An Old Blog, 2019

Adventures of Chigger, the Brown Dog

By Chigger

From 2019:  Da mommy and da daddy are excited about a new adventure they are planning, and I'm excited because they’re planning to take me along!! They say we’re starting to train, whatever that means. And I'm going to write about it. That should be fun. Here's a sample of something I wrote several years ago:

My Life in the Baby-boomer RV Park
By Chigger, The Brown Dog
My life has changed dramatically since I moved in with da mommy and da daddy several years ago. I was a small pup then with fleas, worms, and lots of energy. Now I’m an adult and I have a wonderful life here in the baby boomer RV park in central Florida. I have two loving parents, a lake to swim in, a dog park where I run and play ball with my friends, neighbors who call me over to say hello, and golf carts that have cookies for me in little boxes.

                                        Little Lake Kerr, my lake in Salt Springs


My name is Chigger. I’m a chocolate lab (Labrador Retriever) mixed with who-knows-what. The “who-knows-what” might be a mean kind of dog, because sometimes when we are going to a new place or meeting new people, da mommy says to me “Look like a lab!” So I sit really tall and wag my tail a little and do my sad eyes. It seems to work fine. People and dogs seem to like me.

And I’m adorable. Da mommy says I’m “so pretty and so smart.” Even though I’m actually 27 years old now in dog years, she and Daddy still refer to themselves as “da mommy and da daddy.” I just go along with it because they’re pretty good to me. 

Things are good here most of the time. Da mommy and da daddy take good care of me and each other, and we’re a pretty happy family.

 Back to today (2019):

 Da daddy retired from his work a year or two ago, and da mommy retired in December 2018. I was happy when she started being at home with me all day. I really missed her when she went to work. The only problem is that they have told me that since they aren’t working anymore and we will need a little more money, I have to go to work. WHAT?!?! They discussed pulling sleds, but since we don’t have snow in Florida that wasn’t a good idea. They discussed me giving out kisses or going to visit people, but lots of people don’t like doggie kisses. And I know it’s hard to believe but some people don’t really like dogs. They have probably never met ME.

The idea we decided on was that I would write a book. So here we go.

We sold our rv lot in the baby-boomer rv park and put our big rv in storage. Now we’re traveling around in a very tiny trailer and me and da daddy are helping da mommy with her hiking. It’s fun in our tiny trailer and I get to be with da daddy and da mommy a lot.


HIKING IN FLORIDA

October 2018 through February 2019

It was a beautiful morning for a hike in Ocala National Forest! Whoohoo! Da mommy and da daddy took me for a hike on the Florida Trail. I loved it! 






At the end of my hike for the day I was very thirsty, so I was glad to see the car and my water bottle. Daddy's kind of a slow poke.

    Hiking on the Florida Trail with da daddy.  Sometimes the trail is on sidewalks and roads.

That winter we hiked and hiked on the Florida Trail and it was a lot of fun. Sometimes I walked with da daddy and we met da mommy part way. I was always happy to see her. Sometimes all three of us walked together, and sometimes just Mommy walked by herself. She would get out of the truck with her water bottle and her hiking poles, and I didn’t understand what was going on and why we were leaving her. So, I always barked and barked when we drove away from her. I wanted to make sure Daddy knew that she wasn’t in the car with us. We always found her again a little while later.

                            Me, driving                                                    Me, helping Daddy drive

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