A strange advertisement for the side of a rental moving trailer.

At first glance, I would guess that trying to tow this trailer to Honolulu, on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, could be quite challenging.

Maybe that’s why they call it an adventure!

Have you been getting too much junk mail lately? Are you sick of the lack of personal correspondence in your post box?

Let us help you out of this conundrum!

We have had a lot of new visitors to chickenmonkeydog this year!

We wanted to welcome you all with a reminder that we love sending postcards across the world.  All you have to do is send us your mailing address.

Some adventures our postcards have gone on:

• Liquor stores and Korean BBQs
• Extending an olive branch to the people of Greenland
• A family vacation, dropping in on the castles and capitals of Europe
• Creating conversations in the work place
• Visiting India, China and Thailand
• And much, much more!

So, go on. Send us an email and take a CMD postcard on your next adventure!

If you’re one of those, please feel free to read our privacy policy.

Happy Birthday to chickenmonkeydog.com!

This quirky little blog is celebrating its third year and we want you to come celebrate with us!

To celebrate, let’s all find the chickens, monkeys and dogs that share our daily lives!

(1) Find a chicken, monkey, dog, or some combination of the three (Can be real, metaphorical, drawn, in a photograph, on TV, whatever! Get creative!)

(2) Snap a picture of it*

(3) Submit that picture to us before January 21st at chickenmonkeydog @ gmail dot com

* Bonus points if you manage to work a chickenmonkeydog postcard into the picture as well!

What’s more? There are prizes involved!

Whoever sends in the BEST PICTURE (according to our editors) will receive a FREE chickenmonkeydog mug and t-shirt.

Additionally, the people who submit the first five pictures we receive of a chicken, monkey, or dog will also receive a free chickenmonkeydog t-shirt!

All submissions we receive in the next week will be published at a later date.

In all the holiday excitement that comes with the end of the Gregorian Calendar year, the editors of chickenmonkeydog.com forgot to thank our newest editor for all his quirky contributions over the past year. We’re hoping to remedy that oversight by posting an image of our young editor on his recent travels to Kampala, Uganda. Apparently, when you take pictures in places south of the equator, the images come out upside down.

We’ll also use this post to remind you that chickenmonkeydog is happy to send our postcards to anywhere in the world. There’s still time to get one on the Christmas tree, if holiday ornaments are your thing. Get in touch with your details and we’ll do the rest.

Hello Good Readers,

We might have also entitled today’s post: Vor bekendte i Greenland.

We’re so pleased to report that our collective efforts to reach the verdant shores of fair Greenland have proven successful. Through the power our our posts, our Facebook wall messages, our Tweets and even our little postcards, we were able to raise the chickenmonkeydog flag to catch the attention of the good people of that noble land.

To celebrate our new friendship with Greenland, we’ve decided the post the national anthem of Greenland on our website.

Nunarput Utoqqarsuanngoravit
(in Danish)

Nangmineq erinllik

Nunarput, utoqqarsuanngoravit niaqqut ulissimavoqq qiinik.
Qitornatit kissumiaannarpatit tunillugit sineriavit piinik.

Akullequtaastut merletutut ilinni perotugut tamaani
kalaallinik imminik taajumavugut niaqquit ataqqinartup saani.

Atortillugillu tamaasa pisit ingerlaniarusuleqaagut,
nutarterlugillu noqitsigisatit siumut, siumut piumaqaagut.

Inersimalersut ingerlanerat tungaalitsiterusuleqaarput,
oqaatsit “aviisit” qanoq kingunerat atussasoq erinigileqaarput.

Taqilluni naami atunngiveqaaq, kalaallit siumut makigitsi.
Inuttut inuuneq pigiuminaqaaq, saperasi isumaqaleritsi.

Our Country Who’s Become So Old
(in English)

Our country, who’s become so old your head all covered with white hair.
Always held us, your children, in your bosom providing the riches of your coasts.

As middle children in the family we blossomed here Greenland,
we want to call ourselves before your proud and honourable head.

With a burning desire to develop what you have to give, renewing,
Removing your obstacles our desire to move is forward, forward.

The way of matured societies is our zealous goal to attain;
the effect of speech and letters we long to behold.

Humbleness is not the course Greenland wake up and be proud!
A dignified life is our goal; courageously take a stand.

(NOTE: The map at the top of this post is a screen shot from Google Analtyics. That Greenland is coloured in green means that chickenmonkeydog.com has had visits from that location.)

In recent weeks, we’ve noticed that the good people of Greenland don’t seem to know about our fine blog. We’re saddened to think that the 57,600 who call Greenland home should miss out on what we enjoy 5 days per week.

So, this week we have launched Operation Greenland, a strategy to bring the red, yellow and blue of chickenmoneydog to that northern land. We’ve sent a postcard to Greenland’s Tourism Office — that was particularly exciting as we’ve never posted anything to Greenland before. (Have you?) We’re writing this post and we’re working behind the scenes to reach this important audience.

So, if you’re a fan of chickenmonkeydog and you like to help us reach out to the people of Greenland, then we need your email. Email your Greenlander friends. Leave comments on this post addressing your love of all things Greenland.

And, dear readers, keep in mind that you too can capture the beauty around you with the red, yellow and blue hues of the chickenmonkeydog postcard. Just follow our simple instructions and a postcard could be winging its way to you.

With all the festivities and family around over the next few weeks we thought we’d share this postcard submission, which we received right around Thanksgiving!

Along with this photo, our reader comments:
This fairly recent trip was taken while my parents were in town for the Thanksgiving holiday.  ‘Nough said.

We hope you all enjoy the good times with friends, family and celebrations as we wind down the rest of 2009!

If you want to bring a little CMD cheer into your festivities, just follow the single step instruction to receive your own CMD postcard!

The chickenmonkeydog postcard world exploration continues into Greece and Egypt thanks to Nicole and Nate, from Chicago!

We do apologize for the blurry picture, but it seems the Pyramids stole the focus!

Visit our Postcard page to learn how you too can receive a personalized CMD postcard!  See if you can think of a creative background to photograph the postcard in front of and then submit it to chickenmonkeydog [at] gmail [dot] com for inclusion in our gallery!

A Belgian beer, an American postcard, and a Singaporean setting …

Thanks to a reader from Singapore who requested a postcard and then snapped this shot of the postcard out on the town. Can you think of a creative place near you to snap a pic with a chickenmonkeydog postcard?