Aphorism

“”A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter is not a nice person.” (Sent by Jonathan Hanson).

More Visitors

Who but Arthur Wilderson would visit and bring obscure, beautifully- made Czech battle rifles, other military goodies, a bottle of cherry dessert wine from a Colorado winery, and friends, Nate and (female) Evan, with interests in everything from fossil cat cladistics and Darren Naish’s blog to Asian falconry and cartridges I had never heard of? …

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Quote of the Hour

“I believe a real sense of home comes from being surrounded by the things that are essential to your life; anything that’s unessential diminishes that– and makes life less meaningful” Jake Schaefer, creator of Tumblewood Tiny Houses

A small reward

I have an irrational love for small biomorphic objects– toys, sculptures, pins, animal images from other cultures. My family knows this. Last weekend, in celebration of the imminent publication of An Eternity of Eagles, the Peculiars picked up this tiny Harpy eagle, carved from a native nut by some South Americans, at the International folk …

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DONE!

.. and going mushroom hunting. Yesterday at around 11 PM Libby finished the last book cover scan for the book of one hundred books; by midnight I had them back on the shelves. After almost two years of writing two books to deadline– what next? Well, start to write a couple more I suspect. But …

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Weekend Visitors

.. amidst the chaos of book- ending: dog- in- laws Dan and Margaret of Shot on Site, Hare- Brained Express, etc etc, who have bought a bookstore in Deming, dropped by with seven- month old “sisters” Dragon Tatoo (“Toot”), the deerhound, and granddog H1lda (not a typo), who is from Lash and Plummer and Dutch …

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Pigeon Pix and Apt Descriptions

I realize that not many readers are pigeon fanciers but I have been since I was eight, and pigeons are an integral part of life at Casa Q. Those who find them a bit low- class– I once reviewed a book for the TLS which was generally good, but which remarked that pigeons were unattractive, …

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