Thanks for the Feedback (Q Cover)

Our first attempt at crowdsourcing information is a success already, though it is not by any means over. I find it fascinating particularly because the general consensus mirrored mine, but also deepened my conscious understanding of what I wanted, instinctively as it were. Please feel free to continue to comment (if for the cover, still …

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Random Doggage

Bodie training, Albuquerque Nhubia’s new coat, Germany Daniela’s dynasty, Southern NM Dutch wins his own Desert hare Classic!

Dubious Characters…

Card game convened by Arthur, with the comment re the card sharp on the right, “But at least he ain’t no cheetah.” I ignored this and asked where the hell one finds a stuffed cheetah. Reid pitched in: “Says the man with a cave bear hand and mammoth hair.” I ignored this. Arthur explained, reminding …

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Why Anne likes Gyrs

I still plan to get a Gos, first anyway, but Anne Price makes a case. She says: “…  you need a gyr/saker complex critter, a gyrbrid, as you say: 1.)    An imprint tiercel will be nearly impossible to lose. Feed it on the car, the ATV, and it will just learn to come back there …

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Magdalena’s Poet

Bruce Holsapple wasn’t born here any more than I was (“I’m not from here/ I just live here”– James McMurtry); but sooner or later you make your stand. Would you not credit Gary Snyder and his adopted watershed in the dry Sierra, or me in my Querencia? Bruce has been here long enough to put …

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Happy Birthday 2

…  to Dr John Burchard, scientist, man of letters, scholar, adventurer in far places, and one of the best tellers of tales I know. As the old saying has it, he has forgotten more about “salukiformes” and falconry than almost anyone else in our time has ever learned. Like me, he was a Massachusetts boy …

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Hereditary cool?

My late friend Aralbai of Bayan Olgii was sometimes known as “The Coolest Man in the World”,  on the strength of this sort of… call it an Internet poster made (not by us) of him: Here he is in younger days, with his son in 1997 on our first expedition. He was a dedicated hunter, …

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