Since my Parkinson’s I have been left with a very small collection of interesting guns. It is more a scholarly or utilitarian collection than a pretentious one. A few are on lifetime loan rather than owned. Together there are enough he I can shoot anything from bad people to delicious birds before I die. There …
Author: Steve Bodio
Genealogy
My sister Karen was astonished when she took one of the popular genetic tests; things are not the way our parents told us! Instead of the typical Boston mixture of an Italian father and an Irish mother, as we’d always been told, things turned out to be a lot more complicated. To begin with, we …
Bitter Man with a bad Atttude
I have done virtually all my hunting on my rancher friend Lee Henderson’s land for years. He one of the funniest people i know, if you appreciate dark and cynical humor. A supervisor at one of his very rare off- ranch jobs once called him “a bitter man with a bad attitude.” We were both …
Ethnicity
One of the most interesting discoveries I made in Provence years ago was how close their language and culture was to that of my grandparents. Not only is my grandparents’ “patois”– their word– virtually identical to Provencal French- “ing “and “ung”´endings (wine is Ving and bread pung” {this is true to an extent in Medeieval …
Ink
Nice Darwin Finch tat: Not as nice as Lauren’s though
Silly Bird
The Aplo Tri- bryd is still ridiculous and still brainless but he is TRYING, and not squawking so much. Working him high, VERY high, is the key. Fire chief Mike Bisbee (who is married to my distant cousin Nina McCabe, and hails from NY) took these good pics the other day.
The Blog
Many people think I have lost interest in the blog, or that I am too sick to keep it up, or that there is no longer anything to say. NONE OF THESE THINGS IS TRUE! The fact is that my blog host has become increasingly hard to use, comments are no longer enabled, and most …
Bronze
Why I need th is brønze baby falcon by Peregrine O’Gormley at the Peters:
Great News!
Two days ago, Lauren defended her thesis and is now DOCTOR Lauren McGough. Now some well deserved rest, with eagle… Here she is on her first trip, st seventen (sixteen?) with the late Aralbai… All our love and congratulations!
Alive and Kicking
Contrary to rumors, I’m doing pretty well. I’ve had some trouble with the drugs but I’m still advancing to a second operation. Meanwhile, I have three books ready to go in quick succession. The first is my “legendary”– I know, I know, but it has been nearly finished and read by friends in “Samizdat” for …