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Dog food is food intended for consumption by dogs or other canine. Some people make their own dog food, feed their dogs meals made from ingredients purchased in grocery or health-food stores or give their dogs a raw food diet. Many others rely on commercially manufactured dog food.






Dog meat refers to edible parts and the flesh derived from (predominantly domestic) dogs. Human consumption of dog meat has been recorded in many parts of the world including China, ancient Mexico, and ancient Rome.

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a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages






Having lost all wetness or moisture over a period of time






For use without liquid






remove the moisture from and make dry; “dry clothes”; “dry hair”






Free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist






become dry or drier; “The laundry dries in the sun”

Slickrock drying out at Corona arch

I like the mood of this view of Corona Arch. The brief snow storm has come and gone and the sandstone canyon walls are drying out quickly. The last of the storm clouds are leaving the area and it is quiet….and the landscape is beautiful. Good hike.
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Utah Road Trip March 2012
Oldmantravels & Old Wrangler

Last March, my friend Ed and I, with his new Jeep Wrangler, made a 4,000 looping road trip through the Four Corners area of the Southwest. We had a lot of fun on that trip so decided to do a different version in March of 2012.

We made plans that were highly flexible depending on the weather we would encounter and the condition of hiking trails and back country dirt “Jeep roads”. We even had a “plan B” to head for Joshua Tree and Death Valley, if the Utah weather didn’t turned out like we hoped. In the end, we were able to enjoy each and every day of our road trip in the state of Utah and utilizing Green River, Utah as our primary “base camp”.

Weather wasn’t always the best for photography but it was fun capturing the moment with photographs, both to share with others and of course to preserve the memory of the fun times had on a road trip. Below is a day by day general outline of where we traveled and what we did during this Utah Road Trip March 2012 (just in case you want to follow along):

DAY ONE [Wednesday - 14 March 2012]:
Ed left his house in Western Washington and picked me up in his Jeep Wrangler at my house in Eastern Washington. We then drove the interstate through rain and wind to Boise, Idaho.

DAY TWO [Thursday - 15 March 2012]:
We drove the most direct and quickest route from Boise, Idaho to Green River, Utah where we got rooms for three nights. We later added another three nights as the small quiet town of Green River turned out to be just right as a quiet base camp for our outdoor activities in the area.

DAY THREE [Friday - 16 March 2012]:
We headed out early down highway 24 through Hanksville, then over to Capitol Reef National Park. We forded a swollen Fremont River and took the scenic Cathedral Valley loop in clockwise direction, putting over 50 miles of fun miles on back country dirt roads, mostly within the boundary of Capitol Reef National Park.

We visited scenic overlooks like Jailhouse Rock and the various vista overlooks along the way. The stop at the Temple of the Sun and the Moon formations was well worth the time. We took a couple of short hikes to get better views of many of the areas along this scenic loop route.

Returning to highway 24 we drove west into the heart of Capitol Reef NP and made the short hike up to Hickman Bridge. Returning to the Jeep, we drove down to the visitors center and drove the “scenic road” which dead ends in Capitol Gorge. The late afternoon and then dusk light made for an excellent trip on this road.

DAY FOUR [Saturday - 17 March 2012]:
WE drove the “Eightmile Road” near La Sal Junction over to the Needles overlook and Anticline overlook road junction. Stopped at Looking Glass arch along the way (windy) and poked around a few of the “cowboy cave” structures, carved out of and/or built into the sandstone formations in the area.

We scratched our heads in bemusement when we spotted the Rockland Ranch, a man made “eye sore” on a large otherwise lovely sandstone formation known as Hatch Rock. The “cave houses” are painted mostly bright loud colors with an obvious attempt to “stand out” rather than “blend in”.

I haven’t read the whole story yet but seems the government granted a 50 year lease to some “alternative life” folks, and so Hatch Rock is “their” home for now. The lease is for $ 6,500 a year and the “homes” have been blasted into the side of Hatch Rock. The founder, Bob Foster (with three or four wives and 38 children passed away in 2008 at age 82, of cancer).

The drive out to Anticline overlook was a pretty drive as we checked out the Hatch Point campground along the way and enjoyed the views offered by the loop around the rock formation at the Dave Minor overlook.

From the Anticline overlook you can see forever, including a Jeep trail following the near bench far below. I would find out later that that winding dirt road can be taken all the way from Moab to the Needles portion of Canyonlands National Park (and all day endeavor).

The Colorado River is seen from this viewpoint as are the large potash ponds and the waterways that drain from them to the Colorado River below. In all it seems a bit too much “man made” intrusion on the landscape to completely enjoy the fabulous view.

After Anticline we returned to the Needles Overlook which we both agreed would be a wonderful place to catch a sunrise (so we agreed to return to it if we caught some good weather later on).

After the Needles Overlook we returned to the highway and made out way into the Needles district o

Harley October 2000 – April 2007

Damn the Iams dog food. Harley was always perfectly healthy. He had an ear infection and didn’t want to eat his dry dog food, so I started feeding him canned Iams food (about 2 weeks worth). Four days after he received an antibiodic for his ear infection, he strated having seizures. He was sick and started having accidents in the house. I took him back to the vet. I didn’t even consider the dog food. The vet questioned me about it. It was too late to test for poisons, since I quit feeding him the food. She said he had all the symptoms.

He started showing signs of neurological damage. We don’t know if it was brain damage. Could he have had a tumor we didn’t know about until then? I couldn’t afford an MRI. If it was a tumor, they couldn’t do anything for him.

He had several visits to the vet. They kept giving him shots to shrink swelling in the brain and steroids. He had many bad days and even more very bad days. I refused to give up hope. After all, they said he wouldn’t live when he was a puppy and had Parvo.

There were days when he couldn’t hold his head up. I fed him Insure for dogs with a dropper on those days.

His last day, he was doing so well. He was walking around. He could sit up and stand all by himself. He ate two bowls of dog food and drank two bowls of water without any help.

He wanted to go outside. It was a warm day and I left him outside while I went to a funeral in Dayton. I received the call from my daughter on my way home. She found him in the garden dead.

I have never loved an animal so much. I have never spent so much money on all my animals put together.

I had to pay $ 90 at the dog pound and sign my life away to get him.
His 1st vet visit was $ 500.
Yearly vacinations, worming etc. $ ???
Who knows how much I spent on treats and dog food.
$ 800+ on his final vet bills.

For a mutt, he was the best dog I ever had. He was stolen three times and I had to get the police to get him back. Everyone said how beautiful he was.

Thankfully I have many pictures of him and many great memories.