Part I – “The Ride”

(at LOONNGGG last I’m back to share a new adventure… I’ve been on some great adventures since the last one I shared but with all the stamp licking and belly rubbing appearances at events I’ve been too busy to share them… this one is pretty long so I making it a two-parter  … I can hardly wait to see out it turns out… wait a minute, it was my adventure so I guess I already know how it turns out… don’t worry, I won’t spoil the ending for you… hope you enjoy… Max)

And so another adventure begins…

… yes.. yes… he’s going for it… yes… open the closet door… good… now pick up the leash… go ahead pick it up… YES! circle, circle… wag, wag… he’s go the leash!  That means it’s outside time… oh, I love outside time… so much to smell, so many places to pee… sniff… sniff… by the way… any treats in there?

I hope we’re going for around the neighborhood… I really need to go around the block and pee on that hydrant in front of Lucky’s house… he’s marked my hydrant twice and I keep missing his… last time I was outta pee before I got to his house (yes, it’s true… there actually is a point when I can’t pee anymore… fortunately it usually on lasts a few minutes) I keep trying to pace myself but he’s way on the back street and there are just so many things that need to be peed on before we get there… this time I’m going to hold it util I get to his street… sniff… sniff… peeeeeee… okay, now I’m going to hold it…

Hey, wait a minute… we’re headed to the SUV… that means we’re not going for a walk… we’re going for a ride… ohhh I do love a ride… the wind in my fur… my tongue flapping in the wind… the occasional bug slapping me in the face… yuck… okay I don’t like the bugs in the face, especially the crunchy ones that end up in my mouth… but otherwise I do enjoy a good ride…  you know, somebody should make a really cool t-shirt that shows me going for a ride… oh, wait they already did… [how about that for a shameless yet subtle plug for my tshirts... but look, no embedded link to the shirt... see, I can be subtle... besides, there's probably a link over there <<<<<   or over here >>>>>, or maybe one up there ^^^^^^^^^ ] (;>)–

… okay, into the back… humph… whew, it’s a long way up into the back… I wonder if my people know about those ramps?  they really need to consider investing in one… you know I’m not going to be this young forever… and with all the hip problems that run in my family… for now though I’ll just keep letting them just pick me up… maybe that’ll convince them to get a ramp…

Bark! Bark!  Hey, person… what’s all this stuff in the back?  Don’t you know by now that I need room to stretch out when I ride?  All this stuff smells too… sort of… let me see… sniff.. snifff… sort of outdoorsy … is that a word?  I don’t know but I’m sure I smell dirt … sniff, sniff… and dead bugs, smoke and leaves and animal scents and…now that I think of it, it smells just like the nature park. That must mean we’re going for a walk at the nature park!  I hope it’s a long walk… I feel a lot of peeing coming on…

.. looks like we’re backing out… I better stand up right in the middle of the back window
so I can see what’s behind us… okay, okay, I’ll sit… geesh, just trying to help you out back here… now that I’m sitting though I think I’ll go full prone… might be a long drive… I’m going to stay awake for this trip though so I can see where…zzzzzzzzzzzzz….

…Get your motor runnin’ Head out on the highway. Lookin’ for adventure. And whatever comes our way…

… yawnnnnn…. stretch…. what’s up?  Did we stop?  Are we there yet? Man that seemed
like a short trip… weird dream though… I dreamed I was in a dog show…okay, that part’s not weird ’cause everybody knows that dog shows are about the Goldens… the other dogs are there just to fill time while the Goldens get their fur blown out…  (no disrespect to any of you ‘other’ dogs but you know it’s true… deep down… even though it hurts to admit it…you know it’s true…)

…anyway, for some reason in my dream I running an agility course… yeah, I agree… everybody knows that my person is terrible at those events… he won’t jump thru the tire (I don’t think he’d fit even if he tried)… he won’t go thru the tunnels… … and here’s the weird part… wait for it… it was I (me, Max, the dog, the Golden) that was going thru the course… the judges were actually expecting me to perform… jump through the tire… run up the teeter-toter thingy… oh, the horror… the indignity… glad it was just a dream…

… so anyway… I’m awake now and ready to hand out at the nature park… boy, it’s already getting dark… that drive must have been a lot longer than I remembered…  sniff… sniff… something doesn’t smell right… this isn’t our nature park… sniff, sniff… it has lots of the same smells but definitely not the same place… if I didn’t know better, I’d think we were just in the ‘woods’ … sniff, sniff… it does smell a little like the time I visited the country… there were lots of trees there… and big scary cows… oh, I hope there aren’t any cows in these woods…

To Be Continued  …