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orichalcum at 09:04pm on 21/04/2007 under baby birds
orichalcum at 09:04pm on 21/04/2007 under baby birdsWhy do I know this, you may ask? Well, I've been worried that neither Mac nor I is getting enough iron (largely because feeding him meat is much more complex than feeding him veggies and fruit. I had heard, from a number of different sources, that if you put spinach in a smoothie with other traditional smoothie things, you totally can't taste the spinach. So, even though I like spinach normally, since I don't like it when mixed with banana and nonfat chocolate yogurt, I decided to try this. This involved attempting to scrape some mostly frozen spinach into the blender. And a bit went flying - straight into my eye.
Mac pulled up today in his crib - very cool. OTOH, I now understand why MJNH described this stage as "fish-wrangling"; he's so hard to keep safe these days!
In other random news, most bizarre bit of knowledge from today's NYTimes:
"European starlings have a way of appearing in unexpected places — the United States, for example, where they are not native but owe their origin to a brief reference in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 1.” In 1890, a drug manufacturer who wanted every bird found in Shakespeare to live in America released 60 starlings in Central Park. After spending a few years nesting modestly under the eaves of the American Museum of Natural History, they went from a poetic fancy to a menacing majority; there are now upward of 200 million birds across North America, where they thrive at the expense of other cavity nesters like bluebirds and woodpeckers, eat an abundance of grain — as well as harmful insects — and occasionally bring down airplanes."
Shakespeare Ruins Environment!
Mac pulled up today in his crib - very cool. OTOH, I now understand why MJNH described this stage as "fish-wrangling"; he's so hard to keep safe these days!
In other random news, most bizarre bit of knowledge from today's NYTimes:
"European starlings have a way of appearing in unexpected places — the United States, for example, where they are not native but owe their origin to a brief reference in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 1.” In 1890, a drug manufacturer who wanted every bird found in Shakespeare to live in America released 60 starlings in Central Park. After spending a few years nesting modestly under the eaves of the American Museum of Natural History, they went from a poetic fancy to a menacing majority; there are now upward of 200 million birds across North America, where they thrive at the expense of other cavity nesters like bluebirds and woodpeckers, eat an abundance of grain — as well as harmful insects — and occasionally bring down airplanes."
Shakespeare Ruins Environment!
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