Not all New Mexico hounds are tazi types; more are longdogs (locally more often called “staghounds”), deliberate and intelligently- bred crosses of various sighthound breeds. I have been hoping, and still am, that Clint Chisler would elaborate on the voluntary partnership between Lucy and a free falcon, but meanwhile here is his celebration of a …
Author: Steve Bodio
Lavenham (& a bit of Falconry)
My sister Karen Graham and her husband George just came back from England, where they visited what remains of Lavenham air base. My father served there in a B17 crew during the war. Karen is standing on the old airfield in the second photo.My father, who was an art student before joining the Army Air …
Chinese Elk Shanks
A Chinese red- cooking braise– good for any shanks, but you need strong tasty almost tough meat. What you should end up with is a kind of Chinese osso bucco with more than a hint of chile– restaurant good & fork tender. Mine but owes much to Fuchsia Dunlop… Preheat the oven to a pretty …
Rigby
The .275 Rigby takes a second elk for Jonathan. No seller’s remorse here. Well, maybe a TINY bit… but if they make us elk shanks a la Chinoise, more or less after Fuchsia Dunlap, I will forget it….
Dog News and Possibilities…
A future father of Q dogs? Shiri’s tazi Tavi who lives up the road. Still a pup but…A BIG descendant of Q dogs: Dan’s prodigious pup:Clint Chisler’s excellent longdog Lucy– there will be field tales soon…
Darne!
By cosmic coincidence not one but two of my old French Darne shotguns visited this weekend. Scott Elliot has the shot and ball gun designed for me. In this one you can see the quarter rib and sights… and the unique sliding breech:Then falconer and dog in- law Bodie Littlejohn came by after a duck …
John Lincoln Wright RIP
The finest country and country swing musician in New England, John Lincoln Wright, died last week at 64. He was a friendly acquaintance rather than a close friend; we attended Boston College together for a brief couple of months together in ’67 (we both left); and later I worked in a Cambridge bar (the lamented …
Terence Wright’s Cog
Recently Terence Wright’s 12 year old Gyr- Prairie tiercel Cog starred with partner Loki the lurcher in a video here. Yesterday he was killed on a jack by a coyote before Loki and Terence could get to him. He will be missed; he was one of the best hare falcons I have ever seen, and …
Armed Buddhists and Warrior Women (quotes); Mexican Gun Laws
“T’ang was the high point of much poetry, and of Ch’an [Zen] Buddhist creativity, but it must be remembered that it was not peopled by effete scholars in flowing robes who detested violence. It was a time of hardy Northern derived gentry who were skilled horsepersons and archers and falconers, hard drinkers and fighters. Women …
Wanderer
Josh and Stella, neighbors a couple of houses south, came knocking last night as we were going to bed. Libby called me to the door to say they had a “strange bird”. In the dim light of the entry I thought (perfectly reasonable) snipe or dowitcher, but when I welcomed them in and turned on …