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Post by drlj on Mar 11, 2023 8:00:26 GMT -5
Redwing blackbirds are in the trees along the pond. Spring actually is coming. Enjoy the day. Try not to be irritable.
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Post by billhammond on Mar 11, 2023 8:49:37 GMT -5
Redwing blackbirds are in the trees along the pond. Spring actually is coming. Enjoy the day. Try not to be irritable. Shoot a couple for me, willya, LJ?
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Post by paleo on Mar 11, 2023 9:04:00 GMT -5
Good cloudy, dreary, waiting for snow, morning.
Red winged blackbirds are interesting. On Last weekends (Friday) drive to Wisconsin, I kept scanning the ditches, looking for them and I didn't see one. Got up Saturday morning and they were everywhere. They travel north at night, I guess there is usually less wind then, especially head wind. There must be some really huge flocks, but we seldom or never see them.
Lots of sand hill cranes up there too!
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Post by Marshall on Mar 11, 2023 9:12:37 GMT -5
A pair of mourning doves have made a nest in the pergola outside our front window. They did the same last year, and a squirrel got the egg. I don't hold out much hope for this one's success.
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Post by Marty on Mar 11, 2023 9:30:31 GMT -5
Good morning. 27F-32F cloudy with snow later. DaWife is watching her Saturday morning cooking shows, some she likes. Currant one she is making rude comments about, a grilling BBQ show with Steve somebody, he grills weird stuff. Coffee, breakfast, shop and errands weather permitting. 9 Days Until Spring, we have Cardinals and Robins about.
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Post by drlj on Mar 11, 2023 9:41:32 GMT -5
Redwing blackbirds are in the trees along the pond. Spring actually is coming. Enjoy the day. Try not to be irritable. Shoot a couple for me, willya, LJ? Good eating but not a lot of meat on them. You need 10-12 for a good meal.
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Post by billhammond on Mar 11, 2023 9:50:48 GMT -5
Good eating but not a lot of meat on them. You need 10-12 for a good meal. Just as appetizers before the main squirrel feast. Love how in the photos below the squirrels have a decorative nut in their mouth, like roast pig with an apple.
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Post by drlj on Mar 11, 2023 9:53:14 GMT -5
Good eating but not a lot of meat on them. You need 10-12 for a good meal. Just as appetizers before the main squirrel feast. Love how in the photos below the squirrels have a decorative nut in their mouth, like roast pig with an apple. I will have to send you a squirrel skin cap. They are quite the Hoosier fashion rage.
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Post by billhammond on Mar 11, 2023 10:12:53 GMT -5
This just in from Onion News:
New Evidence Finds Christ Used Followers’ Money on Lavish Fleet of Private Donkeys
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Post by John B on Mar 11, 2023 10:27:58 GMT -5
Thought for the day. It especially applies to old-timers who have a lot of knowledge to be shared with younger folks. So if you know any old fogies, let them know.
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Post by epaul on Mar 11, 2023 11:23:42 GMT -5
DaWife is watching her Saturday morning cooking shows, some she likes. Currant one she is making rude comments about, a grilling BBQ show with Steve somebody, he grills weird stuff. Was it bear and mountain lion? That would our own, Major Minor. He's been doing the "Cooking the Mountain's Way" show for a little over a year now.
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Post by Dub on Mar 11, 2023 11:31:55 GMT -5
Shoot a couple for me, willya, LJ? Good eating but not a lot of meat on them. You need 10-12 for a good meal. I heard you need four and twenty.
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Post by billhammond on Mar 11, 2023 11:40:42 GMT -5
Just back from getting on a 90-minute waitlist at Sport Clips, so I went to the bank, picked up and consumed an Egg McMuffin, drove around a little, and during that time the snow that had started about an hour previously strengthened and the roads got super-slick, so I bagged the beard trim idea. It might be time to get those winter tires put on!
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Post by david on Mar 11, 2023 11:47:51 GMT -5
I used to hunt and cook doves and pigeons. Probably similar to blackbird. It added protein to mushroom soup. The occasional lead pellet was off-putting.
Back to work today. One other attorney in the building. I think he shows up to avoid honey-do lists at home.
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Post by TKennedy on Mar 11, 2023 12:16:58 GMT -5
Pat had to work today in St Paul so we drove 45mph from Alexandria to St Cloud in snow and wind, then it got better. Was planning on going back tonight but that does not look like it will happen. Fookin winter wonderland out there.
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Post by epaul on Mar 11, 2023 12:33:18 GMT -5
We are getting it up here. Lots pf snow. 4" easily so far on its way to a now projected 9" or so. Temps are moderate so it is, outside of the event cancellations and cleaning up part afterwards, a Winter Wonderland. The snow is fluffy and bright. And it is really coming down.
(I can hear Chomper pacing in the garage. He's ready and raring!)
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Post by Russell Letson on Mar 11, 2023 12:37:54 GMT -5
More than twenty years ago, I was invited by a playing partner to join an Irish band, Ring of Kerry*. So I rehearsed with them and played two paying gigs, and then was let go by the founder/leader. It was a reasonable decision on his part--they didn't need a second (and at that point, second-rate) guitarist who couldn't sing harmonies reliably. But I remained friendly with the band, wrote liner notes for their CDs, and even played 12-string on one track. (Mercifully way down in the mix.)
Last night, after a COVID-driven hiatus, they had a delayed twentieth-anniversary show, and they asked former members to be part of the program. Including me. My job was to accompany my old picking partner, now wheelchair-bound and unable to play guitar, as he sang a couple of his showstoppers, "Mountains of Mourne" and "Black Velvet Band," from his place in the front row. The band came downstage to play "Mountains" acoustically with us, and it went over pretty well.
* The best mostly-German Irish band in central Minnesota. Also, in its original lineup, the Three-Fifths Guys Named Paul Band.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Mar 11, 2023 12:42:48 GMT -5
Well, it’s not snowing here. Chilly and damp though. Need to run over to the store for some veggies, and that’s it for the day. Nita is making vegetable soup,
Mike
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Post by John B on Mar 11, 2023 12:45:43 GMT -5
A pair of mourning doves have made a nest in the pergola outside our front window. They did the same last year, and a squirrel got the egg. I don't hold out much hope for this one's success. Mourning doves are interesting birds. I get the feeling that they're not too bright. But they seem sweet. I scatter seed on the ground for them, because they can't perch on feeders. I do have a tray feeder that they can use because it's a platform they can land on and take off from, but they prefer the ground. The couples are cute. I try to give them their space.
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Post by John B on Mar 11, 2023 12:47:13 GMT -5
Also, in its original lineup, the Three-Fifths Guys Named Paul Band. I think I bank with them.
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