Tom McIntyre, the poet laureate of blood sport and one of our finest hunting writers ever, has a new blog [REMOVED LINK: POSSIBLE VIRUS THREAT THROUGH URL]. It’s about time! Make sure you read the whole page to get a full taste of his wit and occasional surrealism in addition to his more practical side. …
Month: June 2010
Dennis Hopper RIP
He was never quite like anybody else— hipster visionary and “admittedly unorthodox Kansas Republican”; drug- addled loon and serious art collector; someone with more “second acts” than Scott Fitzgerald could have conceived; finally, gracefully stoic at his hard end. He was an archtypical American artist. (Rod Dreher goes a bit off- subject, but has some …
Quote of the Week
Blogger Roger Simon, who seems in good if stoic humor despite recently losing his legs, says: “I believe in what I once read: “Life is a club where they won’t stand for squawks, where they deal you only one hand, and you must sit in. So even if the cards are cold and marked by …
Progress: My Days These Days
How I am doing, adapted from a few letters to friends and relatives: basically well if sometimes a bit frustrated, with only occasional moments of terror (;-) I was never a couch potato before, but my undiagnosed symptoms slowed to stopped me for almost a year and I had to work to get back. Now …
Helen Alights
Happily, Helen Macdonald (aka Pluvialis) has returned to her blog, giving it a new look and writing a few new posts. Don’t miss this one, on bird art, bird watching and the nature of bird. “…Birds are not always seen as if they were through a telescope and it is important to remember that. Because without the hot …
Summer Camp
Sometime last summer I realized that my daughters, then aged 8, had grown legs long enough to carry them out of reach. This year, the girls will travel farther still, attending their first “away camp,” a full three weeks in the woods in a neighboring state. It’s an experience that will change them, as no doubt my own childhood summer camps changed me. …
More neighbors
We are so high tech out here on the range. Can’t get good enough cell service to talk long, but I can receive texts. Pete found an owl nest underneath a wooden bridge across an irrigation ditch, and sent me a text message. I arrived at the bridge only to flush the female Great Horned …
Guardian behavior
As we finish up week five of sheep camp, I’m going to share some livestock protection dog (LPD) behavior that I find fascinating. I’ve been out in camp amid western Wyoming’s sagebrush sea with the lambing herd since May 1, with three LPDs, two guardian burros, and a herding dog. Every two weeks we move …