Monday Mischief 11-19-12

November 19, 2012 By Jodi

It seems like my weekend has been filled with mischief.

Dogs of Blogville Calendar contest.

Some people can vote and some people can’t and I can’t figure out why.

My suggestion from Misaki, is to try a different browser. I’ve looked at all the settings and can’t see why people can’t vote. I will tell you that you can only vote once every 24 hours. Not once a day. If you voted at noon today, you cannot vote again until noon tomorrow.

If you are on a wireless network at home, your cell phone and computer share the same IP address, you will need to take your phone off the home wireless network and vote using your phone provider’s network.

Walking Mischief

Hunting season has started, which means when we walk in the woods the dogs are required to wear their vests. We bought some inexpensive vests last year, which means they don’t work very well this year. 🙁 (You get what you pay for.) Hubby ended up stapling the velcro on Delilah’s vest so she could wear it.

Hubby decide to join us on our walk yesterday, which was a good thing. When we pulled up to the trails there was already a car there. As it turned out, some kids were having a game of football. As soon as Sampson knew there were people in the field, he was all in.

Hubby ended up calling him back and putting him on leash.

You stay with us now, you hear me?

Hubby doesn’t walk with us too frequently, he and Sampson kind of lagged behind Delilah and me.

Me: You okay? Hubby: I can’t breathe. My Inner Bitch: But you’re going down hill.

With all the serious weather we’ve had around here, there are lots of trees down across the trail. I like to use these trees as agility jumps.

Delilah didn’t quite understand what over meant.

Didn’t you just write a post about Canine Olympics? Why didn’t you include the balance beam?

She did stay nicely when I stepped back to take a picture though.

Book Mischief

I’ve worked at the book every day except for Friday. I think I’m on the right track, except I don’t think I will hit 50,000 words, unless by some miracle I have a day where I can write all day. It’s okay though, I went into this challenge hoping to make the word count but thinking with all the events I have this month that it would be tough.

The book is evolving, I like the way it’s going and I think I’ve got a good plot line going. All in all I’m quite pleased with the progress and commitment I’ve made.

Don’t forget to vote in the Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest. If you try to and cannot I ask you to try again with a different browser.

How was your weekend? Was it full of mischief like mine? Did you know this was the Monday Mischief blog hop hosted by Alfie’s Blog, Snoopy’s Dog Blog, Luna and Cinder and My Brown Newfies?

Hop along.

Close Encounters of the White Kind

November 18, 2012 By Jodi

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.

Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest

November 17, 2012 By Jodi

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.