Strawberries

My latest hobby has been indoor gardening. I have always said that my thumb is pretty brown, but this season it seems to be going better. One of my plants is a strawberry plant. I planted the seeds the first week in February, and finally last week they started to come up through the soil. As you can see, it is a tiny pot, and the green sprouts are even smaller. Maybe this year I will have strawberries. ha ha.

The second picture is what those strawberry plants will spend their lives trying to become! What a delicious destiny for the strawberries!! Yummy!!

Koda, the mole, and the new trick

Of course I have to write about one of the dogs, as usual. In the first picture you will see Dustin and Koda working on their newest trick..... getting Koda to catch a frisbee or ball while jumping over Dustin's knee. Dustin is trying to train him for an obstacle course that they are putting in a park here in Lewisburg.

The second picture is the damage that Koda did after digging our yard up while searching for a mole. He was successful in his adventure, because he did catch the mole. We thought we would just show picture of the holes, not the mole in Koda's mouth! YIKES!!

Back from Atlanta

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter and that your weather was better than ours. We had snow forcasted. The snow did not fall, but it sure was cold enough to!! It was a nice Easter though. We traveled back home from Atlanta Saturday evening so we would have Sunday to unpack. The drive was long, but safe!!

We stayed busy in Atlanta with the Aquarium, museum, planting a garden, shopping, and many more activities. Here are some pictures from the Aquarium, which was very interesting. They had whale sharks, which Dustin was excited about, and many other varieties of fish. Check out the pictures.

Sorry, Koda...heading to Atlanta

Well, we checked this morning and Koda was not the Bissell winner or an honorable mention. We calculated and we think we had about 500-600 people vote for Koda. There must have been tens of thousands of votes cast for the contest. Thanks again for voting. A very pretty Golden Retriever won.

Dustin and I are heading to Atlanta for spring break. We will be back soon. I will blog while we are down there or when we get back. We are going to the aquarium, a museum, riding horses, and resting. I'm sure there will be many pictures to share when we return. Talk to you then.

Thanks again for voting for Koda!

FINAL DAY TO VOTE FOR KODA

This is a friendly reminder:

Today is the LAST DAY to vote for KODA!!! Below is the direct link. It will pull up Koda's picture. All you have to do is fill in your name and information and click submit!! Thank you if you have already voted. I have gotten several emails letting me know that you have voted. It is going to take SO MANY votes, but we have in some way contacted about 600-800 people to vote. Many of them have! We are hoping we have a shot!!

Thanks again for taking a few seconds to do this! You are the greatest!! I will be making the rounds to clean houses if we win. Many people have said they have voted, and we have to come clean their house with the new vaccuum if we win. ha ha.

Anyone can vote, but only once!! Thanks again. We are trying to get as many people as possible, so anyone is welcome to vote.

Copy and paste this into the web address box:

http://www.bissell.com/Page_id/47116/Place_Your_Vote.aspx?ImageUrl=http%3a%2f%2fimages.bissell.com%2fimages%2fIncludeContent%2fMVP%2fPeriod9%2f5420.jpg

Crossing our fingers,

Dustin, Gina, Belle, and Koda Tompkins

A shorter short cut

Here is the direct link to vote for Koda. You just enter your name and click submit. Sorry I didn't do this first, it is MUCH easier!! Thanks again for your votes!

http://www.bissell.com/Page_id/47116/Place_Your_Vote.aspx?ImageUrl=http%3a%2f%2fimages.bissell.com%2fimages%2fIncludeContent%2fMVP%2fPeriod9%2f5420.jpg

VOTE FOR KODA

You may have already received an email from me or Dustin, but in case you haven't here's the scoop....

We have entered Koda into a the Bissell contest. Each voting period has one winner with the most votes. Those winners each receive the Bissell Pet Eraser Vaccuum. The winner of each voting period also goes to the finals for a chance to win $10,000 for their favorite animal charity, a pet professional photo shoot, and to be the new pet model for Bissell.

Here is how you can help... go to Bissell and follow the prompts for Voting period 9 and vote for our Koda. Here is the detailed description of how to do that.

Go to http://www.bissell.com/Voting_Period_9.aspx

click on: "Locating a specific pet", then click on "k", then click "kob-kon", then click on our Koda. Fill out your name and then click submit. (There are several Kodas, so make sure you get ours.) The voting begins today, March 4, and is over March 11, so vote as soon as you can. ONLY VOTE ONCE!! Your vote will be disqualified if you vote more than once.

Thank you so much for your help! Tell anyone and everyone to vote for our Koda if they get a free minute. Thanks so much. I will let you know how it turns out!! Thanks again!

I'm just hoping for the new vaccuum, Dustin is hoping for the grand prize. We will see.

Dustin and Gina