Prior to picking up the puppies last week, I drove down to Durango, Colorado for the annual meeting of the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists where I was presenting a paper. On the way down I took this picture of Chimney Rock, in Archuleta County. There is an important prehistoric Puebloan site on top of …
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Two Puppies and a Baby
Puppy pick-up was last Sunday, when we met Curt and Susan Boyd in a shopping mall parking lot in Albuquerque. We couldn’t get over how much they had grown. They did fine in a crate behind the front seat of the Explorer. They slept most of the way back to Denver. We have decided on …
Wyoming
Every spring I try to take one person who has never been to a grouse lek out to see the sage grouse strut. This morning I took Haley out to a lek not far from home. We were driving in about 20 minutes before sunrise, rolling through the lek (which is adjacent to a gravel …
Legal cock fighting
I’ve spent several sunrises this week on local sage grouse leks. It would be a shame to live in such great grouse habitat without going out to witness the activities taking place on these traditional grouse leks (breeding grounds) at this time of year. It’s early in the breeding season, and the cocks are doing …
Ronald Stevens
This is not Bertie Wooster with a Gyr, but the great, innovative English falconer, naturalist, and writer Ronald Stevens, who lived for many years on an estate in Ireland and was the first falconer to understand Gyrs since the death of Colonel Thornton in the 1820’s.With then- young John Morris (my generation) he also bred …
The Riss & Tavi show
She is hunting again now, with Tavi and neighbor/ cousin Mars, and playing more including with big shaggy “uncle” Gaddi…
Occasional obligatory pigeon post
A pair of Cuban pouters I bred, at Mark’s in Iowa, tuning up for the season; a pair of old fashioned Scottish horsemen up a Tom’s on the Canadian prairie, strong enough to evade goshawks. Both are flying pouters, professional “thieves” and seducers; this video shows why, a bit (from Spain whence the game came).
On the other hand
My yoga instructor is a (real not wannabe) cowgirl. Her bumper:
But this has to stop
Zombies. Zombie targets? ZOMBIE FRICKIN’ TEDDYBEARS?Call me old- fashioned but I would rather my grandson did not play with the facsimile of a rotting bear corpse. I’d almost rather the real thing. Oh and– they have “cute” vampire teddys too. With dreadlocks.
Front Page
The local (not bad) paper. It is probably A Good Thing that the biggest above- the- fold news is that a dog killed another. But that damn COLON…. I am getting old…