Beagle Palooza -- Aug 13, 2011

Nice event just for Beagles, here in the Portland area. Chicken BBQ for the humans. Longest ears competition for the dogs along with bobbing for hot dogs and a watermelon eating contest. Roddy won the longest ears competition, he got a medal and I got a fancy T-shirt. Echo entered the watermelon eating contest, finished third -seems he fumbled one of the bites, maybe next year.

Here is the video:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYK_vrE5wIM

                                         

Loot from the raffle

Entering the event

Badger Creek Wilderness -- July 31, 2011

Great day for a Sunday Hike. Fairly long hike on a poorly maintained trail, lots of blow down and overgrown with brush. Bit tedious but overall a great day. Hike is on a ridge just east of Mt Hood. Up the Gumjuwac Trail and then down in to the Badger Creek Wilderness.

Grandma's Garden

Stopped to visit Grandma on a Saturday morning. I took this photo of a special flower for her, can't say that the photo does it justice.