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Puppies & Rainy Days

I suppose Hendrix is still a puppy at almost 17 months. Since she’s small breed, she seems pretty mature already. Cooper is at 18 weeks now. Honestly, he’s clearly very much puppy- but he’s no wild child. It seems the hormones are just kicking in for adolescence – so we’ll see if he gets a little more riled up or not…

This past weekend presented some special challenges! It rained most of the weekend, and that provided for some pretty stir crazy puppies. Hendrix generally is pretty energetic, and has several opportunities to train agility during the week.  So, she can get amped up or settle down pretty quickly.  On her own, I think it would take weeks of rain to really get her bored.  However, Cooper is very young and that means he can easily get bored being cooped up all day.  His first line of entertainment is to mess with Hendrix…and then the crazy running in the house games are off! By Sunday afternoon, our dynamic duo was about to make us crazy.  Thankfully, both my pups like to play free shaping games with the clicker.  I love that the mental challenge seems to wear Cooper out as much as a walk.  Hendrix just loves clicks & treats period.

So, here’s a little video we made featuring Cooper learning the “speak” command.  Training for puppies and playing with iPhones for Ronald & I = everyone is less bored!  (I love the iMovie app for iPhone…they have some fun trailer templates that you can just fill in or customize.)

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Collage Apps

I don’t know if it’s ever even occurred to me before, but this weekend I discovered two kind of fun Apps.  I’ve always been known for constantly taking pictures with my iPhone.  Now, that I’ve been walking around with the newly acquired Canon EOS Rebel T3i like a new appendage- it seems “Taking A Photo” could be my new middle name.  I’m blogging, tweeting, e-mailing, and updating Facebook with my newest capture at every turn.  It some how led me to wanting to be able to group several pictures together, and share them all as one image…you know…wait for it…like a COLLAGE!

So the first App is for the iPhone and it’s called Pic Collage.  It makes it easy to create pretty simple collages (right on your iPhone) and share them (right from your iPhone).  Here’s an example of a collage I made in a matter of minutes…and then I’m able to either save it to my camera roll or send it via email, text/iMessage, twitter, Facebook, etc., etc.  I know…the world is a better place now…isn’t it?!  Oh wait…get’s better – it’s FREE.

Ok, the second App is for Mac and it’s called CollageIt Free (yup…as in you can get it for FREE).  This one lets you make collages on your Mac computer.  I found it super easy to use, and when you’re done you can export your collage in several different formats like PDF or a JPG.  In a blog I was prepping about dinner at Patina Green I used a collage – instead of trying to jam every single picture I liked into the post.

So, in the even you found yourself in need of making a collage- I thought I’d share.

As a technology related side note- I’ve also started playing with Photoshop.  I’m sure there’s a way to make a collage there…but I’m sure it’s not this easy…nor cheap.