Cancer Posted January 5, 2017 Report Share Posted January 5, 2017 Aaah, the traditional dessert properly prepared by letting it rot in the back yard for three days. Yummy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 5, 2017 Report Share Posted January 5, 2017 Om nom nom, not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 5, 2017 Report Share Posted January 5, 2017 Obviously neither of us are Finns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 5, 2017 Report Share Posted January 5, 2017 I am, on dad's side. Tornedalian Finns. The language didn't pass on from my grandparents, though, and neither did the food culture, thank God. On my mother's side we're Pitebor from many generations back, which means we can eat as much palt as we want! That's food! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 No one in my family has claimed Nordic ancestry, but with all the British there's certainly some in the mix if you could look back far enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 Any idea from where on the Isles your ancestry's from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 I have ancestors in Denmark within six generations on both sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 That's pretty recent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 The grandfather who is closest to a cipher claimed Welsh descent. Utterly no way to check that. The other grandparents have at least believable claims to ancestry in North America going back before the American Revolution, including one whose tree includes a Mayflower passenger. So lots of English & Scots. I haven't seen any explicit claims to Irish ancestors, but as motley as the bloodline gets in places, who knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 7, 2017 Report Share Posted January 7, 2017 My wife tells me that yesterday here at home there was an episode where she could hear many -- upwards of a dozen -- crows around the house, screaming for all they were worth. Then she saw the reason fly away: apparently we had had an eagle standing on our roof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Other birds don't like the Eagles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Those other birds just need to Take It Easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Easy like a Sunday mooo-oo-ooorniiiiing ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Um, not quite what I was going for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Mayhap -- but it's what ya got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Easy like a Sunday mooo-oo-ooorniiiiing ... Sunday morning there's a halo hanging from the corner of my girlfriend's four post bed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Sounds like a Dylan song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Not nearly so erudite, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Is it by Jack Black, then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Sunday morning there's a halo hanging from the corner of my girlfriend's four post bed... That's where she puts them before permanent mounting in the trophy rack, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Mmm ... rack ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDarkness Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 My wife tells me that yesterday here at home there was an episode where she could hear many -- upwards of a dozen -- crows around the house, screaming for all they were worth. Then she saw the reason fly away: apparently we had had an eagle standing on our roof. We have a lot of hawks in Kansas. Our house is about ten minutes by highway from the city, and about five minutes from the boondocks, so usually, five minutes one way, and its farm houses and big hawks on street lights. One day, my wife shouts for me to look out the window. I do, there's a hawk across the street in our neighbors yard chowing down on a rabbit. I'm looking, when I hear my wife going out the door. She's got a camera in her hand. I follow her, expecting her to take a picture from our side of the street. No. She crosses the street, and then slowly sidles up and takes a couple pictures. Then, sidles closer, more pictures. In the end, she's no more than three feet from the hawk, and she takes a whole roll of film of the hawk eating, looking at her, eating. She's an awesome, dangerous woman. Unfortunately, the camera's shutter was apparently broken in a closed position. This was in the days of film. No pictures whatsoever, she rails about this loss to this day, while I assure her, the best pictures of that day are still in my head. She calls me a kiss up. I don't argue it. She's got hawk allies, I'd best not make trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 9, 2017 Report Share Posted January 9, 2017 That's a nice opp. I've had a hawk almost drop his dinner on me ... half-eaten pigeon falls from above next to me on the walkway, and when I look up, there's the Cooper's hawk looking down at what he'd dropped. Nice of him to share, but I wasn't hungry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 9, 2017 Report Share Posted January 9, 2017 Was it tagged? Or do you know this Cooper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 9, 2017 Report Share Posted January 9, 2017 Hm, they are just North American; for some reason I thought they were also in Eurasia. Cooper's hawk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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