MaggieMoose: Sisterhood Of The Global Kind

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

Marcel Proust

  Maggie was snoozing when I told her the news that we've received another blogging award. She opened her eyes a little bit as I shared how our friend Pepper's Paws honored us with the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award. Thank you so much Pepper! Holy Mackerel! We've received two awards in one week. WOOF WOOF Maggie replied as she scurried to go find her tiara. She's feeling very royal with two awards in a week. Maggie likes this award because she's a big fan of flowers which are so nicely displayed around the traveling pants. 

Of course, there are rules for this award like answering questions and passing the sisterhood baton to others. (The rules are posted below.) Maggie, in her delirious condition will answer these Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award questions.

1. Do you have Facebook or Twitter?

Omigosh, a big fat YES! WOOF WOOF, do dogs bark? 

Our Facebook page is MaggieMooseTracks. Would you please LIKE (click button) us at? http://www.facebook.com/pages/MaggieMooseTracks/152531348200369?ref=hl 

Or our friends can friend us at Mari Maggie Moosetracks found at http://www.facebook.com/marimaggie.moosetracks We have lots of cool stuff here too!

Then again, a girl's gotta TWEET! Shout out to our Twitter pals! Our Twitter handle is @maggiemoosetrks and we can be found at https://twitter.com/.

2. Your favorite pattern?

This is an easy question. The pattern on my PINK TOWEL! This is where I fall asleep next to my mum while she watches the tele, reads a book or we cuddle before the real NIGHT NIGHT when I go in my crate.

3. Do you prefer getting or giving presents?

Oh, I love getting presents! I'm obsessed with toys, but I share my toys, especially my tennis balls! I give presents too!

4. Your favorite number?

The number 2. It's always better with two! WOOF WOOF

5. Your favorite day of the week?

I'm a simple girl. Everyday is my favorite day of the week!

6. Your favorite flower?

I love all flowers. It's the girly in me, but any flower that has a pink hue tickles me PINK! 

7. What is your passion?

My passion besides twigs & tennis balls is LOVE LOVE LOVE!

8. What is your favorite color?

I'm so glad this question came up about my favorite color, because in case no one knows-it's PINK!

9. Your favorite animal?

My turtles. My two birds are cute, but my turtles are pawsome! They can do a turtle pyramid! How cool is that? 

10. Your favorite non-alcoholic drinks?

H2O baby! Gulp! Gulp! 

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Maggie and I are very grateful to all of our world wide friends we have through our MaggieMooseTracks blog. We feel fortunate that like a garden of flowers our friendships have blossomed and will continue to blossom as our souls connect with each new bloom of happiness. We thank you. Maggie wants to give a royal bow of gratitude to our global gals & pals. WOOF WOOF

DRUM ROLL......

We pass the baton on. 

List 10 bloggers.....

Animal Couriers

Cindy Knoke

Baxter Biscuits

The Barkshire Post

Gnawing The Bone

oneanna65

flutterby rainbow

writetowag

ellisnelson

The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap

Here are the rules for the award:

1. Provide a link and thank the blogger who nominated you for this award.

2. Answer 10 questions.

3. Nominate 10-12 blogs that you find a joy to read.

4. Provide links to these nominated blogs and kindly let the recipients know they have been nominated. I should add is you email the link you should also tell the recipients what the link is about as not to have it deleted.

5. Include the award logo within your blog post.

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The end

MaggieMoose: Bullet Train Choo Choo

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

Rabindranath Tagore

  Maggie and I were watching the first night of the Westminister Kennel Club dog show on television. We were really into it. The Toy breeds were on. Although Maggie's a Sporting dog, we have fond memories of our beloved 3 lb. Annie (Yorkshire Terrier) and our Scotty (Maltese). Our attention was glued to the tube. We got a text from Maggie's human sib Julie stating that she was on the bullet train. Great, no wait at the train station, a quick in and out. We should've known when we got the next text "one stop away" that it was too good to be true. We were at the train station in a bullet minute. The bullet train's minutes seemed like hours as we waited. Maggie kept looking out our Subbie car window. Patiently she waited as she scanned every human that walked by. Where was her human? After all, she had a Twitter pawty chat (#WKCdogs) going on back at home. And Maggie wanted to see JULIE!

Wouldn't cha know, the bullet was late for the train station! Me thinks bullet train means fast, minimal stops.... It looked like once again the old train pick up meant we needed to bring a Kindle to read the night away while we hurried and waited. Instead we broke out in song "She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain When She Comes.... Choo Choo!" Singing entertained us for awhile. Finally the 2nd trained stopped in front of us. We were hopeful. The train left again. Oh no, false alarm... then SURPRISE-there's JULIE! WOOF WOOF! Our life of what seemed like imposed servitude melted into joy. A very good feeling indeed seeing Julie's smile while Maggie wiggled her bum back and forth. All worth it! CHOO CHOO

MaggieMoose Attends The Pawty

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun."

Charles R. Swindoll

  Today Maggie is recharging her batteries the best way she knows how-upside down. Maggie's calendar has been full. It's the day after her birthday celebration, a couple days after her SF 49ers football team won their play off game (Super Bowl 2013 here we come), and a few days after Maggie attended her first ever blog pawty on Twitter. The social media darling of the pet world Blog Paws hosted this fabulous pawty. At first there was a little awkwardness. Who were these cats and dogs? Maggie warmed right up when she saw the bulldog celebrity Tillman (skating dog). WOOF! WOOF! Then she recognized another pet friend from her Twitter world. It was RumpyDog! He was serving up drinks & appetizers in his role as one of the Barktenders. Might Maggie like a Wigglebutt Whiskey with a side of ham? Maggie passed on the drink, but definitely took the ham offer. YUM. Catnip concoctions were served up for the kitty kats hanging out. Another drink that was popular was the Cocker Rocker. Baconbeer, tuna cheezecake and waggie drinks populated the blog pawty. Tillman talked about Season 2 of his Who Let The Dogs Out? It starts on Feb 1st on the Hallmark channel. Maggie met many new friends too numerous to mention them all. Names like CarmaPoodle, Cokie the Cat, Fidose of Reality, or Life with Beagle had Maggie's head buzzing. The most important part of the whole blog pawty was the mission to raise money for pets in need. Maggie thanks the Blog Pawty Team for a great pawty. New friends, quizzes for prizes and pawards just added to the merriment. Maggie also learned some new words at the blog pawty. BOL means bark out loud and MOL means meow out loud. Friends make life more FUN! How about Maggie's new word she made up? FUN.

FurryFriends Understanding Needs....   

MaggieMoose Enters The Pet Blogger Challenge

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."

Helen Keller

  Late yesterday Maggie and I came across the Third Annual Pet Blogger Challenge. The due date mentioned was Jan. 10th. We were too late for that date since Maggie was out on a twig exploration. We read the fine print of this pet challenge and realized we still had time to enter. The format for the Pet Blogger Challenge is a question and answer one. As we understand it, the goal is for other bloggers and readers to get to know what your blog is about. I discussed it with Maggie and she's game to answer the big nine questions. 

MaggieMooseTracks is #99 on the BLOG ROLL that follows this posting. Here we go:

1. When did you begin your blog? 

On February 7, 2012, we began our MaggieMooseTracks Wordpress blog. It's almost a year ago. This date was a good friend's mom's birthday. We thought it was a fortuitous date. We were right. WOOF WOOF

2. What was your original purpose for starting a blog?

Maggie and I are all about living life with moose size pawsabilities. Anyone check her paws? We wanted to share our pawsability living with one moose size pawsability thought at a time. It's all about sharing pawsitive news and eliminating the negative, just like the old song Accentuate The Positive.... and latching onto the affirmative-don't mess with Mr. InBetween. Spread some MaggieMoose JOY! 

3. Is your current purpose the same? If so, how do you feel you’ve met your goals? 

The purpose of MaggieMooseTracks remains the same of spreading joy with moose size pawsabilities-life without limits. On January 1, 2013, the tally of worldwide countries reached one pawsability thought at a time was 78 countries on 6 continents! We are thrilled! A big WOOF WOOF from Maggie. Our goals are almost met for our initial start of having a global presence. There is still room for growth. We would like Antarctica to become our Followers & Likers in order to complete our global outreach of 7 continents. Of course, we want to continue to spread the MaggieMoose joy to many more countries. Our MaggieMooseTracks link is FREE, pass it on.

One moment of paws. 

Maggie & I want to thank our many fellow bloggers and friends who made this all pawsable for us. All of our blogger awards or accolades are so appreciated. If we can bring one big MaggieMoose smile or two to another soul, our hearts sing with joy. We are humbled. We are grateful. Thank you all.

4. How often do you post?

Maggie thinks this is a good question. We use to post 7 days a week, excluding personal vacation time. Maggie wanted us to cut back to a Monday through Friday schedule. Recently, I obliged Maggie in order for us to share off camera personal time together. While on vacation we might tweet or give a shout out on our MaggieMooseTracks Twitter account, our Mari Maggie MooseTracks Facebook friend account (it's Public), or on our MaggieMooseTracks Facebook page.

5. Do you blog on a schedule or as the spirit moves you? If you publish on a schedule, why? How strict are you about your publishing deadlines? What do you do for inspiration when it feels like you’ve covered every topic? If you don’t publish on a schedule, why? How do you think your decision affects your audience? How do you know when a topic is “post-worthy?”

Whoa, rapid fire questions.... Our loose format is to blog Monday through Friday, because our followers want to know the latest zany antics of MaggieMoose and her friends. Our inspiration comes from "waking up" or our "out & about" adventuring. Maggie supplies me with plenty of material. Ask her friends. MaggieMooseTracks is never dull. Hopefully, after one reads our blog they leave with a smile or two....and tell their friends.

6. How much time do you spend writing your blog per week? How much time visiting other blogs? Share your tips for staying on top of it all.

Maggie and I spend the amount of time needed to write our moose size pawsabilities one moose size thought at a time. We don't watch the clock. We wake up with the roosters and just write. Or we might write the night before posting. We just follow our bliss and get lost in the process.... For us, the best part of our blog is we aren't claiming to be experts on anything, including ourselves. Since we come from this stance, it frees up our creativity and flow. Blogging without limits or maybe even without correct grammar! 

7. How do you measure the success of a post and of your blog in general (comments, shares, traffic)? Do you look strictly at the numbers, or do you have a way of assessing the quality of those interactions?

We measure the success of our blog postings by first, how we feel about what we've written and then second, by the comments received from our wonderful Followers or folks who give us plenty of Likes. It gets us excited realizing that our MaggieMooseTracks blog has been read in 78 countries and is growing daily. In that aspect, numbers are great, but we aren't ruled by them! We are ruled by our hearts. 

8. If you could ask the pet blogging community for help with one issue you’re having with your blog, what would it be?

We would ask the pet blogging community to come visit us at MaggieMooseTracks. We would like more Followers & Likes. WOOF WOOF

P.S. We don't know all the techy blog questions or answers of blogging technology so, hopefully we can pull this pet challenge off! Please forgive us if our paws get in the way.

9. What goals do you have for your blog in 2013?

Our goals for MaggieMooseTracks in 2013, are a continuing worldwide presence. Love, caring, and sharing are universal concepts. Maggie and I believe the world likes living life with moose size pawsabilities-without limits. We're here to share one moose size pawsability thought at a time. We have a target date of Feb. 2013, to shift our Wordpress blog format onto our web page at maggiemoosetracks.com. Our web page is currently being redesigned by a professional. We realized our shortcomings as web page techies so, we'll leave it to the web pros. COME SEE US! Again, thanks to all who see and believe in our pawsitive value. 

WOOF! WOOF!

We believe life is exciting. It's more exciting sharing it with others!

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