Rushing things

Now as much as I want summer to get here, I think Wade has me beat. He's a total sun worshiper. Come summer time, give him sunshine and water and he's one happy camper. When I say water, I'm not talking about a glass of it. He loves the pool. He'll go out on the raft and fall asleep for hours if you let him. Although, since Duke shares his love of the pool, it's hard for him to get in there without being disturbed.
With all that being said, I really do think that he should at least wait until the snow melts.

 

This is Duke and Wade walking on top of the pool. He had just finished shoveling off the deck and decided to test the water, uh I mean ice. Duke doesn't pass up an opportunity to go in the pool so he followed. This summer I'll have to work on doing a video of Duke swimming and on his raft. (he has his own) He's hysterical.

On another note. A comment was left on my last post from Sandy questioning the use of Google reader. She mentioned that it defeated the purpose of "visiting" a blog. Well, maybe it does if that's the way you are using it. If you have a new post up, it will appear in my reader. I then click on the link to go to the blog itself. From there I read the post, leave my comment if I have one (which most of the time I do), do the drop if I remember and then return to reader and start over with the next blog. I don't see how that could possibly kill blogging or even mess with page rank. I'm still going to the blog. Nothing comes to my email box for reader either.  Not only do I visit but I leave a comment so they know I was there and read their post. If I didn't visit other  blogs, why would anyone want to visit mine? I would think that the people who are doing all of their reading directly from Google reader are more than likely people who aren't bloggers themselves. If you are a blogger then you already know that the only way to "Get known, is to Be known".  In other words you have to put yourself out there if you want people to know you are there to visit.

I tried to just use my blogger dashboard but that doesn't allow me to add blogs that aren't on blogspot. Using the reader is the easiest way I have found so far to keep track of my favorites.