Happy birthday to me

First up let me apologise if I have been neglectful of you all. I can only plead pressure of work, illness, exhaustion and absence!
But now I am back on deck (touchwood!), and I will try to be more responsive as I do so value all you fine folks, your wonderful work and your generous friendship.

Tomorrow, May 5, is my 51st birthday so I took the liberty of buying myself a rather delightful gift. It is the sort of thing that complicates life but greatly enhances it as well.

As you may be aware, I have lost all of my three little dogs in less than twelve months and I have been grieving for sometime, especially since my darling Phoenix passed away from cancer a couple months ago.

Of course I swore there would ne NO MORE DOGS, but I lied!

I now have a new baby. Mini-mee is a tiny chihuahua cross breed with some mini foxie and a touch of silky terrier as well. Naturally I love her to bits and she is really quite a good doggy. i have never had such a weeny little dog and I am amazed that such a tiny creature could be so smart and so responsive. i reckon I feel better already. I love that aweful puppy breath smell and that wriggly, licky little bosy leaping all over me.

I had to make the puppy a coat as it is already quite cold for something with so much surface area per volume, so I cut up a sock and put arm holes into it. My gosh but she is soo cute wearing her fluffy pink dress.

Therefore you will no doubt be subjected to lots of puppy photos!
With a bit of luck I may soon get out into the wilds with my lovely models again too!

Cheers everyone!

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