Grapehounds 2008

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MarleysGh0st · #1 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:41 pm

I've got some pictures from this morning uploaded to a Photobucket album. I haven't added any titles or descriptions yet (not that I know the names of any of these two or four-footers) but I wanted to share these, especially for Annie, so she knows what she missed out on because her mom wouldn't drive her up here.

This is the group photo, at the base of Taughannock Falls:

The rest of the album can be seen here:
http://s288.photobucket.com/albums/ll19 ... ds%202008/

MarleysGh0st · #2 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:47 pm

I've got one little movie file included with those pictures, capturing the group howl that someone started after the group photo.

I think I may have found the chorus for your opera, Annie!

ulysses5019 · #3 Post by **ulysses5019** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:58 pm

So, the dogs bring their owners and they drink wine together?

MarleysGh0st · #4 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:12 pm

ulysses5019 wrote:So, the dogs bring their owners and they drink wine together?

Yes, I believe the two-footers may taste some wine along the way. The wineries that take part in this festival welcome the four-footers with other treats.

One of the pictures from the end of the hike was of the ice cream social; all four-footers got free ice cream! OK, this being Ithaca, it was frozen yogurt...

But notice the big smile on the hound right in front of the table, facing the camera!

AnnieCamaro · #5 Post by **AnnieCamaro** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:26 pm

Mr. Marley, thank you so much! I loved looking at your photos and watching your movie. I bet that was loud when all the dogs started singing at the same time! If I had been there, I would have tried to get a little harmonious counterpoint going, just to see the looks on the faces of the two-footers.

The Grapehound Wine Tour sounds like so much fun. (I thought that even before I heard about the ice cream at the end!) I am lucky to have you for one of my best friends.

/:P\

MarleysGh0st · #6 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:08 am

AnnieCamaro wrote: The Grapehound Wine Tour sounds like so much fun. (I thought that even before I heard about the ice cream at the end!) I am lucky to have you for one of my best friends.

Thanks, Annie! I'm glad you enjoyed the photos.

On Saturday, I skipped the wine tour portion of Grapehounds to attend another event your mom would have enjoyed, the Great American Irish Festival! They had lots of terrific bands playing. For some reason, though, they didn't seem quite as welcoming to four-footers.

gsabc · #7 Post by **gsabc** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:35 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:On Saturday, I skipped the wine tour portion of Grapehounds to attend another event your mom would have enjoyed, the Great American Irish Festival! They had lots of terrific bands playing. For some reason, though, they didn't seem quite as welcoming to four-footers.

Of course not! The four-footers all dance like they had two left feet!

NTTAWWT.

dimmzy · #8 Post by **dimmzy** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:37 am

Dare I ask, what is a Grapehound?

--dimmzy, who is now dog-sitting GREYhounds

#9 Post by **littlebeast13** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:39 am

dimmzy wrote:Dare I ask, what is a Grapehound?

--dimmzy, who is now dog-sitting GREYhounds

A sloppy drunk dog....

lb13

MarleysGh0st · #10 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:41 am

dimmzy wrote:Dare I ask, what is a Grapehound?

--dimmzy, who is now dog-sitting GREYhounds

A wine-tasting tour for humans and their greyhounds, of course!

Here's their web page: http://www.grapehounds.com

dimmzy · #11 Post by **dimmzy** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:46 am

COOL! Is it an Ithaca-based group? I have a friend who has a greyhound dog-sitting business here in Rochester and sometimes I help her when she's overbooked. Nice dogs.

--dimmzy, who actually likes dog-sitting for the collie best. The collie lives in a BIG beautiful house and has her own bedroom.

MarleysGh0st · #12 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:52 am

dimmzy wrote:COOL! Is it an Ithaca-based group?

I think the organizers are local, but there are greyhound rescue groups from all over who come to take part. And the local wineries have been great about cooperating on this event.

I don't even have a dog, but Taughannock Falls is my favorite spot to go to on weekends and I just happened to be there when they were having their first Grapehounds hike through the park, two years ago. Now, I wouldn't miss it!

dimmzy · #13 Post by **dimmzy** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:55 am

Maybe you should get a greyhound! Nice way to meet chicks, you know

MarleysGh0st · #14 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:19 am

The tour guide in me has to point out that the perspective in that group photo is deceptive. Taughannock Falls, behind the group, looks a lot closer and smaller that it is; it's actually 215' high--the highest waterfall in the northeast!

It's more than twice the height of Niagara Falls, although the volume of water flowing over it is slightly less.

dimmzy · #15 Post by **dimmzy** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:35 am

ooks a lot closer and smaller that it is;

Men always like to say that.

christie1111 · #16 Post by **christie1111** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:40 am

dimmzy wrote:
ooks a lot closer and smaller that it is;
Men always like to say that.

LOL!

Funny one!

AnnieCamaro · #17 Post by **AnnieCamaro** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:54 am

Here's more proof that dogs like singing.

http://www.maniacworld.com/how-to-sing- ... sleep.html

/:P\

peacock2121 · #18 Post by **peacock2121** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:07 pm

Awesome photo!

I want to go there.

I wonder if dogs know when another dog looks like them.

hermillion · #19 Post by **hermillion** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:08 pm

That video is one of the sweetest things I've ever seen.

AnnieCamaro · #20 Post by **AnnieCamaro** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:12 pm

peacock2121 wrote:Awesome photo!

I want to go there.

I wonder if dogs know when another dog looks like them.

Of course, Miss Pea. You shouldn't be surprised about anything that dogs know.

(If it might not have seemed rude coming from me, I might have said "Bite me.")

/:P\

peacock2121 · #21 Post by **peacock2121** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:14 pm

AnnieCamaro wrote:
peacock2121 wrote:Awesome photo!

I want to go there.

I wonder if dogs know when another dog looks like them.
Of course, Miss Pea. You shouldn't be surprised about anything that dogs know.

(If it might not have seemed rude coming from me, I might have said "Bite me.")

/:P\

If you want to seem like you like me, you could have said bite me.

AnnieCamaro · #22 Post by **AnnieCamaro** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:16 pm

peacock2121 wrote:
If you want to seem like you like me, you could have said bite me.

I do like you! So, bite me.

/:P\

peacock2121 · #23 Post by **peacock2121** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:19 pm

AnnieCamaro wrote:
peacock2121 wrote:
If you want to seem like you like me, you could have said bite me.
I do like you! So, bite me.

/:P\

Thanks, Annie.