Sign snapped by Jonathan Hanson S. of I8 in Arizona. (He lives off the grid S. of Tucson).
Tag: The West
Larissa
Larissa came to visit last week with the Peculiars. We ate and drank and danced at the bar and had fun. We also went to the rifle range. Here is a photo by Mr P of me coaching her with the .45; Mr P rather unkindly called it “Boris and Natasha”. She IS 6’2″. Here …
The Mighty Tranter
While browsing at The Suburban Bushwacker I was introduced to a new blog With the unlikely name of Lone Star Parson. It seems SB and LSP were partners in a punk band years go before LSP became an Anglican priest and moved to Texas. Whether he was a gun nut in England or not, he …
A (Hilarious ) Rant…
Annie Hocker sent me this rant from a park ranger. Couldn’t make the link work (bug in my Mac I think) but it is so funny I’ll print it all. Annie, maybe you could put the link in “Comments”? “To all “Happy Campers”Date: 2006-09-05, 12:00PM MDT Folks, yesterday ended the regular summer season. I am …
Honored
Prairie Mary has just written a post that mentions us most favorably. I’m blushing. As we try to see through the fog to what will happen in publishing, we need such thought. BTW Penelope Reedy once printed my essay- with- recipe “Private Reconciliation Chile”, which also appears in On The Edge of the Wild.
Cat’s Yellowstone Wolves, and others
Our own Cat Urbigkit has just published a book on the Yellowstone wolves and their reintroduction (so to speak as you will see.) She brings a unique perspective as she is both a sheepherder and a naturalist- observer, one who can appreciate big carnivores but doesn’t want them killing her sheep or her livelihood. Her …
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 …
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 …
Crotalia 2: Hot Snake
After the last post LabRat linked in Comments to a pic of the delightful little Crotalus lepidus, the neurotoxic but sweet- natured banded rock rattler. Around here they live at elevations from about 7500 feet and up, in talus slopes, and have a very short “growing season”. Because of this they may be less picky …
“About Me”
Matt sometimes does searches that wouldn’t occur to me, and last week sent two reviews of Querencia the book from two excellent blogs. First is from Terrie Miller in California, who also sent me the wonderful Bouchon cookbook. She writes in part: “To many of us, the love of wildlife seems directly opposed to the …