Heart Like a Dog

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

Co-Hosted Follow-Up Friday

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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.

https://www.heartlikeadog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/follow-up-friday.jpg My co-hostess this week has co-hosted many times before, I’m always grateful to have her and I always love reading stories about her Brown Dawgs.

Many thanks to our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs blog for co-hosting with me this week.

Rub-a-Dub-Dub – Author’s Note

It’s great hearing all the code people use when talking around their pets.  It never ceases to amaze me how smart our pets are.

When my pups get their nightly treat Delilah takes hers to the living room and Sampson gets his in the bedroom.  There was this one night where I put his treat on the bed and went into the kitchen.  He came strolling in and looked at me and I said, I set your treat up on the bed, go ahead in I’ll be there in a few minutes.

I’ll be damned if he didn’t head right into the bedroom.

What’s Yours Is Mine – Author’s Note

As Pamela stated, “Copyright is changing and bloggers need to be part of the discussions.”

Each blogger has their own idea of how they want their work shared.  The creative commons license gives you many options to choose from, personally I think putting a creative commons on your blog let’s others know loud and clear what your expectations are.

What I forgot to add in that post is this picture of Sampson was included in the picture book I wrote, “And Along Came Sampson.”  It’s copywritten along with the book.  Did you know you could copyright pictures?  I didn’t either.

Copyright S9

I Like Sticks – Author’s Note

I was really happy to read that most of your dogs eat weird stuff and throw it up too!

Somehow that didn’t sound right.

I meant it’s not unusual for a pet to eat something it shouldn’t and then throw it up.  Hey, he could be like Freighter and eat throw rugs. 🙂

One Word – Author’s Note

It’s so weird, when I first read about the one word challenge immediately Heart popped into my head.  I’m touched and humbled how many of you thought it was a perfect choice for me.  And I appreciate that so many of you feel I am already putting my heart into this.

Personally I can’t think of a more perfect word to focus on this year.

For those of you who chose a word to focus on this year, please feel free to leave me a comment or drop me an e-mail and let me know how your journey is going and if I can help you in any way.

I noticed after I posted this that Melanie’s blog said she would stop making buttons after January 31st.  But she made mine last weekend. 🙂 So I figure it’s worth a shot if you want a button to display on your blog.  If Melanie won’t make one, I’ll make one for you.

Just let me know.

This ‘N That Thursday – Update

We are truly blessed to have such a beautiful area for hiking and I’m grateful for the longer days when we have the opportunity to get out.  There is something about walking in the woods that helps me decompress far better than a walk around the block does.

And yes, I’m going to seize those opportunities whenever I can.

That’s it for this week’s Co-Hosted Follow-Up Friday, many thanks to The 2 Brown Dawgs blog for joining us today.
 



 

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The Path Less Taken

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When we got up yesterday morning it was snowing.

Again!

A slow, lazy snow that drifted down and covered shoveled paths with a light layer.   We didn’t care, it was Saturday and we wanted our walk.

With eager hearts we set out for our park.  I had scoped it out a few days ago and could tell that people had been going in.

They got in fine and boy were they fast, they were out of sight before I even got a foot in. I wanted to document the entire trip, but I figured you’d get tired of my panting and the sound of my ski pants rubbing together.

I opted for my favorite trail. As it turned out, it was the path less taken by others, but we forged our own trail.

I took a couple of videos only because it was so funny watching the dogs hopping through the snow.

There is something so majestically beautiful about the woods all covered in snow.

It was a peaceful walk, with lots of time for quiet reflection.  Just what I needed to get my creative juices flowing again.

To have a heart like a dog, you can’t be afraid to blaze your own trail.  Sometimes the path less traveled is exactly where you’re supposed to be.

Frosty Blog Paws

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Friday just before we got 3 feet of snow, we received a package from our friend Jen at My Brown Newfies.

Frosty Paw Puppy

Inside the priority mail box was two prize packages consisting of 2 coupons for free Frosty Paws dessert treats and a cute little stuffed puppy.

One package was for us to keep and one was to do what we pleased with. Truthfully I could have kept both, but why be greedy?

Especially when I want something from you.

BlogPaws Bound

In May of this year a whole host of awesome Pet Bloggers will be meeting in Tyson Corners, Virginia for the social media event of the year. BlogPaws!

In a moment of folly, I pitched a proposal to BlogPaws for a beginning blogging session titled, “I’ve started a blog, now what?”

Well put your money where your mouth is Jodi Stone, because BlogPaws accepted my proposal!

Yes, yours truly will be hosting a session at this year’s BlogPaws.

As most of you know (mostly because I whine incessantly about it) blogging is a learning experience. And while sometimes it takes me a while to learn things (thank you to all of you who answer those desperate questions of mine) there are so many things I wish I’d known about sooner, like two years ago sooner when I first started this blog.

That is what my session will be about. All the things that took me two years to learn about starting and growing a blog.

I have a list of subjects I wish I’d known about when I first started blogging and I figured if I had a list, you must have one too!

So see, here’s where the give away comes in.

I’d like your thoughts about what you wish YOU’D known about when you first started blogging. And it wouldn’t be fair to pick your brain and not give you something in return, right?

SO Share it with me in the comments and one lucky winner will receive a prize pack with two coupons for a free Frosty Paws dessert for your dog, along with a Frosty Paws dog.

Not for dogs (Note the stuffed toy is NOT FOR DOGS but for human use only.)

Also, I’m only authorized to ship in the US as Frosty Paws isn’t available in other areas.

BUT that doesn’t mean I don’t want my international friends to comment, SO here’s what I’ll do. Give me your comments, one and all and if the entry that wins is outside of the U.S. I will send you something entirely different and pick another entry for the Frosty Paws Prize package.

Don’t write a blog?  That’s okay too, I still want your input.  Tell me what kinds of topics you want to read about on this blog, or something I’ve written that you like.

No rush, I’ll draw the winning name next Wednesday, so if you can’t think of something right away, you still have time.

This is the Tasty Tuesday Blog Hop, hosted by Sugar the Golden Retriever and Kol’s Notes.

 

 

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