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European Longmire

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September 15, 2021

He carries a pack and wears hiking boots instead of ropers but I think I have found a European Longmire. Alex Hugo, The Mountain Detective, speaks French and lives in the Alps but he’s an unshaven single man in jeans and rumpled shirts with same good nature as as Walt Longmire of the Valles Caldera …

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Categories: Good stuff, The West•Tags: Longmire, The Mountain Detective•

Thin books

JR

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December 13, 2020

The last three books I read, by three of my favorite writers, were all pretty thin. They were rewarding in my hands and my head. I didn’t get bored before the end.

Categories: Good stuff, literature•Tags: books, deBuys, McMurtry, McPhee•

Escapes

JR

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October 17, 2020

For briefly escaping worries about pandemic, politics, water and wildfire, I am thankful for: Patrick O’Brian by day and Longmire by night … … birdwatching and walks in between … … the view west when the smoke has cleared … … fall colors … … company at hand … … and thanks to a delivery …

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Categories: boats, Cowboy, Good stuff, literature, New Mexico, sailing, Walking•

“Crazy”

JR

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April 17, 2019

My favorite discovery so far this rainy day is that Willie Nelson wrote and originally recorded “Crazy” for his 1962 debut album, “Crazy,” the song soon made more famous by Patsy Cline.    Willie Nelson, 1962:     Patsy Cline, 1962: I am a late learner, so please forgive me, those of you who have known …

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Categories: Good stuff, music•Tags: art, Crazy, music, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson•

Life in two sentences.

JR

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September 3, 2018

It is a stage of life when fondness for the Range’s linguine with basil cream sauce keeps me awake most of the night,  but I doze the next afternoon to stretch my legs over the mesa in the evening with my young dog and see rain walking over San Felipe and Santo Domingo pueblos, against darkening …

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Categories: Cowboy, Good stuff, rain, storm, seasons, Walking•Tags: home•

Winter company

JR

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February 23, 2018

Categories: birds, Good stuff•Tags: bluebirds, coyotes, waxwings•

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