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...looks like a scene right out of Hitchcock's The Birds.
BTW one of the actors in that film was Doodles Weaver who beforehand was a member of Spike Jone's City Slickers.
...that is beautiful.
...when I lived in New Orleans, they roamed freely around Audubon park across from Loyola and Tulane Universities. Yes pretty, but so obnoxiously noisy.
@LG: Peacocks are hella loud. Pretty but noisy! :-O
Non-complaint: The last couple of weeks has been prime maple sap season. Freezing nights and above freezing days, makes the sap rise during the day and fall back to the roots during the night. Weather like this makes the trees produce a lot of sap. Should be a good year for maple syrup if this type of weather lasts another couple of weeks. I care because I have family in the business. Some of my earliest memories from back in the early '50s were visiting the "sugar shack" and watching the huge trays of sap boiling down into thicker and thicker forms until it comes out of the last tray almost syrup, where it's taken into the house to finish boiling off into quality syrup under close watch. Or continue boiling until it starts to crystalize and is poured into forms to make maple sugar candy. Mmmm, yum!
I'm so old I remember the horse drawn sleds that carried the hundreds of galvanized buckets to the tapped trees in the forest, and the barrels of sap back to the sugar shack. Then after being out in the snow for a couple of hours,walking into the sugar shack and being hit by the warm steam that smelled of maple. Making a clean, pure, snowball and having hot maple syrup dripped on it.
"Wax on snow".
Now days of course tractors or snowmobiles take the place of the horses and some places have the trees literally plumbed to drip their collection through tubing directly down slope into collection vats.
Don't know why I'm waxing so nostalgic today.
..I think it's contagious, I did that last night.
Birds still equal dinosaurs. I don't understand the attraction. Yes, they have their purposes but put them near your face and let them live in your house, and let them poop on your shoulder? I've probably told my story about my experience with parrots so I won't go into it today. Birds. Bah, humbug! Disease carrying dinosaurs that are a good source of protein when cleaned and cooked properly.
https://www.chobani.com/recipes/baked-apple-cider-doughnuts-with-maple-glaze
doh no image link flash poots
Yeah birds may be close to dinosaurs ,which means they are the closest to dragons as pets .......plus my parrot carries on better conversations then either of my ex husbands ,he doesn't take all my money ,or take the car and come back without it either ,and since at some point I had to clean up nastier stuff from the ex's a little bird poop anin't nothing .......plus he's got a good sense of humor ...
That looks like a flying bait ball ,both are beautiful fluid ....
https://greatlakescuisine.com/2013/11/16/maple-glazed-pheasant/
Finger food:
Australian natives had the right idea about those little parakeet type birds (budgerigars or "budgies"). The story I heard is that when asked by early Europeans what those little birds that flocked in the millions were, the reply was "budgerigar", but the meaning "good eating" went unexplained.
When I lived in Winter Park (just above Orlando) there was a park with peacocks in that area. I've forgotten the name of the park but it was well known.
Hmmm, it seems in the decades that I've been gone from Florida, peafowl (cocks & hens) have proliferated in the central Florida area. Children being attacked by peacocks in parks and people complaining about them scratching paint from cars and causing traffic jams in other cities. https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/residents-say-peacocks-are-taking-over-winter-park-neighborhood
Drinking tree blood! :-O
Ihad a gffora while that had 2 parrots she let run loose in the house. 'Nuff said. :-|
I like birds if they're outdoors, like the small group of mourning doves this morning. Very handsome birds, mourning doves.
As far as pets, I prefer, in order: freshwater tropical fish, lizards, snakes. Then dogs. Hamsters might be interesting, too.
They just need more huge snakes, giant monitor lizards, and gators. Should fix the bird problem ASAP. :-/
A beautiful morning, 68f at 8:45am, overcast, mourning doves just now moving off to seek breakfast. Supposed to hit 86f today, 80f tomorrow and mid-70fs the rest of the week.
Been spending too much time going over my life. Geez, not even 60 and I'm a geezer! So far only came up with 3 real regrets, so I consider that a win. Lived fast but didn't manage to die young, ugh. Could definitely have had it worse! At least it waited until I got old for things to fall apart, next incarnation not so much Dr. Pepper and cld pizza, I hope! :-O
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Pen y Fan is the highest mountain in the Brecon Beacons range. I live in what is poetically called "The foothills of the Brecon Beacons"
Pen y fan yesterday (taken from the ski centre)
and today
I'm an arboriel vampire.
Granted bird poop isn't the worst pooper people keep in houses. I've had my share of problems with dog poop, cat poop, I've known people with problems with pig poop (PIG POOP!!)
And then of course there's baby people poop but the careful parent can usually contain that for the few years necessary. But when I hear of someone with a problem with hippopotamus poop in the house I won't feel any pity at all. Stupidity is its own reward, just not often enough.
I like spiders. As long as they're outside, not threatening to be on my person, and not obstructing my movement.
We have to tolerate spiders because in our whole lives we're not often more than 5 feet from one. In the walls, under the floor, in the furniture, etc... When I lived in Florida I used to wander the big ranch fields west of Melbourne looking for psilocybin mushrooms growing out of the cow dung, and quite often came across a grove of palm trees with hundreds of big ugly spiders with huge (several foot) diameter webs hanging between in the trees, but rarely down low where a cow or person could walk through them. Scary to walk under hundreds of 4 inch diameter legs. I forget what they're called but they area black and yellow spiders with bodies the size of a half a cigarette, hanging above your head. The only thing that calmed me down was that I knew they didn't jump. They just chilled in their web waiting for food to come to them.
Spiders were welcome in my garage, they kept the cockroaches and mosquitos at bay but if the spiders ever got into the house they were fair game.
Non-complaint: Had to do something with a pound of hamburg I defrosted a few days ago. Diced up a few onions and added the hamburg and cooked them together, opened a big jar of tomato sauce, threw in some mushrooms, added some chopped tomatoes, chopped up half a jalapeno pepper, lavishly dusted in some chili pepper, and cayenne pepper, tossed in a can of kidney beans, boiled up a box of spaghetti, cooked up my sauce, tossed in the cooked spaghetti and mixed it all together. All that remains to be done now is portion it out into freeze containers and clean up all those pots & pans and various utensils and wipe down the splattered sauce from wherever it flew. Tested my creation (chilighetti?) for lunch and it is yummy.
Makes 12 big servings. Thank science for a freezer.
LOOLOOL
I like spiders! I prefer jumpers and wolf spiders, the little hunters. I've held huge tarantulas, in high school biology class in Scottsdale AZ. our biology teacher was a wacko! He passed around spiders, snakes, vinegaroons, millipedes.. my parents had to sign a release for me to take the class!
The big web-spinnders I'm not really down with. Even spider-lover me thinks they're ugly blobby critters. :-/
AAACCCK!!! RUN TREE RUN!!!! :-O
...Wait... run? :-|
Bleah, it's not that hot outside but it is stupid humid. Not a lot of fun outside, thankfully I have a near-infinite supply of ice water so it's all good! Could be worse.
medical bills started coming in
foot dr and antibiotics came to 380.
nothing yet from cardiologist and tests he ordered.
they so eager to put a camera up my butt, they should be paying me! lol
Please understand when you grow up on a farm like I did, the family relies on a vegetable garden for much of the food we ate year-round. We canned and froze much of our summer crops. Some birds such as crows, starlings and grackles are garden pests and have to be controlled or they can cause great damage to crops. My brother and I still make a garden in the summer.
To a college student in the 70's, the cheaper the beer, the better. Old Mil' was the cheapest around.
Before and after the world clanged from black and white to color.