Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Saturday, October 7, 2023
October 7, 1943. Murder
The Germans murdered 1,313 Jewish former residents of the Bialystok Ghetto at Auschwitz. Most of them were children. Bialystok's ghetto had seen a failed uprising.
Over 100 people, mostly Italian civilians, were killed when a bomb planted by the Germans went off at the post office in Naples.
The Japanese murdered 97 American civilians who had been held on Wake Island under the orders of Japanese naval commander Shigematsu Sakaibara (酒井原 繁松). He'd be sentenced to death for the event after the war.
Sakaibara believed an American landing was imminent, which would not justify in any fashion the murders. It was, however, what led him to give the order. After at first denying the murders had occured, he would ultimately confess to them and express regret, but also maintain that the Allies had no authority to try him and that his sentence was unjust following the American use of nuclear weapons.
The New Georgia Campaign came to an end with an Allied victory.
Lassie Come Home, the first Lassie film, was released.
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Sunday, September 17, 2023
Going Feral: Dove Opener
Dove Opener
The dog found a turkey carcass.
Two doves, with lots of shooting.
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Going Feral: Fishing season is over, and hunting season has begun.
Fishing season is over, and hunting season has begun.
Powerful Packers
Wyoming Game and Fish Department - Wyoming Wildlife Magazine
I'm still sympathetic to mules.
Friday, September 15, 2023
I know how.
I have lived in a cramped camper van with my wife and our cat for 8 years. Here's how we make it work.
You never had children, that's how.
The article was from Business Insider, which is on my news feed for some reason, even though I'm not really a fan of it. The headline comes from a blog entitled:
Now, I'll be frank that at my stage of my life, having worked since age 13 and now 60, a life in which I could take my wife in our camp trailer and go annually from Alaska back home, catching the seasons (fish, hunting, etc.) would appeal greatly to me.
It wouldn't appeal to my spouse, so this will be another dream unrealized.
But two young people living as vagabonds with a cat? Well, it's not for some reason.
Let's be even more frank. This trip is made possible only by the pharmaceutical industry as it's made possible, probably, only due to birth control. There's something weirdly narcissistic and self focused about it, therefore.
In a prior age, being an adult for most people meant taking on adult things, and that meant for most people, given the nature of nature and what that means, ultimately meant getting married and having children, the second following from the other. Chemicals made the first possible without the second, which ultimately radically muddled the minds of many as to the true, deep, existential nature of the essential act that goes with that marriage. In turn, that really gave rise to the "alternative" definitions of everything we have today, as the deep natural nature of that relationship became one for self defined entertainment, although at some level the deeper meaning is never lost.
Also lost, however, that going forward with the true nature of the relationship is deeply adult.
Or, in a former era, for one reason or another, it meant going into adult life on your own, and plenty did it. But that was a pretty serious affair in and of itself. People like to say "marriage is hard", which it isn't. Being on your own, as an adult, and as you age, is hard. Frankly, for most people, it got pretty hard in all sorts of ways by the time a person was in their late 30s.
Traveling by van around Australia? I'm sure it's fun. But is also dropping out, in more ways than one, including dropping out of a part of nature while viewing it. The cat? Probably not a conventional pet the way pets were in prior decades, but a substitute child, that instinct never really gone.
Dropping out, however, also says something about the state of our world.
Some people have always dropped out of the active world, to be sure. But it's become a sort of post-pandemic pandemic. Quietly Quitting, Laying Flat, and this. All symptoms of a world we've built that we don't like.
In an earlier era, this very British couple (and I know that one is Australian) probably would have met and farmed. They seem to be angling for a simple life.
One pretty hard to achieve in our world today.
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Saturday, September 9, 2023
Going Feral: Give a student a hand: Coyote - Badger Relationshi...
Saturday, September 2, 2023
Jerks.
I've been going through my camera roll on my computer, as frankly the organization was a mess. In doing so, I stumbled back across this photograph from last season.
This depicts some Colorado fishermen who nearly ran over my dog, which they could see, in their haste to get to the river before me.
Keep in mind, this is one of those classic acts that depends on me being rational. They were headed right for the dog at quite a speed and nearly hit him. I was caring a shotgun. No, I'm not going to shoot somebody over a dog, but in my legal career I've twice had instances in which a person very nearly did just that.
I went ahead and loaded up in the howling wind and hunted this stretch of the river anyway. They looked like they weren't doing well in the high winds.
And people wonder why us natives resent Colorado sportsmen.
Friday, September 1, 2023
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Sunday, August 19, 1923. Ada Delutuk Blackjack.
Ada Delutuk Blackjack was rescued from Wrangel Island. A Native Alaskan, she had survived alone on the island since September 15, 1921. The only native member of an expedition to the Arctic island, which sought to claim it for Canada, she had been hired as a cook and because she was good at sewing. The other members of the expedition died on the remote island or disappeared seeking to walk the 90 miles to Siberia to obtain help.
She was not completely alone. The expedition's cat, Victoria, also survived.
She took the job to raise money for her son's treatment for tuberculosis, and in fact upon her retrun moved to Seattle so that he could be treated there. Divorced from her first husband prior to the expedition, she remarried and ultimately returned to Alaska and died in Palmer at age 85 in 1983.
The object of a Canadian claim to the island was quixotic at best, as it is well off of Siberian Russia. The large island features flora and fauna, including large numbers of polar bears, but remains uninhabited by humans. It is believed the world's last surviving mammoth populations lived on the island, dying out only perhaps as recently as 2,000 years ago. Musk ox and reindeer have been introduced to the island for some weird reason, and wolves have reintroduced themselves.
