.

Cooling off my paws by the falling waters.

So we is hiking along and here do be this turkey snoozing in the middle of the trail!

That "gobble-gobble-gobble" be mom trying to talk turkey at the turkey.  SOOOO embarrassing!

In fact, when mom started gobbling at the turkey, the turkey taked off ....

... and hided way up in the tree to get away from the crazy lady!

Holy smoked chickun, check out this gargantuous uprooted tree!

There be this old timey farm we seened.

And anudder creek fur cooling of the furs.

Then we climbed up high to...

... a seenik!  We is standing in Pencilvania looking into Noo Joisey and that be the Deliware River down there.

We could spy on peeps in canoes.

And take a break in the shades.

Wowser, a whole pond to cool off in. 

Fun times!

Oh, and I has some kwestions to answer from some of my furriends and I do that now.

How do we keeps from getting lost?
We had a big hiking rule #1 - NO MAP, NO HIKE!  Sometimes it be hard to find maps but mom researches and researches and researches (one reason she always be hogging my pooter) so we has a map and a plan and that do keep us from getting lost.  Most of the time.

Do we ever get lost?
Never. (That sound be mom snickering in the background.)  Sure, we has made a wrong turn or lost the trail coz it fizzles out but we has always found our way back thanks to MY snooter.  If'n there be a trail, I can snooter it out so sometimes when mom can't see the trail coz it not be well-defined, she has learned to trust my snooter and follow me coz mom has no sense of direction wotsoefur.  Has my snooter efur been wrong?  Well, mebbe one or twice.

Do we always follow the red marked trail?
The trails can be different colors or sometimes no colors at all.  The map usually tells us wot color we wants to follow.  This last hike had no colors just posts at intersections (sometimes) so we had to watch the map closely to know when and where to turn.  But us dogs don't see colors like peeps so we has to rely on our snooters.  The colors is fur the peeps.

Do we let peeps visit our B&B?
No peeps allowed.  Only dogs is allowed, BOL.