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Dog Park #7 The Poochie Pool Party!

posted 4 months ago, updated 9 minutes later by amandac | 10 comments
This event was soooo much fun!! It was not held at the Dog Park but at one of the Rec. Centers, but I did work the event. I must say the folks on duty were very excited about having some one from the Dpk there as they knew little about off leashed...

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The Mom Shaped Hole In The Heart

posted 5 months ago, updated 3 days later by Cincyjim | 9 comments
"Do you miss your Mom sometimes?" He asked quietly as they walked together in the park. She hadn't brought the subject up. in fact she never talked about her Mom, which, even under the circumstances didn't seem quite natural. He knew it had been a...

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An Encounter In The Park

posted 5 months ago, updated about 4 hours later by Cincyjim | 4 comments
The old man was sitting in the park feeding birds from a paper bag. It was Sunday. Like most days of the week when weather permited he was at the park, feeding the birds, or talking to whoever would listen. That wasn't many people anymore. His wif...

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Dog Park #6

posted 6 months ago by amandac | 3 comments
Must have been that it was a cloudy day with intermittent sprinkles of rain that brought them all out. I arrived late as I cut my own lawn before the threat of rain became too real. It was about 9:30 AM and the first rain shower of the day had jus...

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Dog Park #5 Dogs like to roll in smelly things.

posted 6 months ago by amandac | 4 comments
The air held so much moisture that you began perspiring within minutes, the sun was brutal and the only saving grace was that the sky was dotted with silver lined clouds that gave brief moments of relief from the beating rays; Saturday mid-morning...

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Dog Park #4 Bet You Don’t Know This!

posted 6 months ago by amandac | 5 comments
sunburn edited

The kiosk at the Dpk makes for the perfect place ...

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Dog Park #3 “I will sue the County"

posted 6 months ago by amandac | 5 comments
Day four was a tough day. Rob and Shelia showed up at the gate; their first visit. Shelia is a young German Shepherd pup, innocent and sweet. Rob is in his late twenties, 5’9” plus, muscular tattooed arms, shaved head. I stopped them at the entry ...

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Dog Park #2 Daily fee

posted 7 months ago by amandac | 2 comments
RULE #3 ~ If you do not have an annual pass represented by a blue dog’s head tag ($40 for a year) on your dog’s collar or you present it independently then you must pay a daily use fee of Five Bucks. Pretty simple huh? I have been here three days ...

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Dog Park

posted 7 months ago by amandac | 5 comments
Have you ever journeyed down a road whose aura captures you? The sensations engulf you? It exists to be your favorite as it connects you to some where special.

Is it the change in temperature, the dancing shadows of the trees, the winding of the...

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Whale Watch, post mortem

posted about 1 year ago by BeaglesGuy | 1 comment
Apt blog title considering the bigwigs at the State of Oregon Parks & Recreation Department have taken down the Daily Whale Counts<...

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