It is almost 30 years since Robert Bakker referred to Tyrannosaurus rex as the “roadrunner from Hell”. Some of us, like John McLaughlin, got the message right away. After all the intervening years, as the lines between “bird” and “dinosaur” have become blurrier and blurrier, the Zeitgeist is finally catching up. The first big “bird”, …
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Geo Quiz
Where did I take this photo?
Disaster averted
Where to start? We had been extremely happy with Mima, for several weeks. We even took her to Wyoming with us as you can see on the blog. She was gradually reducing and was almost down to 800 grams. I was planning to fly her free this week, and was just trying to get the …
Brave Friends and “Progressive” Diseases
As some know, it makes me irrritable when I hear degenerative diseases like Parkinson’s described as “progessive”– only for the disease, as my friend Emily says. Yet progress still does happen. My friend Dutch Salmon has had our mutual condition for about two years longer than I have, and he has had a hard time …
La Loca
First there were my old friend John Davila, Catron County rancher, world traveler, jack of all trades… in the old days and today. and his then wife Becky… They were among the first friends I made in New Mexico. They are in Querencia- the- book in several places, and came up to Albuuquerque to comfort …
Hares (and coyotes) beware
Lauren is coming…
Good Book Quotes
From Joe Queenan’s One For The Books: “I love to pull my books down off the shelf and read striking passages to baffled dimwits who have turned up at my house.” And: “”Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.”
A book cover we would not likely see…
…today:
I want these
Plates by Vadim Gorbatov
New Darnes!
Jacques Bollelli has revived the nearly dead Darne company, and is planning to make a few very high grade guns. Although these are beyond my reach I am delighted to see the old design going into its third century with renewed vision and originality. Jacques writes:”As you know we are starting to reorganize the team …