So I'm starting a new feature here, a monthly PetPourri.
You know, I was just looking through the folder on my desk top of all the great photos you folks sent in. They are absolutely wonderful. I'm also gratified at the positive response to the top banner "montage" I created.
I'd love for visitors to keep sending in their pet pics. I was thinking of doing a "pet of the week" but than realized that would be unfair to all the other wonderful pets that weren't selected. And frankly, how could I possibly choose from so many happy animal "mugs."
Well, what if I did a pet pic every day? But 65% of the country (including myself) is still on slow-modem dial-up. Nobody wants to wait two minutes for a page to load.
But I want you and your best friends to achieve "immortality" in the archives of Google. So why don't I just do a BIG montage of pet pics sent to me every month in a special post. I'll have a thumbnail pic in the post that will open a large page of all those smiling muzzles. All of you are encouraged to send pictures even if you've (they've) already been included here in the past. The one thing I would ask is that you limit it to ONE picture for each montage -- i.e. one photo every month.
A full page montage will allow larger snaps of each of your pet friends to be included. Just send them to my email address listed somewhere on the sidebar... Oh heck, here it is again:
Let's set the date for the first PetPourri for May 1st. Please try to send your pictures to me a few days before that so I have time to "assemble" the photo. My goal is to make Tarazet (for your pet) as interactive as possible. This should be a nice place to hang-out. Anyway, you have several weeks so don't rush a photo to me, take some new ones on a nice day in the coming weeks and then pick one and email it off to me. Put something in the subject line like "for the PetPourri" so it catches my attention.
Thanks! Really! Tarazet is only two weeks old as a blog and already I average over a hundred visitors a day. That's you! Thanks for stopping by!
Posted by Jeff Soyer at April 13, 2004 04:44 PMAre snakes included in the picture invitation?
Posted by: Chad at April 13, 2004 11:21 PMA pet-of-the-day might be a bit ambitious right now. My gf and I are begging our Rat friends for pix of their rats in a box, so that we can do a monthly rat in a box picture (for our Ratablog) and it ain't easy.
Posted by: Victor at April 14, 2004 08:04 AMSnakes are welcome, anything is welcome as long as it really is your pet. Even fish and especially birds. No one has sent me any parrots or other birds yet.
Posted by: Jeff Soyer at April 14, 2004 09:50 AMlove your blog placed you on my blog roll.
How is Rainbow doing? by the way that name is a sacred on in Hawaiian and there are 21 ways to say it... My fave is Waianuenue (why a new e new e)this is the rainbow caused by water mist over a waterfall. May Rainbow's feet be so light as mist in this life and the next
Jeff, you old sweetheart! I saw Puff right up there in the center and I am in tears. (Of sentimental warmth, of course....)
Puff says thanks. His master gushes mushily.
Posted by: Eric Scheie at April 15, 2004 09:57 PM