Today is not technically our blogiversary, but I couldn’t let this one go by without acknowledging it! The blog went live on August 21st, 2012 with a “Welcome”, but my first real post wasn’t until September 1st . Tomorrow is someone’s birthday, so I wanted to do this post today so I could focus on Miss Cricket on her special day. Today is our 615th post! I started out with … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2015
From Sleepy Beagle to Dreamy Beagle
I thought this photo would be a fun follow up to our #52Snapshots of Life "Sleepy" photo this week. I love how Cricket is snuggled in with her siblings and doesn't even mind Luke's paw in her face! She does take her sleeping seriously. I edited this photo in Photoshop Elements, using the basic black and white effect, and then adding a white vignette and simple frame. I … [Read more...]
Winding Down Our Summer of Fitness
I feel really good about how this summer has been for fitness with the dogs. I feel like we’ve done the biggest variety of exercising of any summer, along with just being out there almost every day. We pretty much stuck to my goal of getting everyone on an outing at least once a week, and many times we got more walks in than I planned. We played in the yard just about daily, no … [Read more...]
#52Snapshots of Life – “Sleepy”
The theme for this week's #52Snapshots of Life photo challenge is "Sleepy". I browsed through recent photos knowing I had plenty of sleeping or sleepy shots already. The best ones I found were all of Cricket! I don't know if she sleeps more than the other dogs, or just looks cuter doing it. :) There is a common theme in these photos: "Lying in the sun makes me very … [Read more...]
Something Different for National Dog Day – A Pet Matchmaker
There are so many of these “days” for pets, it’s difficult to keep track of them all. So I don’t usually share each and every one…every day is National Dog Day around our household anyway. However, this day, just like National Mutt Day, was started to help raise awareness of dogs in shelters needing homes, and we are always in favor of promoting that. A Matchmaker for … [Read more...]
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