Me and my dogs really like to walk in forests. This is one of our best hobbies, that I would say we are really super good champions of. It’s pretty easy. Go to the forest, and walk around. Sometimes we run, sometimes I throw sticks and the dogs swim the creek for them, sometimes we just sit there and listen to the quiet trees. Mostly we just walk around, though.

The dogs are totally trained to photoshoot on stumps. I yell, “Hey! Go get on that stump!” and Otterpop leads the charge, and up they go. Another one of our hobbies.

We found a good stump yesterday, a big, deep hollow, burned out hunk of old growth redwood. I told Otterpop to go get on it. Off she went.

Turns out, it was the Stump of Hornets. You know how people say, Madder Enna Hornet? HA! They are mad and if you get on their stump they come bite stinging attacking you. Or in this case, just me and Otterpop.

I yelled, “RUN DOGS RUN!” and we all went running away, me swatting/kicking/wacking hornets off my legs and Otterpop just looking like a crazy dog with crazy legs. The other dogs didn’t know why, but they are always happy to run down the forest path.

We ran all the way back up to the Big Hill and poor Otterpop. Otterpop hardly ever looks sad. Maybe on startlines at agility trials. Never ever in a forest. Guess what? Wasp bites make Otterpop very, very sad. Me and sad Otterpop trotted all the way back out of the forest on our stingy bite legs and we will be very particular of photoshooting on any old stump from now on. Just using the ones with no bugs at all, period.