Roadrunners & Salvador

What's this, you say?



You might think you're just looking at a tangle of tools for yard work, but you're also looking at a roadrunner nest. That pile of sticks behind the broom is a nest! A nest built by roadrunners! A nest built by roadrunners in Kelly First and Kevin's backyard! And even better, it has these in it:



Roadrunner eggs! Two roadrunner eggs! Roadrunner eggs are kind of small actually. They're somewhere between quail and chicken eggs in size. (No, I didn't mess with them. I'm just estimating their size from looking.) Roadrunners are the craziest birds. They're so wild. I wouldn't tangle with a roadrunner, yo.

I took those photos of the roadrunner nest with Dave's camera since Dave took my camera to Rochester, NY, on a business trip. (He's been gone since Monday, but he'll be back today.) Dave's camera is one of those fancy cameras and he left the macro lens on it since he mostly uses it to take photos of insects. I didn't want to change lenses so I just used the macro lens to try to take non-macro photos. That's why the depth of field is all funked up.

I got a cool photo of Salvador Dali, too.



Salvador hangs out in the cabinet where we keep all the meds. That's him next to some generic allergy medication and the blue pill box that is too small to hold most pills. He doesn't look like he much enjoys hanging out in there, but it is clearly the most logical place in the house for him.

More Prompted Writing

From the writing prompt generator, this:

Name five things in your refrigerator.

Soymilk. Yes, plain unsweetened soymilk. Dave uses it on his cereal and I sometimes put it in my coffee. We rarely have cow's milk in the house. I don't drink it and Dave doesn't drink enough of it to keep it from going bad. I think the last time we had regular cow's milk in the house was at Christmas, when I made tres leches cake.

English Cucumbers. I went with Kelly First to Cost-co today and I bought six English cucumbers, two boxes of wine, two tins of almonds, and a case of diet Pepsi. I like cucumbers.

Roasted Beets. On a whim, I bought a package of roasted and peeled beets at Trader Joe's about three weeks ago. They're good for about a month, so I have to eat them soon. The only problem is that I hate cooked beets. (Raw is fine. I like raw beets shredded and mixed with apples into a kind of slaw.) Of course I continue to try cooked beets from time to time (hey, tastes change, you know), but they always taste like dirt to me.

Turbo Dog Beer. I don't drink anymore, but Dave drinks beer and wine at home. Turbo Dog is an Abita beer that we first had years ago, when I was still drinking. For a long time you couldn't find it outside of Louisiana, but now you can buy it at Whole Foods. Long live Turbo Dog!

Organic Ketchup. There's no particular reason that our ketchup is organic. We usually shop at organic/granola-y/co-op type supermarkets and that's what they carry, so that's what we buy. I like ketchup. I probably like ketchup too much. I put ketchup on everything. I put ketchup on eggs. I put it on chicken. I even put it on steamed broccoli. Ketchup on steamed broccoli is like candy to me. Yum.