Raymond

Raymond Scully checked in to tell me he was doing the reading for the Audible Edition’s version of Hounds. I was delighted, because Raymond had previously read for Eagle Dreams, and had done an incredible job. He studies the manuscript minutely, and asks me about any pronunciation he has doubts about. This time, he sent …

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It’s a book!

The Hounds of Heaven is a book, though I have not seen it yet… Good thoughts and prayers for George please, who is in a critical point of his chemo.Get better and get out here!

Purdeys and such

Gun nuts are persistent, and nobody is leaving me in peace about the Purdey, so ONE more post, mostly a reply to my old Canadian friend “Lucas Machias”. I DID have a hammer Grant, a near equivalent and an original, not a restored gun, which I foolishly– since it cost a lot less- let go– …

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I’ll be back!

The Blog Party will be at Reid’s in Parker, CO, east of Denver, the weekend of June 11. Regular blogging will then resume. I couldn’t have quit if I wanted to with all the response! Health continues iffy: PD under control at the moment, but apparently a bad case of spinal stenosis is next on …

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4000 #7

It is hard to sum up one’s life so far even in seven posts. I hope you have enjoyed the ride… Taik’s mother was 14when she had her in Almaty- and lived past 2O. Turkmeni tazis make old bones…

4000 # 6

Kariba. I got killer Malaria there, and have never since been so fat (with those baggy linen trousers and horn- rimmed glasses, I look like Redmond O’Hanlon!), or so healthy. 1994 or 5, s. AZ. Doug and I have aged  some, but Jack has grown up, and now has a four year old son of …

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4000 # 5

Russ Chatham, artist, writer, entrepreneur, who published Q the book, with my parents in Newburyport, Mass, around 88 Libby with Vadim Gorbatov, who among other things, is responsible for most of my covers, FREE, on Lee Henderson’s ranch, where he  sketched the quail represented in the print below. Later at the Spur, he put down …

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