6 Things We Learned This Week 26 of 2011 (GPS, charity, symbols, books)

Symbols

I learned from Kristin-the Goat at her post entitled POTD-Reality Check this week that there is a hurricane symbol. It is on this sign. She was very nice about letting me use this picture from her post.  Did you know that was the symbol for a hurricane?

Dogs

I found out from Jabblog's comment on our post, Thanks, Abby--Now We Are Lost, that some dogs wear a GPS, primarily hunting dogs, but she recommended one for Abby!

Lending Money

Because I was high commenter over at Red Pine Mountain in June, Mountain Woman gave me a $25 gift certificate to use at Kiva.com to loan to someone who is struggling that can't get a bank loan. I used it for Jose, a farmer in El Salvadore with a home and three children, to use for farm supplies to help him get better crops. I chose a farmer since the gift came from Mountain Woman who has a farm in Vermont. There are many categories from which to choose. Thanks, Mountain Woman, for introducing me to this site.  I am excited about this and wrote a whole post about it over at my "Always Looking Up" blog:  "Lending to the Poor and Feeling Good!"

Summer Reading

Hunger Games is on the Summer reading lists of high schools across the USA! It's a great book!

June Comments For Joni and Friends

We received 207 comments in June so will donate $104 to Joni and Friends which another donor will match! Yea! For July, we'll be donating 50 cents per comment to Heifer International. Thanks to all who take time to comment!

We Won--Congrats to Canine Lifeline

Thanks to all of you who voted and helped Canine Lifeline win the $1,000 donation from Pedigree over at www.dogtipper.com! Hurray! Woo Hoo! WOOF! WOOF!

A fragment (not necessarily something I learned this week):

Gerard got a new Bruins shirt since they won the Stanley Cup. He is so proud of it and I think it looks really great on him!


Find more Friday Fragments or link up yours at Half-Past Kissin' time.

Gerard Likes His Visa Print T-Shirt

I tried ordering a Vista Print t-shirt for the first time for Gerard with a picture of Abby on it. You need to have a good resolution picture for it to turn out well. My new digital camera has 8.1 mega pixels and the photos I uploaded taken with that camera said it was good. The ones I tried using that were taken with my first digital camera that was 6 mega pixels I think weren't guaranteed to produce a good quality picture on the shirt.

There were lots of design choices from which to choose but Gerard likes his new shirt that says "I [heart-"love"] Abby. I used a picture of her that was a close-up of just her face that I thought captured her eyes and sweetness well. I would have liked to have used one that had her tongue hanging out making her look like she is smiling, but unfortunately, all those like that were taken by my other camera. She is not a very good model yet so I just went with this one. Abby was honored that he wore this shirt instead of one of his football shirts--he really likes it!

On Labor Day, they had a 50% off special so I ordered two shirts for me--one with Spunky Doodle on it and the other with Manny. Both these cost about $20 which included shipping. Not bad at all for custom shirts, right?