A Birthday, Sets of Four and Sisterhood! *edited to include food drive*

This is a very busy post, there is lots happening today!

First of all....it is Mason Dixie's birthday today, she is five! Happy Birthday Girlfren (with extra smoochy kisses from Alfie...mwah!) If you haven't already been to Mason's bloggie to wish her Happy Birthday.....what are you waitin for??!

We recently entered Mason's contest to design a blog award. Voting closed today and we are delighted that we won!! Thanks for your votes, folks! The paw featured in the High Five Club award is none other than Snoop's front paw....left I think!

And speaking of awards, we received this lovely Sisterhood Award from our friend Sue and her Portuguese Water Dogs....thanks Sue....your visits and kind comments are always appreciated....as is your shared love of Snooter-Cam!

We are awful at choosing people to pass these things onto so we want ALL our Blog-Sisters to have it, if you are in our sidebar it means we love reading your blog....so help yourself!

BUT....the one person I want to dedicate this to is Bogart's Mum, Lulu. Over the last few awful weeks she has shown such dignity and still managed to make us all smile in her darkest times (and cry- ALOT!) and realise what a wonderful online family we belong to. Most of us have never met each other but just reading all the comments that Lulu, Bogie and Klaus have had and seeing the love and concern that everyone sent them really sums up what this blogging lark means to us....without being cheesy, friendship and sisterhood...through the sadness but also the smiles we bring each other.

Which brings us nicely to our next item....this story is incredible....you just couldn't make it up and it has led to the beginning of a lovely -and hopefully long- friendship :o)

It involves this little house....

....this lovely lady who lives in South Carolina....Petey and his Mom, who live in New York....and us! Check out Petey's blog for the full story!

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I saw this on Addie & Lucie's blog and then I went to Dina's and saw that she had posted about it, so decided to copy, thanks for the idea Dina!

Addie and Lucie have reached their 200th post and to celebrate this momentous occasion, Mom Staci has pledged to donate 1 lb of dog food or treats to their local dog food bank per unique comment on that post, up to 200 lbs.

This very kind gesture will help families who are struggling to feed their pets in the current financial crisis...and all it takes is one comment from YOU! Click on the image above to go and leave a comment, let's help them reach their goal!

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These were all taken yesterday at Roseisle. I have this four frame burst tool on my camera which I use ALL THE TIME! I usually only use maybe one or two out of the four and ditch the rest but today I thought i'd try something new....enjoy these sets of four, the last is my favourite....toffee-nosed cow!

Above is the only set that has been doctored....just to try and take some of the glare off Snoop's white bits!

If the wind hadn't been flapping Gabbi's ears around I think the top left shot here would be picture-perfect!