We– Terence Wright, Karen Wetherill, their lurcher Loki (grandson of our Plummer and Lashyn), gyr- prairie tiercel Cog, Daniela and her smooth saluki pup Blaze, English master falconer and author of Game Hawk Ray Turner, Libby and Ataika and I– spent January 16- 17 hiking and hawking, first on high La Jencia Plain, on Lee’s …
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High tech herder camp
One of these days I’ll post some photos of the inside of a sheep camp, but meanwhile, enjoy this high-tech camp. The herder uses a solar panel to power his radio. This camp is parked in the Upper Green River region of western Wyoming, thick with grizzlies and wolves.
Weekend wonders
Jim and I had to make a run to Rock Springs, Wyoming to pick up a load of corn. Met this sweet sheepherder’s team waiting to cross the highway just north of that town. We also spotted a herd of elk that had migrated from the mountains to the high desert sagebrush near the Big …
Random Links, Good & Bad…
The Saudis believe they have thwarted an Israeli spy attempt— by a vulture. In the context of deconstructing a dumb set of generalizations by Dennis Prager, LabRat gets off a brilliant riposte (emphasis mine): “I absolutely believe he’s correct in that contempt is the most corrosive thing there can be in a relationship, and that …
Pistolero Query
Here are a couple of photos of my Smith and Wesson .22 revolver. I assume it is an early (post 1953) M32 “Kit Gun”– “assume” because it has no markings other than “22 long rifle cartridge”; “early” because of the two pins near the top of the frame behind the cylinder and the style of …
Soup in just four months
To illustrate how ignorance can sneak up on you: despite several years of gardening (and 40 years of eating), I didn’t actually know where broccoli came from until this season. In fact, it was more recent than that, since the broccoli I planted four months ago sprouted nothing even a little like broccoli (as I …
In which I quote myself…
At the end of the day it is hard to type and I want to go to the Spur to meet Lib. It has also been effin’ FREEZING, never good for PD. Which is my excuse for quoting from a letter to Brett Booth of Demonpuppy instead of writing an essay. The letter was mostly …
Some “Country” Music Videos: Nostalgia and Chills…
Not all “country” music is unsophisticated or even American. Here I give you a bunch of stuff I have been working through and following. Let us start with Tom Russell’s classic “US Steel”— a straight- up traditional country lament complete with sweet pedal steel, but set in Pennsylvania rather than on the border or even …
Signs
Two signs encountered by Sir Terence Clark in his travels. The first, which he is pointing to, means “female saluki” (I know Terence through the dogs– he is another scholarly dog traveller). It is in Tunisia. The second is in Kashgar–the Chinese consider our noses huge. (The Han at least– I rather doubt the often …
Commonplace Book
From the Essays of Montaigne: “The men who serve us do so more cheaply than our falcons, our horses or our hounds, and they are less carefully looked after…what menial tasks will we not bow down to for the convenience of these animals! The most abject slaves, it seems to me, will not willingly do …