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>Future Setter Man
> My grandson Liam with his new setter dog from Northwoods Bird Dogs
>Follow’n My Folly
> Avoiding black ice and traffic the other day while listening to the drone & thumps from the interstate cracks, I saw a New Belgium Brewing Company truck. The makers of Fat Tire had plastered the catchphrase of Follow Your Folly. Ours is Beer. obtrusively upon their beer carriage. Well, my folly isn’t beer, but…
>A Tale of Two Temperatures
>My brother Andy (the poet) and I spent the last weekend of the bird season on the Kansas prairie in the company of bobwhite quail. The weather was great…great…great, if you want to hit 18 holes. It was too warm for bird dogs in pursuit of our favorite game bird (or at least mine). We…
The Yardstick
Photo: birddogdoc The prairie is lonely, an environment thunderous with silence where only a strident high-pitched scream of wind keeps you company. On this day, I come to test my skill, to confront the elements and measure my conviction to find a needle in a haystack. Can a man find a quail on the prairie…
>Windmills
> I spend too much time raiding windmillsWe go side by sideLaughing until it’s right There’s something that you won’t showWaiting where the light goesTake the darkest hour-break it openWater to repair what we have broken There’s something that you won’t showWaiting where the light goesBaby anywhere the wind blowsIt’s all worth waiting for Pull…
>A View From the Kansas Prairie
>The remaining days of the bird season are coming to an end. I’ve enjoyed following my bird dogs across the Kansas prairie and dream of setter feathers in the wind and the roaring whirr of a 50 birder erupting from the short grass…organized-chaotically escaping. It’s been a grand season. My dogs are thin and worn,…
PULLIN’ THE JOSH
Call me nerdy, but I am always interested in learning about the meaning and significance of a person’s name. For example, I learned that my name, Andrew, comes from the Greek word, andreas, which means “of a man.” Yep, that pretty much covers it: I am very manly, after all. My oldest nephew Josh’s name,…
>Making of a Bird Dog
>Quail are the perfect bird to make a bird dog. I’ve seen several dogs have their lights flip and shine brightly while in pursuit of these delectable birds. I’ve also witnessed some season veterans go berserk. My first pointer, Jibbers, lost her mind once on a thousand bird covey of valley quail on the Snake…
>Bird Dog on a Hill…
>Today, being Christmas and all, I have a confession to make. I’m plum nuts about a 6 ounce hand full of feathers…not just any bird, but one that holds nice for pointin’ dogs and can explode and be gone in a mere blink of an eye. Leaving one standing with smokin’ barrels and nothing to…
BIRD DOG CHRISTMAS CAROLS
Sunny Girl, the Abominable Snow Dog. Here at Upland Equations, we love our bird dogs and we love a good bird dog Christmas carol. Some of our favorites are “Bark, the Hairy Bird Dogs Sang,” “O Howly Night,” “Bird Dogs We Have Heard All Night,” “Good Hunt Ye Merry Gentlemen,” “Bark to the World,” and…
Upland Ways 