Today I was supposed to be residing at a luxury hotel in Cody, Wyoming, scheduled to give a presentation about using livestock protection animals to the Western Association of State Agricultural Directors. Instead, I’m sitting in a pickup truck on the edge of my sheep herd, pounding the keyboard on the laptop and waiting for …
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Constant Apprentice
My dear friends Roseann and Jonathan Hanson, writers, scholars, adventurers, Arizonans, Africanists, connoisseurs of the good life, have (re)started a blog, The Constant Apprentice. I have the highest expectations. Here are a few images of them from my own files… I will let them explain the saber toothed skunk puppet…
SIlk Road redux
From Dmitry Kosyrev, author of the Silk Road Trilogy, via Kickstarter: “My dear friends, Americans, a few Russians from Russia, all 111 of you, plus many more who will read my novels after their successful funding: “What you did in suport of my books, letting them be published in USA, means that somebody needs the …
What…
IS Larissa doing? Photo via Mrs. Peculiar…
Mannlicher Schoenauer 1903 6.5 X 54
Thanks to readers, especially Malcolm in Montana, I have just gotten one- a unique one at that, and at a good price. Tools and loads are coming in from him and Steve in Washington, and another rifle was offered by the Atomic Nerds. Sometimes I love the Internet… For non- rifle nerds (or as John …
My return
Life got in the way of blogging the last few months, but it’s with a sigh of relief I return to Q. I’ve been busy with hungry sheep in a drought, learning the routine of publishing a magazine every month (The Shepherd), public speaking engagements (mostly touting the use of livestock guardian dogs in large …
We did it!
The Russian Life Silk Road Trilogy translation project is funded, in the eleventh hour– and it couldn’t have happened without Q Blog readers, who are at least a third of the 100 or so patrons (many first names only and not all up yet). Special thanks to Sari Mantila in Finland, who was my web …
Paisley Caves and Western Stemmed Points
Science News has an interesting article about new discoveries at the important archaeological site of Paisley Caves located in south-central Oregon. Dennis Jenkins of the University of Oregon has been excavating there for a number of years, and the site is already well known for its age, it has a buried component dating between 13 and …
Last nag & bleg
The Silk Road Trilogy translation, of course. I’ll be away with no computer for the last couple of days before the deadline. But all but 600 and a little dollars of the needed $15,000 has been raised, and it would be a shame to miss when we are this close…
Lauren In Kazakhstan
Lauren McGough is in Kazakhstan now, studying, handling birds, shooting a VEPR (thanks Darrell) at marmots and eating them, running hounds bred by Kostya (who bred our Taika) and of course drinking vodka (it’s mandatory). She is in the Alatau in the southwest, where the mountains end and run down to the Caspian Basin; fascinating …