As a livestock producer, I have an everyday relationship with predators that seem to like lamb for dinner as much as my family does. Our back fenceline borders the Mesa big game winter range, which serves as a coyote refuge with human presence prohibited during the winter months. What to do? We have no interest …
Tag: Country Life
Harvest Time
From a couple of weeks ago, before the frost: Libby with Maximilian daisies in the garden in front of the homer loft With a fat female mantis, ready to lay eggs that will winter over. Our New Mexico Home Gym (crossed- out New Hampshire at the Nerds’ is a reference to Marko’s New England version) …
Couldn’t have said it better
From Peculiar: “I really don’t hope for much these days in terms of taxation, liberty, shrewd foreign policy, immigration, &c. About the acme of my fondest hopes for the next administration is a Forest Service with a reasonable budget and some BLM personnel with detectable humanity. I do think Palin has a certain amount of …
Lost Kitty
Paul Domski mailed me this poster under the head of “Why City People Shouldn’t Move to the Country”:
Sheep Herding
It has been snowing on Cat Urbigkit up in Wyoming (and Peculiar on the river in Utah) but it makes the steppes green. The puppies are bonding with the sheep, and all is right with the world.
Young Hawker
The cover of the Georgia Fish & Game brochure for this year. As Anne Pearse Hocker says, no “Nature Deficit Syndrome” here!
Sustainable?
I am not quite sure what I think about the increasing faddishness of some aspects of the local food thing. I appreciate the effort but there are things that disturb me about this New York Times piece on the “new farmers”. Can you trust anything that begins with the (built- in ironic) lead: “The Carhartts …
Wood Heat
Also from the New York Times: annoying poor people are firing up their dirty old woodstoves. I’ll give up my grimy old stove (80+ years– the woman who sold me the house, in her seventies, said it was their only heat and cook stove when she was young, and not new) when the Times buys …
Pictureblogging 1: Dogs
Some tazi shots: Vladimir’s enormous five- month old Urtak in Virginia, closely related to ours: And the very different year- old Russian “Semirichenski” male Timur– a bit like our Lashyn– playing with him. Good new genes. Lash and Kyran’s gorgeous daughter Nemrah at Monica’s in the East mountains. I hear someone offered John Burchard an …
Tomatoes
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 …