# 10 Back Again

 

We were at Debbie and Jerry's and decided to start the blog again. You need to know this stuff. We hope we get to see them soon because we can be loose in their yard.

We girls can't believe how long it has been since we told you what is going on. So we're going to start again and tell you about Stew and Ceil's bucket list. We heard them talking about a bucket list and figured that meant we were going to get a bath, but no. It meant that they are going to "do" New Mexico which we heard them say was one of their favorite states. They are going to camp in all of the state parks in New Mexico or try to anyway. They said New Mexico has a really good deal for camping in the state parks. If you are a resident it's even a sweeter deal but they got a pass for 12 months because we are from out of state and it only cost $225. They can dry camp for free at any state park and if they want electric they only pay $4.00 a night. We know that means more treats for us.  So on May 3, 2013, we pulled into City of Rocks State Park and bought a pass for a year.

We think these rocks are just crazy. They are way bigger than we are so we thought we should bark at them. But they didn't bark back so we evidently subdued them but good. We never heard a word out of them the whole time we were there.

We were here for 10 days.

We did see a few other dogs with their humans but it wasn't very busy and real quiet. We didn't get an electric site because the weather wasn't real hot and when you don't have electric you're not real close to some other dogs with their humans.

They dragged us around to look at some petroglyphs but we didn't see one single dog carved into any rocks. We saw some really pretty flowers we have never seen. Turns out they are called Yellow Bird of Paradise. We liked them a lot. We also found out they are toxic to humans and probably dogs, too. So we admired them from a distance.

Yellow Bird of Paradise

 

 

We looked around when we got there and found a raven's nest up in the rocks above us. We barked at them but they told us they had babies sleeping so we were real nice to them. We watched them fly back and forth and they worked real hard to get food for the babies. We put out a bowl of water for them because there is a bad drought here. We couldn't have a campfire or  charcoal hamburgers because of the high fire danger. One day we put some bread out for them. One of them was way smarter than the other one. The first raven was trying to get that bread down but the other one, (we know it was the mom,) grabbed a big piece of bread, dipped it into the water and it went down real nice and easy.

 

Here is the raven nest that was right above us.

 

 

We saw some really nice sunsets, too.  




 

 



We're gonna go now. We will talk about Rockhound State Park next time.