The best, amazingly, (other than Rudyard Kipling’s maybe, and Kipling is a minor god) is Ogden Nash: My little pup ten years ago was arrogant and spry Her backbone was a bended bow for arrows in her eye Her step was proud, her bark was loud, her nose was in the sky, But she was …
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Plummer lurcher: March 1 1999- Dec 13 2012
My old dog Plummer is gone. He was born (bred for us, a Hancock designer NM blend of greyhound and bearded and border collie) in David Hancock’s kennel in an England that still allowed hunting with dogs, and died in his bed in his home in New Mexico. Once the greatest single- hand hare dog …
Saturday Signing
Understandable Error, Matt!
I don’t know about a banana (see Matt’s comments below) but most Americans would see a double rifle from England, with its barrels arranged side by side, as a shotgun. We have not quite NEVER built a double rifle here but I would be surprised if we had built over 100 in the last century. …
Wrong, Dead Wrong
Steve and Friends, SECOND UPDATE: Alternative gripes substituted UPDATE: MATT ERRS IN FIREARM ID. Lawd. How funny is that title now? The following gripe is totally without basis (see gun link). But I leave it intact, like a coyote pelt on a fence, as a warning to others who dare to tread where they have …
Magdalena Pics
My computer seems to have problems– have plenty of material but posting will be slow until they are deciphered. Meanwhile some light photos from the Spur Christmas party last Saturday for your amusement (if I try to link the machine will pinwheel for ten minutes) plus one of Phil’s grandfather John Foard that I have …
Jutta’s pair- week’s pick
Taalai and Nhubia: the eternal game:
One More Quote
From Jules Older, The Writer’s Lifeguard: “Job applications used to routinely ask you for your hobbies. I always proudly answered, ‘None.’ I’m a man with goals and dreams, passions and projects, not hobbies. Real writers don’t do hobbies.”
Pointing Dogs
There are breeds other than tazis that I love, and places other than New Mexico. Daniel Riviera’s team is on the Northern Plains.
Literary Cartridges
What famous short story do these two very distinctive cartridges represent?