Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

Where Did He Go?

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Today is This ‘N That Thursday, a blog hop hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and Ruckus the Eskie.  It’s an anything goes kind of day, which I totally love.

Feel free to grab the badge and link up your post.

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Dogs and Chipmunks

Every morning I go outside to empty our dehumidifier.  And every morning Sampson goes outside with me.  He’s a very good boy, usually listens well and stays in his yard.

Monday morning a spot just outside the garage caught Sampson’s attention.  It is a spot that has a sand filled free-standing basketball hoop base and for some reason a board.

Don’t ask.  I’m not in charge of the outside, I have no idea why it’s there. Or what purpose it serves, other than to hit someone in the face if they step on it wrong.

But I digress.

Anyway, Sampson was sniffing around and then he shoved his nose deep between the base and the board.

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There was a squeak, squeak and a chipmunk darted out and ran across the driveway to one of the drain pipes.  Sampson’s paws scrabbled across the pavement trying to get traction as he attempted to chase the chipmunk.

Sadly for Sampson, the chipmunk got away.  But it was a great way to start his week!

IMG_3291 Do you think he’ll be back?

Dogs of Blogville Calendars

The calendars have been ordered and should be shipped to me tomorrow!  I’m expected to receive them either next Wednesday or Thursday.  I hope to be able to get them sorted and shipped out by November 4th.  I don’t have the exact figure of what we raised this year, (because I have to factor in the postage to mail them out to you.)

However, I think I can say with confidence that it will be over $1,000.00!!

Good job everyone!!

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

Tomorrow’s blog hop will be hosted by me.  I asked in last week’s post for volunteers and had none, so I’m flying solo this week.

If you’re interested in co-hosting next week, please let me know in the comments.

This ‘N That Thursday

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Today we join 2 Brown Dawgs and Ruckus the Eskie for This ‘N That Thursday.  It’s a day designed for a pinch of this and a dash of that.  Many thanks to our hosts!

Protecting your dogs.

About three months ago Hubby and I added padlocks to both the gates leading into our yard.  While my bigger concern was one of the gates accidentally being left open, I realized after reading a post on Fidose Reality there are other reasons to padlock your gates.  If you get the chance pop over and read Eight Ways To Get Your Dog Stolen.   Lots of great info in there.

Fall Foliage

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA The other night when I was walking the dogs we had a good strong wind.  Honestly the leaves were falling like snow. Yes those round spots in the photo are actually leaves.

I love to take photos of the foliage, but in some of the more beautiful spots it’s rather difficult to get a photo without a power line or telephone pole in the way.  I knew my time was limited though, so I grabbed my camera and headed out to my favorite reservoir.

PicMonkey Fall Collage I love the reflections of the trees on the water.  The lower right hand photo is actually one of the trees in our field.  The leaves almost look frosted.

And because I have a nifty new camera which takes panorama photos, I couldn’t resist trying it out.

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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA I love the look so much, I decided to shoot one of our field too.

They say you can tell how hard the winter is going to be by the stripes on the wooly bears.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA I’m not sure about squashed wooly bears.  Too bad they didn’t tell this guy to stay out of the road.  I didn’t see him and ran him over.

Ferndale, Washington

This is totally worthy of a WTF post.  A Vet in Ferndale was allowed to keep his license despite admitting to most charges of botching surgeries, using unnecessary force on animals and taking pain killers that were designed for his patients.

I admit, I skimmed through the article because I didn’t want to get too hot.  The thing that really frosted my ass was the Board of Governors allowed him to keep his license.  That is definitely WTF!

My thoughts?  The Board of Governors has no balls.  But we do.  Let’s get this son of a bitch’s name out and shut the mutherfucker down.  Share the story on your social media outlets warning people of this man and what he is capable of.

Let’s get the word out and make sure this guy doesn’t get the opportunity to hurt someone else’s pet.

You can read the entire article here.

Follow-Up Friday

My co-hostess this week is Linda from 2 Brown Dawgs.  Check back tomorrow when I answer some comments and wrap up our week.

Thanks again to 2 Brown Dawgs and Ruckus the Eskie!

This ‘N That Thursday – October 10, 2013

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Today we’re joining our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs along with their co-host Ruckus the Eskie, for This ‘N That Thursday.  It’s like the hodge podge of blogging, anything goes.  Grab the badge and play along.

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

 

Fall is here.

Despite nightfall coming ridiculously early, fall is one of my favorite times of year.  Days warm enough to be out in shirt sleeves or a light jacket or sweater.

Cool crisp nights with hands wrapped around a hot cup of tea, sitting in front of the fire snuggled up with a blanket your crocheting in your lap and a puppy on the side.  It doesn’t get much better than that.

Until you add in the foliage.  You can’t beat the foliage in New England.

PicMonkey Collage

I took these photos a couple of weeks ago.  At first it seemed like everything was turning yellow.  I felt like I was stuck between the Emerald City and the Winkie Country, (Wizard of Oz reference for those who may not know) so I searched for any color at all that wasn’t yellow or green.   I really like the top right photo that shows the berries on the trees.

We were all kind of in a panic with the leaves beginning to turn so early in the season, but typical New England, give us a little time and we’ll get there!

PicMonkey Collage

I got a new camera, which lets me get super close without blurring the subject matter.  If you notice the 2nd picture down on the right, it’s a bee!

Here let me show you.

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Pretty cool, huh?  If you want to know more about this sweet little, crush proof, freeze proof, waterproof camera, you can find out tomorrow on 2 Brown Dawgs Blog.  She bought the same camera just before I did.  In fact, it was based upon her recommendation that I bought this camera, so thank you Linda!

Follow-Up Friday

There’s going to be some changes made to FUF.  When I first decided to make FUF into a blog hop, I thought it would be nice to have rotating co-hosts, you know to share the linky love?  But it hasn’t caught on like I’d have liked.  Every week, I’m scrambling around looking for somebody to co-host and quite frankly that’s just one more stress for me.  I’m wobbling on two fronts, either make a permanent co-host (ess) OR eliminate the co-host portion all together.

I’ll let you know once I make my decision.  In the meantime, my co-hostess for tomorrow’s blog hop is JoAnn Stancer from Sand Spring Chesapeakes.

Check back tomorrow for recaps, reviews and responses.

This is the This ‘N That Thursday Blog hop hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and Ruckus the Eskie.

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