Shyhound

Chino Farms

February 8, 2012

Last summer, I was invited to dinner at my friend’s parents’ house atop a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean. As if that weren’t enough of a treat, I was served the sweetest corn on the cob I had ever had the pleasure of gnawing on, the ear’s yellow teeth yielding to my bite with a [...]

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Banjo and Lefty

January 21, 2012

My little sister, Bubs, is mischievous. But she also has a very big heart. When she was about 13, she started secretly leaving out milk for a stray cat who roamed the village. Mum wondered why this mewing cat, nicknamed Mrs. Tiddles, kept showing up at her front door, but, being a fairly clued-in parent, [...]

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Dog + Beach = Bliss

November 5, 2011

One of the best things about living in California is access to the beach. Specifically, the kind where you can let your dog run around off-leash. It’s doggie heaven for Banjo, and blissful for us. I can’t think of a better reason to voluntarily wade up to my thighs in jeans other than to teach [...]

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Canine Design

October 18, 2011

<– See this dog? I make no bones about the fact that I am guilty of anthropomorphism to the nth degree – Banjo is the canine love of my life! I recently redesigned the graphics (banner, avatar, favicon, buttons) for my dog blog, Shyhound.com. I’d always used a strip of red for the banner, evocative [...]

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Plunged Into Darkness

September 9, 2011

It was one of those moments when I joked to myself, Oh, GAWD, what’ve I done?! Standing over the printer watching my impending itinerary to Vermont appear with each tuv-tuv-tuv, I suddenly heard a loud and muffled WUMP! and all the lights were out. Actually, what I noticed was that the computer screen was dark. [...]

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Recent Creative Geekery

June 30, 2011

With the chronicles of the cross-country road trip written, I’ve been something of a Creative Geek lately. I thought it would be helpful to mah fabulous Fizgiggling readers if I shared and linked to some of the tools and resources! Here’s what I’ve been up to: New About Page on Fizgiggery! So much of blogging [...]

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Crossing the Mississippi

May 23, 2011

Road Trip Day 3: Trussville, AL to Shreveport, LA – 467 miles / 752 kms Another late start this morning, this time because I couldn’t resist Skyping my family – mum in southern Spain, dad in Los Angeles. So far, my iMac is surviving its journey in the boot (trunk) of the car! That’s obviously [...]

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Heading South to Alabama

May 17, 2011

Road Trip Day 2: Lexington, VA to Trussville, AL – 550 miles / 885 kms After our first night on the road, Mr. Fizgig and I loaded up the car with all of our stuff. (To see the full list, check out the post about leaving NYC.) We joked that we’d have the packing down [...]

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California, I’m Coming Home

February 11, 2011

So sang Joni Mitchell in her beautiful folk song, “California”. For those of you who also follow my flaurena™ and Shyhound™ blogs, you may already be aware of my plans to move to Los Angeles in March/April. What you might not realise is that Mr. Fizgig and I will be driving the 3,000 miles (5,000kms) [...]

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