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Central Oregon Pals with Paws is associated with Battle Buddies of Central Oregon. and The House of Hope Ministries. Please like their page at www.facebook.com/cobattlebuddy and House of Hope Ministries.

15/04/2026

It is Wednesday, hump day, half the week is gone, half is coming. It is April the fifteenth, half the month is gone, half is coming. Tax day, the day the government makes sure they get half your money. Hugo doesn’t pay taxes. He is supported by a lazy bum who did work and let the government steal half his money. Hugo isn’t greedy like the government. He doesn’t want half my money. He works for dog bones. He also accomplishes more than the government. He has never tried to build a light rail at a billion dollars a mile that goes from nowhere to nowhere. He doesn’t ask for government assistance to dig a hole. He doesn’t need a planning committee to go for a walk. He just goes. He usually takes me, because it’s good for a lazy bum to take a walk three times a day. He always finds his way back without a government funded program. Come on Hugo, let’s do our morning walk, then our half day walk, then our last walk.

13/04/2026

Today is Monday the 13. All day. I don’t think it is any different than Friday the thirteenth. Monday is Monday. being the thirteenth doesn’t help. Hugo is smart enough to know Friday the thirteenth is the same no matter what day of the week it comes on. 13 is a number. A baker’s dozen is 13. You get an extra donut. Dog bones should come by the dozen. 13. Hugo is starting a campaign, it is an election year. Hugo sez check the candidates position on baker’s dozen dog bones. I stayed in a hotel that had a thirteenth floor. I stayed in a hotel that called the thirteenth floor 14. There was no 13 on the elevator. Now that tells us that the next time Friday the thirteenth is on Friday, call it the fourteenth. Problem solved. If the hotel put me on the thirteenth floor and the elevator was broken I would call that bad luck. Not as bad as if I was on the fourteenth floor. If they called the thirteenth floor the fourteenth, would I have to walk up an extra floor? Hugo thinks it is all ridiculous. He only counts to five. 1,2,3,4,5, more than 5. Sir Jeffrey would not walk up the stairs to the second floor. He said that is what elevators are for. Hugo sees no problem walking up 13 floors. I don’t think he even counts to five floors. He would walk up five more floors. Thirteen would be a good number of daily walks.

07/04/2026

Hugo doesn’t like kiwis. He likes bacon. Chicken, beef, venison, elk, alpaca, buffalo, pumpkin pie, but not kiwis. This girl in newzeland learned that 50,000 kiwis or tons of kiwis, or liters, or bushels, or a lot of kiwis were wasted. She went to her kitchen and made kiwi leather. Not fruit leather to eat but leather to make boots. Alligator, ostrich, rattlesnake, horse, buffalo leather. The chest hide of a tanned buffalo hide will stop an arrow, maybe a bullet. Theoretically. Hugo and I are not volunteering for the experiment. How many kiwis will it take to stop an arrow? She did it in her kitchen, so can you. I would use more than one layer. Hugo doesn’t care how many kiwis you use while he eats the bacon. Maybe we could wear a kiwi biker vest. Don’t shoot me I am a kiwi. A kiwi vest wearing dog walk.

31/03/2026

My oldest brother turned 90. I went east from Oregon to Minnesota. I could have gone west, but it is a much longer trip. Hugo was not allowed to go with me so I took the shorter route. I have been dogless for days now. Having a dog makes it person nicer. I did take my pill, the one they give serial killers to calm them down. The first time I was in jail was when I was in the first grade. I mean to imply I was a serial killer, but I am not. I take it so I can lay under a car and work on it. Or lay on the grass with Hugo. Back to the birthday celebration. There were some Olson boys there. At more than one time there were a few gathered together in one room. I counted once. There was one Olson, he had a brother and a cousins son and his son. He also had three sons one of whom had two sons. Up the road was another brother with a son. That brother had a cousin who had been at the birthday celebration. That cousin had two brothers who weren’t there so you can’t count them. I hope you are keeping notes because there will be a test. That brother had two brothers a few miles west. One of them had two sons there. The other one had two sons out west who had sons and a cousin with a son. Now even if we try to count the unfortunate wives and daughters and granddaughters we don’t come close to the number of Olson boys. But we boys are still outnumbered. Now your job is to figure out how many Olson boys there are and then how many girls while I take Hugo for a virtual walk.

27/03/2026

We are headed east. Abandoning Hugo and Moche. Hugo is on the couch with me and Moche is on my lap. I think they know. Steve will be here. Both like him, but he is not me. He is grateful for that. Steve across the street has set up his cannons aimed at our driveway. He is anxious to fire them. I hope the visitors are politicians. Hugo will take Steve for walks. Moche will try to annoy him. She is good at that. Steve better remember ice cream time. Walk time. Food time. Hugo has his schedule. Uphill in the morning, uphill in the afternoon, down hill in the late evening. Backyard at 10:30 pm. Water from the faucet not bowl water. Do not forget the walk.

19/03/2026

Yesterday I went to town. 78 degrees. I saw motorcycles, bicycles, fishing boats, kayaks, paddle boards. Summer has arrived. Last year we had snow. False summer. Hugo liked the snow better. The whole west coast is short on snow. Alaska may have to import some. Michigan had 3 feet of snow. Hard on shamrocks. Easy to freeze your left over corned beef. Hugo would try to not have left over beef. It must be Bush’s fault. Can we still blame Bush? It must be trump’s fault. Global warming on the west coast, not in Michigan. I thought global meant the whole globe. Hugo wants to go to Michigan. Long walk. Uphill both ways. We could get a motorcycle with a side car for Hugo and a trailer for the kayak. Before it is 80, he will have to be happy with a limb dump walk, after 80 , a nap, no walk.

17/03/2026

Time. If we could put time in a bottle? In 1967 time was scientifically measured by the spin of the earth. 2000 years ago a second was a second. Now a second is a second +. Ja sure you betcha. A second is now longer. In 2000 years we have lost three hours. Hugo sez high noon is still the middle of the day. If your work day seems longer, it is. If it seems to drag on and on, it does. But your lunch hour does too. Hugo can walk farther in an hour. We may have to add another walk to the longer day. 3 hours in 2 thousand years. A second is a second is a second. How much longer is the third second? Does Hugo’s internal clock self adjust? He has trouble with daylight losing time. He doesn’t object to ice cream time coming an hour early. Are you going to ask for a raise? Each day you have more time to accomplish more. Do you? We need to go back to a sundial. Science has screwed up time. We can no longer trust science because they can’t even tell time. Hugo can. Maybe we should set our clock to canine time. K nine. Nine o’clock would always be nine o clock. Walk time would never be late. Go for a nine o’clock k9 walk.9 am. Walk 9 pm. Walk. Will there be a third 9 again walk?

14/03/2026

A guy asked GOD, “ is it true that to you that a penny or a million dollars is about the same
?” Yes that is true. Is it true that to you a second or a million years is about the same?” Yes. “Can I have a million dollars?” Yes, just a second. Hugo would answer the same. Time and money really have no meaning. Dogs can count up to five, not a million. ll Peter 3:8 sez. With the LORD a day is like a thousand years. We hear that GOD owns the cattle on a thousand hills. Probably those in the valleys too. Hugo is only half Great Pyrenees. He might need help for a thousand hills. Great Pyrenees are guard dogs, but even if the hills are small, that covers a big area. Remember when Hugo counts it goes, one, two, three, four, five, and some more. That is why when you leave your dog for 5 minutes or five seconds, it is the same as five days. Take your dog for five walks on five hills, five times, for five days. You may not get to one thousand, but it will be a good walk.

Hugo is a Great Pyrenees. He looks like one, he is big like one. He acts like one. But he is also half Golden Retriev...
11/03/2026

Hugo is a Great Pyrenees. He looks like one, he is big like one. He acts like one. But he is also half Golden Retriever. He is 8 years old. He has not retrieved any gold, yet. I got him this golden satchel to help him focus on the other half of his dna. I hope it works. We could use more gold. While his walks are golden and offer a golden opportunity he has not fulfilled his potential. We are about to go for a walk. I hope it is a golden walk.

08/03/2026

I don’t think 0 dark thirty changes. It is still dark and early. The moon ignores daylight saving time. Hugo adjusts slowly. Arizona doesn’t bother with it. Milk cows are annoyed by it. Life goes on. The sun also rises. With or without it. Oregon and Washington would keep it all year, but California won’t. Why do they need California? Sun dials work with high noon. Hugo thinks time is an artificial construct of human arrogance. Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow starts at sunset. Hugo wants a walk morning, noon, and night. And mid morning, before noon, after noon, before sunset, after sunset, before bedtime, after bedtime and if he knew about o dark thirty? Daylight savings time is irrelevant, daylight losing time is irrelevant. Walk time is relevant, ice cream time is irrelevant. Breakfast and supper time is relevant. Any time is a good time for a walk.

05/03/2026

Dogs easily learn 150 people words. People sometimes know the meaning of five dog barks. Dogs also read facial expressions, body language and sense our emotional state. We may recognize 5 different barks. Aren’t we intellectually superior. Dogs like us and want to please us. Horses are similar, but bigger. Cats and cows are just as intelligent but. Cats remember being gods in Egypt. Cows know they are sacred in India. They don’t care if we are pleased or not. Dogs will die protecting us. Cats will eat us when we are dead. Cows will kick us when we are down. Or up. Bulls will charge the red cape. They will gore you like AL. Take your dog for a walk. I will take Hugo for a walk. Take Al Gore for a long walk on a short pier. Hugo wants to go for a long walk. A short walk. A medium walk. Another walk.

16/02/2026

Some people post what they have for supper. Last night I had chaueteubriand with twice baked potatoes awgraton, scalped, in a balsamic vinaigrette toematoe sauce. Actually I had a chunk of dead cow with some fried potatoes. Hugo on the other hand had cubed beef tartare with rice vegetable sushi. He doesn’t care about the seaweed. He usually leaves it uneaten. Sometimes he will have lightly braised chicken strips. In a bit of organic, low sodium gravy. With fine cut julienne carrot garnish. Then we go for an evening stroll. Upon our return we have icecream for desert. Watch some tv and then take our bedtime walk.

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