With Taik. Think these two will work together?
Author: Steve Bodio
Magdalena Old Timers Fiesta
Good week with the hawk and with guest Annie Hocker; bad week with my right hip, and not very productive. But once a year, local patriotism demands I pay some attention to Magdalena’s only event that brings out of towners in. Yeah, it’s hokey and country and so what? We missed it when water worries …
Sunday Random Doggage
Micaela’s J litter in Finland with dachshund. I’d take that black and white pup.
Pre- flight
Pre- flight training at Lee Henderson’s La Jencia Ranch. In the last three I am alternating an oversized Kazakh hood he has been training with and a proper Gyr hood– the rest are self explanatory. Double or right click for BIG images. Lib reminds me to say that the ranch has good grass over most …
Querencia Must- Reads
This is shaping up to be a good year for readers, especially those who love both good writing and books “with trees in them”, to use the phrase that some anonymous first reader allegedly wrote when he rejected MacLean’s A River Runs Through It. The first, out in England just about now, is by a …
Update on the new kid
He is just at the age that he can trash the house, and soon we must take him up, but he is a lot of fun. What in the world do people talk about who don’t have animals? And what are these THINGS on my legs? Oversized Kazakh jesses designed for a Siberian Gos, too …
Another Quote
…just popped up. From John Stuart Mill: “He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. . . . Nor is it enough that he should hear the arguments of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. This is …
True Writing Quote
From Ron Hansen, quoting John Gardner: “My favorite piece of advice for beginning writers comes from John Gardner, that you should write the fiction you like to read. We immediately recognize phoniness or when a writer’s heart isn’t in the material.”
We Need More Feathered Dinos
John McLoughlin was writing about them in the late SEVENTIES. Isn’t it time yet to acknowlege, preferably before the next Jurassic Park, that dinos resemble eagles and turkeys and Roadrunners more than, oh, fence lizards? Especially with all the good artists around… These last would be so good if they weren’t lizard- naked! This guy …
Hans Windgassen, Pigeon Impressionist
The late Hans Windgassen, Pennsylvania artist and lifetime pigeon fancier, was one of the most interesting thinkers–no, scratch that, we were all interesting thinkers!– in our pigeon rearing art and genetics group. He visited once, but we kept up a constant correspondence, and the genes of pigeons he sent– our tastes were similar– live on …