[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Briar King, on 22 May 2021 - 01:38 AM, said:

I think this is more of a southern thing but we call cicadas locust and locust grasshoppers. Anyhoo the locust(cicada) are starting to show up and it's always hilarious to me when those bastards are on the house walls outside because my mutt absolutely loves to eat those damn things. I walk with him and point them out to him. Nom nom nom he then goes.

They actually make a satisfying crunch. Sometimes they scream.

'Full of protein, gluten-free, low-fat and low-carb, cicadas were used as a food source by Native Americans and are still eaten by humans in many countries.

[...] "They have a buttery texture, a delicious, nutty flavor, probably from the tannins, from the roots of the trees on which they fed," [...] "And they're going to be really good with a Merlot."

[...] In America, "We're kind of the weirdos: 80% of the world's cultures eat insects, but we're in that 20% that thinks it's an abomination."'

https://apnews.com/a...81a8f0bd19e6ead

The crunch makes them 'the croutons of the sky'... No actually that's june bugs apparently:

'Historically, the Bear River people in northwestern California ate fire-roasted June bugs. Today, many people collect adult June bugs from lights or dig larvae from the soil for recipes. They crush them and bake them into biscuits, sprinkle them onto salads as "croutons of the sky," [...] or even fill cooked larvae with cheese and wrap them in bacon'

https://phys.org/new...s-croutons.html

June Is Coming....

In all seriousness I do hope I'll be able to buy some cicadas on Amazon. They had locusts last summer I bought for my coffee salad soup, but they've been out of those for a while (plenty of crickets and grasshoppers though)...

https://www.amazon.c...e?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 22 May 2021 - 03:41 AM

[Mezla PigDog]

Mr PigDog and the sprog are away next weekend. It's been tentatively on the cards for a while but officially confirmed today at 3 whole nights away. I haven't been alone in the house during non-work time for more than a couple of hours since Spring 2019 I think.

Holy sweet frickin jesus. If anything stops this happening I'm going to have a psychological meltdown.

[Tsundoku]

 Mezla PigDog, on 23 May 2021 - 06:09 PM, said:

Mr PigDog and the sprog are away next weekend. It's been tentatively on the cards for a while but officially confirmed today at 3 whole nights away. I haven't been alone in the house during non-work time for more than a couple of hours since Spring 2019 I think.

Holy sweet frickin jesus. If anything stops this happening I'm going to have a psychological meltdown.

Ah jeez Mez, don't you know you just put the mockers on yourself? Your work will have some sort of lasminute.com emergency and of course only SuperMez can save the day.

I hope I'm wrong though and you have great old time:

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 24 May 2021 - 09:36 AM

[Malankazooie]

High wind is the pits and I don't like it at all. We even had tornado warnings on the far eastern counties yesterday. But driving by a reservoir when the wind is blowing and seeing the whitecaps is kind of magical. Especially when you are driving in from above down into the valley and it opens up, and the sun is at the perfect angle to maximize the light reflecting off them.

[Gorefest]

My football team finally managed to get promoted again after 4 years on the second tier of Dutch football! Damn I am elated.

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

Expected wait times between the first and second Covid vaccine shot were cut from 16 weeks to 8 weeks here today. That would make the start of August two weeks after my second shot. Providing that holds, that would open up all sorts of summer activities and events that were looking out of question previously. After a no-fun summer last year, that really gives me something to look forward to now.

[Mezla PigDog]

 Tsundoku, on 24 May 2021 - 09:31 AM, said:

 Mezla PigDog, on 23 May 2021 - 06:09 PM, said:

Mr PigDog and the sprog are away next weekend. It's been tentatively on the cards for a while but officially confirmed today at 3 whole nights away. I haven't been alone in the house during non-work time for more than a couple of hours since Spring 2019 I think.

Holy sweet frickin jesus. If anything stops this happening I'm going to have a psychological meltdown.

Ah jeez Mez, don't you know you just put the mockers on yourself? Your work will have some sort of lasminute.com emergency and of course only SuperMez can save the day.

I hope I'm wrong though and you have great old time:

It's happened! They are not at their destination yet but they have left and are closer to the destination than home at this point so they can't come back tonight! I worked until 7.30pm finishing a bastard of a project and now blissful solitude awaits until Monday (I hope)!

[Morgoth]

Bars are open again and I’m having a beer in the sun

[Cyphon]

I want to hear how the Mezla long weekend went.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

 Briar King, on 02 June 2021 - 10:15 PM, said:

I'm so excited y'all! Our 2 brand new fridges are finally being delivered this Thursday! This is such wonderful news. I miss ice cream. I'm going to buy a couple of tubs to celebrate after they cycle up.

[Bapop]

Had a realtor over to reevaluate my flat. Despite the housing-market in Stockholm being a nightmare it seems girlfriend and I have a shot at upgrading to a three-room-flat come autumn. A home office (or just separate kitchen) would really help our quality of life after a year of both of us working from home.

[Morgoth]

Bapop, on 06 June 2021 - 08:45 AM, said:

Had a realtor over to reevaluate my flat. Despite the housing-market in Stockholm being a nightmare it seems girlfriend and I have a shot at upgrading to a three-room-flat come autumn. A home office (or just separate kitchen) would really help our quality of life after a year of both of us working from home.

We've just done the exact same thing in Oslo. I can't wait to have a dedicated home office room.

[Tsundoku]

Morgoth, on 07 June 2021 - 05:50 AM, said:

Bapop, on 06 June 2021 - 08:45 AM, said:

Had a realtor over to reevaluate my flat. Despite the housing-market in Stockholm being a nightmare it seems girlfriend and I have a shot at upgrading to a three-room-flat come autumn. A home office (or just separate kitchen) would really help our quality of life after a year of both of us working from home.

We've just done the exact same thing in Oslo. I can't wait to have a dedicated gaming room.

FTFY.

[Bapop]

Tsundoku, on 07 June 2021 - 07:15 AM, said:

Morgoth, on 07 June 2021 - 05:50 AM, said:

Bapop, on 06 June 2021 - 08:45 AM, said:

Had a realtor over to reevaluate my flat. Despite the housing-market in Stockholm being a nightmare it seems girlfriend and I have a shot at upgrading to a three-room-flat come autumn. A home office (or just separate kitchen) would really help our quality of life after a year of both of us working from home.

We've just done the exact same thing in Oslo. I can't wait to have a dedicated gaming room.

FTFY.

Not to mention making way for more bookshelves

[Macros]

Oh man I'm so looking forward to having our proper desk built for the office area, and the bookshelf behind it

[Macros]

So my Granda died like 18/19 years ago.
There's plenty of photos of him about, and great anecdotes and stories, he was a character.

But he lived in a time before camera phones in everyone's hands and even video cameras being that big of a deal.

Now I don't know if this was known and forgotten about or not commonly known, but he did a tiny interview for Irish television in 1965, on the subject of farming naturally.
Someone really randomly came across this in some kind of digital archive and shared it with the family.
I nearly cried

[QuickTidal]

Macros, on 08 June 2021 - 06:18 PM, said:

So my Granda died like 18/19 years ago.
There's plenty of photos of him about, and great anecdotes and stories, he was a character.

But he lived in a time before camera phones in everyone's hands and even video cameras being that big of a deal.

Now I don't know if this was known and forgotten about or not commonly known, but he did a tiny interview for Irish television in 1965, on the subject of farming naturally.
Someone really randomly came across this in some kind of digital archive and shared it with the family.
I nearly cried

Aww yeah, that would have been a lovely thing to come across for the memories of the man.

[Malankazooie]

Winter is Coming.

Colorado has first litter of gray wolf pups in 80 years

*link is to thehill.com.

[QuickTidal]

Site is back up! Woot Woot!

[worry]

It's all witchcraft.