{"id":1603,"date":"2007-06-29T22:37:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T05:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2007-11-23T20:02:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T03:02:51","slug":"three-hundred-and-sixty-five-days-of-the-dog-happy-birthday-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1603\/three-hundred-and-sixty-five-days-of-the-dog-happy-birthday-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-Hundred-and-Sixty-Five Days of the Dog: Happy birthday, Baby…"},"content":{"rendered":"

During all my running around today, I had meant to buy a silly little party hat for Odysseus to wear to celebrate BloodhoundBlog’s first birthday… but I never got around to it. And by the time I had picked up Ophelia<\/a> from doggy-day-care, I’d missed my opportunity… can’t leave a dog in a 110&176; car. So on the way home I thought of the balloons Kris and Steve<\/a> had sent us to commemorate the occasion (and show off their slick marketing swag… oops shouldn’t have said “show off”… didn’t I read that showing off is bad?). Anyway, when I got home, Greg voiced what I was already thinking, but he in a much more practical way, “Don’t be silly! Don’t go out any more tonight! Use Kris’ balloons, take your picture, write your post, then let’s raise a couple of glasses of Bushmills!” You see, I needed some sort of prop to take a photo of Odysseus because I love photos of my pets, and didn’t I read somewhere that you should always use photos on your blog posts? ‘Course neither hat nor balloon could guarantee a good picture, not when we’re talking about getting one dog to look into the camera long enough without other dogs and cats breaking his concentration or outright getting in the way. Anyway, here’s the best we could get:<\/p>\n

(Sorry Kris and Steve, we couldn’t get one that shows your phone number, but you can<\/i> see “erg” and the castle.)<\/p>\n

All this just to illustrate (poorly I fear) my pure joy with being a part of this wonderful site and fabulous group, as we enter Year Two. If you’ve put up with me this far, I ask you to stay awhile longer as I share my favorite moments during the pup’s first year.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Greg wrote about our humble beginnings<\/a>, so I’ll fast forward from there to my first honor here… being featured in Zillow’s inaugural<\/i> edition of the Carnival of Real Estate<\/a>. During the next few months Greg wrote a lot, I wrote a little, and Greg incorporated posts from an earlier failed blog by attributing them <\/a>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During all my running around today, I had meant to buy a silly little party hat for Odysseus to wear to celebrate BloodhoundBlog’s first birthday… but I never got around to it. And by the time I had picked up Ophelia from doggy-day-care, I’d missed my opportunity… can’t leave a dog in a 110&176; car. 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