… sometimes cross. Lauren has been studying and adventuring in Kazakhstan, and sends photos both silly and sublime. Humor first- I’ll let her narrate: ” I went through an ordeal to try and get this well pump to work in the deep desert. It was so hot, I ended up wearing a shawl, the thinnest …
Month: July 2012
Priorities
Reacting to Kathy’s good comment below, I thought I would post some pix of Casa Q, to remind readers that while we live well we do NOT live in a palace… Recently half of the dying cottonwood in the yard cracked and fell into it, luckily missing the hawk house. Omar, neighbor, bird hunting partner, …
Rolling with the changes
Today I was supposed to be residing at a luxury hotel in Cody, Wyoming, scheduled to give a presentation about using livestock protection animals to the Western Association of State Agricultural Directors. Instead, I’m sitting in a pickup truck on the edge of my sheep herd, pounding the keyboard on the laptop and waiting for …
Constant Apprentice
My dear friends Roseann and Jonathan Hanson, writers, scholars, adventurers, Arizonans, Africanists, connoisseurs of the good life, have (re)started a blog, The Constant Apprentice. I have the highest expectations. Here are a few images of them from my own files… I will let them explain the saber toothed skunk puppet…
SIlk Road redux
From Dmitry Kosyrev, author of the Silk Road Trilogy, via Kickstarter: “My dear friends, Americans, a few Russians from Russia, all 111 of you, plus many more who will read my novels after their successful funding: “What you did in suport of my books, letting them be published in USA, means that somebody needs the …
What…
IS Larissa doing? Photo via Mrs. Peculiar…
Mannlicher Schoenauer 1903 6.5 X 54
Thanks to readers, especially Malcolm in Montana, I have just gotten one- a unique one at that, and at a good price. Tools and loads are coming in from him and Steve in Washington, and another rifle was offered by the Atomic Nerds. Sometimes I love the Internet… For non- rifle nerds (or as John …
My return
Life got in the way of blogging the last few months, but it’s with a sigh of relief I return to Q. I’ve been busy with hungry sheep in a drought, learning the routine of publishing a magazine every month (The Shepherd), public speaking engagements (mostly touting the use of livestock guardian dogs in large …
We did it!
The Russian Life Silk Road Trilogy translation project is funded, in the eleventh hour– and it couldn’t have happened without Q Blog readers, who are at least a third of the 100 or so patrons (many first names only and not all up yet). Special thanks to Sari Mantila in Finland, who was my web …
Paisley Caves and Western Stemmed Points
Science News has an interesting article about new discoveries at the important archaeological site of Paisley Caves located in south-central Oregon. Dennis Jenkins of the University of Oregon has been excavating there for a number of years, and the site is already well known for its age, it has a buried component dating between 13 and …