I can't believe it's been almost two years since I last posted! Lots of things happened, as usual. I don't have so much time to sit down and blog, and there are so many things I'm (more) interested in that blogging had to take a back burner position.
A short update: I bought a small piece of land in the bush, close to
Shai Hills Resource Reserve. Because of the numerous baboons one can see on the road, I dubbed it "Baboonland". I'll start building a little retreat this year and hope it will be completed by mid-September. I'll welcome the change of scenery, the isolation, the newness of it all. Actually, I can't wait to be there! More space for the (now 3) dogs, the opportunity to have an orchard (mango trees abound in the area, but I also plan on having lime and orange trees, avocado pear trees, guava trees, pawpaw of course... and probably many more!), a kitchen garden (I even found online a nice trick for my lazy back AND to protect my herbs from 3 male dogs marking, see
here!).
Back to the dogs... It has been a long time since I last wrote or published pictures of my dogs or of any indigenous dogs. I was asked last month to write a piece for a
U.S. dog paper and online magazine. I was happy to be contacted, and wary too, for the same reasons that led me to stop "advertising" the indigenous dogs. I decided to write the article anyway, complete with an explanation of my reluctance. I will see whether it is published and if so, how much it will be edited. Another aboriginal dog fancier, of the less normative type, also asked me to send an article for the
Primitive and Aboriginal Dog Society's journal, whose interests are closer to mine. I intend to gather more information, especially about hunting with dogs, before I finalise my contribution.
Again, a lot of very different things to do, a lot of interests to weave into my already quite full life... But I've never been comfortable with idleness, so I won't complain!
To be continued!
