Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts

8.23.2014

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Tema, Johnny Weir's Japanese Chin

Having covered etsy on theweekings, 

and toured all its haunted do-goodnessisms and come up rather haunted myself,

I turned to its obvious counterpart: chickens. That's where the Olivebridge Pastoral came from: there's a family album growing on these Buff Orpingtons. And since the essay on life with chickens was published in theweeklings, Lucille the broody hen went broody again, and we now have 6 more chicks. This is all beyond human control, unless we want to try to "break" her of her broodiness by putting her in a wire crate with her belly exposed to the cold air. But with Lucille, that won't work: she is a dedicated broody hen. So she gets to have her brood. Photos will follow. For now, here's a generic yellow chick:



Having covered etsy, having covered chickens, the obvious next subject is possibly the remarkably heartfelt, insanely athletic, flamboyantly gorgeous endless double adjective of Johnny Weir's instagram. But there's a novel about to wolves to finish, and it howls whenever I leave it alone.

2.11.2013

Piper wakes up after dinner.

Filmed in the worst light imaginable with a crappy iphone. Just click play.


Piper is the small one. The bigger one with the black ear is her cousin, Pixel. The one with the brown ear that looks calm isn't really calm at all. She's Pixel's sister. Name's Widget.

1.24.2013

New pup

Her name is Piper. She is 8 weeks old. She's a Llewellin Setter.

She has a very strong personality. She will not sleep in her crate. She will not hang out in her crate. She wants to be where the action is.

But since she's a puppy, she stays awake with everyone as long as she can and then she can't stay awake anymore. And falls asleep. But only on laps. No crates.

On a lap she'll sleep for hours. And hours.  And hours. Just no crates. Absolutely not.

5.22.2012

From the family album

Proton, daughter of Quax and Maya, in the field, May 2010
Maya teaches Proton all about the water, same day.
Pups from the Quax and Maya litter pretending to be pups in a Japanese woodblock print, around May 2010
German shepherd play in the back room, involving lots of mutual teeth clacking and other forms of bonding, 2010

Quax as he appeared on the TOC of Field and Stream magazine