Young Eli

I’ll slow down the doting grandpa stuff after this weekend but here is Jack’s own link to Elisha Joseph (a middle name he shares with my dad, who has often featured here) Frishman, with pix funny and touching. Jackson also sent some excellent pix of the late Big Eli that sum him up better than …

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Baby Name

He’ll have a good old- fashioned name, “Eli” (Elisha) after the late Eli Tripp, our “other kid” in Montana and a worthy namesake. My obit quoted his local one for some examples of his interests. “In addition to taking courses at NYU Film School and MSU, Eli was a student of life, backpacking in Europe …

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Long Awaited?

Well, yeah. Here is Niki last week at a St John’s reunion dance with Larissa. I can’t believe she could still walk never mind dance, but this IS a woman who climbed Mt Taylor’s 11,000 plus feet while visibly pregnant!

Q Blog Post 2500: It’s a (big) boy!

A delightful coincidence: I had hoped for something good to blog for # 2500 but never dared dream it would be this good; the long- awaited birth of the”Peculiar- Querencia baby”! On Sat Oct 1, after two strenuous days of labor, a vigorous boy of 9 pounds 12 ounces (about twice as big as I …

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Mongolia Bad?

More Boston. A good person- but she did not approve of my encouraging a young woman to go to Mongolia,and I am not sure I ever convinced her…VERY grumpy. Two deadlines down and a big one still to go. I need a weight machine; more, to GET OUT. But duty calls…

Q o’ D

(On racing and boxing, grumpy): “Riding horses to exhaustion and punching each other in the face under agreed rules are worthwhile and manly pastimes, far better pedigreed and infinitely more exciting than hitting balls with sticks, tossing leather bags across a field, or chasing a puck around on ice.” John Derbyshire

Cladistics

From the always reliable XKCD, via Jonathan who just emailed that he was in Nairobi impatiently waiting to go out in the bush. We should all be so lucky as to have THAT cause for impatience!

A Few Links

I have been neglecting my blog family. Check the sidebar for new additions to the blogroll- Border Wars, and my neighbor (forty miles on dirt roads) Morgan Atwood at Rum & Donuts, who has abandoned his pseudonym “Nagrom”. Also, LoARSqred, partner of MDMNM of Sometimes Far Afield, has moved with him to Small City NM …

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