Hot again

Hi friends, Ojo here!

Nature is making HOT again. My Walks have all been by the water. 

On a different topic, my Grandpaw has crossed over the rainbow bridge. It was very sudden, and the people are very sad. I smelled it on my person's hands the day it happened, and I felt sad that day too. 

I miss Walks and pets and treats from my Grandpaw, but I am not sad anymore because I can feel that he is still here with me. He is with me when my person calls me "Poochkie", and when he convinces her to give me an extra bit of snack. He's with me when we're out on Walk, reminding my person to enjoy the beautiful day too.

I loved my Grandpaw very much. And he loved me too!

It was HOT, now it is not

Hi friends, Ojo here!

We had a BIG HOT! It was too hot to make blog posts. The only good part about HOT is that I got to sleep on my person's bed with the fan instead of having to sleep inside my crate-den.

Now it is Not Hot. This is good, except I have to sleep in the crate-den again. 

Or perhaps I will sleep outside in the grass. That is nice too.

Is it hot where you are, friends?

Warm and sticky and grey

Hi friends, Ojo here! 

These past few days the weather has been warm and sticky and grey. Even though there is no-sun I am still getting Hot very quickly. 

But Hot doesn't stop me from zooming in the forest!

What has your weather been doing, friends?

HOSE!!!!

Hi friends, Ojo here! 

These past few days have been HOT! 

I do not like Hot. I am a Snow Dog, not a Hot Dog.

But the good news is that Hose came out to play!!!

I love hose!!

Also, aren't my teeth fantastic?!? 

Do you like to play with Hose, friends?

Too hot

Hi friends, Ojo here. It is too hot. I think I am melting.

Now it is HOT!

Hi friends, Ojo here!

Spring has finally arrived on our mountain top!

The weather has gone from mostly-cold to suddenly-very-hot!

Do you know what I do when it's HOT? I go for a swim!

I'm not a big swimmer. I must admit I'm not super-comfortable in the water. But on HOT days I slide in and paddle around just long enough to get my entire body wet. Ahh, that feels much better!

Cobi did not swim. Ever. Never-ever-ever. But I like to do it sometimes.

Do you like to swim, friends?

Also here are some flowers from our Walk today. 

Blueberries and hot at the top of the world!

Hi hi hi! Ojo here!

We climbed to the top of the world! It was HOT!

And there were blueberries! Growing everywhere! I ate and ate and ate blueberries, right off the bushes! Then my poop was black like bear poop. Can we find more blueberries today please?

I am an amazing Thing Finder! (by Ojo)

Hi hi hi! Ojo here again!

In all of our training for our new job, which is called Nosework, my person almost forgot what an amazing Thing Finder I am! But then one of her people-friends asked to see me work and so a few days ago she made a video!

Here is my video!

My job is to find whatever the people lose when they are on a walk!

In this video you see me find the same thing twice. My person is clearly very clumsy. I found the Thing for her, and she lost it again almost right away! It is good that I was there to help find it!

The first time I find the thing you will see me on a narrow path, and so I am moving fast! The second time I am looking in an open area, and my person had walked all over this area a few minutes before. By walking all over my person put her scent all over the place, so I had to do big loops to make sure I didn't miss anything.

It is good that I am such an amazing Thing Finder! Otherwise that black, soft, whatever-it-is would have been lost forever!

The HOT is back

I thought Fall was starting. Nature was making cooler days, and even cooler nights. The leaves were starting to come down from the trees. There were big breezes, and the smell of Fall in the air.

But then the HOT came back. Some of the people are very happy about this, but I am not. It is TOO HOT!

Last days of summer

Dear friends,

We have had a very busy summer. Our summer has included Walks in the HOT, chasing flies, sleeping in the sun, refusing to go into our crate-dens at night because of the HOT, rolling in the nice scratchy grass, and eating many berries and a very little bit of ice cream.

What has your summer had in it?

At night, Nature is starting to make cool breezes again. But in the day, it is still HOT!

We are enjoying our last few weeks of summer.

What are YOU up to?

Hot and dry! (by Ojo)

Hi hi hi! Ojo here!

Where we live Nature is making hot and dry! What is Nature doing where you live?

29 Degrees (by Ojo)

Hi hi hi! Ojo here!

Yes, it is 29 degrees Celsius, after dinner, outside right now. (That is 84F for my American friends!)
Yes, I am a black Dog. And yes, I am lying in the sun.

So what?

It is perfect for digesting my dinner.

Summer! (We are still here!) (by Ojo)

Hi hi hi! Ojo here!

We are still here, do not worry! Our person has just been very busy...

Here is a catch-up of our summer so far!

HOT! (Not always, but mostly, and sometimes very, very hot!)

Swimming with our youngest person!

(Cobi does not swim. But she does like to play!)

More HOT!

Lake time with Dog friends! (That's us on the left! And a zillion other Dogs sharing our watering hole!)

Daisy!

And zooming with Daisy!

And Daisy's person, too! (Yes, the colour is very weird in these pictures! This day everything was orange because the air was full of smoke! This is because where we live has been hot and dry, and Nature is making many fires...)

More swimming! (Did you know that orange-has-hole-is-fun-fetch-toy, that I usually play with in the kitchen, also plays in the water?? Hurray!!)

I love summer! Do you love summer too? Has your summer been fun like ours??

Daisy who zooms, again! (by Ojo)

Hi hi hi! Ojo here!

Today we met up with a friend...

Hey Daisy, how are you doing today? Wanna zoom???

You do? Hurray!

One... two... three... GO!!!

Daisy zoomed in the short grass!

Daisy zoomed in the tall grass!

Daisy zoomed in the dry grass! (We zoomed together!)

Cobi said it was too hot. She did not zoom. (That is Daisy's tail in her photo, because Daisy was zooming past!)

I must say that we both enjoyed Daisy's company very much today. She was very polite, and a good part of our pack... Plus she was FUN!

Daisy, I hope we can zoom again with you sometime soon!

Black & White Sunday 10/05/14 (by Ojo)

Hi hi hi! Ojo here!

This morning I was not feeling well! I was Sick!

Very early, before we got up, my dinner came out of my mouth into my Bed. I was so not-well that I didn't even feel like eating it again. Also this morning there was lots of runny stuff coming out of my back end. This was Not Good.

I am feeling a little better now, thanks for asking.

Because I am not-entirely-well, instead of Walk or Hike our person took us to Park.

At Park we lay in the sun! She also brought our super-happy-high-pitched-squeaky-ball with us! (This Ball is one that I dug up at Beach the other day. Both Cobi and I LOVE this Ball, so we had to take turns. These pictures are of my turn with Ball!)

At Park we sniffed the ground (many other Dogs go here!), and we walked around, and we lay in the grass with squeaky-ball.

Also I rolled! I rolled and rolled and rolled!

It felt very nice to be outside, even if my tummy is still not back to perfect yet.

We only stayed for a very short time because it was also very HOT! Maybe Nature is going to make Summer again?

Alpine! (by Ojo)

Hi hi hi! Ojo here! We were Away! We went to our cabin-in-the-snow, but there was no snow! How weird is that?

Instead there were bushes and berries and flowers! The people called this "alpine". We had to wear these loud things our collars called Bear Bells. This is so the bears would know where to find us if they wanted lunch! Or so the people said. And then they laughed. Why did they laugh?

It is very pretty there, don't you think?

Oooh, and did I mention the berries?? These are salal berries which were down lower, and then up high were wild blueberries and black currents! They were amazing! I ate the right off the bushes!!

We went on some Walks. One day our Walk was very, very long. Don't tell the people, but I think we were Lost! 

And it was Hot! Very, very Hot!

We were on our Walk for FIVE HOURS! Can you believe it? Five hours! Near the end we had to take many breaks because Cobi was very done. And very grouchy. 

But we found some amazing spots on our Very Long Walk! We found a creek with water! I went all the way in. So did the people. Cobi did not. (This must be why she was so hot and grouchy.) 

And we found this amazing pond!! It was so refreshing! (Cobi still did not go in. Which is why she was hot. But less grouchy.) 

At the end of our Very Long Five Hour Walk I still had enough energy to go swimming for sticks. Aren't I amazing?!?

And then we were done...

Happy! (by Ojo)

Happy!

Happy happy happy!

And hot! But still happy!!