The phrase is used for “Still Life” in French, though it has other obvious connotations, I went out with the 16 bore but without a dog yesterday, in a brief work break, to try to bag a cottontail for dinner. I though the doves had mostly left “downhill” to the Rio but a flock rose …
Month: September 2007
Peaches
Our peaches ripened this week and we’ve started picking. We have a dozen peach trees but only one of them really bore fruit this year. Not sure if this is due to the condition of the trees or the vagaries of the frosts we had in the spring. But overall the trees have been neglected …
Pavarotti and..
I’l forgive Dreher his pitbull post for his link to this utterly surreal You- Tube video (and catch that otherwise inexplicable shot of Grace Jones at the beginning and the one of– I think– Lou Reed at the end).
Dog Trials in Russia and Asia
I am probably going to stir up trouble here but I am feeling a bit ornery after all that below. Besides, I am missing the Primitive and Aboriginal Dog Breeds Conference in Almaty, where many of my friends have gone. I have heard a lot of talk lately about some images going around that lead …
Dog News Around the Web
The California Mandatory Spay- Neuter bill may be on hold, but affluent Huntington beach wants to enact an ordinance of its own, complete with microchips. “Competition dogs” ie show dogs–see below– would be exempt but at higher fees. Also: “The council asked that the program’s annual cost to the city be no more than $50,000 …
Air Force Academy
A couple of weeks ago Connie and I made a quick visit to the US Air Force Academy, just north of Colorado Springs. The Academy “campus” is a couple of thousand acres set in the Front Range foothills. The dormitories, classrooms, dining hall, etc are all set in a surprisingly compact area on a mesa …
Sacrifices to the Sky God
Matt found and sent along this item that tells how the Nepalese national airline deals with aircraft maintenance problems: “Officials at Nepal’s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday. “ We of course, found …
Possible Mastodon Petroglyph
A number of wire services have picked up the story of the discovery of a possible petroglyph of a mastodon, forty feet down in Lake Michigan off Traverse City. This is the best picture I have been able of find of it so far. Hopefully better ones will be presented soon. The assumption here is …
Gobi Birds
Some wonderful photos on the Temujin Blog, a good blog about trekking in Mongolia. French helps but is not a necessity– the pix speak for themselves. HT John Carlson. (Temujin was the birth name of Jingiz. And no, I won’t say it with a hard “G”, which no one does in Asia, though otherwise spelling …
Cairo Salukis
I knew that southern Illinois was called “Little Egypt” I knew its “capitol” was called Cairo (pronounced “Kayro”.) But I never dreamed that there was a football team called the Salukis.