Have you selected your pics for the 2023 BJ Pet Calendar?
We are ready for calendar submissions!
The parts in this color below contain the information you really need to focus on for now.
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Please let us know ASAP that you plan to send photos in, and the name of each pet. Â Even without all the pictures, knowing how many entries there will be allows us to get started!
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We are using the same  system as last year.Â
Itâs a 4-step process, start to finish. (for you)
- Start the process by sending me an email message
- Use the link we supply to upload your files
- Check for your nym and names of your pets in the spreadsheet weâll post later on BJ
- Notify us if anything is incorrect
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To start the process, simply send email to watergirl. Â If you need more info about the exact email addresses, check out Contact Us in the white bar up top, for details.
Your message should include:
- your name
- your nym
- the names of all each pet that is going to be in the calendar
- if you would like a small heart with the photo of a beloved pet that you have lost
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Details and the link for uploading your files will be sent to you by email once you send the email with your name, nym, and pet names.
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With the election coming up, we want to get an early start (and early finish) because we will only get more distracted as Nov 8 approaches! Â
Calendars will be available to order by December 1.
The we-really-mean-it-last-date for submitting your pictures is Nov 1. Â For real.
Oh, and all calendar posts are Open Threads.
Steeplejack
I will have to see if I can find a suitable picture of Chip, the resident non-sighthound of Sighthound Hall.
Steeplejack
Yo, superfluous reply.
Suzanne
I am really torn about submitting any photos this year, having lost our Scout and Luna this year. Sigh.
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Email sent!
Alison Rose đđ»đ
Email sent!!
SiubhanDuinne
@Suzanne:
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WaterGirl
@Suzanne: That’s hard. Â Scout and Luna can be in the calendar, of course, if you want them there. Â I have been thinking about Tucker, myself.
Leslie
I will have to see if I have any suitable images. My smol doggos are rather excitable and wiggly despite being adults, so it is hard to get non-blurry photos of them except when they are sleeping. I probably have decent pics of all the others, including my dear departeds.
Major Major Major Major
I will be sending in pictures for THREE cats! My good friend just got two and they’re adorable and deserve it. They’ll be in well before 11/1.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Of course they deserve it!
WaterGirl
REMINDER: Â All calendar posts are Open Threads!
jeffreyw
Names and numbers sent!
jeffreyw
Perhaps I should count Random Raccoon as a pet?
And Picnicking Possum? LOL
Scuffletuffle
@jeffreyw: Upvote from me!
Scuffletuffle
Am submitting three pictures.
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: Maybe if they were cuter?
Steeplejack
Suzanne
@WaterGirl: Many hugs.
SuzieC
Can’t locate your email address.
Steeplejack
@SuzieC:
WaterGirl at balloon-juice.com
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack: hahaha
zhena gogolia
I sent my e-mail. Although for some reason my e-mail keeps sending my messages to Drafts, this one seems to have been sent.
WaterGirl
@Scuffletuffle: Great!
Have you sent your email? Â I need a name, a nym and names of each pet.
raven
@Suzanne: We lost Bohdi and Lil Bit last year and put them both, and Artie, in the calendar. It’s nice to have.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: got it, not to worry.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: Back at you.
persistentillusion
Email sent! So excited to participate.
Miss Bianca
@Steeplejack: LOL!
pat
I actually have photos of a raccoon and a possum lunching on the critter mix, in real light. Should I send them?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@pat: A friend of mine once had an old car with a loose floor covering. Her husband had their trash in the car because he was supposed to take it to the dump the next morning. In the night, several critters, including a possum, pushed up into the car, tore the trash apart, and couldn’t get out. You can’t imagine the inside of the car in the morning between trash and animal waste.
WaterGirl
@pat: Only if they are your pets. Â Or someone else’s pets, that you love. :-)
WaterGirl
@persistentillusion: Oh, yay!
FYI, I am not replying back to email messages yet. Â I will respond to a gaggle of messages at once â sharing details and the upload link â sometime tomorrow.
pat
@WaterGirl:
I’ve been outside doing some yard work and on the way back in I realized if we start with the wildlife, there’s no idea where it will end.
So: no wildlife, just another pic of Susy Q (with heart) and Pablo tasting the roses. I’ll get them on the way tomorrow, and thank you!
WaterGirl
@pat: Pablo is such a handsome boy.
geg6
I have some recents photos of Lovey and Cleo. Â Donât know why, but no very recent ones of Koda. Â So I will have to rectify that and Iâll be emailing you as soon as I get one. Â She has a chocolate brown dog bed that is almost the exact color of her coat and sheâs always in it, so itâs hard to get a good photo. Â Iâll lure her with treats and that should work.
WaterGirl
@geg6: Please send email now with the names of the pets so I can get them in the spreadsheet. Â Photos can be uploaded once you get all of them.
WaterGirl
@geg6: We must have the same chocolate brown dog bed! Â Made by the same folks as Lily’s and Steve’s round pink pet bed!
jackmac
Photos sent. Thanks to WaterGirl for doing all the heavy lifting!
WaterGirl
@jackmac: I like to get the photos through the upload link, fewer steps for me, but since you’ve already sent them I can do it the manual way.
jackmac
@WaterGirl: So sorry. I didn’t follow directions. Please send me the upload link and I’ll resend.
Wolvesvalley
I sent you the info for your spreadsheet.
Photos to come. :-)
Scuffletuffle
@WaterGirl: cats will be Toby and Mumsy, both recently passed away, and Iestyn, still very much alive.
Thanks.
Bonnie
I wish I had a kitty to take a picture of . . .
TMinSJ
I’ll submit 4: Belle, Zoe, Chatty, and Maddie