Co-Hosted Follow-Up Friday

February 15, 2013 By Jodi

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Co-Hosted Follow Up Friday Blog hop, the blog hop that let’s you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend.

~~I suckered a new one in~~ My co-hostess this week is new to our FUF blog hop. She’s a frequent commenter on this blog and reminds me in many ways of myself, as she can sometimes be technically challenged. 🙂

She has two mellow pups (Callie and Shadow) and one slightly demonic one (Ducky.)

She’s living the Golden Life in South Carolina.

Any guesses?

It’s Sue from the Golden Life!! Welcome Sue and thanks for co-hosting today!

A Walk in the Blizzard, Doot, Doot, Doot and Monday Mischief – Updates

We sure got a lot of snow, and it took all of Saturday and a good part of Sunday to get us cleared out. But we were back to normal by Sunday evening, with just a lot of extra snow. Other areas of CT were not so lucky.

I’ve heard stories of people who took to the streets with their snow blowers in their neighborhoods just to get cleared out.

I am not complaining about how my town handled the snow removal, they have (IMO) done a wonderful job.

Many schools have been closed for the entire week, because they all have flat roofs and officials are concerned about the roof collapsing, indeed I’ve heard there have been 18 collapsed roofs in the state.

Once the snow has been removed from the roads, the bigger issue becomes where can they put it?

Thankfully we’ve had some decently warm days this week and the snow is melting. I have high hopes of getting into our park this weekend. 🙂

I am however ready for the closed announcements to stop running across the bottom of my TV screen.

Frosty Blog Paws – Update

Well Blogpaws announced it on their website yesterday, I guess I can’t get out of it now. 😉

I just want to let you all know that I will be sharing the presentation after the conference. I would expect most of the information I’ll be presenting will be old hat to you pros, but I will share it anyway.

I did try to respond to every comment, but wanted to single this comment from Leslie out, “PS – any chance you’ll be bringing the pups to BP?”

Please see the photo under Let’s Pretend. 🙂

Hop Along – Update

Here’s the photo with my caption:

Be a love and hold my bone for me, I missed out on the opposable thumbs.

Let’s Pretend – Author’s Note

Beth asked to please share what others are using for photo editing. The free ones mentioned were Pic Monkey and Visualizer Photo downsizer.

I checked both of these programs out. Visualizer looks to be just a photo resizer. I didn’t spend any time with it. (If I’m wrong, please let me know!)

Pic Monkey had lots of cool features to play around with. When I say I quickly did this picture I mean quickly. There was no frustration on my part, it was simple and easy to use. No tears, swearing or anything!

I did this in a matter of minutes.

What I really loved about this is I did not have to open an account, although the option was there. There were all kinds of effects, borders, themes for modifying pictures, the only tool I didn’t see offered was a free style tool to actually draw on the photo. Maybe that’s offered with an account, I don’t know.

Any of you Pic Monkey users know?

Seriously though Leslie, I am planning on bringing Sampson to BlogPaws, although if I can get some likes on my facebook page, that’s a bonus! 😉 I will probably write a post about that, but that’s for another day.

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Let’s Pretend

February 14, 2013 By Jodi

Today we once again join our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs for This ‘N That Thursday. Some days there’s a little of this or a little of that, but not enough for a full post.

Thank you 2 Brown Dawgs!

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Let’s Pretend

Let’s pretend that I’m like Jen at My Brown Newfies and that I actually think in advance to buy props and stage a Valentine’s day photo shoot.

Let’s pretend that once I’ve taken the photo, I can actually use a graphic image program to tweak that photo just a tiny bit.

Are you getting this?

Good!

Let’s pretend that this is a really awesome photo showing my dogs lying together in the shape of a heart.

Go ahead and laugh, I’m a writer not a graphic artist.

Are you done laughing?

Okay, then I promise I’ll do better next year.

Unless I don’t.

Snow challenges

Sampson and Delilah have a little yard routine they do when they hear or sense someone or something outside. Our yard is pretty large and normally they run out the door, down the deck stairs and up along the fence line. I call this synchronized running and if they ever offer it in the dog Olympics, I’m entering my two. (One day I hope to capture it on video, because it really is amazing.)

Then they station themselves at some point along the fence and observe or bark at whatever they please.

And there are other days when they burst out the door and one runs the fence line, while the other one runs up the stairs. I guess this is their Hawaii Five-0 “you go this way, I’ll go that way” approach.

Our back yard is mostly hill. Up hill as you may or may not be able to see from the photo. The dogs can get back there either by running the fence line or by the stairs in the back.

After Charmo hit, there was no place for the dogs to potty, so Hubby used the snow blower and made a path around the house and a small area off the deck, but he didn’t blow along the fence line.

While the snow is beginning to melt, there is still a lot of it!

These are the stairs up back, I haven’t had a chance to shovel them yet.

So the other morning when Sampson got his dander up and charged out the door I said, “Where you gonna go?” Then I laughed as I watched him run from one side of the house to the other via the snow blown path.

This morning however, I noticed Delilah tentatively (VBP) picking her way down the fence line. Apparently the snow has melted enough for her to attempt the backyard.

Hold tight, I’m still working on that video. 🙂

Many thanks from our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs blog for This ‘N That Thursday.

Do you plan photo shoots for your dogs? What kind of programs do you use to watermark or tweak your photos?

Hop Along

February 13, 2013 By Jodi

Give me your best caption, I’ll share mine in the Follow-Up Friday post.

This is the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop hosted by BlogPaws.

Hop along.

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