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- Alek sitting on rug
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- Alek lying on floor
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- Alek and Wheatley sitting in rocking chair
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- Alek and Wheatley sitting in rocking chair
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- Alek in the grass
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- Alek watching airplane
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- Alek playing with rope toy
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- Alek playing with rope toy
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- Alek resting on his back in his kennel
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- Area: river_island
- Face: W
- Comment: Alek in the rapids
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- Area: river_island
- Face: W
- Comment: Alek splashing in the water
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- Area: hilltrail
- Face: C
- Comment: Alek sitting on the trail
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- Area: hillside
- Face: C
- Comment: Alek bounding on the hillside
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- Area: river_swimminghole
- Face: East bank (seen from the west)
- Now that I have Smart Alek my fur-bragging can rise to new heights. He
- is not yet 16 months old, you should remember throughout the following
- story, and with me for little more than a year.
- The weather Tuesday was good enough: windy, cold for April, and about
- half sunny. For the rest of the week we expected temperatures colder
- still with clouds and snainy periods. Therefore, out to the woods with
- us.
- The river this spring has been running high with periods of extreme
- flooding which have rewritten the riverbed and channel course. As a
- result Alek and I have spent most of our woods time on the north side.
- This week the waters had receded enough that the river is only running
- high and I hoped to find a way across. All stepping stones were both
-
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- Area: river_lowerreach
- Face: N
- Comment: Alek wading
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- Area: southcedars
- Face: C
- Comment: Alek in the cedars
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- Alek curled up on the forest floor
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- Alek curled up on the forest floor
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- Alek sitting in his kennel
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- Comment: Alek drinking in the river with circle ripples
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- Area: hillside
- Face: C
- Comment: Alek running in the snow
- Alek Pupppy
- A new morning dawns and the daylight unfurls.
- I look out the window for squirrels and girls.
- I jump and I bounce to express all my joy
- As I bark at the birds and the bunnies and boys.
- And when with the eve on my bed I have curled
- I embark on the total destruction of toys.
- September, 2019
- Oleg Sobaka
- Tomorrow or maybe today or at least this week is Alek Dog's birthday.
- He's 1 year. For 9 months I've assumed that ALek is a variant spelling
- of an abbreviated form of Aleksander (or Alexander). The puppy (now a
- former puppy) also responds to al-EK which I've joked is the Egyptian
- form. Recent research suggests that I should have given greater weight
- to other indicators, such as the great white cross on Alek's chest. He
- is named "Holy", I now suspect. That is, "Helge" in Old Norse but Олег
- in Cyrillic languages: "Oleg", but with a South Texan spelling (having
- come here from Corpus Christi).
- Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg] says:
- Russian pronunciation of Oleg in English is based on
- the transliteration of the Cyrillic alphabet, and hides
- three combined quirks of spoken (as opposed to written)
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