I am tired of walking. Wonder when the next bus comes along.
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Walking the Open Road
We love a closed gate on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
With no cars, we are free to walk down the middle of the road.
The pavement under our paws.
Though at least one of us is doing his own thing.
Some of us prefer a little grass under our paws.
Soggy Saturday
We would love to share more pictures with you of our Saturday.
But this was one of the few moments where it was not raining.
Hope the rest of you had a snowy or sunny Saturday, but we were just plain soggy. We are hoping for a much nicer Sunday.
Chipping in for K
Cheoah the Cheesewhiz here. Now don't I look comfortable here?
One of my pals is not so comfortable tonight and we want to help.
So look deeply into these eyes (yes, they are both parti-eyes) and click the chip-in below.
With all seriousness, our good friend KB of Romping and Rolling in the Rockies is having quite the challenging time. As many of you know, her heart dog, K, has been given a very difficult medical finding. Several of us have tried to figure out the best way to help and think we have found an answer.
Siblings K and R share a single Memory Foam Dog Bed – and R has become quite the hog. With all of the medical treatments, K needs her own memory foam bed to be comfortable. We have created a chip-in to raise those funds and get K the comfort she deserves. Anything extra we raise will go directly to KB to help.
So lookly deeply in those Cheesewhiz eyes and click the chip-in below.
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Hanging Out
How is this for my Joe Cool on the picket line look?
Not bad, grasshopper.
Frankie’s Vice
Frankie here. Can you believe the hu-dad makes me ride in this crate while in the Jeep?
All because of a couple of chewed up dog seat belts. But I have matured since then and would never chew a dog seat belt again.
Of course that one is looking very tasty, so maybe just a little nibble.
Hi, my name is Frankie. I am a dog-seat-belt-a-holic.
Winterfest 2012
Finally, the hu-dad assembled some of the photographs from this past weekend. Hope you enjoy the pictures as much as we enjoyed Winterfest 2012 – sponsored by Siberian Husky Assist.
Snow Walking
We promise, the hu-dad is working on putting together pictures from this past weekend’s Winterfest event hosted by Siberian Husky Assist. If he actually stops being lazy, maybe we will have Winterfest Wednesday! In the meantime, we thought we would share our other big news from this past week – actual snow. Ok, not a lot of it, but winter has been so slow coming that we are enjoying the little snow we have.
The black and white team (L-R - Frankie, Natasha, Kiska) is enjoying their snow walk.
Natasha says it is worth a good shake.
And even getting out of order (of course, when you are the Queen, you set the rules).
The Red and White team maintained decorum.
Well, except for that whole snow sniffing thing.
Everything else was normal, right, Cheesewhiz?
Well, at least Rusty normal.
P.S. – Our Alaska friends could ship all of their excess snow. Really.
Panorama
It is a Monday morning, so we have to try something totally new, right? After all, what is a Monday if not taking a risk that something will just utterly fail.
The hu-dad, like much of the rest of the “Apple is so Superior to Microsoft” world owns an iPhone. And a friend told him about DerManDar, an ap that let’s you take panoramic pictures with your phone. So, while we were wanting to go romping in what little snow we actually have, we had to stand patiently and wait for him to play with his phone. Ok, actually, we tried to weave the leashes tight around his legs as he tried to hold his phone steady, but after twenty-eleven bazillion attempts, he actually got a couple of pictures to work.
So, now, his goal was to upload the pictures and embed them on the blog. You should be able to use the arrows to scan the panorama.
Picture 1 – our field. Hu-dad scanned looking over at Cataloochee Ski and then passing our favorite tree and then finally the long range view. You can’t see us because we are all wrapped around his legs. (UPDATE – And after making fun of Microsoft, we realized that DerManDar uses Flash to embed the picture – which means products like the iPad can not see the picture. If you do not see a picture, please click here.)
Picture 2 – a view from Thunder Struck Ridge. Our section of the Blue Ridge Parkway is closed this time of year, so it is one of our favorite winter spots to walk. Once again, you can’t see us because we are all wrapped his legs as he takes the picture. (Ditto – Can’t see the picture, go here)
Notice that there are no panoramic pictures of us. Apparently the program works best on objects that stay still. We do not qualify.
Do let us know if this works for you (or if it does not, what device you are using to view the post). If this works well, we have a few spots that we want to do 360 degree panoramas
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the current herd
Natasha
Rusty
Kiska
Qannik
Cheoah
Frankie