Took a detour up the ridge on my way to chicken chores to turn on the well pump, and then impulsively decided to take the long way around. By the time I got home it was a sweaty hour out of the morning I had scheduled for editing, but I regret nothing…
A simply gorgeous morning, aside from the mud. The thermometer was scraping 40o in the shade by the time I got home and I think it’s going to get positively warmish. We’ve lost snow fast in the past two days but there’s been a high haze that prevents the sun from evaporating much of the moisture so the mud is fairly bad at present. Probably won’t improve much today since there’s still snow left to melt. But with some direct sun maybe we can get started on converting mud back to dry dirt.
And now to learn about the 1890 Berthier!
Hard to tell you had all that snow just a few days ago.
Never even heard of a Berthier, but man is that thing sexy. It’s sleek. Nice looking old rifle.
Joel, have you ever ready any of Edward Abbey’s books? He lived in the Southwest (died around 1986 as I recall), but sometimes you and he have an amazingly similar writing style. If you haven’t, let me send you a copy of his book “Desert Solitaire.” I think you would like it. Drop me a line a philipnolan1953@gmail.com and tell me where to send it if you’d like a copy. You can keep it when you are done, or pass it on to someone. It’s not fiction, it’s more of a memoir.
I have Desert Solitaire, and I have read The Monkey Wrench Gang. Abbey was an entertaining writer but he and I differed here and there on points that probably would have prevented us being friends. I consider us only superficially similar, to be honest. Appreciate the offer, though.
Well, he was a strange guy. It’s not easy being an Anarchist, and a conservative at the same time, which is probably why he was disowned by the left and there are entire web pages devoted to running him down. But he had a flair for writing about life in the Southwest, as do you. I haven’t read any of his fiction, should probably read “The Monkey Wrench Gang” as it seems to be considered one of his best fictional works. I enjoyed Desert Solitaire and the one about the trip down the Grand Canyon , can’t remember the name .