Category Archives: Kona
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Kona-East Canyon Hike
After a long work week, Kona’s big adventure this weekend was a hike up the East Canyon Trail in Santa Clarita’s Woodlands Park. Just north of Los Angeles, this is a 3.8 mile trail in the Santa Susana Mountains. The vegetation is lush and the trail winds though three species of oak, bay laurel, black …
Kona-Wacky Wednesday
Kona has a couple of new uses for a frisbee… Frisbee taco… Frisbee headrest… After that silliness we hope to get around to visit all our blog friends soon. Our schedule has been a little wacky and we haven’t been getting much time online these days so we apologize for not being around lately. We …
Kona-Birthday Hike
Kona sets out on his birthday hike at Wildwood Park in Ventura County. First part of the hike was up the Santa Rosa Trail to the summit of the hills. The view was pretty good even half way up and there were wildflowers and wild oats everywhere. Lots of water breaks, even on a partly …
Kona-Birthday Cake
Kona’s birthday cake. The sniff test. The preliminary tasting. A bigger taste. Nice teeth marks…every cake needs them. Enough with the formalities… getting the party started.
Kona – Birthday Boy!
Kona turns 7 today and he is taking the day off from work to celebrate, eat pupcakes and be spoiled rotten.
Run Kona, Run!
Yesterday we took an impromptu trip out to the desert to see if the wildflowers were blooming (they are but not in full force yet). Seeing as how we were in the middle of nowhere we decided to let Kona run free…and boy, did he run!! He ran up hill and down… Down an old …
Kona-Before & After
It is 7 months today since Kona came to us as a foster dog. He quickly became a big part of our family and his transformation has been a joy to watch. This is Kona today… This was Kona the day he came to us… He was terrified of people (men especially), he had no …
How To Save A Life…Including Your Dog’s.
While on a hike this past weekend, we had a lesson in how fast a good time can quickly turn to an emergency, when you least suspect it. After hiking to the summit of some local mountains, we gave Kona a cookie for a snack . Being a dog, he inhaled it as fast as …
Kona-Weekend Fun
A guide to a Golden weekend: Get up early and check the yard for squirrel activity… Brush your teeth after breakfast… Go for a hike and look for more squirrels, birds and maybe some rabbits… Crash out and dream of squirrels….
Wednesday Wonder
Look into these deep brown eyes and feel the wonder, the love of life. Every morning, as soon as I open my eyes, Kona is sitting next to the bed, staring intently at me with his beautiful brown eyes and a smile plastered across his silly Golden face. It is the goofiest thing but I …
Kona-celebration
Why is Kona smiling? It’s not because our lawn came back or that it is 78F (26C) here in Los Angeles…well okay, maybe that might have a little bit to do with it but the main reason is that Kona passed his basic obedience class. With a little more practice to make sure he has …
Whew, Wednesday.
Whew, it has been absolutely crazy with work and we have had very little time to get online in the past month but we hope everyone is keeping happy and healthy. Kona is almost finished his first round of obedience classes and is doing great. He loves to go because he gets tons of treats …
Holiday Hiatus
Remember how you used to look forward to the Christmas break when you were a kid? How Christmas seemed like a magical time? Well, now that we’re all grown up, we’re self imposing an early holiday break from blogging. This holiday season, forget all the commercialism, turn off your computer and get out there and …
Hike
This past weekend was perfect weather for hiking. Off to Griffith Park we went, our destination…top of this hill. Kona found a less used path to the top. Easy for him, not so easy for us with all the overhang. Let’s just say there was much ducking and scraping on the way up:) Half way …
Pet Therapy Friends
We’re back from the Thanksgiving holiday break and we hope everyone had a lovely long weekend. This week I took Kona to meet up with the dogs of Spencer‘s pet therapy speech group from Northridge Hospital. It was great to see everyone again and we were there to honor Sophia, who is retiring from pet …