The first one is of Lashyn when she squirmed into a too small crate with them and almost squashed them. The neurotic old girl had NEVER gone voluntarily into a crate. We got them out by unscrewing one side but she stayed in long enough to snap a photo The rest are self explanatory– at …
Author: Steve Bodio
AR, PC, and all that
(They’re always out there). From Dr. Gale Goodman: PETA killed 95% of the animals they received last year. And they dare compare chicken farms to Auswitzch? David Zincavage reports on Thought Crime in Central Connecticut (which may be in a race with California and Maryland to be the most PC state): “On October 3, 2008, …
A (Hilarious ) Rant…
Annie Hocker sent me this rant from a park ranger. Couldn’t make the link work (bug in my Mac I think) but it is so funny I’ll print it all. Annie, maybe you could put the link in “Comments”? “To all “Happy Campers”Date: 2006-09-05, 12:00PM MDT Folks, yesterday ended the regular summer season. I am …
Raptor News, Good and Bad
Spain is worried about its vultures and wants to help them by allowing carcasses to be left out for them. Good for them. I’ll buy it all but “killing cows”– Golden eagles will kill calves, but Griffon vultures on cows?? HT Reid. Meanwhile, a few American Indians continue to slaughter Eagles for feathers and profit, …
A Few Quotes
From John Updike in 1992 describing writing book reviews: “Knitting and purling at these reviews seems to be harder work for me than it used to be; we feel like field mice painstakingly weaving our little nests while the shadows of the hawks swirl all around us.” HT Richard Francis. “If guns cause crime, then …
Back However Briefly!
Very busy with puppies and projects (and the flu) but the world keeps coming up with new stuff to annoy or enlighten. I’d rather take a break but eventually the pressure builds… Enlightenment and fun before the bad stuff! Darren Naish has been doing so many good posts I can hardly keep up. Here , …
Spring pronghorn
It seems like spring is a month early this year. The geese arrived the last weekend of February, and the prairie dogs are even peeking out, chattering at me and the dogs. As you can see from this photo, by last weekend, the snowcover was gone from the sagebrush, and the pronghorn were looking great …
Promised Puppy Pix
I didn’t get any of the girl this time, so just the three boys today (I think she was behind Lashyn). More to come.
Daniela is a Citizen!
Our friend Daniela Imre, whose photos and commentary appear here on occasion, and who owns the father of our pups, became a citizen of the USA today. It was the first time Libby and I had ever attended such a ceremony, and we found it extremely moving. Daniela was born in Israel, is a veteran …
Hell Freezes Over
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi oppose re-instating the so- called “assault weapon” ban.