ATVs and Off Leash in the Woods

Wow - it's been a while since mom let me on the computer. Well, not really let me... but you know I have to sneak on when she's not around. Anyway, she let me do this really cool thing. Dad takes me for runs on the ATV. He rides and I get to go OFF LEASH!! As long as I stay with him, he lets me do it again and again. It is so much fun.

This is me watching what is going on. Actually, looking for those little rat dogs. There is one -- a chihuahua -- he thinks he is the baddest thing out there. Well, I showed him. He thought he was going to growl at me. I got a bigger growl than he does. He took off with his tail between his legs. Mom and the little rat dog's mom were laughing at him.

We don't even stay on the property. We go up the long driveway, then onto the gravel road. There is another driveway-like trail down the road, but there are no houses down there yet. I hope no one ever puts a house there. At the end of the driveway, there's a big circle -- I think mom called it a cul-de-sac. I smell all kinds of neat things there. Things like deer and coyote and fox. Mom and dad found footprints there.

Then, this one time, dad went down the side of the mountain at the end of the cul-de-sac. It was really steep, but I had fun running down the mountain. We took this other trail -- it's the same trail that mom walks me on when we go to the river. We went up another steep trail and came out behind our place. That was really neat, except instead of running next to dad, I was going up the hill in front of him, and kept stopping. It was pissing him off because he said something about not stopping on the hill or the ATV would not make it up there right since it was so steep.

Another time he took down the driveway, then we went to the right instead of to the left. At the end of the road, you can go up a big hill or go down into a field. We went in the field and I could run and run and run. It was so much fun.

This is the river that we go down to. The other day, dad's sister came up and we all walked down here. Everyone crossed the river to walk down to the waterfall and left me. I had not choice but to walk through the water. I hate walking in the water. I hate water. I had no choice. I wanted to be next to everyone.

The longest run I got to go on was on this place dad called Mangled Vine. It's another gravel road about a quarter mile from our driveway. That is really steep too, and when you are at the top, you can see forever. Hey, I wonder what's on that other mountain? At the bottom, there's a narrow trail into the woods. Dad said it goes to the same cow pasture that we see on the highway, and that there are a lot of cows there. I know there are cows there, because I bark at them every time we drive past them in the truck. But there is no way in hell I'm going into the woods on such a narrow path.

I didn't like the big paths that go to the river, but mom made me walk on them with her, so I got used to them, but there is no. way. in. hell. I. am. walking. down. there. Nope. Not where trees can smack me. I can't bite trees back -- well, I could, but that would be useless. That's all okay -- I get to see the stupid cows when we drive by that farm anyway.