Thirty Five Years of Summer Jackel, woo and wag and a yip yipe yap

[summer_jackel]

It's been a busy week in the best way. I'm now 35 (as of the 31st). I'm loved by some wonderful people, and am very happy and grateful for that.



Check out the cake that kynekh_amagire made me. It is a rainbow catfish cake! The woman has SKILLZ, ok?



I got some seriously good cake this year. Each layer of Kyn's confection was made with a different kind of alcohol, and the cake was delicious. corpsefairy and nicole_monkey brought me Guinness cupcakes with Bailey's frosting, which were also completely delicious...and I still have some for when I get off this bike. SCORE.





Immediately after I took this picture, I petted these cats, and found their coats to be filthy. Poor longhaired cats who cannot properly groom themselves. I have come to accept the inevitability of bathing them periodically.





Nocturne is scandalized


But very cute and much cleaner now.


You can only do so much with Trucker, but still. This makes her much more pettable.


Tiger demanded to know what I was doing with his cat, so I obliged his curiosity. None of them got a claw in me; I'm just that good.


Meanwhile, little Cyril remains blissfully innocent of the knowledge that anything as horrible as a cat bath even exists.



Kyn and I went to the beach with our perfectly coiffed dogs. Washed them again after, of course. Isn't it nice to be compatibly insane?


...and the outtake. I give you my exhibition dog, people:


Handsome.




Little Roguey


Dog has his head in the clouds.


Never miss an opportunity to stack the dog somewhere dramatic, right?


Bliss Like Chaos




waves




pack




youth and age


Luck


Coba




oh dogs.






and from a different angle, you get a Noble, Leonine Collie.


Bliss very rarely holds his tail like this; only at maximum excitement.








Nikolai is very fond of corn.


See?


He also relishes herbal tea.


My garden being all pretty!


The foxglove


The growing tip of the cork bark fir




Fishies! I am the kind of dork who names her fish, apparently. Visible here are Pearl (the white one) Medicine Hat (the one with the medicine hat, or more appropriately tancho since the subject is a domesticated carp) White Fishlips (the one with the white fishlips), Everyfish and Secret, a minnow I got from the pond. Calico was being shy.

Comments

[canineatheart.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!! That cake looks amazing! :D

I always enjoy your photo posts, ever so much! Your DOGSHAVINGFUN pictures are the best haha

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you, and glad you are enjoying the pics. Gotta love dogs. :)

[leora.livejournal.com]

Congrats on getting older. That cake pic is making me hungry; it's lovely.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I will try and remember that you like cake if it comes up...

[leora.livejournal.com]

I sometimes like cake, and it's a limited range. I don't actually know if I'd eat that, as I don't know the details. And my preferences are different, but that looks beautiful and full of food content. I had some cookies.

[archteryx.livejournal.com]

Yep, Kyn's a damn good baker to do a cake like that, but that thing still looks like it'll generate multicolored fertilizer in the morning. ^.^

The rest of the photos were fun, too, particularly of your bird. He has good taste if he likes herbal tea.

And finally? Congrats on making it through another year. :) Coming up on the big 4-0 myself in a few months.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

The cake is worth it. And quite delicious!

Glad you like the pics. Nikolai's favorite treat is herbal tea; he really enjoys it.

[zrath.livejournal.com]

Joyeux anniversaire!
Hurray for doggies and niftycake! :D

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[howl-at-the-sun.livejournal.com]

I did not know it was your birthday -- happy happy birthday much after the fact.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks. I meant to post sooner, but stuff happened.

[saigh-allaidh.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! Beautiful photos ~:)

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you, and thank you! :)

[raveness-d.livejournal.com]

Happiest of birthdays. :)

The cake looks nommy.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The cake was soooo good..

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[dave-bryant.livejournal.com]

Happy birfday! That cake is blinding. :-)

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was totally not expecting it to be rainbow when it was cut! yay!

[tenaya-owlcat.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday a little late!!!

And wait, does your house have a suspension bridge or something? *is extremely curious*

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

A suspension bridge? Are you perhaps looking at the chicken coop? Some of the wire is saggy; branches fall on it now and then, and the chickens try to roost on it. The coop is functional, but I might try and do some beautification when I build a coop for my ducks.

[wastedmouthfull.livejournal.com]

Happy belated Birthday!!!!
I love the pissadointed cat picts, they are very ammusing.
I dont have enough guts to wash Molly she has never scratched but soap might bring it out in her.
Dogs are cute, and I envy your nice weather we are rainy again.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! haha, I really didn't want to start bathing cats at all, but Trucker gets so filthy that I had no choice---and then I realized that the others would also benefit.