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Spring has arrived

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Spring has definitely arrived in my garden. My crocuses have been blooming for the past week and now each day when I look out my window I see new growth in my garden beds.

Tulip, Daffodil and Iris leaves are pushing up through the ground and soon there will be other plants showing signs of life.

I’m so pleased to see more and more crocus flowers coming up and I know that in just a week or two I’ll have quite a variety of spring flowers in my yard. I love spring it’s definitely one of my favorite seasons. If you don’t grow your own flowers I hear that there are some good ProFlowers discounts that you might be interested in taking advantage of if your craving spring flowers too.

I’ll bring my camera outside with me tomorrow if the weather is nice and take some pictures of the crocuses in bloom and then I’ll post some pictures.





My dog isn’t acting her normal self

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My poor puppy, she hasn’t been acting quite like herself this week. I’m not sure what’s wrong with her either.

She’s in heat and perhaps that’s all that’s wrong, but she’s never acted quite the way she’s acting. She went into heat about two weeks ago, and about a week ago she started getting whinny and she’s not usually a whinny dog. She’d just start whining for no apparent reason.

She doesn’t seem to be in pain and she’s eating and acting fairly normal overall … she just whines a lot more than she usually does and sometimes when we get up to go out and it’s a situation where she’d usually be excited or begging to go out with us she just lies on the floor or couch looking at us … totally not normally. It just makes me think something’s a little off … I wish there were a Medicare plan for dogs as I’d simply just bring her into the vet for a check up … but without a clear sign or a really strong gut feeling that she’s ill I think I’ll hold off on the vet visit for now.

Have you ever cared for a female dog that’s in heat? Does any of this behavior sound familiar?

It’s “winning” not whining Midnight – get it right! LOL

Midnight barks too much when I video tape her

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I was videotaping my dog again earlier today and I’m trying to figure out how to stop her from barking when I’m trying to do close ups of her.

The real problem is that what I want to video tape is her playing with her dog bone because she jumps up and down like she’s on a trampoline and it’s hilarious, but as she’s waiting for us to shove the bone across the floor at her she starts barking in excitement … and it seems that the camera makes things worse.

I’d had for all of my videos to have to be to music just because my dog barked way too much. She really is hilarious!

Oh and while I’m talking about making videos … what do you use to edit your videos? There’s the Flipshare software that came with the camera but that doesn’t look quite as advanced as I’d like if I want to piece together several videos. Any suggestions? Nothing too expensive!

As I said yesterday when I posted my first video of our Lab Midnight being the crazy dog that she is I’ll be posting more videos to my YouTube account probably by tomorrow so check here if you want.

Funny video of my dog rolling in the snow – must see

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Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been having fun taking videos of my dog Midnight. I believe I mentioned in a post or two that we are the proud new owners of a Flip Camcorder. It’s the latest version – 3rd generation, 8 gb. We bought it near the beginning of February and since it arrived we’ve been using it pretty regularly to capture our dogs antics around the house and outdoors.

Our dog is quite a ham. I think she’s become more of a ham since we started video taping her regularly too. I think she realizes that we act differently when we have the little black camera in our hand or that we want her to act different .. so she acts up .. she barks like crazy and runs around and totally isn’t herself. At least she was like that in the first week or so, I think she’s getting use to the camera now and she’s beginning to act a bit more like herself again, which is good, because that’s really the dog that I want to show you, not the one that’s acting up.

We do have another video camera, an HD Sony Camera but we barely use it for some reason. So we got this one because we figured it would be a little easier to use and get video uploaded onto the internet so we could get the videos on our blogs.

I have to figure out how to piece together some of the videos that I’ve been taking. You see, my dog does this really cute thing, she jumps up and down like she’s on a trampoline when she wants us to slide her bone across the floor to her. We call this dog hockey. So I have all these videos of Midnight jumping up and down and chasing a bone and barking and barking as she does. I’m sure it’s kind of funny … but if I could mostly piece together a video of the jumping I think most people would get a laugh of the “jumping dog”. So I’m going to have to work on that. Who knows maybe Midnight will become a video star, the next Youtube star .. hmmm I’ll have to get her some costumes and bow ties to dress her up. LOL

Anyway .. for now I have a video of Midnight rolling around in the snow for you. She’s always loved the snow. She loves rolling in it too. She’ll roll in the snow for a whole walk if she can much to the delight of anyone passing by as it looks absolutely ridiculous … as you’ll soon see …. take a peek:

If you want to keep an eye on my YouTube account I’ll be uploading all of the videos that we’ve been taking over the last two weeks. I think there’s about 25 videos so far – pretty much all dog. Of course my YouTube account is about five or six years old and it has other older videos on it too so you might find some of the older stuff amusing too. Feel free to browse if you’d like.

We got an iTouch iPod

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Well I finally entered this millennium and got an iPod.

My husband and I were shopping in Best Buy last weekend and I told him that I wanted to look at the iPods, and as it happened some people from Apple were there and they had a special offer on the iPod touch.

I’ve been thinking of getting and iPod for years so it was about time I got around to getting one. I ended up buying the 32 gb iPod iTouch. It’s fantastic! We love it. I think that sometime in the near future my husband and I will be fighting over it and we’ll end up having to get another one. LOL

Each morning my husband scrolls through the Apps and downloads free Guitar and music related apps and at night I end up searching online in the Apps store for interesting Apps like restaurant finders, Facebook apps, Radio Apps and I’ve even browsed around for that app that will work with my Nike running shoes. I think the App is called the Nike + iPod App.

All in all it’s pretty cool. We’re both having fun exploring the iTouch.

Now we have to get to work and organize our music. My laptop has about 5 gig of music and the desktop which my husband uses the most (but that I used to use before we got a Laptop) has about 15 gig of music … and then there are all our CD’s that we want to burn. Hmmm … maybe we should have bought the 160 Gig Classic … but it doesn’t have all the other features – well if we decide to get a second iPod the Classic will be our second one.

So now that I’m having fun playing with my brand new iPod do you have any suggestions for me as to what accessories I might want to use with my iPod?

Oh and as for Apps … we’re totally new to Apps since we don’t have a cellphone that uses apps. What are your suggestions for Must Have Apps?

I might as well admit that the week before last we bought a Flip Camera too … so expect to see some videos soon! I’ve taken about 30 videos of my dog since we got the Flip!

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