Sometimes life is really crappy

Haha ... all the lights are still on at the view site .. it's so dark this morning!

Sometimes life is really crappy ..... and just when you think it can’t get any worse, it knocks you down again ..... grrrrr.  Life forgot one thing though .... I’m a tough nut to crack .... an insane one maybe .... but a tough one .... and I don’t crack easily!  

A little bunny we encountered this morning on the cliff

I MAKE my own SUNSHINE!


Food for thought:  “Never let your own happiness wither away as you try to bring sunshine to others” - Dodinsky ...... hmmmmm .... I think I like that one.


Today is a new day .... 

Waiting for their treat whilst we wait for our caffeine fix.

time for new thoughts ... positive ones, despite the wet and woeful weather and despite not having seen the sun rise for two days in a row now.  I guess that’s what happens in the Land of the Long White Cloud - all those clouds ... grey ones this morning ... obscure my sun.

According to WeatherWatch as summer ( yeah right - WHAT summer?)  draws to a close we’re losing 3 minutes a day of daylight hours ... 21 minutes a week .... that’s a scary thought.  My mornings are darker ... my evenings are shorter.  The sun ... if we’d been able to see it this morning

She wants my help with pulling the tree out the waves ... hmmmm

.... should have risen at 6.59 and it’ll supposedly set at 8.09, would that I could see it!


My city has been shrouded in rain clouds ..... it’s pouring at the moment and there’s a white haze covering everything - I can’t even see Sky Tower.  Julia and I didn’t go down to Ladies Bay

She is so DETERMINED!

this morning ... much to my hound’s disgust.  It was so dark and gloomy and it’s high tide so there’s little beach to walk on .... marvelous waves though and that’s what the hound wanted!


Instead we walked up to the view site then back down to the village and onto the beach ... then onto Dingle

A very empty beach this morning

Dell.  Despite the early hour of the morning we keep an ever watchful eye out for the Dog Warden as Chocolat bounds in and out of the waves ... they are rough this morning and she loves them like that!

I got chatting to Coco and his human after saying goodbye to Julia and Indy ... I can’t for the life of me remember her name ... but it’s not really relevant.  She was having a good chuckle at what a picture Chocolat and I made standing in the pouring rain with me kicking her ball into the waves.  The hound’s already so wet and most of the time, so am I ...  a bit of rain isn’t really going to stop us ...except that this morning it wasn’t just a little rain ... it was rather a lot.

I don’t always notice how heavy it is as I wear a peak ... I don’t feel it on my face .... but I did notice that my clothes were getting fairly sodden and that when the hound shook herself, it didn’t really make her any drier. No wonder Carol and Sebastian were conspicuous by their absence this morning.

Monday is the deadline for submissions for the Dog Bylaws ... I’ve sent in my submission form with attached statement and I’ve sent in all the petition forms I’ve collected.  I’ll be interested to see how much of an impact we have on the Bylaws that are eventually formulated. 

Dog Friends .... the group that co-ordinated the petition .... are concerned that Council will try to implement a “before 9, after 7" policy across all beaches in Auckland, and ignore our request for summer restrictions to end on 1st March.  I think there’ll be a riot if they try and do this ... at the very least they’ll be some kind of a protest.  Hmmm .... just think ... my hound could be an activist before she even turns 3!!


“You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.” - Anon.