Blogville Calendar Contest

Just about the only benefit (as far as I’m concerned) to not having any leaves on the trees is visibility. Normally speaking I can clearly see the trail ahead of me at this time of year.

Last weekend as the dogs and I headed up to the woods, I saw Sampson stiffen, which is normally what he does when he sees somebody.

I was still a ways back but could just make out the white in the field, but I couldn’t tell what it was.

Who is it?

At first I asked him to wait, but as I got a bit closer I could see who it was, so I gave them free rein.

I watched them as I got closer, Sampson approached cautiously.

What is IT?

It looks like a big pile of I don’t know what.

Once he was close enough to discover what it was, he was fine.

Delilah (no surprises here) charged right up to it.

Snap, it’s only snow. I thought it was the Stay Puft Marshmallow man.

For a second I thought he was going to pee on it, but that passed. Phew! Imagine poor Frosty with a big old yellow tie.

Of course, this weekend it was all gone, nothing left but a photo to even show it was there.

Has your dog ever encountered something like a snowman? What was his/her reaction?

The Dogs of Blogville Calendar

I’d like to apologize for all of you having problems with the voting. I’ve checked the settings on the poll and don’t understand why some people are having problems voting.

Misaki said, “Weirdly the poll didn’t seem to work on firefox, thankfully I still have IE still installed.” As of now that is my only suggestion. Try a different browser. There are certain blogs I follow that for some reason don’t work in Firefox but they work just fine on Internet Explorer. I’m sorry I can’t be of any more help with this.

I would suggest keep trying or trying shutting your browser off and trying again. This morning when I was promoting on facebook my friends were telling me how the voting was going, but I couldn’t see it.

This is my first time using the WP Polls and I admit I don’t know a lot about it.

So at long last (at least it seems like that since the idea first fermented in my head) here is the Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest.

Here are the rules according to me:

One vote per IP/Cookie per 24 hour period (if I set the voting portion up correctly, this will work.) If I didn’t please be kind and follow the rules. This is a fun event to raise money for some fellow bloggers, so please be fair.

Promote this contest, just because you only have one ip/cookie address doesn’t mean you can’t promote this on your blog and through your other forms of social media.

Voting begins today at 6:00 am, and it ends next Saturday, November 24th at 6:00 am (once again that’s if I’ve set the voting plug-in up properly. If I haven’t I will go in and manually close the poll.)

The proceeds from the sale of the calendars (after production costs and shipping) will be donated to our blogville friends in need at Life with Desmond and Champion of My Heart. How much the proceeds are will depend on how many calendars are sold. I’d like to keep the cost at about $20 per calendar (including shipping) the more we sell the less we pay for the calendars and the more we can donate.

Some random stuff you might want to know.

As of right now I think I will be using Vistaprint to make the calendars as I am very familiar with their products and have had good luck with them. If anyone has any better printing options PLEASE contact me directly or leave it in the comments.

When you are promoting this contest, please let your followers know that they will be able to purchase calendars also.

Anyone that wants to purchase calendars, send me an e-mail at stone.jodi@ymail.com and I will send you my paypal information.

I will not order a calendar for you unless you have already paid for it.

My goal is to have the calendars into as many hands as possible by Christmas.

Well here they finally are. The dogs of Blogville.