Looking Good?

Margory was kind enough to suggest that I looked good in the photo below. Thanks, but not a chance! Working hard, maybe, but not “good”. There are times, though. In these I am trying, not very hard, to keep the dogs from sharing a couple of Green winged teal that Tom Quinn recently sent me. …

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Quinn is 80

I dont believe it– he looks and acts younger than I am (if bigger).. Congratulations Tom– not so much for attaining 80 but for keepimg up your standards… “Draw brave!”

Solar System

Jack and Eli have built a model of the Solar System at Deep Springs: For several weeks, Eli and I have been planning and assembling an accurate scale model of the solar system stretching from the main campus to the lake corrals. We expect to put it all in place today. You may notice some …

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Professional Travel Writers

I’ve heard it called “explornography”. I don’t want to do it. In The Folk of the Air, the great novel about, among other things, Berkeley and the Society for Creative Anachronism, Peter Beagle, in the person of his protagonist, Joe, had this to say: “No,” he said. “It’s like the trouble I have when I …

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The New Bird…

is an (A) good big boy Aplo/ (B) little male Gyr {C) BIG… hybrid of unknown gender. We tend to call him “him” but are looking for a genderless trial name until or unless we have “him” DNA tested. Meanwhile, he’s a sweetheart– look how calm he was putting on jesses (Yeah, I KNOW, two …

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The return of Chatham

Those that say that there are no second acts in American life have obviously never met the painter (writer, publisher, restrauteur, etc.) Russell Chatham He has to my certain knowledge cycled from serious rag to serious riches four times, and it may have been five or six. In his various reincarnations, he has returned from …

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SLOOOWLY

..everything. But I m now convinced that my karate- competitor neurologist, Dr Jill Marjama-Lyons, will do the operation or operations to correct the mistakes made by… another team. My impatience is palpable, but we are all keeping a sense of humor. A new drug schedule has me moving again. A bird or birds (Bill?) will …

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Here tomorrow

Ezzie’s chick: Matt thinks that before their feathers are sprouted they are too young to leave mother, but I say it is the perfect time for the cat feeder to do its magic work.