Tim Gallagher at Living Bird just sent me this note on the sale of Annie Oakley’s 16 gauge Parker hammergun. As you can see it is a nice little gun– but for $293,000, you could damn near buy my village, let alone house!
Month: November 2013
Three gurus and three guns: a silly photo post
I haven’t gone far. I have gotten several notes from friends who seem to think I am in some kind of death spiral. Not at all– just trying to get some work done under physiological conditions that make it difficult. I will post more pics and short stuff — and keep trying to master new …
New Addition to Dog Family
Bodie and Lyndsay have picked up a new Scottish deerhound pup– and met Miranda! More news when blogging resumes…
Can’t quit!
I will bribe somebody to drag me away from this computer soon, but a few things like this last (?) bunch of Laramie photos by Malcolm Brooks (click to embiggen) keep coming in. Artist Katrina van Grouw of The Unfeathered Bird, and me, in Laramie bar Carlos’s incredible library– I am holding a Spanish first …
Neuro blog post
My blog for the UNM Health Services site should be up soon here— perhaps in a day or two. It begins with my detststion of the term “progressive” as in “progressive disease”: ” It is part of the proper definition of PD: Parkinson’s is a “progressive” neurological disease. as I am a writer and work …
Still one more for game…
Eileen Clarke’s new book, Sausage Season, is the best on sausage making I have ever read, and I want to get out a review early enough that you can use it (or give it for Christmas). I have tried my hand making cased sausages, and so have friends in town. Almost always, the results are …
One more for fun
Does anyone know where this is from?
Hiatus?
I am (probably) going to take a break. I have no desire to stop blogging, but my energies are finite, and I NEED to get at least one and possibly two books going. It has become apparent that I am not getting enough done, and that I am often exhausted by end of day while …
Almaty Pigeons
Most readers will know that I love pigeons; some may know I am particularly interested in where domestic species come from, with emphasis on dogs and pigeons. The most pigeon – mad country I know is Turkey, which could be seen as a major source for western breeds. But the Turks say their breeds came …
Then and Now
Nothing makes you feel old as finding a photo from, oh, twenty years ago that resembles a recent one. The first pic fell out of a box a few weeks ago, and shows me and Annie P in our first year of teaching writing at the Wildbranch workshop at Sterling College in Vermont ; the …