We usually try to have our sheep shorn in mid-April, but this year, we had to keep putting off shearing as we were hit with spring storm after spring storm. Even after the rains stop, the wool has to dry before we can shear. We were finally able to shear this week, just in time …
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As Promised
Puppy pix! Shunkar with his dad, right up the street at Daniela’s. Irbis (brindle), Kira (red) and Jengiz (grizzle), last day together. Irbis and Kira (we kept Mr. I, and Kira went to Dave in Utah). Jengiz wrestles with a new friend at John B’s in California. That is his half- sister behind.
Russian Art
Let this one load all the way. The thing to look at is not the second rate Gorbatov imitations (the falconry one is almost a direct ripoff), but the still life pics at the bottom. I love the Russians but sometimes I don’t know quite what to say.. HT Chas
The “Mammoth Killer”
Walter Hingley sent this good collection of links, pro and con, on the possible asteroid hit that may have contributed too the late- time extinctions. Maybe we didn’t eat them all.
Dino News
Did dinosaurs go extinct 300,000 years AFTER the Chicxulub impact?? “We found that not a single species went extinct as a result of the Chicxulub impact,” said Gerta Keller, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University, in a release distributed by the Geological Society of London. “These are astonishing results.” From the April 27 date …
More State Overreaching…
.. here and in England. A good update on the other disastrous bill in the House. Still ANOTHER HR atrocity: a bill to censor (among other things) the web. I know they don’t get the Second Amendment; apparently the first is missing too. The day I have to say nice things about PETA or gun …
Car Skeet
Todd Dixon sent this amazing video of a …car shoot? Funniest video since “Harden the F**K up!
Latest AR threat
HB 669 is one of the worst proposed laws yet against the ownership of animals, and would totally outlaw the breeding and transfer of ANY species deemed”exotic”. Ostensibly authored by representatives from Guam, whee they have a real problem with brown tree snakes, it would shut down the pet industry and much of falconry (NAFA …
I’m back
..this time i hope for a while. Puppies (there will be pix) were the dominant reason but there was also a terrible inertia and depression and “what will I do next?”, added to by insomnia (the return of the dreaded kingbirds to the tree outside the window). I need to rewrite 14000 words on the …
Progress of the revolution
The past month of revolutionary action hath wrought food and rumors of food. Although still another month from the possibility of daily produce–and further from a tradable surplus–we are grazing now on lettuce and berries and basil. Behold, the vast acres: