Yesterday my dear friend and soul sister AJ, said goodbye to her sweet Bella.
Bella – I Still Want More Puppies
Bella is Miss September for the Dogs of Blogville calendar. If you’d like to leave a message for Aj, you can do it here.
Run fast, run free sweet Bella, Blogville will surely miss you.
December 4th already! Where does the time go?
Are you finished with your Christmas shopping yet? Here’s a surprise, I’ve barely started mine and I currently have no time to get it done! Before I give you the skinny on today’s Advent Calender promotion, I’m going to fill you in a bit on what’s been going on behind the scenes here at Heart Like a Dog.
My mom (who lives in an in-law unit in our basement) has been ill. She has been in congestive heart failure and was hospitalized on the 21st of November. On the 22nd of November she developed pneumonia and was moved to Intensive Care.
Life got super hectic for me.
Walking the dogs on my lunch and then heading to the hospital after work left me feeling very rushed and frazzled. To top it off there was a holiday added in there. Thankfully mom is a tough old bird and has turned the corner. We moved her on Saturday to a rehabilitation center where she will heal more and get stronger. I have high hopes she need only be in there two weeks or so.
I tell you this so you will understand why today’s post is so late. No, no, I know it’s not late, I mean since I’ve been working on this Advent Calendar my posts have been scheduled earlier than they have ever been and if I’m being honest (which I always try to, siriously, who can remember the lies?) I like it.
But that’s not what this is about. This is about a calendar give-away I promised you two weeks ago.
Do you remember the post, “Which Way Do We Go?” And this picture?
What? You’ve never heard the tale of the two stubborn labs?
I asked you to tell me which dog turned back to me first and which path we ended up taking. In exchange for your thoughts I offered to give away a Dogs of Blogville Calendar in a random drawing and I promised I would share the winner and the the answer in the special Thanksgiving This ‘N That Thursday blog hop.
You remember these guys right? They grace our calendar for December of 2014.
Except life got in the way and I totally forgot.
Well the answer to the question is this.
The dogs turned almost simultaneously, BUT if I had to say which dog turned first, it would have been Sampson and because Sampson turned first, we took the path to the left.
Well that’s the first part done! Check that off.
Now for the giveaway, I had 27 comments on that post and I plugged it into Random.org and came up with the number 10. As I was counting down the comments, a big smile came across my face because I was pretty sure I knew who the number ten commenter was.
Here’s her comment, “Ooooh, I hope I win. I’d love to get a calendar. Last year, I gave each of the ones I ordered away and didn’t keep one for myself. This year, my timing was off. Anyway, because she’s full of surprises, I’d guess Delilah came back to you before you got bifurcated by the sapling.”
Congratulations Pamela, your calendar is on it’s way. 😀
Have you been enjoying the Advent Calendar giveaways? I cannot enter any of the drawings but I can tell you I’m finding lots of cool ideas and new products and companies that I’m loving.
I’m super excited for today’s giveaway, are you ready?
It’s time for the Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers hosted by Kol’s Notes, Heart Like a Dog, My Brown Newfies, My GBGV Life & Bringing up Bella! 24 giveaways in 24 days, plus a grand prize worth more than $800 – who wants to win? Today’s giveaway is sponsored by For Love of a Dog. You could win a beautiful lamp work beaded “I Love My Dog” necklace. Click here to check out the Advent Calendar and enter today’s giveaway!
Lately Sampson hasn’t been responding to me when we encounter people or other dogs on our walks. This means his off-leash privileges have been revoked. There are still some times and some days when I let him off leash a bit, but for the most part he’s on the long leash the same as Delilah.
I hear too many stories of dogs being lost or stolen and I’d rather not take the chance. The kicker was the day he ran off, ignoring me completely and followed a couple of fellow hikers.
Sorry Sampson, that doesn’t fly with the Mama.
As those of you who walk more than one dog know, multiple dogs can prove to be challenging. I’ve been searching for a leash coupler, but the places around me are out of stock on the 24″. I have found it on-line, but the shipping options suck. I think it’s ridiculous to pay $10 to ship a $5 leash, especially when I just shipped 95 calendars all for around $5 each. One of my local stores is ordering a coupler for me but in the meantime, I walk two dogs and deal with the challenges.
What? You’ve never heard the tale of the two stubborn labs?
At times (depending on my mood) this can be frustrating for me. But not this day. This day I chose to find the humor in it. I took the photo and then I waited. I waited to see who would move first. And I thought, I can work with this.
Here’s where you come in. Remember those Dogs of Blogville Calendars?
Mr. February – Wrigs – Life with Wrigs: hike, play, eat, nap!
In order to get the cheapest price, I ordered a few extra. So I thought, let’s do something fun and give one of those away.
Are you up for the challenge?
In the top photo, we have Sampson to the left side of the tree and Delilah to the right. In the comments tell me who turned back to me first and which path we ended up taking. Don’t worry, everyone who comments will go in the drawing for the calendar, you don’t need to have guessed correctly to win.
Random.org will choose the winner, which I’ll announce in next week’s Thanksgiving edition of This ‘N That Thursday. I’ll cut off entries Tuesday night at midnight EST.
Ready. Set. Which Way Do We Go?
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