The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117300   Message #2525529
Posted By: gnu
27-Dec-08 - 11:10 AM
Thread Name: A Thing of Beauty and a Joy Forever...
Subject: RE: A Thing of Beauty and a Joy Forever...
Well! That's odd too. I was just feeding a pair of crows in my back yard on this cold and snowy day. I think there is sommat wrong with the female... they stayed all last winter and they are staying again. She flies a little crooked.

I was watching the crows and Bluejays and such and started thinking about living here (next door) when I was a boy. Nothing but fields beyond our yard back then. I used to take a bucket across the fields to a set of two shallow ponds (swamps, really) along a brook and collect all manner of swamp creatures. But, my prize was the newt. I could sell them to the biology department at the university for good coin.

Dunno what they did with them. Didn't care. I bought candy with the coin.