The Gos is coming on nicely. In the photo I am talking to a neighbor, he has a full crop (and is fat) and he’s STILL being nice. WE have indoor dogs too- Ataika being ridiculous.
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A few photos
Our New Year’s run. Looking for hares: Plummer blurs by (forgive quality of the pic but I had to give credit to a fat 10- year- old lurcher who can still press a hare!) Coming back after a run.Antelope! (luckily I could call off the hounds– good dogs!) Tazis run by. Figures in a big …
Iron Men and Wooden Ships?
Cast- iron livers, anyway. John McLoughlin recently sent me a lengthy note on the water and rum consumption of the men of the Revolutionary War frigate The USS Constitution, better known as “Old Ironsides” I was going to excerpt it but it is too good to cut. “The U.S.S. Constitution, as a combat vessel, carried …
Meat!
Via Margory, some good food stuff: a new quarterly about meat called “Meatpaper.” According to their website, “Meatpaper is a print magazine of art and ideas about meat. We like metaphors more than marinating tips. We are your journal of meat culture.” According to the NYT: “This week the second issue of Meatpaper, a quarterly …
Dog Breeding– Again
Patrick once again documents the damage that the AKC, dog shows, and the idea of closed studbooks do to dogs, with many links. He quotes Donald McCaig: “Throughout the fight [with the Kennel Club], I kept stumbling over a simple truth without quite seeing it: dog fanciers and their creature, the AKC, really do believe …
New Links Plus
Sorry– my latest excuse is back problems. Sitting down for the better part of a year writing a difficult book is bad for your back– duh! But I have been accumulating links and going out with the hounds and taming the Gos (he is actually very nice) so…. “I tell you, Watson, the Giant Rat …
Rina’s New Bag
After nearly two seasons serving as a stand-in for a spaniel, my whippet decided last Sunday she wants to be a Jack Russel terrier. Patrick, eat your heart out. Why this didn’t happen earlier is a mystery to me. She runs across our native cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) often while flushing birds and snaps at …
2,000 Poles Walk into a Bar
Okay, kids, let’s talk ’bout that Krakow, aka Cracow, which is wierd if you know that ‘C’s in Polish are pronounced like ‘ts’ in English. So this city has two vastly different names. Cracow is prefered by graffiti artists, which caused me to think for a sec that it was an alternate, Anglicized spelling used …
Photoblogging: Ruru
A saluki friend in New Zealand, Graham Bond, often sends us bird of prey photos. Most recently, he captured these images of “Rurus” (Ninox novaeseelandiae, also known as “Morepork”), agile little insect- eating owls, catching moths in his porch lights. He writes: “These are a couple of poor quality photos that I managed to get …
Photoblogging: Winter
It is really winter. COLD,and snow coming every few days, though not much is sticking yet at our “low” 6500 feet. We took the hounds out running west of town where we hadn’t been in a long time. The fields hadn’t gotten much rain and were devoid of hare but we had fun anyway.Ataika is …