Here are some heirloom tomatoes grown by Mr. and Mrs. Peculiar this summer in Colorado. The big ones in particular may have been the best I ever ate. It occurs to me that I, Libby, and the P’s were all born in cities, Lib and I in big ones, but we were not raised in …
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Hounds
The Asian tazi gene pool continues to expand– Vladimir now has three, in addition to mine and their offspring. Puppy Urtak is somewhat related to my dogs, and is going to be huge. Here he is at only four months with the full- grown female, Adel, who is closely related to mine. Timur, a young …
Invasion of the City Folks
Jonathan Hanson sent me this NYT article on rich city people who move to the country knowing it would both rile me and make me laugh. I don’t write about it much in the blog, but the subject is one I have been known to go on about a bit– well, maybe more than a …
Links
A guitar that looks like an AK 47. I agree with Mr. Massie. Sippican on creativity. (He builds fine furniture). “There’s a mindset that’s de rigeur these days that rules are for schmucks….(snip) “What utter bosh. Michaelangelo Buonnarotti Simoni painted some interesting things, and he labored under plenty of constraints, including: don’t piss off your …
Back– for a moment…
I am in the throes of completing Eagle. It is the hardest part, at least for me– getting all the illos, paying, begging (often repeatedly) for promised material, scanning (all slide scans must be done in Albuquerque, 100 miles away, and I don’t HAVE them all yet) and arranging them to Reaktion’s arcane system (on …
The World’s Tallest Horse
…..lives in Niota, Tennessee. That’s southwest of Knoxville. Reminded me of this post from last year.
Breakfast Time
The dogs let me know early this morning that this spike buck and two does were grabbing breakfast in the back yard.
Pre-Clovis Artifacts
The earliest currently agreed-upon date for human migration to the New World is in the Clovis period, about 13,500 years before present (BP). For decades there has been research to push the date back, to put the migration from Asia in what is called a “Pre-Clovis” period. A number of sites in North and South …
Tamarisk Removal
Chas has some new information on this subject, something I posted on back in August. I was stunned by this: “Today, the tamarisk are consuming about 58,600 acre-feet of water – 19 billion gallons – annually, but the number will grow to nearly 130,000 acre-feet annually – one-fifth of the water in the river in …
Heritage Turkeys
More turkeys in the news. We’ve gone from terrorist turkeys in Massachusetts to a NY Times piece on an effort in Kansas to preserve traditional breeds of domesticated turkeys. Here’s a little something from the article about what most of us will be putting on our table in a couple of weeks: “Virtually all of …