I’d never heard of it either. But Belgium is famous for more than ale. Evidently the country boasts a remnant horseback shrimping culture. “Men in bright yellow overalls and sou’-westers ride their plodding workhorses across the sands into the North Sea at low tide to trawl for shrimps in just the way that their forefathers …
Left Hand Brewing Company
One of the changes I’ve noticed in the twenty years we’ve been away from Colorado is the proliferation of micro- and mini-breweries here. As Matt pointed out when we talked about this, it’s sort of a “return to the future” as in the 19th century where most towns had at least one brewery. Competition in …
Our Roving Correspondent
Phil Grayson is stopping through Magdalena en route to Poland from his last job in Istanbul. I am hoping he will be posting himself soon from Poland, with his own password, but he has given me several travel essays to entertain you meanwhile. Here is the first. It’s Vrahati Time! A ways west of Athens …
Things I truly do not get..
Camo Bibles? (HT Margory C).
Phil Drabble
Richard, a commentor below, was kind enough to tell us of this obit for Phil Drabble Drabble was an old- fashioned naturalist, conservationist, and hunter of the kind we may not be breeding anymore. He kept lurchers and pigeons and hawks, and wrote books like A Weasel in my Meatsafe, Badgers at my Window, and …
New Dawg
Our friend Henry Chappell over at Home Range writes a good story about getting his new pup: a field-bred (ain’t no other kind) mountain cur. She’s a cutie. Incidentally, I’m always impressed by blog posts with dialog. “You don’t say?” I do. Chappell blogs like a writer of quality print features, which he is. There’s …
In Print
Steve has an article in the September/October number of Gray’s Sporting Journal, titled “The Power of the Dog”. Sorry this doesn’t link to the article, available only in dead tree version. And you should check out Pluvialis’ review of Mark Cocker’s “Crow Country” in the New Statesman. I’m doing my best to save them from …
Said Spider to the Hummingbird
While it is a documented fact that everything is larger in Texas, some things in neighboring Louisiana are also large. For example, take the Golden Silk Spider. Picking up my new hawk from his breeder a few weeks ago, I spotted one sitting in her characteristically large web strung between two hawk rearing pens. These …
Manioc at the Ceren Site
The NY Times and the Denver Post both have articles today on a significant archaeological discovery at a prehistoric Mayan site in El Salvador. Dr. Payson Sheets of the University of Colorado has been excavating at the Ceren site since the late 1970s, a 1,400 year-old site with miraculous preservation due to its burial by …
Sheep Dogs and Draft Horses
Yesterday Connie and I went to some sheep dog trials at the Colorado Horse Park, a large, beautifully maintained, multi-purpose facility that is just under two miles from our house. Though we’ve owned herding dogs for years and seen these sorts of events on television, it was our first time to see one in person. …