Snap Thursday - Rufus Dufus

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I’m totally high jacking this idea. 

My main chica, Jenn over at Knitty Baker is celebrating her new camera and got the bright idea of designating Thursdays as the day of documenting via photos what she find interesting, and amusing and all with a click of her camera.

Insert thought here :::GREAT IDEA, I should have thought of that!:::

But, I did not, so I asked her if I could totally join her and she totally agreed… so here is my first snap Thursday.

I give you our 190-pound baby of the house – Rufus.

Yes, ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY POUNDS - he weights 30 pounds more than me!  He is basically a walking human with fur and four legs.

We adore him.  Because, he scares people away, but he has the biggest baby heart you can ever imagine.  In his mind he is still a puppy and acts like one.

In this picture he is patrolling our front porch, while I was yelling for him to “stay in place!” - Fun times!

Hello Cheeky!

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A couple of weeks ago, I crumbled and gave myself a present and bought a new camera.  It’s been months of a lot of reading, researching, getting feedback from everyone that had a camera and it came down to either the Nikon D7000 or the Sony a55.

Both excellent cameras, both had the goods to give me results that will wow the crowds, both held high reputations in the industry (even thought Sony is pretty new in the DSLR market) but when everything was said and done It came down to this:

Price.

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Photography Workshop and oh, yeah The Food Blog Forum Conference in Orlando

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Last weekend I did not see the inside of my kitchen.  Instead, I was in sunny Orlando, eating huge amounts of food provided by great sponsors like Whole Foods Markets and McCormick & Schmick’s, learning a tons of things from industry recognized stars and meeting the most welcoming group of people I have ever meet.

If you were not following my tweets throughout the weekend, then you would not have known that I was attending the third Food Blog Forum Conference which took place in my home state.

WE HAD A BLAST!

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