Common pheasants certainly do where I am, not enough domestic turkeys roaming the forests here
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For me, it's a kind of parrot called maritaca, also penelopes sometimes.
No turkeys were i am but we got a pond in our garden and its currently breeding season for toads. Its quite an orchestra every night
Turkeys were exterminated from Longview, but I swear that I did hear them one morning. Most likely domestic, or they had escaped and were in the woods somewhere...
What is actually scary is being waken up by a fox. Oh, and bullfrogs if you've never heard one before or you're extremely tired and not thinking
Congrats, now I’m craving burgers too
I usually do a mixture of half ketchup half yellow mustard, it makes a real good sauce for burgers, and even fries too.
Believe it or not, a diner in my hometown serves a burger called the “Italian Burger.” It’s not as special as it sounds, but it’s still good. It’s just a burger with ham and provolone. If you can find an opportunity to make it at home, I encourage it.I got a special sauce aswell for burgers, it's made by squeezing a bottle of ketchup to flood the burger
What else can you tell us about Dolores?
I’d try it. What do you think it tastes like? Or maybe it’s one of those promotional stunt menu items. If you finish it in ten minutes you get a free t-shirt and everything at half price for the next ten visits.
"Zee-bruh"
I actually remember seeing an instagram reel in which a video of a toucan call was slowed down. It sounded something like a dinosaur. Maybe you can do that. Just slow down bird noises.
I don’t think it’s an abomination. I just don’t like it. On the scale of things that come close to abominations (the higher up it is, the closer it is to an abomination), carbonated beverages are a few spots lower than pickleball, and pickleball is leagues below things like high taxes and Dan Schneider.
Oh well, these are some of her favourite things:
Favourite animal: tardigrade
Favourite colour: transparent
Favourite food: jellied eels
Favourite band: venetian snares
Favourite tv show: the news
Favourite feeling: misophonia
No turkeys were i am but we got a pond in our garden and its currently breeding season for toads. Its quite an orchestra every night
In Vietnam there was a huge racket every night, SO LOUD - it took me ages to figure out it was the frogs in the temple pond at the end of the street! I also got woken up at night by what sounded like power tools, turns out it was like a hundred longhorn beetles hatching and chewing their way out of my wooden furniture
god I miss that place
Oh man, that sounds wild, The only thing close to that I have is being woken up in the middle of the night by fighting raccoons in the trees next to my window, which I think I've talked about on here before.In Vietnam there was a huge racket every night, SO LOUD - it took me ages to figure out it was the frogs in the temple pond at the end of the street! I also got woken up at night by what sounded like power tools, turns out it was like a hundred longhorn beetles hatching and chewing their way out of my wooden furniture
Ages ago we were talking about our local areas - well I thought I'd share the most unusual oddity about my local area and it is animal-themed.
First a bit of history. So you know how in Game of Thrones every place has its sigil? Well I live in Ely (pron: eeel-y), full name the Isle of Eels, and in GoT terms we are the eel people. We freaking love eels here, so much that we build statues of them:
As I've mentioned before it is a marsh, all underwater until the Dutch figured out how to drain it, except for this little place up on a hill where a medieval Queen built a cathedral, now famous and known locally as "The Ship". That hill became the Isle of Eels and, right up until the early 1900s, you could pay your taxes here in eels.
Every spring we have an Eel Festival, where we parade a huge crafted eel from the cathedral down to the river, and have lots of eel themed fun.
Yeah its nuts. I just love how weird it all is. Here are some pics from my weekend:
Learning about our local river fishies, including some live eels of course:
Sadly they were out of jellied eels, my friend was so disappointed:
This artist paints eels and someone has made a children's story about them (I'm jealous they cut me to the chase, but maybe I'll do my own one anyway) :
An olde style eel basket
Rollin w my homies, husbo on the left there. It is a damn pretty marshy backwater town.
We had a eely good time (sorry, sorry...)
First a bit of history. So you know how in Game of Thrones every place has its sigil? Well I live in Ely (pron: eeel-y), full name the Isle of Eels, and in GoT terms we are the eel people. We freaking love eels here, so much that we build statues of them:
As I've mentioned before it is a marsh, all underwater until the Dutch figured out how to drain it, except for this little place up on a hill where a medieval Queen built a cathedral, now famous and known locally as "The Ship". That hill became the Isle of Eels and, right up until the early 1900s, you could pay your taxes here in eels.
Every spring we have an Eel Festival, where we parade a huge crafted eel from the cathedral down to the river, and have lots of eel themed fun.
Yeah its nuts. I just love how weird it all is. Here are some pics from my weekend:
Learning about our local river fishies, including some live eels of course:
Sadly they were out of jellied eels, my friend was so disappointed:
This artist paints eels and someone has made a children's story about them (I'm jealous they cut me to the chase, but maybe I'll do my own one anyway) :
An olde style eel basket
Rollin w my homies, husbo on the left there. It is a damn pretty marshy backwater town.
We had a eely good time (sorry, sorry...)
What an odd animal to make your areas mascot and dedicate holidays to, but im all here for it
Ikr??!!! It really makes me giggleWhat an odd animal to make your areas mascot and dedicate holidays to, but im all here for it
I guess they were just so important to our history and survival for so long. There is eel stuff literally all over the city (smallest city in England). The taxes thing really amazed me when I learned it. Wish we could still do that although not really bc we need to protect eels, they are critically endangered now. Their life cycle is genuinely interesting, it was only recently discovered that the European eel and the American one that breeds in the Sargasso sea are the same species. They undergo metamorphosis to make the epic journey across the ocean and they have weirdly long lifespans, one lived to be 85 in captivity!
although not really bc we need to protect eels, they are critically endangered now. Their life cycle is genuinely interesting, it was only recently discovered that the European eel and the American one that breeds in the Sargasso sea are the same species. They undergo metamorphosis to make the epic journey across the ocean and they have weirdly long lifespans, one lived to be 85 in captivity!Whatchu talking about? That's the best mascot! I mean, Houston doesn't even have a single mascot:What an odd animal to make your areas mascot and dedicate holidays to, but im all here for it
For the Houston Rockets, it's Clutch the Bear
For University of H, it's a cougar, buy instead of using a new name, they always go with Shasta (I think we're at Shasta VI)..
Don't even get me started on Houston Texans. Or the Houston Dynamo...
So unoriginal, honestly
My home town doesnt even have one
We are just "known" for an artist that used to live here that noone knows about unless your really into art and a famous (in germany anyways) brand of candy, but even that isnt produced here anymore
Honestly, considering Houston's various nicknames, I think names/mascots could've been more creative...
We're known as the Space City, Clutch City, Bayou City, H-Town...
Oh man, a cottonmouth would've been hilarious and cool, but only for nerds like me