…the leanest state in the union. I’m very proud. I swear I could feel my body mass index fall when we crossed the state line in March.
Month: August 2007
Black Forest Bison
Yesterday Connie and I drove to Colorado Springs and took SR 83, one of the “blue highways” rather than the Interstate. Just as we were coming up to a plateau covered with ponderosa pine, known as the Black Forest, we saw this herd of bison on a ranch. The market for bison meat seems to …
A Discovery
On a cricket pitch at Jesus College, Pluvialis discovers why austringers have a reputation for cursing. Also, sounds as though it was a good thing Xtin was there to run interference.
Surprise Plums
More new yard discoveries. I thought one of our trees was just an ornamental until I looked up and noticed these plums this week. They’re small, but sweet and tasty.
Shrimping on Horseback?
I’d never heard of it either. But Belgium is famous for more than ale. Evidently the country boasts a remnant horseback shrimping culture. “Men in bright yellow overalls and sou’-westers ride their plodding workhorses across the sands into the North Sea at low tide to trawl for shrimps in just the way that their forefathers …
Left Hand Brewing Company
One of the changes I’ve noticed in the twenty years we’ve been away from Colorado is the proliferation of micro- and mini-breweries here. As Matt pointed out when we talked about this, it’s sort of a “return to the future” as in the 19th century where most towns had at least one brewery. Competition in …
Our Roving Correspondent
Phil Grayson is stopping through Magdalena en route to Poland from his last job in Istanbul. I am hoping he will be posting himself soon from Poland, with his own password, but he has given me several travel essays to entertain you meanwhile. Here is the first. It’s Vrahati Time! A ways west of Athens …
Things I truly do not get..
Camo Bibles? (HT Margory C).
Phil Drabble
Richard, a commentor below, was kind enough to tell us of this obit for Phil Drabble Drabble was an old- fashioned naturalist, conservationist, and hunter of the kind we may not be breeding anymore. He kept lurchers and pigeons and hawks, and wrote books like A Weasel in my Meatsafe, Badgers at my Window, and …
New Dawg
Our friend Henry Chappell over at Home Range writes a good story about getting his new pup: a field-bred (ain’t no other kind) mountain cur. She’s a cutie. Incidentally, I’m always impressed by blog posts with dialog. “You don’t say?” I do. Chappell blogs like a writer of quality print features, which he is. There’s …