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Flirt Turns 6

About a week ago our Golden Retriever turned six years old. No longer a puppy. So we celebrated by getting all maudlin as we remembered  our former dogs.

Be that as it may, here’s our girl at 8 weeks and at 6 years . . .

Flirt at 8 weeks and 6 years

DICHI GOLDEN ACRES

Our Flirt’s mother is also named Flirt and her father’s name was Chance (the dog all over Jan’s feet at the end of the video below).

We got our Flirt as a puppy from Dichi Goldens in Wisconsin in 2012. Before we picked her up in November of that year, we visited Dichi in June, a month after our previous Golden Retriever Jack died.

Here’s a movie of our visit to Dichi Goldens in June 2012 . . .

September Roundup or “Where has the Time Gone?”

We’ll be leaving Bishop mid-October and we’re trying to get in as many activities as we can because we may not be back here for a while. Well, probably next year if we do our West Coast Trip. We’ll see.

Jan takes the Activities Award for September . . .

YOSEMITE FISHING TRIPS

Bishop to Tuolumne Meadows (click map to enlarge)

Jan has taken a couple of fishing trips with her new friend Audrey to the streams in Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite. This meant getting up at 5:30 am.

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CONVICT LAKE HIKE

Jan again. She and friend Audrey did a 3-mile hike around Convict Lake which is about an hour North of Bishop. As you’ll see in one of the photos below, the Fall colors have started in September in the mountains.

Bishop to Convict Lake

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DUTCH INVASION

Every year campers from the Netherlands visit our campground on their 31-day tour of the southwest.

31-Day Tour

Here’s a link if you want to join them next year: Kampeerreizen van ANWB . . .

TOM INSTALLS SOMETHING IN THE JEEP

It’s a thing with switches and stuff . . .

Box

Opened Box

JAN BACKS A TRAILER INTO A TIGHT SPOT

It was no mean task. The Queen ‘o Driving strikes again . . .

Kudos!

DOG MOVIES

OUR FAVORITE DESSERT SPOT

Good Earth Yogurt

Basically, you fill a large cup with different flavors of Yogurt, add a bunch of toppings, and then you pay by how heavy it is. Great stuff.

Yogurts

Toppings

THERMAL VENT OPENS NEAR OUR CAMPSITE

Ok, we just threw some dry ice in our creek . . .

WHY WE LIKE SEEING MOVIES AT THE BISHOP TWIN THEATER

Burning Man Refugees

Burning Man wrapped up on Monday and a few of the festival goers made it to our campground looking to dump their gray and black tanks.

The “Burners” were easy to spot — their RVs were the dustiest things on wheels . . .

Click on photo to see the dust up close (The blue tape on the window was meant to keep the dust out of the inside of the RV.)

CRA vs MEG

Crazy Rich Asians vs The Meg.

Socially-relevant Rom-Com vs Mindless Action movie.

We saw both movies at the Bishop Twin Theater, described by a Google reviewer as “If you want big city multiplex theater with big city prices, go home”.

Actually, it’s a lovely little movie house reminiscent of all those long gone small town theaters I grew up with . . . where I watched my first ever movie, The Spirit of St Louis (I thought it was going to be about ghosts) and Tarantula (giant bug movie genre).

Bishop Twin

Anyway, we saw Crazy Rich Asians on Tuesday night. Sitting in the row ahead of us were a half dozen teenage girls who I thought would ruin the movie for us. Au contraire! They made a great movie even better. The ooh’d when the leading man took off his shirt and ah’d when the leading woman took charge. Perfect.

Wednesday night was The Meg, a movie about giant sharks eating peple and wrecking stuff. If you liked Sharknadoo, you might like The Meg. However, for me, as soon as one of the giant sharks made its appearance, I was rooting for it to eat the lousy actors in this schlocktacular. The only entertainment in the theater was a couple of kids with lights on their shoes who ran up and down the aisles. Thumbs down.

Sterling, Scooter, and Donkey Visit Our Campground

Actually, Sterling and Scooter (horses) and their pal Donkey (a mule) escaped from their pasture next to the campground and made a break for it. They walked about 1/4 mile up Highway 395 and into our RV park.

Jan, myself, and Flirt were all outside. Since our RV site is very near the campground entrance, we had ringside seats. Having never seen horses or a mule, Flirt freaked out. (Two hours later, she’s still whining and pacing in our RV.)

It was fun. Good thing it had a happy ending.