VERY nice new female Aplomado which came with brain installed, including her own ideas about where to sit. She is already flying to the T perch I am using with the Harris below. Stay tuned….
Author: Steve Bodio
One more light one…
This amazing illo of a mammoth apparently walking out of a frozen bank is from a 19th c childrens’ travel book. The text is sensible enough but the ilustration almost made me buy the book..
A Little Place Marker
Plenty of material, madly busy, but this image, courtesy of John L Moore, will stand, as truth, as a testimonial to my old rifles, and to my vanity that my hair is growing back, if not quite here yet. At least I can go out now without a hat…
Chris, RIP
I wrote the first part to my old cowboy friend Wade’s relatives, so he would know : “Christine Leister, Omar Qureshi’s ’s first wife and very close to both Wade and me, died as peacefully as one can at dawn yesterday, in Cloudcroft I believe, of recurrent malignant melanoma, with her son, her parents, and …
Classic Childrens’ books
… and their lack of modern political corectitude. From Jack, on Honk The Moose, which he was raised on too: “The joys of classic children’s books! “When a Finn gets mad he doesn’t do a halfway job. First he gets madder than a Chinaman; then he works up through the Italians and the French and …
More pigeons
Must be in the air. Anne Pearse Hocker just sent this piece from the Guardian about how they may be better at detecting tumors (visually, from X rays) than humans. Their rate of detection is something like 99%. Actually I am not surprised– much “Dinosaurian” visual acuity exceeds that of us mammals. And Tesla, everyone’s …
Domestic evo
Nobody cares about the biology of domestic animals– something I hear about on campuses all the time, from traditionalists who are told that they’re irrelevant AND frustrated innovators who KNOW they are seeing something new. Johnson and Janiga’s wonderful Feral Pigeons was all but dismissed as trivial for years. “Domestic” pigeons are damn near as …
Undue Influence
E Donnall Thomas is an old friend who has written many good books, and had many adventures. In our neck of the woods he is best known as the guy who convinced David Quammen that at least some hunting of mountain lions was OK after David editorialized against the practice, by taking him out with …
Eli
Eli overlooks his world… Eureka Valley Mining equipment Eli says: “We’re Scots, so we can toss big trees like the Scots do!” “[Optimistically] We could have centipedes for dinner!” “Special Padda [ ie Father] juice means beer!”
The LC 16: what it IS
The “weird gun” is finished. A 16 bore wildfowl gun that weighs close to 8 pounds, with 30″ Damascus barrels and full chokes, it appears distinctly pre – modern. Which it literally is- an early grade 2 LC Smith from about 1904. But it was not unique in its day. So many of us use …