Edit: Further to the request below, Robyn has kindly syndicated my new site.

Please add me to your friends' list as

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/harvestbirdwp/

It's from that site that I'll be posting, from now on. Things may be a little out of order in syndication at first as I finish adding old posts to the site.

Thank you everyone for being such good company on LiveJournal.

( request, now granted )

Tags: no superhighway here
Current Mood: hopeful

The only thing is, diaryland is down. Not just uncontactable, but disappeared from the internet.

This might be a good time to organise my own webpages, not least if all my diaryland archives have disappeared.

Tags: crazy dog lady, diaryland
Current Mood: busy

I suppose this flash-assisted shot does look a little as if he's coming to eat your soul, but I'm not unduly concerned.

Tags: crazy dog lady
Current Mood: excited

Millie is fostering another little Norwich terrier puppy, born the day after Eddie and Fern, who had stopped gaining weight around forty-eight hours ago. She has started feeding again and seems content to pile up with her two larger cousins, but it has been a little worrying.

Edit: all seems well.

Tags: crazy dog lady
Current Mood: hopeful

How hot?

Tags: crazy dog lady
Current Mood: hot

Tags: crazy dog lady
Current Mood: content

The middle of my neighbours' three young sons is riding a foot-powered police motorbike around his backyard. The bike's lights flash at random and it plays "if you're happy and you know it, clap your hands" each time it crashes into something.

I can see all kinds of possibilities in this for law enforcement.

Tags: the locals
Current Mood: curious

One red dog, one red bitch. Natural whelping, somewhat unexpectedly, at the vet's. All well so far. More later, possibly much later.

Tags: crazy dog lady
Current Mood: relieved

(left), and her daughter (right). Another generation to come? Should know by the weekend ...

Tags: crazy dog lady
Current Mood: tired

Gentlemen, tend your mullet-hawks. Ill maintained, they look untidy.

Tags: acamacademia, the locals
Current Mood: cranky

Day 57 of (hopefully) 63.

Tags: crazy dog lady
Current Mood: hopeful

I had lunch with A-Lee yesterday, whom I haven't seen for a while. She has had her hair straightened; it looks glorious.

Six minutes from in the shower to dry, she says. Welcome to my world, said I.

One side effect of the new do is that schoolchildren now shout anti-Asian slurs at her as she goes about her day.

"The airport is that way," said one small boy at the weekend, to which she replied, "The port is that way." How confusing it is when your ethnic abuse hits another target.

Tags: the locals
Current Mood: busy

The orange chair was completed today and I am sitting in it as I write this. Harvestdad helped me collect it and carry it from the car to the house and within, therein. It has a matching orange footstool and I have hung my grandmother's afghan over the chair back to stop the sun fading it in this north facing room.

There is not room for dogs in the orange chair so they must sit at my feet. However, it has been stainproofed in case Millie decides to have her babies on it next week. At present the stainproofing smells like fly spray; however I am overall most pleased with the orange chair.

Tags: look at moyie
Current Mood: satisfied

... is all over diaryland.

Also, how much am I going to love this? Quantifiable estimates to the comments, please.

Tags: d-land, no superhighway here, à Wellington
Current Mood: cheerful