Despite work and deadlines. Daniela visited with grandpup Shunkar; we attended a belated “Christmas” dinner chez Lassez (Xmas tradition for many years but snowed out of the Muleshoe Ranch high- altitude site; also Lib’s birthday). Boeuf bourguignon (spelling?) and, from us, a braised hare appetizer c/o the late Cog, with chile & Chinese spices. Pix: …
Tag: New Mexico
The Kazakh Bird Dog
When I got Ataika from Kazakhstan years ago her people insisted that a good tazi would also work as a bird dog to the gun, and wouldn’t need much training. Atai has always worked as a hare courser and a falcon’s partner (see last weekend’s post) and during the one month she was taken out …
Weekend Hunt
We– Terence Wright, Karen Wetherill, their lurcher Loki (grandson of our Plummer and Lashyn), gyr- prairie tiercel Cog, Daniela and her smooth saluki pup Blaze, English master falconer and author of Game Hawk Ray Turner, Libby and Ataika and I– spent January 16- 17 hiking and hawking, first on high La Jencia Plain, on Lee’s …
Visitor
John Davila, one of my oldest and closest friends in New Mexico, is a former rodeo cowboy and a rancher with land- grant roots who lives where he was born, many long dirt- road miles south of the pavement in Catron County. These days he raises half- Japanese grass- fed cattle, another story, and manages …
From New Mexico…
I don’t usually pass on Internet forwards but this one from Gail Goodman is irresistible for any New Mexican. All true too… You know you’re from New Mexico if. . . . You’ve had a school day canceled because there was 2 inches of snow on the ground. You know what an “arroyo” is. Your …
Season’s Change: A little Photo Bogging
… to hold you. Apologies for light content; I have been very busy on everything from house repair to mushrooming to just exercising for my health (exhausting). I am also trying, no, plotting, to revive Q- the- Book, at least in NM… Meanwhile: Monday, my neurologist gave me a thumbs- up. Performance was up in …
Random Doggage– Our Pups and Lineage, in Part
I need a new pic of Irbis who has two more weeks to go as a house dog but is driving me nuts as he is in full active mode. Here, to scale, is the plate that saved his leg, now one of my myriad desk chotchkes. Hard to believe it was inside his leg, …
A True Tale of Bureaucracy and Individuals
I posted this as a comment below but decided it could stand as a post. Re “individuals” and beaureaucrats. When Libby was in Bozeman an INDIVIDUAL woman who disapproved of Libby’s keeping company with a hunter (really) got the town to go after our then third dog, as no one could keep three without all …
Tony Hillerman RIP
Tony Hillerman, the “Anglo” novelist who depicted the Navajo nation so well that they gave him an award, has died at 83. His mystery novels may be the best door into understanding Navajo culture, and Navajo country, that exist. He was also a good and kind man. In the 80’s we both belonged to a …
A Vadim Gorbatov original
Lobo and Blanca from the recent Korean edition of Ernest Thompson Seton’s turn- of- the- last- century “Lobo”, about a cattle- killing wolf in New Mexico. At that time Vadim had not yet visited us, and in gratitude for our supplying background photos of our terrain, plants etc. he gave us this wonderful pen and …