Heart Like a Dog

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

Dearest Blog

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I mentioned last night that the blog received the Liebster Award, from our friend Bassas over at Bassas Blog.

Apparently Liebster is German for dearest.  The Liebster is to recognize and gain exposure for lesser known blogs.  (Less than 200 followers.).

The rules for the Liebster Award are:

1. Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you.

I really want to thank Bassas for this award, the write-up describing my blog was one of the sweetest things ever said about this blog and I’m so honored and humbled by this award.

2. Reveal your top five picks {with less than 200 readers} and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.

I’ve thought about this for the better part of 24 hours, while I love all of your blogs, I am only allowed to present it to five, so in no particular order here are my five picks

2 Brown Dawgs

Shoes On The Wrong Feet

Misty Shores

Donna and the Dogs

Gone For A Walk

3. Copy and paste the award on your blog.

 

Check, it’s in my side-bar. 🙂

4. Hope that the people you’ve sent the award to forward it to their five favourite up-and-coming bloggers and keep it going!

Thanks again to Bassas and congratulations to the new Liebster awardees, I look forward to reading about your picks. 😉

 

I Can't Stop

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I tried to take the night off, I really did.  I told myself I deserved a break.  But my fingers betrayed me, they were itching to be at the key board and I’m just so damn addicted to blogging, I can’t stop myself.  It looks like you’re stuck with me.  🙂

I got about 6:30 am with the dogs and after the nirvana of coffee and a few quick reads through some blogs, I headed out the door by 8:15 am.  I won’t bore you with details, I will just say I finally sat down about 7:30 pm and YES I managed to get almost an hours walk in with Sampson and Delilah.

Why does it seem the busier I am, the more I have to do?

Why can’t I be more like this….?

Tomorrow I have plans to take the dogs on an as yet unexplored trail and then in the afternoon I am volunteering at Our Companions Holiday Wreath sale.

You may have noticed we have a new award on the side-bar.  That is from our dear friend Bassas over at Bassasblog.  If all goes as planned tomorrow night, my post will be about the new award and the responsibilities that go with it.

In the meantime, go check Bassas out, I think you will enjoy meeting Bassas and learning about her little corner of the world.

Follow-Up Friday – Lady Found

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For those new to the blog, my follow-up Friday provides me with an opportunity to update or revise a post from the previous week.  You know sometimes you post about something and you need an update but it doesn’t warrant a whole blog.  Or sometimes someone made a comment that really resonated with you.  Yup, Follow-Up Friday baby. 😉

How Can I Help – Update:

Normally I wouldn’t follow-up on a  post this old, but I think it’s important to let you all know that Lady has been found and returned to Mel!

All of you who facebooked, tweeted and posted about this played a part in some way, so pat yourself on the back!

Sunday Morning Walks – Author’s Note:

I think taking two dogs on the rail trail is too much for me.  Monday and Tuesday the backs of my arms ached from the work of holding the two of them….wait a minute, maybe I NEED to take them to tone up those arms. 🙂

Chewer or Tearer Upper? – Author’s Note:

Many of you wrote in telling me the things your dogs have eaten/chewed/destroyed. Many items (shoes, cell phones and yes even retainers) I had heard of before, but I must admit the electric razor surprised me the most.

I guess my lesson in this story is to be a better housekeeper and not set Delilah up to fail.  She really is a good girl and her antics make me laugh on a daily basis.

No Bells Or Whistles For Me – Author’s Note:

Thank you all for the congratulations.  Some days blogging came very easily and some days it was a real challenge.  But you all know that because you are turning out blog posts every day too!  Truthfully I think most of you are putting out way better posts than I am.  But I still appreciate the congratulations, what really humbles me is how many of you take the time to read and comment.    What I treasure most about this past year is the connections I have made and the extended family I now have.

And to those of you who have just completed NaBloPoMo , my hat is off to you.  You churned out far more in a month than I have in the entire year.  You rock!

Some of you have asked if I will shoot for two years in a row.  I really want to try to continue to post every day, but I don’t think I will put the pressure on myself that I did this past year.  If I do it that will be great, but ultimately I want to still be blogging this time next year. 🙂

Thanks again for all your support!

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