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Can You See Me Now?

July 7, 2009 |

“Qannik of the Wild’s” attempt to emulate Brice’s Stealth Mode

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Which One is Mine?

July 6, 2009 |

Our Cousin Tartok was helping with the Independence Day cook-out over at our hu-grandparents house.  He simply wants to make sure the burgers are cooked to his specifications. Amazingly, we were not invited to attend and our humans went without us.  We are sure we would have been a huge help, but we were at…

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Visitor in the Brush

July 5, 2009 |

The mighty huntress, Queen Natasha, was once again at it on one of our hikes.  We were at the observation deck on the top of a mountain when she thought she saw something in the brush.  Not sure if she wanted to play with it or eat it: You!  Over there!  Come play! Crawling under…

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Happy Independence Day!

July 4, 2009 |

To all our fellow Americans, Happy Independence Day! And sharing a view down to “our” valley (we live just outside of the top left of the picture)

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Claiming the Good Spot

July 3, 2009 |

We have been blessed with some very nice weather this week with cool night time temperatures and steady morning breezes.  Rusty may be our class clown, but he certainly knows how to claim the really good spot (with Qannik keeping his own rear toasty despite the morning breeze): Poor Kodiak, however, did not fare so…

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Sola, This One’s For You

July 2, 2009 |

Sola, Natasha wrestled this beast to the ground just for you and the “incident.“ Qannik also helped, but only, of course, once the coast was clear.

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There Goes the Neighborhood

July 1, 2009 |

One weekend.  One lousy weekend.  We take off for a vacation, come home, and all sorts of unsavory characters have moved in.  Well, maybe savory, but we did not get to taste. Kiska and Natasha were patrolling the fence line when – wait, what was that? Natasha focused in for a closer look. And the…

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More Campground Visitors

June 29, 2009 |

Woo – Who is that over there? A cousin and his bodyguard We did not go meet them.  Our cousin had a ferocious bodyguard, sort of like Huffle has Bazza except that this bodyguard actually made lots of noise and told us to go away.  I mean, Huff, where was Bazza during the attack of…

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Heat, Apples and Security Guards

June 28, 2009 |

We went on our early morning hike and it was already hot and humid – yuck! Yesterday, our humans drove down into Ozzie territory – we went to the Mall of Georgia.  Now, our humans really do not go to malls very often, partially because there aren’t any in our town and we have to…

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Visitors on our Morning Walk

June 27, 2009 |

Much hotter down here at Lake Hartwell State Park than it is at our house in Maggie Valley, so we are doing our hikes early in the morning and after sunset.  Since we needed to get our walk done before the heat set in, we were very serious and focused. Ok, fair enough, Rusty is…

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Long Weekend

June 26, 2009 |

It has certainly been a difficult week.  Wonder if Kiska would like to express her opinion of the week. Makes the boys jealous that you can pee higher on a tree than they can, huh, Kiska?  Really not sure where you learned it, but it does keep the boys in check.  Anyway, the weekend is rapidly…

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Princess Dakota

June 25, 2009 |

Princess Dakota 8/15/97 – 6/24/09 Frankly, when we began blogging the activities of The Herd, we thought it would be a fun hobby.  It truly is. What we did not expect was that we would form incredible friendships without actually meeting the other people and dogs in “real life.”  So, we never had the opportunity…

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