“Dirtwinger” videos

Warren Spencer, seen here at the wedding below, has been putting up videos of our falcon- tazi- lurcher teams at “Dirtwinger”. Most if not all dogs here bred by us or “granddogs” of our stock… Here are two of them of Warren’s breeding (we own all grandparents) with Terence’s late Gyr- Prairie tiercel Cog on …

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Karen Wetherill & Terence Wright Wedding

A brilliant, beautiful entomologist, reigning expert on the wild bees of NM… …marries a longdogger… … and a fine celebration follows. One amazing thing was the amount of “dog relatives”– I think everyone in the photos but one has a descendant of our hounds, plus many others present–!

Back to the World: News

… slowly… Just finished writing 80,000 words about 100 sporting books. It went too slowly, as PD hits right in the parts, so to speak, that need to sit in a chair and type– two things I don’t do well these days. A lot was dictated and I don’t do THAT well either, I am …

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Jane Huntington Weiner 1917- 2012

Jane Huntington Weiner, Betsy’s oldest sister and surviving sibling, died, lucid to the end, in Massachusetts yesterday. She was born in 1917 in Anwei, China, raised (by strangest coincidence) with Libby’s mother Patty Lucas Adam, eventually came to the states, attended Radcliffe, and survived an adventurous youth to become a serene mother and gardener and …

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Silk Road Trilogy Project

An innovative approach to publishing and natural for Q fans, on so many levels: The Silk Road Trilogy translation project on Kickstarter! Central Asia, the Silk Road, falcons and horses, China, literature, cyber- publishing; what’s not to love? Please consider pledging a bit to make this happen- time is short! Russian Life’s blog will report …

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Weekend Links

… good, bad, & strange. Bear with my light blogging for a couple more weeks please! First, good: Tazi pix! Right from the source, Almaty & environs– the bearded ethnic Russian guy is Konstantin Plakhov, who bred our Ataika, seen here as a pup at Kostya’s there and as a matron, here, below. Libby with …

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Gratuitous Dog Pic

The Riss in “full suspension gallop”: Scribble, scribble, 71 plus and counting, tick, tick, tick…

A Few Links From Me, Too

Walter Hingley sent this link to John Hawks writing on the kurgans, the icy tombs of the Altai. I hope Reid has time to say more, as he can put them in context more than I can. Actually I have seen quite a few, in the Altai region of Bayan Olgii in far western Mongolia. …

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