Sully’s Day 3 with Grandpa. (Grandpa is still recovering from Day 2. Story pending.)
Off-leash.
Sully’s olfactory receptors gone wild.
Before I could catch him he was into it. All of it.
Bird Poop + Rotting Fish Heads + Found Egg Yolks = Dry Heaves = Vomit.
Here’s Sully now, purring like a kitten, while Grandpa gets ready for work.
Notes:
1) More pictures from this morning’s Cove Island Park walk here and here.
2) Sully backstory here.
Ara fa un any us vaig posar un vídeo molt semblant, però ja us dic que no és el mateix. Aquí veureu com una parella de mallerengues blaves examina la nova casa, fa el niu, pon els ous i cuida les cries. No us perdeu detall 🐣. 📹 Nest Box. pic.twitter.com/4S57xWigtV
— Barrufet del temps (@MeteoBarrufet) October 6, 2022
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“Now a year ago I put you a very similar video, but I’m telling you it’s not the same. Here you will see how a pair of blue tit examines the new home, builds the nest, lays the eggs and cares for the young. Don’t miss a detail” 🐣. 📹 Nest Box. pic.twitter.com/4S57xWigtV
— Barrufet del temps (@MeteoBarrufet) October 6, 2022
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Thank you
Notes:
Things were better at home when a chicken roasted in the oven or eggs cooked in a hot buttered pan… Cooking was a meditation, I thought. It anchored me in my body—here was my hand, holding a knife, slicing through celery. Here I was, standing on the black and white kitchen tile of my first apartment in Brooklyn, listening to records, making dinner. Here I was, I thought, living.
~ Sarah McColl, “Joy Enough: A Memoir.” (January, 2019)
Notes: Image: Better Homes & Gardens – Perfect Fried Eggs. Prior Sarah McColl posts
First day back after 2 weeks off…Sunny side up and Easy, way over easy…
Photo: Slowdown Studio (via Swiss-miss)
“In this exclusive clip from this Sunday’s Blue Planet II episode, we see Clownfish working together to move a coconut shell, which they will use to lay eggs on. This behaviour has never been filmed before. This is the incredible moment a family of clownfish work together to bring a heavy coconut shell back home. Footage from Blue Planet II shows the fish using all their strength and cunning to move the shell across the ocean floor – – pushing large objects sometimes up to 10 times their own weight – an incredible feat for a tiny fish. Of course there’s a serious reason for this peculiar behaviour. Clownfish – or anemone fish as they’re also known – need a suitable surface for their mate to lay their eggs on.
The anemone fish is surrounded by danger on the reef but finds refuge among the stinging tentacles of the anemone because it is immune to its poison.
The footage was filmed by producer Jonathan Smith and underwater cameraman Roger Munns using ground-breaking probe cameras. The lenses allowed the team to get right down onto the eye line of the clownfish. In total, the team spent 120 hours filming the fish in order to finally capture their collecting behaviour.”
Source: If you can’t see the video above, find it at Daily Mail.
Notes:
…every time we get a new cook in the kitchen we ask them to make scrambled egg and if they can make the perfect scrambled egg, you know they know how to cook properly…
Related Post: How To Make Perfect Scrambled Eggs – 3 ways (English, French, American)
I took a sideboard breakfast of scrambled eggs, thick-cut bacon, sausage, grits, peaches, figs, grapefruit, tomato juice, milk, and pumpkin muffins…
From my table I looked through long windows onto a tomato patch from the year before; a meadowlark let loose a piece of plaintive song in the mist, and a recognition moved in my memory as if I’d been here before.
~ William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways: A Journey into America.
Notes: Photo – Philip L. Hinton in Kent, UK with Early Morning Mist
Imagine you wake up
with a second chance:
The blue jay hawks his pretty wares
and the oak still stands,
spreading glorious shade.
If you don’t look back,
the future never happens.
How good to rise in sunlight,
in the prodigal smell of biscuits –
eggs and sausage on the grill.
The whole sky is yours
to write on, blown open to a blank page.
Come on, shake a leg!
You’ll never know who’s down there,
frying those eggs,
if you don’t get up and see.
– Rita Dove, “Dawn Revisited” from On the Bus With Rosa Parks.
Credits: Poem – Schonwieder via literarymiscellany. Image: Marc Gutierrez via Mennyfox55
Notes:
“It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.” Wallace Stevens wrote that, and in the long run he was right. The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. The mind’s sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious, clamoring mind will hush if you give it an egg.
~ Annie Dillard, Total Eclipse. Teaching a Stone to Talk
Image: Photobucket
Rob Firchau @ The Hammock Papers points us to a wonderful story at the Audubon Magazine titled: What It’d Take to Build a Human-Sized Robin’s Nest.
Find Rob’s post here: Nest.
And be sure to click through. Wonderful Story.
Artist: The one and only Marina Kanavaki from Athens, Greece. Be sure to check out Marina’s Happy Easter post.
“I allow myself
the luxury of breakfast
(I am no nun, for Christ’s sake).
Charmed as I am
by the sputter of bacon,
and the eye-opening properties
of eggs,
it’s the coffee
that’s really sacramental.
In the old days,
I spread fires and floods and pestilence
on my toast.
Nowadays, I’m more selective,
I only read my horoscope
by the quiet glow of the marmalade.”
– Dorothea Grossman, “I Allow Myself”
Credits:
BSS | Breakfast Interrupted from Bruton Stroube Studios on Vimeo.
Related Video: If you want to see how they made this clip, go here. Cool.
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