mukha's 3rd birthday !

mukha turned 3 on 11.22! it was a great night! we all ate yummy food and played with mukha's new toys! she had fun opening her presents and eating her cake, and eating frozen peas! it's the first time i've wrapped her presents, or made her a cake. the recipe is at the very end of this post. here's a picture of the birthday girl with her birthday beefcake!

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here are some more pix from the night.. most are with the phone.


mukha doesn't usually destroy her toys, but she was probably thinking, 'it's my birthday, i'll destroy my toys if i want to' ! i'm just glad she had fun! she's so cute :)

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opening prezzies!

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i accidently got mukha a dangerous weapon for a toy :( the knotted ball on a rope in the photo below. at first, mukha always put the handle part in her mouth and swung it back and forth and beat herself up with the ball! i tied an extra knot in the rope to shorten it, i tried to put more knots but one is all that would fit. i tried to teach her that it's safer with the ball, not the handle, in her mouth.. but i think she's just learning the hard way!

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earlier the same day that mukha was born, my love chanhi passed away. she was the sweetest weimaraner i knew ((until i met mukha!!)). she was so warm and squishy and cuddly! i miss her dearly, but i'm just really thankful that we shared some of our lives together. i hope i get to see her again.
i think she helped hook me and mukha up.. thank you chanhi! by finding mukha and having her birthday be the same day, it has eased the pain associated with that day. it was the worst day of my life, and now it's also the best day of my life!

here are some pictures in rememberance of sweet sweet chanhi.

chanhi loved to play and run at the dog beach at flagler beach, fl. here she is just resting and being cute! i loved her hands, she always had puppy paws.


chanhi's bright eyes


chanhi and her shadow

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dog birthday beef cake recipe

here is the site with the original recipe http://www.dog-names.org.uk/dog-birthday-cakes.htm
here's my version. i changed it to be healthier, i think, and easier!
i added more oats/less flour, an extra egg/less corn oil, and i didn't puree the meat, eggs, oil and veggies.. that's just krazy!
i don't eat meat (except fish sometimes, it's magical..) so i don't know what it tasted like, but mukha loved it!

mukha's birthday beefcake::

preheat oven 350 degrees

in one bowl:
12 oz ground beef
5 eggs
1/4 cup corn oil
handful sliced baby carrots
handful frozen peas
mix n mash it up thoroughly

in another bowl:
3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup oats
1/2 tsp baking powder
mix it up thoroughly

combine beef mix with flour mix and stir it up thoroughly

grease and flour a pan
poor in the cake mix
bake 60 mins.
cool 30 mins
spread cream cheese on top
decorate with peas


( i used an 8x8 pan, and the cake was about 1 1/2 inches thick. she ate almost half for her birthday dinner. the remaining larger half she had for breakfast and dinner the next day.)

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photoshoot

some shots from a photo session with mukha and her new squeaky frog..
poor baby, she just wanted to play with it!
(( i'm sorry mukha~chan !! thank you for being the best little weimaraner model !! ))

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weimaraner memory game (for humans)

flickr memari beta, by ze frank
zefrank.com

click the pic to play memory with my 'most interesting' photos on flickr or enter your flickr info and play with your own flickr photos!

(omoshiroi means interesting in japanese)

s u n . d a y

mukha and i love sunshine! we love to play or relax outside when it's sunny. several weeks ago when the tropical storm was here, it rained for a week. we were trapped inside and bored the whole time. poor little mukha! anyway, one day (a sunday), the sun finally shined and it made mukha smile :)

l o v e . l o v e . l o v e
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and some photos from later the same day of the little sunchaser laying in a sunny spot inside..

w e i m a r a n e r ~ z e b r a
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"oops, i put my foot in my mouth!"
silly weimaraner chewing on her foot like a little baby :)

a weimaraner and her girl

i had been wanting to take some photos of us for a long time, i was just really resisting the fact that i was going to have to do it myself. after a couple of glasses of wine one night, i finally decided that we were going to do a little test shoot. it was a spontaneous test and i didn't even clean the room first or set up something more professional looking. i used the timer on the camera and we got in front of a convex security mirror, that has splattered varnish and white paint on it, and i didn't bother to clean it either.
it was a really quick session and mostly we were doing hi 5's and playing, and sometimes i was trying to get her to look towards the mirror or get closer to it. apparently we did a lot of kissing as well! i didn't know exactly when the capture was going to happen and i didn't know what we would be doing when it happened, so all of the photos are random.
i love them! they show so much about mukha~ how amazingly silly, smart, and loving she is, and how we interact with each other. this is exactly how we are. we have so much fun together.

i did a lot of processing and texturing. i used one of mine and some of others, with links to the others. plus there is the splattered paint textures on the mirror.

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busy!
doing nothing
this was an accidental shot taken while i was metering. i think it's awesome because this is so how we are, we are just doing our thing here and mukha is right by my side! i couldn't even dream of a better friend than mukha! i'm so lucky to have her always by my side :)
leschick's texture adds to our busy~ness and accentuates the messy room and my wife beater shirt. it's funny, i think.
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about to do a hi 5
she makes such a cute face before and while she does one :)
jaiel's texture
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m a g i c
not sure what's going on here, but it looks magical. like fairy dust and falling stars.
either we are about to hi5, already did one, or we failed..
az textures
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what's next?
she is such a smart girl.
i love how connected we are.
i love her expression~ her eyes and her funny mouth :)
i think this is my texture used twice, differently
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l o v e
i love this one so much! it's my favorite.
she is the sweetest girl ever. she's such a love~bug
2 of jaiel's textures
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p l a y
i don't do this a lot! honestly, i don't think i ever have. she eats raw chicken, so..
even after she's eaten i deprive myself from mukha kisses for some time, not very long though, probably an hour or so.
doesn't she have the sweetest face?
jaiel's + my texture
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hugs n kisses
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l o o k !
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us
2 jaiel textures
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rolyn & chanhi on a book cover!

rolyn and chanhi are going to be on a the cover of the book, 'mon chien stupide' ~a french translation of the novella, 'my dog stupid'~ by john fante.

thanks dom!

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book cover design by dominike duplaa | dke © 10/18, paris

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i had to rescan the images for the book cover, and ended up playing around with them..

time of their lives
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play. with me.
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yaay! way to live on, loves!

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!warning! cute alert! cute alert!

each one of these photos is fun to meditate on, most of them seem to tell a story. mukha looks like she's playing a different character in every one. she's so wonderful!
i'm posting a lot because i love them all :)
photos were taken on 2 different days.

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. e s s e n c e .

essence of cute, essence of mukha, essence of weimaraner..
my favorite shot from both days, may be my favorite one ever..

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so much emotion and thoughtfulness.
she really looks like an actress.
she's ready for a ride in a convertable :)

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. ready for flight .

she reminds me of an airplane pilot..
she realized she didn't need to wear her sunglasses on an overcast day ;)

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. little red riding weim .

big bad weim disguised as grandma disguised as little red riding hood?

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gorgeous from every angle ;)

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. it's tough being famous .

she really has a talent for looking famous!

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. 'heyy! do i have anything in my teeth!? aaaahhh..!' .

yes silly girl, you have cookies caked in your teeth!
one of my favorite ones from the first day, but unfortunately she looks unkempt from her black teeth..
her teeth were actually cleaned a few weeks ago and they're really white! she had her tooth pulled recently and her gums are tender so i soak her cookies in water first and they stick in her teeth for a while, apparently.
this shot inspired me to do the shoot all over again. if it weren't for this shot, all photos from the second day wouldn't exist. so my favorite shot from that day wouldn't exist!

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little ninja! great with the bamboo in the background, even though it might be hard to see and i cropped out most of it.

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little desert dweller

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. art critic 1 .

mukha looking mildly appalled.. maybe by someones distasteful art or fashion.
looks like she's talking under her breath about it to a friend nearby.
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. art critic 2 .

i think she has sparked an interest in something: 'oh.. now, i do say, i like that..',
or she's asking a waiter if they serve her favorite expensive wine..

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. ja man! .

something just seems rastafarian here

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latest weimaraner painting !!

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yaaay!
a commissioned weimaraner portrait of leo & luddy!
for amy, michael, leo and luddy!
amy, thank you for being so amazing!
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. ludwig & leopold playing stick tug~of~war .

professional photo of the painting
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these photos were taken at night, with regular indoor lighting
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