Thank you so much to Worldly Winds for giving us this most unusual Mrs. Sparkly’s Ten Commandments Award.
Worldly Winds is a lovely site full of poetry by Alexandra. Alex describes herself as a “Buddhist, Mother, Wife, Writer, Poet, Introvert, Eccentric,” and you will see that her poetry absolutely reflects all those parts of her. Definitely check out her poetry. The zoo and I enjoy the deep pauses.
With the award there are “Ten Commanded” questions that I must answer, so here I go:
- Describe yourself in seven words.
Mother, Partner, Sister, Animal Lover, Friend, Blogger
2. What keeps you up at night?
It’s not the ‘keeps me up” but the “wakes me up” that I suffer from. Nothing and everything. I have not slept more than 4 hours at a time since….. who can remember? (Memory, of course, is the first thing to go when you are sleep deprived… rofl)
3. Whom would like you to be?
Well, I like who I am, but if I had to chose, maybe Angelina Jolie. She does good work both humanitarian and on film, is absolutely gorgeous (even without makeup), has what looks like a great relationship with her partner in life, and a bunch of fun kids.
4. What are you wearing now?
Blue jeans and a pink and purple t-shirt.
5. What scares you?
People being mad at me. The dogs running in front of a car. Losing someone I love.
6. What are the best and worst things about blogging?
Best – pushing myself daily to find interesting and fun things to talk about focused only on my zoo and all the incredible other bloggers I have met in blogland all around the world.
Worst – not having more time to read blogs and write comments.
7. What was the last website you looked at?
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/turkey (I leave to Istanbul in a week)
8. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
To be more even tempered and not wear my emotions on my sleeve.
9. Slankets, yes or no?
Nooooo !!
10. Tell us something about the person who nominated you.
I did in the opening remarks, so go check out Worldly Winds and read some of her gooooooood stuff.
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And to top off an already great day, the adorable guinea piggies at Hutchagoodlife bestowed upon us a Versatile Blogger Award. 
I love those little cuddly wuddly boys and girls, Nibbles, Nutty, Bingo, and Buddy. Since I have been honored with this award before, I will let you see my answers on my Awards page.
Thank you so much you four little cutie patuties. You are sweet.
So in all fairness, as most of you know, I pass awards forward to new sites that I have not yet honored before but I really think that some of my old friends need a smile, so I hereby give the following blogs a DogDaz PICK OF THE LITTER Award. You get to pick one of the above awards for your very own, as well as proudly display that you are the DogDaz Pick of the Litter!
Thank you all for wonderful reading – here is the current DOGDAZ PICK OF THE LITTER:
Collies of the Meadow
Bongo Dog Blog
Cupcake Speaks:
2 Brown Dawgs
Thank you and a million times thank you to Worldly Winds and Hutchagoodlife for thier wonderful acknowledgement.
Just another dogdaz morning at the zoo ❤ 
Yesterday Mommy took us down to our river to see the new floating dock. It is down the block from our house, but we are not allowed to go there without a human. We have not been down there for awhile, except to see the Osprey, because they were building it and there were lots of dangerous things that could hurt us. Mommy said that 2 barges came down the Magothy River from the Chesapeake Bay and they floated the dock pieces all the way from wherever they were built down stream. The barges had big crane things on them and the men put them together like a puzzle. We don’t have any pictures of them building it because Mommy forgot the camera the one day we all came to look. But we got some nice pictures now. Since there were a lot of people and boats on the dock, it was a big test for us to sit and behave so that Mommy could take our picture on Breezy Point. We did a really good job, don’t you think? It is really breezy there because it is where the river and the 2 creeks that define our peninsula meet. We got to walk on the new dock and sniff at all the sail boats and big things with motors. (You can tell we are not boating dogs.) 
There was even an old looking red tug boat docked by us, which looked really special so Mom took pictures of that too. 
DogDaz Zoo 