COLD DARK ROOM

[Kristoff]

Yeah, emus don't have a good reputation for being friendly...

Neither did my emo...

 

[Kristoff]

Happy Saturday roomies [emoji851][emoji217][emoji173]️

Happy Saturday, Noel! It’s Sunday here already. [emoji23]

 

[Kristoff]

If ur gonna eat rabbit you have to get past the hare.

As in “The Hare and the Tortoise”?

 

[Kristoff]

I think we have been down this “exotic” food theme once (or twice) before. I’ll chime in with having cooked and eaten Timber Rattlesnake when I hiked a lot in college (in Pennsylvania) as well as routinely eating camel when we lived in Libya. Sampled fresh camel’s milk in both Kuwait and Riyadh. It’s all an adventure.

I’d better not chime in. [emoji33] But I’ve never had any kind of snake, if I remember correctly (I do suppress these memories sometimes). Horse milk?

 

[Kristoff]

Good afternoon! The sun is setting here and it’s time to relax. We have had a nice productive day outdoors today in sunny 65f weather.. made a trip to town for groceries and greens..Sullies got to play outdoors for a bit . Daughter and I drug out the old corral panels and set up the round pen so we could work some lazy out of the horses. Spring is coming and they are pretty spoiled right now..I think we all enjoyed the attention though!
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The big Palomino is my baby who I rescued from an abusive situation a few years back.. he is 13 and should be named Mighty Mouse.. we have a special connection..the Paint is named Baby because I raised her from a foal and trained her. She doesn’t know she’s a horse. My daughter rides her now and she is 11..

What?? “Spring is coming”?? It’s the beginning of January where I am... [emoji23]
Beautiful babies. [emoji173]️[emoji173]️

 

[Kristoff]

And this is what my son did while we were working with the horses...View attachment 261447

Getting perfectly dirty. Good boy, Jayden! [emoji170][emoji170]

 

[Kristoff]

This pig thing is really catching on!

Sorry. It was impossible to resist. We never get boared of jokes in the CDR.

 

[Kristoff]

My husband does too.. double yuck

I’d share my chicken with you. The white parts. [emoji23][emoji23]

 

[Kristoff]

Good Sunday all.
Today is going to be a good day. I can feel it. [emoji3]
I think we might go to the beach. I will watch hubby do some boogie boarding, probably also take a nice stroll down the beach and see if I can get a nice tan.

I let scooby out into the front garden and he was jumping and hoping around in the flower bed. Thought nothing of it until I saw that he had caught a small bird. Then the chase was on, me trying to get scooby to drop the bird and scooby trying to keep it and play cat and mouse with it. I eventually managed to get it away from Scooby and have put it in the aviary. Hopefully it survives and I can then release is it. Shame poor thing it was so tiny.
Anyway I hope everyone has a good Sunday and I will chat later.

There was Heather with her impending spring, and now you with your beach?? [emoji33][emoji33] Some of us are in Denmark, for heaven’s sake!

Sorry about the little bird. Hope it makes it.

Have a lovely Sunday, Carol!

 

[Kristoff]

Good mornooning, roommates! A partly cloudy Sunday here. Hope daughter will be well enough for a short walk. I’ve had to tone down my ambition for a hike this weekend. Besides, I was silly enough to wear fancy boots to a dinner out on Thursday and my feet are still killing me over it. [emoji849]

 

[JoesMum]

I'm guessing the alligator meat was imported from Florida or another state in the Southeastern U.S.?

It may have been farmed in Europe. There are a few European farms. There's certainly one in France

 

[JoesMum]

My hubby goes on a goose hunt every year in February (snow geese I think) but he knows better than to bring any home.. his buddy’s get them all apparently it’s quite the thing if you get a banded one.. I don’t really understand that ....

If you have a banded one, you can work out the age. And some have been on the wing for far too long to be good eating

 

[JoesMum]

No alligators in England? I do happen to like the alligator meat..

We have very few species of reptile here due to the climate: 3 species of snake (grass snake, adder, smooth snake) and 3 species of lizard (common lizard, sand lizard and slow worm)

They are all scarce and protected..

My daughter is an Ecologist and gets to handle them. I post pictures of what she gets up to from time to time

 

[JoesMum]

No alligators in England. You don't have to worry nearly as much about what might crawl or slither out of the ponds and lakes over there, as we do in here in the South (U.S.).

Very true. Our insects and spiders are pretty much harmless or nuisance value. Our reptiles are small and few and far between. Only the adder is venomous and that is small and only a risk if you step on it. The sea is too cold for the dangerous sharks like Great White and too warm for Orcas.

We don't have nuisance mammals like raccoons. There are no big cats, bears, wolves or any other large predators as they were all hunted out of existence many years ago.

We have lots of lovely wildlife, but it's low risk.

 

[JoesMum]

Good Sunday all.
Today is going to be a good day. I can feel it. [emoji3]
I think we might go to the beach. I will watch hubby do some boogie boarding, probably also take a nice stroll down the beach and see if I can get a nice tan.

I let scooby out into the front garden and he was jumping and hoping around in the flower bed. Thought nothing of it until I saw that he had caught a small bird. Then the chase was on, me trying to get scooby to drop the bird and scooby trying to keep it and play cat and mouse with it. I eventually managed to get it away from Scooby and have put it in the aviary. Hopefully it survives and I can then release is it. Shame poor thing it was so tiny.
Anyway I hope everyone has a good Sunday and I will chat later.

5C here. I'll keep my clothes on thank you. Not that the sun is shining anyway. We have a blanket of cloud

Poor little bird

 

[JoesMum]

Good mornooning everyone. It's Sunday, but there is no rest for the wicked. The in-laws have recovered from their Christmas colds and JoesDad has decided that I am well enough to survive a trip to visit them.

 

[CarolM]

Me too! Not a fan of duck or turkey in general though.

Not a fan of turkey, but duck if cooked nicely is very yummy. Crispy duck with an orange glaze comes to mind.

 

[CarolM]

My first reading of “I had an emu for a few years” was food-related. [emoji33][emoji23] I’m on my first cup of coffee now.
I had an emo for a year in class. Not much of a character and didn’t seem interested in anything.

Maybe you should have shared your coffee with it?

 

[CarolM]

Are you still off painkillers, Carol?

Yes. I will take panado on the odd occasion for a headache but haven't needed painkillers for a while now.

BTW Your xmas card is also still on it's way.

 

[CarolM]

I’d better not chime in. [emoji33] But I’ve never had any kind of snake, if I remember correctly (I do suppress these memories sometimes). Horse milk?

Isn't it a Mongolian tradition to drink horse milk?