congratulations angela & dozer - your collar is on the way to you.  

because we got so many great entries we decided to post all of them on our facebook page.  we appreciate everyone taking the time to send their photos - we immensely enjoy seeing all the entries.  we'll see you back here on the 1st for the july contest announcement.

let's all please wish dave a happy birthday - you'll have to speak up, though, cause he's old! 

i took this picture of dave & carly a few months ago and it was quite a feat for dave to hold this gangly, 100-lb beast! 

happy birthday david.  i think debby boone said it best when she said "you light up my life"

once the temperature rises every day is like waiting for the doors to open on black friday

i know posting has been sporadic at best of late but life has gotten in the way a bit.  we've had contractors in our house for the last 6 weeks and contractors and 16 dogs are not a good mix.  we're starting to get back to normal so regular posting will resume shortly.  

this month's contest is for all the people who complained that the winter scene contest wasn't fair to you warm weather dwellers.  entering is easy: just send us an email with your submission, your collar details (size, style/color, type) and your name and address (have no fear this information will not be disseminated in any way) by june 15.

and now without further ado, the june contest is:

your best summer water scene photograph

send your photo to iwannawin@earthdog.com and include your collar choice, name and address (winning photo will be posted on our blog).

rules:

one photo per email

photos must be sent as an attached jpeg or tiff (we cannot follow web links)

photos must be received by 11:59 pm june 15

winners will be announced by june 27

here's one of our favorite shots:

kitchenaid stand mixer i do a lot of vegan baking and i have been lusting over this thing for years but could never justify spending that amount of money on a mixer. my old mixer was quite poorly designed – the motor turned an empty bowl fine but if i actually put any ingredients in the bowl i then had to physically turn the bowl to get it to move. i think dave got tired of my bitching because under our christmas tree this year was a beautiful new mixer for moi. the older saleswoman tried to convince dave that this wouldn’t make a good gift but she was sooooo wrong. i’ve logged a lot of hours with this puppy and i can say it is well worth the investment (and that dave is an awesome present picker-outer).

congratulations jerilyn & thor - your collar is on the way!

and the honorable mentions

thanks for all the great entries - the competition is getting stiffer with more submissions each month! judging is getting more difficult but we love receiving all the entries.  we'll see you back here on the 1st for the june contest announcement.

shortly after we began fostering for the nashville humane society murray came into our house as a foster with his brother, van. he was a bottle feeder as someone had dropped he and his siblings off on the back stoop of the humane society one night when they were about 3-4 weeks old. i think i knew right when we picked them up that i was in trouble – i fell in love with murray at first sight. when it was getting close to the time to return them to the humane society for adoption i wasn’t sure i was going to be able to do it – it seemed as if this little creature was created to the exact specifications of my ideal dog – he made my heart hurt from the get go. christmas actually fell shortly before the boys were due to be returned and inside one of my boxes from dave was one of the greatest gifts i’ll ever receive – it was a very simple post-it note that said murray was mine and the rest is history. i’m proud to say that over all our years of fostering over a hundred dogs murray is the only one i was unable to part with (my mental fortitude is unparalleled). here’s a vintage shot of murray and the note that i’ve saved for 12 years.

carly has a new habit which is really putting a crimp in reilley’s red ball chasing as well as resulting in repercussions to my tuckus. carly has always played defense when reilley is chasing balls but she has significantly upped the ante recently in which she now nips at him and goes for his ankles. the other day reilley had had enough and turned around to wallop carly at the exact moment i was trying to curtail her and he ended up making contact with my butt. i didn’t really feel much so i thought nothing of it until a few minutes later when i went to grab my phone from my back pocket and my hand went right through the pocket. my phone had taken a direct hit sustaining quite a blow, which is much less costly than were my buttocks to have taken the hit...and that’s how my iphone saved my iass. here’s a photo of my rear for your enjoyment – keep in mind that objects appear much larger on the internet than they may actually be.

i'm pretty sure by this time you can all join in on the "carly, carly, carly." 

by the way, if i counted correctly i came up with 4 unique ways of referring to my posterior (that makes 5).  

pee wee herman. i may get a lot of flak for this week’s things i love but i’m not ashamed to boldly proclaim my love for pee wee. ever since seeing him scotch tape his face on david letterman in the early eighties i’ve been a fan – he just makes me laugh, plain and simple. check out this david letterman appearance from 1984 – the joke is long but to me worth the wait. i’ve got a sizeable pee wee collection, which might allow dave & i to retire were i ever to sell it (i wouldn’t), a few items of which are pictured below...don’t hate, appreciate!

our phones, cable tv & internet have been restored - hooray!  on another note, this video takes place in our guest room where, if you were to visit us, you would be sleeping.  i'm just saying...

(yet another thing we can thank carly for)