Monday, February 11, 2019

We've moved!

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Every decade or so, technology requires us to lurch forward into modernity. After almost 14 years, on the Blogger platform, Steve Bodi...
Tuesday, January 01, 2019

More Burkina Faso- and what one man can do...

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Tom wrote this to an even better- known hunter: Dear +++ I guess I don’t see a downside to “saying something.” Fear of looking ineffect...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Burkina Faso

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TOM McIntyre writes: I am trying to bring the ongoing critical wildlife situation in Burkina Faso to the attention of people (literally an...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Two Autumn Poems

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Every year I print these two poems. One was composed in the Connecticut River Valley in the 1950s. The other is from Provence ca 1925... ...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Blues

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I think my remedy for the blues may be to buy a Boss I cant afford. Seems logical...

Tommy Mac and Beckett plus

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Ace big game hunter Tommy McIntyre (who is disturbed about Burkina Faso the way I am about Turkish Kurdistan , for the same reason and with ...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

The Illustrious Cripple, the late Bill Wise (so self -described ) amidst haunts and passions...

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Bill broke a vertebra surfing with Hobie Alter at 26 and forgot to pay attention. He lived and adventured, shot deer and geese, sailed, coll...
Thursday, December 06, 2018

Bob French, RIP

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One of my oldest and best friends, Roberts French, died in Santa Fe a few days ago. I believe he was 84. He survived a year longer than the...

Quote

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"Writers are usually embarrassed when other writers start to “sing”–their profession’s prestige is at stake and the blabbermouths are l...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Walter Becker, RIP

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Walter Becker slipped away last year, causing barely a ripple in the media. He was half of the writing team of Steely Dan, along with the mo...
Friday, November 09, 2018

Inspiration

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I am proud to be published by Karen Myers' Perkunas Press, and even prouder to be the first writer in her Beyond The Ridges imprint. Kar...
Thursday, November 08, 2018

Bird

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He looks pretty relaxed these days. Now to find him some quarry.... The next is from another life, forty- some years ago, when I lived...

It's a book!

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Tiger Country is available from the publisher, in various format at https://behindtherangespress.com/books/tiger-country/". .. and fr...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Quote

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"The land was not to blame. It was up to the individual to decide whether to live here or not..." Chingiz Aitmatov
Saturday, October 27, 2018

Ever Closer

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It's coming ... I have lost the mustache because it made me look deader than old. Using this pic:
Monday, October 22, 2018

The Hawk

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Until last week he was rhe worst hawk I have ever owned, the worst hawk in the world, a complete malimprint, the only one i have ever owned ...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

The Artist's Son: for my Father

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A version of this appeared in Anglers last year, but in a low- toned gentle version that made my Dad simply a sad nice guy. Fact is, Joe B...
Monday, October 08, 2018

Kaa's Hunting-- Eli's version

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My step- grandson Eli turned 7 the other day, and I am gratified that he is becoming a proper "Rudyardite" (see Kipling;s own ...
Sunday, October 07, 2018

Big Snake

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A bull or "gopher" snake crosses our road at sunset to deal with the plague of mice that resulted as we shut down the big pigeon...

Is Felis concolor the Boojum?

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"He had softly and suddenly vanished away For the snark WAS a Boojum you see..." In Memoriam: David Robinson Update: it WA...

I still like Gyrs

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And near Gyrs and hybrids of all kinds and Sakers-- "Itilgas"-- best. Unfortunately most of my hunting pics were swallowed by the...
Tuesday, October 02, 2018

What Remains #2

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Since my Parkinson's I have been left with a very small collection of interesting guns. It is more a scholarly or utilitarian collection...