Sammy Pictures

Sunday Sam

January 27, 2013 by Darlene

Happy Sunday everyone! I think that will be the new title to my Sunday posts. I may have to tie Sam down to get pictures but I’ll give it my best shot. Things have been quiet over the last few weeks because I’ve been sick. I haven’t been able to shake this awful flu bug that’s gripping our city. I think a lot has to do with the horrible winter we’re having weather wise. It just keeps snowing and snowing and it’s pretty cold out most days. It’s getting a little depressing already with all the snow and we have a few more months to go yet.

On the reading front I haven’t been doing a lot. Things will pick up this week with a few reviews. I have The Forgotten Queen by D.L. Bogdan up for review tomorrow and later in the week I have The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society up for review. There will be a few giveaways too so be sure to stop by and check them out. Starting in February things will be picking up a bit more. I’ll see if I can manage to get some of my blogging mojo back or not.

In the meantime Sam will keep me happy and hopefully you guys too with a few pictures.

Ok Mommy. Enough is enough. I want to play! NOW!

Mommy, what the badoodles is this??? Why is it singing to me? Mommy, I’m really not at all sure I like this. (Mommy bought Sammy a Christmas card that sang. He growled at it. LOL)

Did you know if I pose really pretty and stay when she says stay that she gives me a treat! Yes, a treat! Who knew. I think I may have to try and milk that a bit more – I do love my treats!

I love all these blankies mommy has on the bed for me. I especially like to crawl under the ivory one and then stick my little nose out. Mommy laughs and laughs and I do like to hear her laugh. Can you even find me in there? I try really hard to be invisible.

Hope you all enjoyed Sammy this week. He is a sweetheart! Have a good week everyone – if you stop in today let me know what you’ve been up to and what you’re reading. I always love to hear what everyone else is reading.

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Merry Christmas from Sammy and Me!

December 24, 2012 by Darlene

Merry Christmas everyone! I just wanted to take a moment to thank each and every one of you who takes the time to stop by my blog and visit me. I’ve gotten to know many of you on a personal level and am grateful everyday for your friendship. My hope for all of you is that you have a wonderful day with family and friends and that the New Year brings all the best to you! Love you all!

Sammy wants to wish you all a Merry Christmas too as he trudges through our newest snowfall…

Merry Christmas! I just love all this snow (even if mommy doesn’t)!

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Historical Blog Hop Winners/Other winners & a few pics of Sammy…

December 17, 2012 by Darlene

Good day everyone. I hope you’re all enjoying your week so far and had a good weekend. Is everybody ready for Christmas yet? I’ve got all my shopping done thankfully and now comes the wrapping and the tree isn’t done yet either. We are very late with that this year! Anyhow first I’ll share with you the pictures of Sam in the snow. He just loves playing in it! Sorry they’re dark but our backyard doesn’t get the sun much in the winter months and if I try to lighten them they don’t look good at all.

I do love a good snowbank to dig into!

Hmmmm, I think I’ll try and climb my way up this good looking snowbank!

Ok, here I go…

I guess maybe this snowbank was a bit bigger than I thought Mommy!

Now for some winners of my regular giveaways:

The Raven’s Heart goes to Mystica

I Am Lucky Bird goes to Margie

The Emperor’s Conspiracy goes to Patricia

Now for the Historical Blog Hop Winners:

Temple of a Thousand Faces goes to Julianne D

Second Empress goes to Carl

The Sister Queens goes to Suko

Illuminations goes to Denise K

Congrats to you all! I hope you’ll enjoy your books and thanks to all who entered for the Historical Blog Hop. It was quite the success!

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Sunday Ramblings and Lots of Pictures!

November 25, 2012 by Darlene

This is how I intend to spend my day today. How about everyone else?

Happy Sunday everyone! Can you believe it’s almost December already – I can’t! Has anyone started decorating for Christmas yet? I hope to start today with a bit of house decorating and hopefully by the weekend the tree can go up. One good thing is that I am almost done my Christmas shopping. Yaaaaaaaaaaay! I did take advantage of Black Friday deals online and got a lot done then. Were any of you brave enough to actually venture out to the stores?

Well winter has most definitely arrived here in Canada and especially Alberta. We got hit with a huge dump of snow not even a few weeks ago and it was a mess here as it had been really wet snow underneath which froze. Our roads were horrible and truthfully I’m not sure they’re much better now. To top it off it’s been pretty cold although it’s mostly the wind that’s been getting us. I bundle up so much to take Sam for a walk that I’m surprised I can move at all. LOL. I took a whole bunch of pictures of the snow that day and then of Sam having a jolly good time in it. He loves the winter and the snow!

Here is a picture of a tree in my backyard that we chopped down this year. I had hoped to decorate it with garlands before it snowed but I wasn’t fast enough. I may still try though!

You can see all the snow piled on it and it was still falling as you see in the picture.

Here are a few more out in the front yard where you can really see the amount of snow that fell…

I took this close up of the apple tree because I liked how it looked with all the snow stuck to it.

And then we’ve got Sam in the snow. The pictures are dark because I had to wait until it stopped snowing to take my camera outside so they were later in the afternoon already when it was starting to get dark.

Yup, I’ve got a mug full of snow and I’ve been running around and jumping in snow banks so I really need a good stretch now.

Awwwww Mom, I don’t want to go in yet. My face isn’t quite frozen enough yet. Can’t I go in a few more snow banks? Pleeeeeeeeeease!

As for the blog – yes it’s been a bit quiet lately. After Dad’s surgery and all I just seemed to have lost my blogging mojo and it deosn’t seem to want to come back yet. Dad is doing well but we’ll know more after his appointment in December as to what they may be doing with him next. I’m hoping nothing too scary. Anyhow I think with the stress and all I maybe needed a bit of a break. Hopefully within the next few weeks I start to feel more like blogging again.

I also wanted to tell you about a blog hop I’ll be participating in come December. It’s the 1st Annual Historical Holiday Blog Hop and it’ll be running from December 10-17 and it’s being hosted by one of my favorite bloggers and that’s Amy from Passages to the Past. There will be lots of giveaways from bloggers and authors so be sure to pop by not only my blog, but also over to Passages to the Past to visit all the great blogs that will be participating. If you’re interested in participating head over and check out the post on Amy’s blog.

Well that’s it for today. I’m going to spend the day much like Sammy up at the top of the post except I’ll be reading and finishing up The Emperor’s Conspiracy by Michelle Diener. I have a review up tomorrow and let’s just say I’m really enjoying it! What are you all spending your day doing?

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Happy Thanksgiving to all our US Friends!

November 22, 2012 by Darlene

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Sammy and I just wanted to take a moment and wish all of our US friends a Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all have a wonderful time with family or friends and enjoy all that yummy food I’m sure you’ll all have. Here in Canada our Thanksgiving was in October so no yummies for us. LOL. Have a great day everyone!

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Sunday Ramblings with Sammy, of course!

September 30, 2012 by Darlene

Happy Sunday everyone! Did you all have a good weekend? We’ve been having some really nice Autumn weather and I’ve been enjoying it. The coolness in the air seems to be getting sharper each day and our weather forecast is now heading downhill. lol. Sammy is taking advantage of the cooler days by doing this…

Awwwwwww mommy, now everyone is going to be teasing me about my chubby little belly…

He looks like quite the chubbums in this picture. lol. I had him at the vet and surprisingly he hasn’t gained any weight since he was there in the beginning of the year so lucky for him the word ‘diet’ wasn’t mentioned. Everyone was laughing at him at the vet and couldn’t believe how nicely he was sitting. He sits on my lap just like a young child would and he just looks around. It’s adorable and I wish I had a picture. I’ll try taking one with my phone next time. I’ve been practicing some of Cesar Milan’s training techniques on Sam and I’m happy to report that they are actually working for me. He is becoming much better behaved on his walks although we still have work to do on the barking at the front door. I had thought I was taking a video for you all of him barking at a dog going by but no, being the bonehead I can be, I forgot to turn on the button for the video. Other than that Sam spends his days playing as you can see… you can also see that he owns a good chunk of the living room…

Mommy, you caught me trying to bury a sock. Could you please mind your own business while I proceed to make sure you never find this sockie again.

In other news my Dad’s surgery for the pacemaker has been booked for October 12 so keep up those prayers please. These next few weeks will be stressful waiting for the day to arrive as I already feel sick over it but I pray that after the surgery he will be on the road to being the man he used to be and therefore much happier – for all of us. I really don’t have a lot booked for after next week on the blog so October will likely be a slow month as I have been kind of staying away from requests in case he was called in.

On another note has anyone else noticed that Network Blogs has gone crazy since they changed it on Facebook. I’m not sure what’s up with it but my followers seem to be disappearing by the minute and it wasn’t until they changed it that it started happening. I’m thinking of pulling it off the blog if it isn’t going to be working properly. I’m also hearing rumors about Feedburner not being around anymore. Can anyone enlighten me on that too? What else can you use for people to subscribe to your blog – are there any other good places out there?

Well that’s all I have for you today. I’m going to settle in and finish up my book, Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow by Juliet Grey. This is the second in a trilogy of her novels on Marie Antoinette and this one is fantastic as well. Look for my review on Tuesday. As for this week I hope to get some pictures of the leaves turning as I expect this week they will start changing color and I’ll post them for you next week. Maybe some good ones of Sam too I hope providing he lets me. He has even wizened up to the iPad and knows it takes pictures of him. lol.

I hope you all have a great week and again, thank you for the prayers and good thoughts for my dad! Love ya all!

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