Tools

This is awesome! I can now use the peeps' iPhone to work! Even better, I can use it to take pictures too! For example, here is a picture of my desk. I sit in the warm spot underneath. Anna sits on an strange human chair. I think I got the better deal here!







And here's a photo of Jason's office:






Shane took that one! Ok, now that I can do this remotely I'll be sure to bother you with plenty of things from my strange dog world!

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I love girls that ride bikes (and boys too)

Check this video out! It's going to be premiered in Seattle on February 5th! It's my big film debut... if you pay attention you'll see me wiggling in the middle of this short trailer. My good friend Mia's person Tammy is in it too! Oh, and the short one is shown playing in the dirt but not riding so here is a picture of us both on the trail from Sun Valley ID! It's an old picture but while we're both sitting in our office hard at work that is where we would really like to be...

The Time Has Come to Blog Again

Happy New Year readers of the WBD! Hope the holidays were full of fresh powder, good people, and lots of treats!

I've decided that since we seem to be somewhat settled into our new home and the small one has agreed to share part of her office (the part under the desk that's really fluffy where I get LOTS of belly rubs) I finally have some more time to tell you about what I've been up to.



As you may know, the peeps finally found a house that is to their liking. FINALLY! I was beginning to think it would never happen so I'd actually made an appt. to check myself into the local adoption agency but I'm glad it didn't come to that cause check out these digs! This photo was day one of getting some furniture in the house after we spent A LOT of time painting walls and trim and ceilings and installing these very slippery bamboo floors (thanks grandogrents!). The place is awesome! Of course, the best part is the yard and the big creek that's in the back yard. I spend a lot of my time hunting fish and birds and strange hoofed animals outside. We also share the residence with a squirrel named Pumpkin who lives in the Sauna. He sits on the roof of the sauna and I sit in the living room and we stare at each other through the window for hours. He's great. That's really the biggest news from this wiggly black dog as of late. We're just really enjoying having a home, fixing it up and trying to "increase it's awesome" as the peeps say before it's time to begin moving dirt around in the yard and building those rolly things they ride their bikes on. I don't really get it. It's super hard to chase them on such obstacles because they are constantly hopping around in the air and changing direction but it seems to bring em joy so I just go with it. So, HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here's to lots of exciting adventures for ya'll!

Been a while

Hi! It's me the Moxy dog and no, I haven't given up blogging entirely. Just taking a break. I'm a pretty busy dog so I've just been working on hitting my stride now that I'm back in Oregon. I've been spending quite a bit of time helping my peeps shop for a house which has made them both a bit crazy. We've also done some traveling and spent some time with my grandogrents lately. One of these days soon I'll share another adventure with you but for now I just thought I'd say hi and let you know I'm still alive! We're good, just busy!

Strange Human Activites

My people do odd things when they don't have me around. Take for example, this photo of Anna. In the back ground you'll see a strange device that levitates humans and takes them half way up a mountain. Then, they slide on those odd sticks back down the hill at high rates of speed, and do it all over again. Sort of reminds me of our friend's pet gerbil running around it's wheel. Despite the obvious wierdness of this activity, there are a lot of other people who seem to find it very exciting. And, as you'll notice, there is a distinct lack of canine representation because we're all sitting in our peoples cars enjoying the smells of the parking lot and barking loudly at each other.


(Photo-Scott Frey)- Scott, nice shot!

Musical Peeps or maybe it's a musical house?

That's the best way of describing things in the life of this dog's brain right now. First the short one left for a week of lobbying in Washington DC. Personally, I don't see the draw of a place where mud is nearly non existent but she was quite excited to experience DC, meet with Senators, Congresspeople, old friends, new friends and promote cycling and access on a national level.



Here she is with her friends Chris and Jill on the steps of the capitol just after meeting with Senator Reid's staff in that second story office just above her head in the photo (courtesy of Chris). She didn't mention anything about dogs, smelly stuff, or food so I'm not very interested in that story.



This was at the reception after a day on Capitol Hill enjoying a beverage with a cyclist from Hawaii. There were people from all over the country at the Bike Summit, but still, no dogs. I wonder if they have a national dog summit?



This is a group of Californians meeting briefly with Cogressman McClintock in his DC office to talk about mountain bike trail access in NorCal. The short one was not expecting to get to meet him as they had made the appt. with his staff so it was a pleasant suprise.



This is inside a building on Capitol Hill that is hard to escape because, apparently after the reception they closed all but one exit and there's about 50 of them so it was difficult to find the right one. Anna's in this photo somewhere.

Eventually the adventures of pavement and city came to an end and my people and I were reunited for a few brief days in our little cabin home in Hood River. Then the other one left! What is this? We go from living in a Subaru for two years to living on opposite sides of the country? I didn't sign up for this! Anyway, the tall one headed off to North Carolina for the Proffesional Trail Builders Association Conference where there was no shortage of mud, dirt, and dogs. I think he won the cool trip out of the two but hey, I'm a dog, what do I know.



Here he seems to be making up for the lack of his small person by riding around on a small person's bike.



And it seems as though I almost ended up with a new sibbling but they were all just a bit too big to fit in the carryon bag. At least he was in the company of four leggeds!



Here's Jill again! She gets to spend more time with my peeps than I do since she was in DC with Anna and in North Carolina with Jason at the conference. I think she's stalking them... It's ok though. I think she's rad and clearly she's a good person cause those puppies LOVE her.



And for your entertainment, here are two small people getting their ninja on during girlcation in Bend. And I'm off to play in the dirt with the tall one and the small one because they are finally both here! For a few days anyway. Then Jason heads to South Dakota for a month of more.

Workin Hard

The largest one in the family has taken it upon himself to build a new mountain bike trail in his spare time and I have been recruited as his assistant. Not only must I diligently keep an eye out for any ferocious forest dwellers (squirrels, butterflies, and sometimes deer) and chase them away should they come close to our trail but I am also responsible for destroying or eating any sticks that may fall onto the trail after it has been built and guarding the chainsaw as seen here.



After all the toil I have to work even harder just to get a crumb to eat by looking painfully pitiful (which comes quite naturally) and wiggling the very tip of my tail so that my adorableness and pitifulness are overwhelming and he is forced to share his lunch or feel the guilt all day.



I'm happy to say that the trail is going to be AMAZING! Can't wait till it's done so my peeps will take me riding on it!