As Steve posted a few days ago, Connie and I did make a quick trip to New Mexico to look at Aussie pups. After our lab mix Maggie died in January, our Aussie Sadie has been pretty sad and lonely. We’ve planned all along to get another dog, and an Aussie was our preference. Connie …
Month: February 2012
Bison Hunt
I don’t go on the north end of town much, so I missed seeing this until the Denver Post pointed it out this morning. An unknown graffiti artist calling himself/herself “Karma” used abandoned concrete culvert segments located just off of I-25 in Westminster, as a canvas to paint an Indian bison hunter and his quarry. …
Valentine from Dinolo
Ace flytyer Paul Dinolo of Duxbury, Massachusetts, just sent me an ingeniously boxed selection of small stream flies and terrestrials for this coming summer. More thought went into them even than is apparent; they are all big enough for clumsy fingers but small enough for tiny fish!
Framed Vadim
The new frames are finally done — here’s the latest rotation in the library. Click once right and again for biggest…
Johnny UK’s Gun
I don’t want to overwhelm everybody with gun posts, but this is a good one. Prompted by my dream gun post below, John Hill, “Johnny UK” of our comment section, has sent photos of his “one good gun”, a product of a lifetime of experimenting and trading. It is a Damon Petrick from Herve Bruchet …
In support of Daniel Richards
I hate to see the pressure that California Game & Fish Commission President Daniel W. Richards is under for participating in a hunt he had every right to undertake. Although hunting mountain lions is illegal in California, Richards traveled to Idaho for a successful lion hunt. Richards is not only a hunter, but reportedly is …
Hot Links
Spain has won a court challenge to claim sunken treasure from the wreck of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, sunk off the Portugese coast during the Napoleonic Wars. I found it interesting that the Peruvian government tried to make a last-minute claim to the treasure based on the fact the precious metal was mined in …
Challenging quote
“Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated batter rule.” (David Guaspari) Does that sound surreal? It is, but it’s a good analogy. If you doubt it, substitute:”…is like comparing the thickness of a wall to the degree of purple of the …
Raising babies
Retrieverman is raising a new pup, with a mirror for “company” when alone. I use an analogous technique with baby falcons. But with Post Office bears:I also feed them from a timed automatic cat feeder to eliminate begging, and keep them in that kid’s swimming pool in the living/ computer room 24- 7, with dogs, …
Big Shotguns
One of the odd American cultural blinkers is that shotguns above ten bore are poacher’s tools, or else pre- modern (Buckingham’s remarkably obtuse and inexplicably influential “Are we shooting 8 gauge guns?”) HE wasn’t, but the Brits made them til WW2, and still shoot them– and will pay good prices. Three examples from a 1996 …