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The Sleepover
Sometimes a road trip takes a strange turn.
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Dogtoberfest!
What do you get when you combine dogs, October, and fun? Dogtoberfest! A festival for dogs!
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Time Travel
There’s always something new to do even if I have to go back a few hundred years to do it.
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The Birthday Week
My 1st birthday turned into a week long series of fun stuff. Who knew getting older was so much fun?
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Another Road Trip!
Sometimes, if I’m paying close attention, the universe gives me a little warning that something is up…
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Goosh Berries
The past month has been really busy. Dad was gone a lot, and when he’s away I don’t really feel like writing. It’s weird how that works. He took some trip up north for a month, and then another trip out west for even longer, all in two weeks! While he was gone I spent…
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Team Dusty!
We finally got started in Agility! Dad always chuckles when I say I’m agile now, but I don’t get the joke. I think it’s a geeky thing. This is a zoomed in photo taken when we were out on the town in Kansas City. I think it could be our team photo. Is that a…
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A Green Paw
Today we got to visit a new gigantic garden store! I think we were really there to buy flowers, but dad took a couple neat photos too.
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A Mom Trifecta
I’ve got a mom, and a real mom, and a practice mom, and I got to be with all of them in the same day!
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Walkin’ and Waggin’
Since almost nobody looked at my last post with the poem I worked so hard on, I decided I should stick with posts with more photos. I’m all about views and attention you know, ’cause, well, I’m a dog and that’s kind of our thing. 🙂 We recently went to an event called the “Walk…
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Dogs Do Poe
As I lay in bed just sleeping, Wiggling feet as I was dreaming, A sound intruded, digging deeply, A quiet mouse or something meeping…
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My First Party Invite
You know you’re one of the cool dogs when you get your first party invite.
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Going Walkabout
I know, I know… I’m not Australian by nationality or birth or lineage or anything else, but it’s in my breed name so that counts for something, right? I think can still use some of their lingo when it almost fits. Right? Just go with me on this, mate. 🙂 We take lots of walks….
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I Can Fly!
I learned I can fly! Not too high, and not too far, but still… what fun!
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Graduation Day
I think every kid knows something is up when they’re told they have to take a bath. Even fuzzy kids like me. Oops, did I just compare myself to a human kid? Hrmph. You may recall that had my first and only bath about a month ago (read about that here) so doing it again…
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The Food Puzzle
Ah… eating. The glint of the bowl, the clatter of kibble, the kitchen ambiance that all combine to lend a certain je ne sais quoi to the simple act of eating as fast as possible.
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A Skritch in the Night
The other night we were all in bed. We do that a lot at night. It was also dark, which I’ve noticed also happens a lot at night. I was minding my own business (which dad says does NOT happen a lot) and almost asleep when mom suddenly said, “what is he doing over there?”…
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Dogs & Fishes & Beers, Oh My!
Yesterday I had a big day. First I helped dad clean the fish. Well, their homes anyway, which are called “tanks” or “aquariums” for short. A fish tank is a big glass box that fish live in. The box is full of water that I’m not allowed to drink or smack my paws in (don’t…
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My First Bath!
Today we went to a store that had special boxes where you could give your dog a bath. I didn’t know what a bath was, but I was about to find out.
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Doors
In my short existence, I’ve learned that around every corner is something new to sniff, or chew, or pounce on. Sometimes in rapid succession in various combinations. Whenever I get the chance I like to explore the house… but there’s a problem…
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The Blueberry
The great thing about being new to everything is that everything is also new to me. That means every day is an adventure, for now at least. It also causes problems sometimes. For example, I have lots of toys. I like the hard plastic or “fake wood” ones that I can really chew on, and…
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I’m Back!
At least I hope I’m back. Yesterday I was checking to see if anyone had commented on my writings, and suddenly got a message from Facebook that they’d removed my latest post. Then those messages showed up on everything, and they delete ALL of my posts. They said I went against community standards somehow. I…
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Attacked!
Mom and dad and Raven and I went for an after-lunch walk on New Year’s Day (that’s January 1st — I checked) following the same route around the neighborhood that we normally do for our lunch walks. Everything was going fine. I was getting occasional treats for stuff like walking next to dad and “checking…
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What’s in a Name?
I just remembered that I forgot to explain my name. Wait. Can you remember you forgot something? Because… if you forgot then… what is there to… never mind. English is hard and I’m still a puppy. Anyway. I said I’d explain my name: “CedarWoods’ Seven Cups of Stardust.” So even though I go by “Dusty”,…
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A Fuzzy Tornado
Recently, somebody mentioned (surmised? accused?) me of occasionally having a lot of energy. Guilty. It usually happens about twice a day, and whenever possible I try to time it to be as inconvenient as possible. I’m a giver. 🙂 For example, after we’ve had a lazy evening watching sappy hallmark shows and it’s time to…
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Daddy Doggy Day Out
Dad is still on holiday break, but mom had to work today, so dad and I decided to go out on the town. I’ve been to a LOT of different businesses in my young life, including: But today we went to Duluth Trading because dad needed pants. Well he had pants on, but he wanted different pants….
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Christmas 2023
Merry Christmas! I finally got to spend more than one week in the same place, so I think this really is home and maybe we’re not nomads. We took a family picture for the holiday, and it only took maybe 30 or so tries to get all of us (which means me and Raven) to…
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The Fun Police
I get to go to school! Apparently it isn’t enough just to be cute… you have to learn stuff too. Remember when we stopped and got a picture with Santa the other day? Well that place is a dog school and they have puppy classes. The idea is that you (humans) bring puppies (that’s me)…
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Iowa Trip
Apparently one of the drawbacks of working remotely is that dad has to return to the actual office a few times a year. That office is in Iowa, so he always goes for a whole week. As it happens, he needs to go back this week, so my crazy life with mom and dad so…
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Bring your Work to Dog Day
My dad is something called a “programmer.” Actually he says he’s more of a manager these days, and doesn’t really write much code anymore. The best thing about his job is that he works from home, which means he gets to hang out with me all day, every day. He calls it “Bring your Work…
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My First Snow Day!
OH MY GOSH! You won’t believe this, but at certain times of the year, fluffy white stuff falls from the sky and piles up on the ground just to give dogs something to play in! It’s awesome! It does make your nose kind of cold if you push it around for too long though. Unfortunately,…
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Thanksgiving and Santa
After only a couple of days at my new house, we had to all leave on a Thanksgiving road trip to a place called Oklahoma! In Oklahoma we stayed with Cathy and Glenn, who I think are related to my mom somehow. They have a house out in the country, and they have lots of…
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Dogs and Blogs
So the first question you might have is, “since when do dogs write blogs?” The second question might be, “since when can dogs write?” Well, my dad introduced his previous best friend dog, a golden retriever name Riley, to computers many many years ago. Riley wrote lots of stories on his personal laptop, right up…
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Hello world!
Wow, this is so cool! I didn’t know blogs were a thing. Or for that matter, that computers were a thing. Actually, there are probably a ton of things I don’t know are things because, well, this whole “life” thing is pretty new to me. Maybe if I back up, it will make more sense……