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God I'm getting out i'm getting out this is almost definitely real this time safety and space to breathe are so close I can practically taste them I think this is real

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Do you like fruits?

Feel free to suggest any poll you would like to see via chat or comment or ask :)

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Night Mantra

I’ll sing it for hours

Through wearying throat

Till every surface

Holds a lullaby note

Each bit of air rings

With an echo of song

That lingers in dreams

Well after I’ve gone

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About 6 years ago, a friend suddenly lost her mom. I left work to track her down since she’d driven off and was in a parking lot falling apart. Found her and in the process of comforting her, drew her a little thing because her mom loved Winnie the Pooh and dragonflies.

Like a year later, she texted me this photo.

It’s crazy to me that’s out there now. That’s my handwriting.

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@madeofnebulas does this look like your little friend from the other day??

A White-Throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) rifling through the Chickens' leaf piles this morning...

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So I’ve been watching Supernatural.  I know, I’m really late to the party and man it was hard to wait, what is it, how many seasons for Castiel to show up? Four?

Anyway, Castiel falling.  Which is mostly me messing around but … you know.

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i like to say that aromanticism is like experiencing shrimp emotions // april 9 2024

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A fun drawing I finished last night <3

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🦀 Kudos Crab 🦀

If you are scrolling and see Kudos Crab, your fics will be blessed!

You will get good comments and kudos!

You will beat your writers block!

GO AND WRITE!

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One of the more surreal moments I got to experience. Moonset during a sunrise in Zion National Park. Shot at 300mm to compress the elements. Not much photoshop action except for some white balance, tonal range and color adjustments. Sometimes things just fall in place right where they belong.

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lets appreciate geese ok? i love geese

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There's a burst of flame and flash of light

There on the tide is a frightening sight

As the tall ship in flames lights up the sky

It's been one of my favourite songs, and I finally found a suitable stone for it. A burning ghost ship on jasper, will be a brooch in a classical metal cast I think

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Hazel-Rah was modeled on Major John Gifford, the commander of the 250 Company. Gifford was a born leader and Adams has maintained a lifelong admiration of him. Adams writes:

Everything about him was quiet, crisp, and unassuming. He was the most unassuming man I have ever known. When giving any of his officers an order, he usually said ‘Please’, ‘Would you like to – ?’ or ‘Perhaps you’d better – ‘. He could be extraordinarily cutting; at least one sensed it like that because a rebuke from him was so quiet and rare, and because everyone had such a high regard for him that you felt his slightest reproof very keenly.

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Kaigyokusai Masatsugu

Sleeping Cat Alternate Title: 眠り猫 Japan, mid- to late 19th century Costumes; Accessories Ivory with sumi, red pigment 1 5/8 x 1 1/8 x 1 in. (4.1 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm) Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection (AC1998.249.80) Japanese Art

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Is "Uh, nope" a frequent US response to lamb?

Or is US lamb somehow different?

This is just a vaguely mystified response to some comments here.

I'm guessing the "G-word" is gamey. I've smelt gamey meat, I don't like it, and Irish lamb definitely isn't that. Also, most people I know don't need to screw up their courage before cooking or eating it.

Mutton, mature sheep-meat, has - or so I've been told, because I've never found it in any local butcher - a much fuller flavour, still not gamey, but more ... robust, pronounced, emphatic, choose your descriptor. It is, after all, a more mature meat.

For terminology reference (though this may not be current any more), "lamb" is up to one year old, "hogget" - remember the farmer's name in "Babe"? - is up to two years old, and "mutton" is over two years.

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As I said, I haven't seen mutton anywhere, and haven't HEARD of hogget.

This might be, as I hinted, because terminology has been simplified and all meat from sheep is now "lamb" - and that may answer my own question. Sometimes US lamb has a fuller flavour than, say, Wicklow lamb in Ireland, because sometimes US lamb is hogget or mutton instead.

If so, it restores a possible original meaning to "mutton dressed as lamb". That's now best known as "an older woman dressed inappropriately young", and though the meaning has been around for a long time (this Rowlandson print is dated 1810)...

..."dressing" is also the term for preparing meat for sale.

And THAT makes me wonder if the critical phrase goes beyond fashion into the fine old tradition of adulterating food, and wily butchers transforming elderly sheep into the semblance of younger lamb then charging undiscerning customers accordingly.

I don't know how they might have done it, but if they could then they would. The ways in which 18th-19th century foods were fiddled with is amazing, and more than a bit Yuck.

Or in this case, Ew.

Comments, corrections, criticisms and all the rest are cordially invited.

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Side-note; in keeping with the way nicknames get attached to surnames - "Chalky" White, "Dusty" Miller etc. - anyone called Curry usually ended up as "Mutton".

Two brothers at my school had this happen; Tom Curry, the older one, had been "Mutton" for a couple of years, and when his kid brother Will started school he became, of course, "Lamb".

Oh, how we laffed...

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The Hanged Man ⚡️