I got a few pictures of Iza by herself, but they all came out with Iza as just a black blob. Too much white surf for a black dog, even for a high-contrast camera body. Still, though, Iza and Faith look pretty good in the dog-dog tandem competition, don’t they?
Faith’s Instagram, and Iza’s!
We interrupt this Surf Dog Week to bring you an emergency injection of PURE ADORABILITY. This is Zida, the two month old unknown mixed breed (but probably has at least a little Chihuahua) that I ran into on my way to my dentist’s appointment this morning. The only reason he didn’t make me late is because I left fifteen minutes earlier than I really needed to. He was in the window of the same laundromat that I used to see Laundry Dog and Laundry Puppy in. (Haven’t seen Laundry Puppy in a while, boo!)
No captions or hovertext. Too much cute for my creativity!
Meet Joey! Joey had a pretty good time out there, catching several waves. Good showing, even with some pretty ruff surf (and ruff-er competition!)
A few sea otter pictures from 2023. The solo (second) one is a bit blurry, but I included because I think he has an entire pile of sea urchins to snack on. The third is a mother and baby, although you can’t see the baby’s face, alas.
I have been working on setting up a new server for da blawg. It’s a lot of work, but my old one was getting a bit long in the tooth (vintage 2012!) and needs to be replaced. Had to move the site to a home server so that I didn’t have a three-week outage. The home server is all set up now, and moving back to the colocated one (when the new machine gets to the colo) shouldn’t take nearly as long. And in the mean time, we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled program starting tomorrow!
I ran into Posey (10) a little while ago, and said, “Oh, is that a fox terrier?” No, it was not a fox terrier, it was a Lakeland terrier. When I went to post her I said, ‘I’m not sure I’ve ever had one of those before, let me look!” And now I feel terrible because I not only had a Lakeland terrier before, I had that Lakeland terrier before! In my defense, though, the first time I saw her it was roughly 140 years ago, which is to say, pre-COVID.
I got SO MANY pictures from the dog surfing championships! And SO MANY of them were of the face a small child that was inexplicably being held up on someone’s shoulders BACKWARDS and jiggled back and forth a few dozen feet in front of my camera. If you’re going to hold your child up, you could at least let them watch the dogs surfing? I dunno.
Also a lot of them were of people’s cell phones which they were holding up over their heads. And most of the rest were out of focus — did I mention I reeeeally need to replace my lens? — or over or underexposed. That last was intentional, I used exposure bracketing.
Anyway, I’ll be posting them gradually, but to start with let’s see Koa. Koa was the champion in 2024, and it wasn’t hard to see why: she was easily the most enthusiastic pup. As soon as they started heading down towards the water, she started barking her head off and trying to rush them, and she did not stop barking the entire time she was surfing. Just so much happiness she couldn’t keep it in. She is also a cancer survivor and eleven years old. And, frankly, an inspiration to me. If she can surf, maybe it’s not even too late for me!
Can you believe that I totally forgot about getting the photos from my 2023 trip off of my good camera until I went to the Dog Surfing Championships yesterday? Man I stink.
Ran into this kitty again last weekend!
Meet Biscuit! He’s six, and very very talented.
