Not just for the birds
Surprised this week by the good folks at Project Upland: they asked if I'd be willing to be interviewed for their podcast series. I was happy to oblige, and really enjoyed talking with the host Nick Larson. This was the second interview I've granted in my short life; the first was in 1978, when a …
She did it They said it couldn't be done. They said it was impossible. They said, well, they said lots of things I can't repeat. But the one thing they didn't say was, "She'll never give up because she's as stubborn as an Appalachian mule." So today, Leslie proved them all right and wrong and …
It's been a while since I posted, so I thought I'd check in and say that we're still hitting it hard. We've tried lots of new places this season, and revisited some old ones, with mixed results. Last week I hunted four days in a row for the first time ever. Angus had to sit …
Hell's Canyon It's a small world, after all. Leslie and I spent last weekend downstream in Hell's Canyon. I was excited by the idea there would be loads of chukar there since it's similar terrain and elevation to the Main Salmon, where we did find loads of birds. Alas, we did not find loads of …
Chukar spaces It's rare in life to be embraced warmly by the unexpected, or at least in my life it's been rare. Now that we're "old people," I think I'm more attuned to the expectation that things shouldn't change very dramatically, but this seems dramatic somehow. It's not so much that I'm thrilled my wife …