Posted by admin on April 13, 2012 in
Movies,
Musings Our daughter, Sarah, and her husband, Baruch, are expecting their first baby in July. We have grandkids already. One, Justyce, is already zooming her way to young adulthood. The prospect for the arrival of a newborn is damned exciting. As I think about this new granddaughter, the season is Spring and outside the daffodils are [...]
Tags: Allman Bothers, Arizona, Baruch Ellsworth, Casa Grande, cast iron stove, cotton farmer, cowboys, Dire Straits, Geronimo, Idlewild South, James Rodgers, John Huston, Justyce Rodgers, Man in the Wilderness, Memory of Elizabeth Reed, movies, painter, plumber, prickly pear, Richard Harris, Richard Madewell, Rolling Stones, Sarah Ellsworth, sheep herder, Spring, Sticky Fingers
Posted by admin on March 30, 2012 in
Books,
Movies Last week Betty and I watched the 1992 rendition of Of Mice and Men starring Gary Sinise and John Malkovich. This particular adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel of the same name was predated by a 1939 version starring Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr. and Bob Steele. Sometime around 1952 or 1953, at 111 Beech Street [...]
Tags: Arizona, Bob Steele, books, Burgess Meredith, Casa Grande, chocolate chip cookies, Gary Sinise, John Malkovich, John Steinbeck, Lon Chaney Jr, movies, Of Mice and Men
Posted by admin on October 14, 2011 in
Movies When I was a kid in southern Arizona, I went caving and spelunking with a guy who was a middle school teacher in the town where I lived, Casa Grande, Arizona. We walked into basalt cave mouths in the Silver Bells and Silver Reef Mountains, and into our own little Sawtooths. We sniffed around for [...]
Tags: Arizona, basalt, bison, Casa Grande, cave bears, cave lions, cave paintings, Chauvet, film, France, Germany, horses, Lascaux, mine shafts, movies, Neandethal man, Paleolithic man, rattlesnakes, T. S. Eliot, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, University of Tubingen, Werner Herzog, wooly rhinos
Posted by admin on September 30, 2011 in
Musings Tuesday I went out back into the garden and picked a mess of green beans. Of all the things I harvest back there, the beans are my least favorite, not because I dislike their flavor but because they grow at just the right height for me to have to bend my knees and lean in [...]
Tags: agriculture, Arizona, beets, broccoli, Casa Grande, corn, cotton, farming, fields, green beans, irrigation, Lordsburg, mules, New Mexico, Pyramid Mountains, tomatoes, tractors, welfare
Posted by admin on August 26, 2011 in
Books I cleaned my office this last weekend and as I straightened the bookshelves, J Edward Chamberlain’s, Horse (Blue Ridge, New York, NY), fell on the floor. Horse is a narrative that laymen can read about how mankind and the horse have developed a somewhat unique, symbiotic relationship. As I hefted the book, an image of [...]
Tags: Arizona, betting, Casa Grande, Cloudcroft, cowboys, gambling, horse races, horses, hostler, jockeys, Los Conquistadores, New Mexico, pin ball machines, Prescott, quarter horses, Ruidoso, Sierra Blanca, Vietnam
