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Morning Hikes
Nothing quite like getting up at sunrise for an early hike Mist burning off of the lake Wildlife stirring Except for that getting up early part, of course.
Read Today's Herd StoryNot Exactly Walking Wednesday
We attempted to have a true Walking Wednesday video, but this happened instead. So here is not exactly Walking Wednesday:
Read Today's Herd StoryThe Revolt is Over
Thanks for all of your emails yesterday, but just wanted to be clear. No, The Herd did not revolt (they need us humans to deliver their food and scratch ears). The squirrels did not invade. The mountains did not collapse. And the mounds of shedding hair did not clog our computers. It was far more…
Read Today's Herd StoryHow to Relax
Before you try to emulate these pictures, we need to advise you that The Thundering Herd is a professional group of Siberians. It takes years of training in order to perfect the events that you see depicted below. So go slowly, pace yourself, and don’t be surprised if you can not quite achieve these stupendous…
Read Today's Herd StoryTrippy Trap Bridges
As we said yesterday, we are on another S-RV adventure. On Saturday, we went up into Kentucky to Cumberland Falls State Park. When we got to the falls area itself, the humans decided we should stay in our air-conditioned S-RV. The trail down to view the falls was fairly short and crowded with visitors. While…
Read Today's Herd StoryHappy Hearts and Happy Sibes
Many of you may remember the contest that Huffle was running. We had to complete the line “I think happy hearts cookies will help me to…” Our winning answer was: We think Happy Hearts Cookies will help us to: – make Queen Natasha the Evil less Evil – make Rusty the Rooster even more silly…
Read Today's Herd StoryRelaxing in Hot Weather
Woooo, it is getting to be summer. When we go on hikes now, the skies are no longer totally clear and we are starting to see lots of fluffy clouds like these: Cheoah has decided that the heat and humidity is getting to be a bit much, though she well recognizes that we are…
Read Today's Herd StoryWhite Squirrels
Our friend over at Mountain Musings posted yesterday about a new squirrel threat and I urge all of our furry squirrel hunters to pay very close attention to this. They are now discovering camouflage for winter conditions. Check this out: This is particularly concerning to The Herd because these are pictured in Brevard, NC, which…
Read Today's Herd StoryHappy Birthday, Natasha!
Wooo! Queen Natasha the Evil turns SIX years old today. Very, very hard to believe for all of us. We keep expecting maturity to kick in some day. To celebrate her birthday, we have some of our favorite pictures of her through the years: Confident, even at 8 weeks old Resisting temptation for once in…
Read Today's Herd StoryGuard Dogs
Siberian Huskies have a reputation of being lousy guard dogs. But our cousin Tartok is an excellent guard dog. Our humans go over to Tartok’s house (also know as our hu-dad’s parent’s house – so our hu-grandparents) on Saturday nights for dinner. Tartok loves the visit and guards the door. Not from intruders, but trying…
Read Today's Herd StorySharing the Trail
As regular followers of the blog know, we like hiking on all sorts of trails around our house, in the Pisgah National Forest (or click here for an unofficial website) and on the Blue Ridge Parkway plus the numerous other parks and trails in our area. We do not hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National…
Read Today's Herd StorySquirrels for Peace
This is just wrong, but we saw it on a t-shirt in the Mast General Store (we don’t blame the store – they give us biscuits every time that we go in): We are particularly impressed that they have a flying squirrel on the shirt, since the only squirrels we have are the “air force”…
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