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  • Handsome Cowboy… Not.

    24 May 2011

    I’ve been thinking about Handsome Cowboys. Can’t say that I don’t have a few in mind to bestow the honor…

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  • Cowboy Ethan

    09 Mar 2011

    Spring, for some reason, always makes me think about Handsome Cowboys. They steal my heart in different ways. Sometimes its…

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  • Baldwin… I can explain…

    19 Dec 2010

    Maybe it’s because I’m old. Maybe it’s because he’s old. But I got to say, Baldwin, for his hairy self…

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  • Eric LeGrand

    31 Oct 2010

    I don’t know Mr. LeGrand. All I know of him is from the news. That and what his fellow teammates…

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  • This week’s Five

    Selected Fire Facts

    1. Over 1million acres burned in wildfires in Texas this summer.

    2. Wildfire is first recorded in the Late Silurian fossil record, 420 million years ago, by fossils of charcoalified plants. Apparently not due to anthropogenic interference.

    3. The name 'bonfire' is believed to be derived from the Celtic custom of burning the bones of the cattle which were slaughtered at Samhain - a 'bone fire'.

    4. Celebratory bonfires have historical precedence in Alpine and Central Europe, Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan Scandinavia, Slavic Europe, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and College Station.

    5. "He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances", quoted from Jack London in "To Build A Fire'.

  • In the most recent past…

    • Saturday in Patagonia
    • Patagonia…
    • Somewhere over the Austrian Alps, ca. 1991. Approx. 3500m altitude, declining.
    • 90 Minutes In Heaven by Don Piper
    • To Build A Fire
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