Kittinguharmiut Song As I recall once moreThe time I drifted outOn an off-shore windAnd believed I was in danger, I recall again my fears,Those small ones I thought so big,For all the things I hadn’t yetAccomplished in my life. Yet there is only one big thingThat truly matters: to liveTo see the great day that …
Author: Steve Bodio
Woodpile
Them that knows, knows– the importance of this task, the beauty of it, and the satisfaction when you have split enough to relax…
Larry Benoit RIP
Legendary whitetail hunter Larry Benoit, of Duxbury VT, is dead at 89. he exemplified the Yankee blue- collar woodsman- hunter, and despite it being a how- to, his How to Bag the Biggest Buck of Your Life, a delightful read as well as a practical manual, would have made my book of books if not …
“Preppy”?
Reader Matthew remarks in comments below on my being such a “preppie” in my youth. Well, yeah, but life goes on and reality intrudes. Children become unexpected adults. And no matter how you strive, “Golden lads and girls all must/ As chimney- sweepers, come to dust…”
Range Session, Magdalena
“Guns that work”, to paraphrase Guy Clark…. Best quality Scott game 12 bore ca. 1918, waiting for the clay bird… Smith .44 “Mountain gun”. The trigger worked fine. And no grief for the Brit shooting cap please! 40 mph gusts precluded no hat, and I have never been able to reconcile shotgunning with my usual …
Fangio’s day drive and other cars…
Juan Fangio was a great driver who dominated Formula One racing in the fifties and later, along with the likes of Stirling Moss and Jackie Stewart. I am one of an aging remnant of mostly males (though another local friend and member of our band, Brian Romkey, reminded me of Denise McLuggage and Jean Lindamood, …
Guest Quotes– Teddy Moritz
Teddy writes: “Just finished a book by Christine Byl titled ‘Dirt Work, An Education in the Woods’. This woman worked summers on trail maintenance in Glacier National Park, and in several parks in Alaska. She talks about the grunt work, the digging and clearing and loading and discomfort of physical work. She loved it all. …
Worst Gun Engraving…
EVER? A “Palo Alto Rigby”, sent by Jonathan who has an old London one. Makes this English- made one, which we used to groan about, look quite tasteful. At least the lions are realistic… Do remember that both of these guns cost more than my house– come to think of it, the engraved coyotes cost …
Blizzard Whiteout
Eastern Montana writer John Moore alerted me to the great October blizzard in South Dakota a few days ago. I told him I would blog on it, but assumed something of such magnitude would soon get out. But nooo… apparently the actions of petty bureaucrats top any need to report the effects of the greatest …
Good Lizard
A melanistic Sceloporus in our woodpile amongst the hot- burning “pitchwood” pinon logs picked for fire starters, far from any black lava. Must ask Harry Greene if this is just the natural variation selected for on black Malpai rock…