ellyssian: (Default)
Mina Ellyse ([personal profile] ellyssian) wrote2006-10-16 09:02 am
Entry tags:

Random Updatia

For those who don't check up on things over the weekend, a report about the hawk watch and dinner on Saturday - including links to pictures - can be found here, along with related recipes for Roasted Tomato, Pepper, and Onion and Fajitas & Salsa.

As pointed out earlier today, rather indirectly, there are many deer and very few cougars in these here parts. Yesterday, every time you'd look in the yard, you could find a deer or three. They really need to know what predators are like, because, obviously, I am not one in their book. The more they eat the things I plant, the more I almost start to wonder what they taste like.

Speaking of plants and eating, Justin and I really enjoyed the harvest of the kiwi. The hardy kiwi - a Siberian native, so hardy means something - has smaller fruit and is allegedly sweeter. It's supposed to be done cooking brewing ripening in September, and I tried one of the few that showed up last year, and found it to be harder and quite sour. These ones were a lot softer, for the most part, and those that were soft were sweeter than grapes. Yum!

While Justin was starting the car and scraping the frost from the window, I gazed around at the stars - even with the garage light blinding me, I could still pick out brazillions and brazillions of stars. Really makes you wonder what people were thinking when they light up a whole damn city and make themselves the focus of the universe, blocking out all but a handful of lights in the sky...

[identity profile] patrixa.livejournal.com 2006-10-16 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I was afraid you were going to say you spotted a cougar in the yard.

BTW: time to teach Justin car lore? Workings, choices, tires, engine sizes etc? I retained some lessons from my Dad from that age: when to adjust the mirrors, how the engine works...okay, I don't remember that, in fact refused to learn it, in fact. But I think Justin would learn it; i bet he's ready to learn more than starting a car and scraping off frost. You have an A-ONE son, ya know?

[identity profile] ellyssian.livejournal.com 2006-10-16 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
No, but when I told Tika and Tanis about [livejournal.com profile] kk1raven's discussion about cougars being released by the state to reduce the number of deer (they're not) the cats reaction was: "Yeah, I wish... can't expect us to chase the deer off. We're busy enough with the rabbits and chipmunks and mice and dogs and skunks and racoons and bears and orangutans and breakfast cereals."