This one is for Chad Love, in response to this essay and in thanks for this one .
Month: June 2014
Random Doggage
Micaela Lehtonen’s J Litter in Finland.
Why I Carry (part 2)
I read an editorial yesterday suggesting that “the only two legitimate uses of guns” are for hunting and target shooting. The writer advocated that guns be kept in armories, where gun owners would be able to come and check out their firearms for these uses. The writer of the editorial simply lives in a different …
Found Object
From Paul McCormack:
Anniversary!
Matt who keeps better track than I do tells me this is our NINTH anniversary. Hard to believe… but there have been 3583 posts! Maybe I can convince him to write something about this subject…
Shooting Smallbores
… and WHY smallbores. No time for deep analysis today– an eagerly awaited guest, last minute prep for the new tiercel including expanded housing, gunsmithery, cooking. But it would come as no surprise to most readers that I am down to using two smallbores: my all- time favorite English .410 (sold away years ago, fortuitously …
Hybrid Update
Terence Wright just last night sent this photo of the hybrid Black X Red Shouldered Hawk in CA, with this short note: “Here is a pic of the hybrid chick during banding.” We will continue to add any updates. I want to see what it looks like after it fledges– those are two such different …
Real time
Andre Baca took this phone shot of his uncle, my old friend Lawrence Aragon, and I at the Spur tonight, an hour ago.
Bumper Sticker
Seen on Colorado Boulevard in Denver, Monday afternoon: Sometimes I wrestle with my demons Sometimes we just snuggle
La Brea Bees
As I am interested in both bees and the Pleistocene, as any reader knows, this article about bees preserved in the La Brea Pits is impossible to ignore. Oddly, the best explanation of the methods and meaning of the find was in the Comments, by one John Turner: “The original article says the specimens were …