Catchin Up . . . Again

Whew!  That MangoMinster was really something, huh?!  Very exciting stuff all around - on the front stage, behind the scenes, on the sidelines - EVERYWHERE!  We just want to congratulate all the WINNERS and PARTICIPANTS right here, right now.  We are slowly trying to get to everyone's blog to congratulate you personally, but, well, if you know us Road Dogs at all, you know we are notoriously slow in doing stuff.  But, we hope you forgive us and accept our public congrats!  And huge thanks to all the JUDGES for all your hard work and the fortitude to resist enticing "gifts."  You made us all proud!  And most especially - thanks to Mango and his Momma for putting on this colossal event for all of us to ENJOY!

We sponsored a couple of prizes and will be coordinating with Mango and the winners to get them to you BEFORE the next MangoMinster. 


Next up, we want to send out a big THANK YOU to Cyndie over at This is My Place for awarding us the Stylish Blogger Award! 

We were a little bowled over by this award since we've never really thought of ourselves as "stylish" but we sure like the way it sounds and we'll just put our own spin on "stylish."  If you haven't already, go visit This is My Place and see all the fun goings on over there with her adorable chihuahuas, Mike and Chaps, and some gorgeous birds!  Now, you know there are some duties that come with these awards ~ and you know how slack we are.  So, we'll tell you something you might not know about us and then we're gonna offer this award to all of you Stylish Bloggers ~ you know who you are!

So ~ here is something about us you might not know:

Gracie & Aspen don't always show sisterly love toward one another.  Mostly, they get along fine and can even be found giving each other kisses and laying close on occasion.  But, more than once these German girls have taken it to the streets which resulted in vet visits, antibiotics and hardware.  Here's a pic of Gracie after the latest bout between them.

Can you see that hardware?  Gracie's going punk!

But, just so we don't leave you with the wrong impression, here's a pic of them just today cozying up on their futon in the garage. 

That wasn't a very stylish confession, was it?  Well, we warned you that we'd put our spin on "stylish"!

Oh, yeah, just one last thing we wanted to mention.  This is about an issue that we seem to be having with blogger, but we just wanted to let you know.  For some reason, when we came back from our "holiday break" and visited your blogs, it appeared that we weren't following you.  You know, the section that says "Followers"?  Well, instead of showing our avatar, it showed the button that said "Follow" as if we weren't already following.  NOW, when we went to our Google Reader list of blogs we follow, you ARE listed there.  So, we don't know what's going on or if we still show up as Followers on YOUR side of the blog.  But, we just wanted everyone to know that we haven't UNFOLLOWED anyone.  Not sure what the glitch is.  We started trying to RE-FOLLOW, and that seemed to work, but then sometimes showed a duplicate follow.  Have no idea what happened or what it means. 

The Road Dogs (slacking in SC)