I haven’t done this in a while, but today’s “comic strip” is a mash-up of panels from daily strips that will appear next week, a preview of cartoons beginning March 6. I know: it makes no sense really, but don’t you hate it when you sit through a three-minute movie preview and feel as if you know exactly what’s going to happen in the two-hour version? And when did “previews” become “trailers?” Have you ever sat in a theater and been invited to view “Trailers of Coming Attractions?” Somehow, I blame Turner Classic Movies for this. I believe TCM introduced me to the Hollywood term “trailer.” Now, the film and video landscape is littered with trailers.
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Considering what peregrines eat, having no taste may be a benefit! (Well, someone had to say it.)
Yeah, I know the usage is not exactly the same.
c x-p: Like most birds, but not New World vultures, they may have a poor sense of smell. They just happen to like their starlings and pigeons tartare. [New word to speelczech.]
Peace,
Goodnight. Boiled crawfish, gumbo and stuffed shrimp for dinner by Bayou. Only guests.
Speaking of good food. Bemidji has a new Thai restaurant, ‘Tara’: good food, good locally brewed beer, long wait to get served. [You order and pay at the counter, and get a sign that a server can see on your table.] Trouble is finding a table. Crowded place and I think too small a kitchen. Site is loc. of a former druggist downtown. Prob. worst on F and S evenings / the drinking crowd. Closed Sun. and M., I think. Beer pints are abv 5.6 or so up to 6.7 or so. Their stout and IPA are good [all I’ve tried so far]. They don’t have all of Bemidji Brewing’s beers every night. Last night they had four. Learned that they also do food takeout: phone, online, or in person [but probably w/ at least a half hour wait]. They are licensed to sell beer only by the glass. At BB itself, also downtown, you can get growlers, but not bottles. Good addition to a small city’s cuisine.
Peace,
I don’t suspect fresh peregrine prey would be overpoweringly olfactorily offensive, but think the orts outstandingly so.
c x-p. ‘Definition of ort: a morsel left at a meal : scrap.’ What’s left after peregrines and even larger raptors are through is generally small enough to simply dry up. The area below a nest can have a lot of guano, but that also dries. One summer, ’57, I think, in S MI, often visited a vulture nest in a hollow tree. I could see down into to it by walking out on a broken limb that rested against a steep hillside. Two sizeable young down there, who regurgitated first time I visited. Bones and such, + guano down in the nest, but enough air circulation that odor was only moderate. I’ve run into lots worse, mostly cleaning up after mammals at the Bronx Zoo.
Peace,
Ate at a Japanese restaurant tonight with clients. Much better food than last week. Had a Chicken Katsu that was phenomenal.
I posted a picture on Facebook on the Arlo & Janis page that was pretty good.
Today my youngest had her wisdom teeth extracted. She assures me her experience was nothing like this classic Tim Conway bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cUZhHS0PMM
emb
Did my student teaching in La Crescent 47ya.
Dad would have been 104 today.
Birds are not affected by peppers – so that is why you can put red pepper
in bird food to discourage squirrels.
One theory I heard was peppers evolved the heat so birds could scatter seeds
but mammals (who’s stomach acid would destroy seed) will leave them alone.
(What about gizzard?)
GM – Debbe, Mizz Charlotte, Jackie.
OB: Good thinking re gizzard. Some seeds may be resistant, survive the trip, and get dispersed / bird guano. Lotsa seeds get dispersed / dried mud on birds’ feet.
Think this will rid us of remaining snow patches and perhaps even most snowplow piles.
https://weather.com/weather/today/Bemidji+MN+56601
Almost certainly will have more snow in March [had 23″ in mid- or late March about half century back, when younger son was dwarfed by drifts].
Peace
Giraffe, at least one hippo.
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/african-safari-camera
OB and emb: Judging by the line of plants that have sprouted over the years directly under the power lines in front of our house, avian digestive systems do a good job of seed preparation. That includes the “cardboard plant” (zamia furfuracea) whose seeds we thought were too large to pass through the mockingbird without harm.
Speaking of food (which seems to run a close second to pokies here) I had something for supper last night that I’ve never had-German Sauerkraut pie. We have a small but very good German restaurant here in Dahlonega, and the special was the pie. Think quiche with bacon and cheese and a layer of kraut, and just enough egg mixture to bind it all together. The kraut gave just enough of a tang to be good without overpowering the bacon, and the whole was very good! I hope they have it again soon!
My favorite German food of all time is still jagerschnitzel (pounded pork/vension & mushroom gravy) with bratkartoffein (fried potatoes & onions with bacon/bacon fat) and rotkohl (red cabbage with apples).
I first ate that particular meal at a small gasthaus somewhere in the Fulda Gap between Frankfurt and the GDR. I was there as the chemical officer for a mechanized infantry battalion in the 1st Infantry on a REFORGER exercise. We definitely weren’t in Kansas anymore. I carried a paperback of “Red Storm Rising” in my BDU cargo pocket and read the non-classified version of our field-exercise while we were there.
I still look for that combination anytime I’m somewhere that has fairly authentic German food. I found a couple of pretty good places in Fredericksburg, TX. It was settled in the mid-1840s with both highly educated and working-class immigrants from Germany.
Combination of food that is… not the military deployment or the Cold War.
Heading north out of Franklin to make a stop in Lafayette at Blue Dog Cafe which is my favorite restaurant cum art gallery cum museum for the artist George Rodrigue.
Except it is a private collection of the restaurants owner and not for sale. Will report on food.
Had grits and grillades for breakfast, biscuits, French toast and pound cake, fruit. Didn’t eat it all.
Jean: Sounds yummy! Was that at Bratzeit? I’ll have to add that to our list of places to try next time we’re in your neck of the woods.
German food aficionados: when in the Detroit area, stop at the Dakota Inn Rathskeller. They opened in 1933, and their food and atmosphere has guaranteed their longevity. Also, while plugging Detroit-area dining establishments, I’d like to recommend the Blue Nile in Ferndale. No better way to fall in love with Ethiopian food and hospitality.
There’s also a Blue Nile on E. Franklin Ave. in Mpls. Elaine and I and friends ate there ages ago, and enjoyed it. Cannot get this site to produce a menu or directions. I know how to get there, but am familiar w/ the neighborhood.
http://www.menupix.com/twincities/restaurants/2305171/Blue-Nile-Restaurant-Minneapolis-MN
Peace,
emb, maybe this is why you can’t find menu: http://www.citypages.com/restaurants/breaking-the-blue-nile-is-closed-7883258
Mark, Thanks.
Sad. True Thai was also an excellent Mpls. restaurant, but [I think] the landlord had more remunerative things to do w/ the lot. There are other good Thai places / the Cities.
Peace,
Have you seen the video of 25 turkeys walking around and around in a circle? I said that I wouldn’t post it but I can think it.
Jerry:
I saw it on Ripley’s. They were circling a dead cat.
This Reticulated Giraffe [the prettiest kind] is going to calve sometime soon:
http://pix11.com/2017/03/03/april-the-giraffe-changes-some-behaviors-as-she-continues-to-prepare-for-birth-at-new-york-zoo/
This ‘New York’ zoo is not one of the 4 [+?] in NYC, but an upstate private one. Quarters look decent. Hope all goes well.
Peace,
5: now all 5 boroughs have one. The Queens Zoo opened in ’68, 10 yr. after we moved from Ann Arbor to Bemidji. It has a website. Peace,