Theme: The Four Seasons
18A. It follows 35-Down: SPRING. Symmetrical partner: 66A. In 2021, it begins September 22nd: AUTUMN. This grid has a left/right pattern.
28D. It precedes 66-Across: SUMMER. Symmetrical partner: 35D. It follows 66-Across: WINTER.
48A. Semiannual occurrence that begins 18- and 66-Across: EQUINOX. Intersecting 26D. Semi-annual occurrence that begins 28- and 35-Down: SOLSTICE.
Boomer here. Good Morning to one and all.
This theme reminds me that WINTER will be here in chilly Minnesota in a couple of months. I cannot say I am looking forward to it however after the 85 degree plus days of the past several months up here in the northland, new weather will at least offer us a change of clothes.
Across:
5. Not for kids, moviewise: RATED R. I never understood who does these rating systems.
11. Small amount: DAB. A little one will do ya. Brylcreem,
14. Shopper's memory aid: LIST. Yes I always keep a LIST but then when we go to the grocery store, sometimes I forget it at home.
15. Aviator Earhart: AMELIA. I don't believe she needed a Covid test before she got on the plane.
16. Skating surface: ICE. We will have plenty of this here in MN in a few months.
17. "I had no __!": IDEA.
19. Milk grain: OAT. Mares eat them and Does eat them but little lambs eat ivy.
20. Imitative bird: PARROT.
22. Pioneering game consoles: ATARIS. Yup, I played for hours back in the nineties.
24. Reaction to a strange object: WHAT'S THAT? It's a bird, No it's a plane,.... No it's a bird.
28. Lengthy tales: SAGAS.
31. e__: online instructional guide: HOW.
32. Shoot well under par, in golf lingo: GO LOW. I have never had to use that lingo.
36. App purchaser: USER.
37. Serious criminal: FELON. "His capacity for innocent enjoyment, is just as great as any honest man."
39. Actress Anderson: LONI. Burt Reynolds and LONI lasted about 5 years. Obviously two millionaires cannot get along.
40. Everest and K2: Abbr.: MTNS. "To the prairies, to the oceans, white with foam... God Bless America."
41. Out of practice: RUSTY. My first try back on the lanes a couple of weeks ago, but I'm getting a little better.
42. Lender's claim: LIEN.
43. Stick-in-the-__: MUD.
44. Make like new, as old furniture: RESTORE.
46. Tater __: deep-fried potato morsel: TOT. One of my favorites, but I cannot eat just one.
47. Parisian season: ETE. Summer.
49. Opposite of WSW: ENE. Could it also be WNW or ESE ??
50. Showed again: RERAN.
52. Bandage brand: ACE. Is the place with the helpful hardware man. - I watch too much TV and it has way too many commercials.
53. Less adulterated: PURER.
55. Summoned, as the fiddlers three: CALLED FOR. "Beer, Beer, Beer said the privates, happy men are we. There's none so fair as can compare to the fighting infantry."
58. Comfy shoe pad: INSOLE. "Where my SUV was hatched??"
61. With milk, as café: AU LAIT.
65. Crystal ball gazer: SEER. Was Crystal related to Lucille ??
70. Place to de-stress: SPA.
71. Turkey neighbor: IRAN. Chickens did not fit in the grid.
72. In twos, like socks: PAIRED. One for each foot.
73. Nosh: EAT.
74. Fathers' boys: SONS. MacMurray had three of them, I only have one.
75. Gets hot on Twitter: TRENDS.
76. Many pop-ups: ADS.
Down:
2. Musical based on an opera: AIDA.
3. Belgian river: YSER. Y'Sir lieutenant.
4. Movie with R2-D2: STAR WARS. On the trivia shows they ask for
the star closest to the earth. The contestants always answer Alpha
Centauri, but of course the correct answer is the good old SUN.
5. Dreads sporter: RASTA.
6. Excite, with "up": AMP. A little bit of electricity.
7. Thrice, in Rx's: TER. Take, Eat, Regurgitate.
9. Kitchen dweller of song: DINAH. "See the USA, in your Chevrolet!" Okay Ms. Shore.
10. Motley: RAGTAG. My first week of bowling. I played so much golf this summer that I forgot the object of the bowling game is to go high.
11. Designer Christian: DIOR.
12. Smoothie berry dubbed a superfood: ACAI.
13. Wagers: BETS. We bet a quarter on the poker game every Monday. A card for every mark, High hand wins.
21. "I see" words: OHS. and AHS
23. Ring-shaped reef: ATOLL.
25. "Same drink as always": THE USUAL. Same meal at the Ballpark? Hot Dog.
27. Black-and-white, e.g.: TWO-TONED. A Newspaper, Black and White and Read all over.
29. Sharp-witted: ASTUTE.
30. Word with role or identity: GENDER. There's always a 50/50 chance of being right.
33. Hang around: LOITER.
34. Common soccer deadlock: ONE ONE. Also true of Hockey and Baseball. Never Football though.
37. MHz measure: FREQ. Frequency.
38. "Eli's Coming" songwriter Laura: NYRO.
44. Kidney-related: RENAL.
45. Describes in detail: EXPOUNDS.
51. Squirrel's haul: ACORNS. Interesting - We have those doggone
squirrels all over the backyard and yet there is not an oak tree within
miles of our home.
54. Web address letters: URL.
56. Jumped: LEAPT.
57. Widely known: FAMED. From Babe Ruth to Albert Pujols.
58. Wife of Osiris: ISIS. Say that fast three times. ISIS OSIRIS ?
59. Fiddling emperor: NERO.
60. Actor Connery: SEAN. Goldfinger.
62. Away from port: ASEA. If you are writing about Prince Harles, you need to add ASEA.
63. Apple tablet: IPAD.
64. Body art, casually: TATS. "TATS ALL FOLKS !"
67. Former Mideast org.: UAR.
68. Deadlock: TIE.
69. Keats' "Ode on a Grecian __": URN.
Boomer
FIR, but had to fix Laura NeRO after that old fiddler showed himself. DNK there was any such thing as "milk grain".
ReplyDeleteI've been told many times that I'm skating on thin ICE. I've also been told that something I've done or said was totally unCALLED FOR. Back when I moonlighted as a CB radio repairman, I brought a new piece of test equipment into the shop where I had my business. The shop owner asked me "WHAT'S THAT?" I told him it was a (Heathkit) freq counter. He responded "Oh, are you expecting friends?"
I'm still grinding away on yesterday's puzzle. Most of yesterday was taken up with driving my RV to Advance, NC. It was nice to wake this morning to country quiet and cooler temperatures.
Thanks to Steve and Boomer for the fun start to the "work" week.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteUp early again. Thought I was back on schedule. Nope. Maybe it's an equinox thing. No problem with the puzzle, other than Rrated/RATEDR. Interesting to see both of Burt's loves, LONI and DINAH. I think the "Parisian season" should've been avoid in this four seasons puzzle. Thanx, Steve and Boomer. ("Take, eat, regurgitate." Funny.)
Took almost 5 minutes to properly season this one.
ReplyDeleteI agree with d-otto that "Parisian season" should've been avoided. Otherwise, it's a good Monday puzzle.
Agree ETE should be avoided, but mostly I hate puzzles where a "clue" is the answer to another clue, especially one that you haven't gotten to yet.
ReplyDeleteGood morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteEasy as pie, but I agree with BC, Anon and D-O on ETE. Perhaps a clue like 'been' in Paris would be better, but then we're stretching the Monday easiness. Do note that the seasons are balanced and are in counterclockwise order.
Had my OAT meal this morning w/ blackstrap molasses and a modicum of milk. Guess they were milk oats.
Have a great day.
ReplyDeleteGood morning. Thank you, Steve, and thank you, Boomer.
In a hurry this morning, so I didn't read all the clues or see all the answers until the review. I liked this puzzle, in that it contained all four seasons as well as SOLSTICE and EQUINOX.
Boomer, we played the same poker game at bowling. Pick a card for every spare or strike. Our ante was a bit steeper. $1 to get in the game. All five of us usually did.
I've seen a few episodes of My Three Sons on TV lately. It didn't seem like the same cast as when I saw episodes of it so many years ago. I remembered the youngest son as wearing glasses, and didn't remember the oldest son. And the uncle was different. So I looked it up. The oldest son was written out of the series after a contract dispute. Ernie (with glasses) then became the youngest son after he was adopted. The original uncle was ill IRL, and was replaced.
Gotta run.
Easy Monday.
ReplyDelete1 Down. CSO to me. I get my stitches out today. Just two weeks ago my ribs, seven of them, finally recovered from my auto accident 13 months ago. My SLIP and fall ten days ago bruised one of them again. Still hurts when I lie on my side. The goose egg on my hip now only hurts when I touch it.
Boomer, I recall Mares eat Oats. As a kid, for many years, I believed it was all nonsense words. Marsy doats and dozy doats and little lamsy divy. After all, many songs at the time had nonsense words.
I liked ETE thrown in, as almost an Easter EGG. It is French and not one of the four English seasons.
I love the original Aida and so had little patience for the Broadway version.
IMO two tone is becoming more popular than two toned. Just as ice cream replaced iced cream.
To me, ragtag is almost always pejorative, whereas motley is only sometimes pejorative and often is value neutral.
Starting off this rainy Monday with a FIR, albeit with a couple of WOs due to my brain being on auto fill. That stopped when the coffee kicked in. I liked the themers and their placements. The EQUINOX is just a couple of days away, but the puzzle would have been too easy for a Wednesday. Noticed a mini-theme with the grouping of RAGTAG, WHAT'S THAT and STARWARS. Thanks, Steve. And thanks, Boomer, for a cheerful start to the week.
ReplyDeleteSorry about your accident, YR. Hope you continue to feel better and can soon sleep easier. How are you doing, Ray-O? Be careful everyone as you get busy this week!
Thank you Mr. Faiella for an easy Monday puzzle, and Boomer for your always funny and tongue in cheek review. Hope you are keeping well.
ReplyDeleteTake, eat and regurgitate, indeed !
Todays learning moment was that Turkey's neighbor is IRAN. I thought it was Iraq. Iran is a pretty tall (N-S) country and also broad, east and west.
I was surprised with TER, .... my wife taught me it was TiD. ( Ter in Die )
There is a reason why these things are coded in Latin, .... if it was 'explained', some common folks may start thinking that you want to finish them off ....
"I want ---- do 'im in." TER
A male horsey-cow ... EQUINE-OX
Rotten Tomatos site for medics ? ... RATE DR
Favorite words of an egotist .... ICE
Virtual pain exclamation for a surfer .... EHOW
Older, and ---- ..... YSER
A flower ---ed is a flower saved .... URN
I do hope Ray-O-Sunshine is slowly moving up and about, after hobbling around with his swollen ankle. We do miss him at the blog.
have a nice day, all.
Musings
ReplyDelete-Equinox: At 2:20pm CDT on March 22, the Sun will be precisely over the equator
-A great grid design with timely Monday-level fill (I wonder if Steve really knew NYRO)
-Spielberg got the MPA to invent the PG-13 rating for Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom which he knew couldn’t get a PG but didn’t think it deserved an R
-RUSTY – Old, bad habits have to be unlearned again
-I once PAIRED kids in my science lab at random. It did not work very well
-Our first car was a TWO TONED (tutoned) ’55 Chevy
-I could not care less if you don’t want to be assigned a GENDER.
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Steve and Boomer.
ReplyDeleteI FIRed and saw the Four Seasons theme. This was not THE USUAL Monday, but “We Can Work it Out”!
I liked the symmetry of all the themers. And, yes, I thought ETE was an Easter Egg (plus ICE and SLIP for WINTER).
I had Ragged before RAGTAG, Aha before OHS (the clue did specify plural words!).
Clecho with deadlock in clues at 34D and 68 D (yes ONE ONE is a TIE).
We had plenty of pairings today - NERO and NYRO,URL and URN, AMP and FREQ, MUD and SPA.
We also had a mini-numbers theme with ONE ONE, PAIRED with TWO TONED,, and TER.
Healing wishes to all our Cornerites who are recovering.
Wishing you all a great day.
I never ared much about Prine Harles.
ReplyDeleteOr about the rest of the Saxe-Oburgs.
Sorry to be so late. wrote these last night, but fell asleep before 2:30 am, when the blog posts in my time zone. Now to go back and read the expo.
ReplyDeleteWINTER, SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN,
In that order we once caught 'em.
But ICE is melting,
Temps are sweltering,
Our climate soon may hit rock bottom!
The SOLSTICE and the EQUINOX,
Around our year they make a box.
Sun high and LOW,
And mid-points, so,
Thus they wreak havoc on our clocks!
AMELIA, lost, was ne'er recovered.
Mystery around her hovered.
Did the Nippons shoot her down,
Or capture her upon the ground?
We'll only know if her plane's discovered.
{A, A, B.}
A terrific CW, thanx, SF. I especially loved the symmetry u managed to build into it, SUMMER & WINTER Far East and West, SPRING & AUTUMN also equally placed north and south. U even managed to get SOLSTICE and EQUINOX to (fittingly) cross in the center section. All very well done. I hafta admit to getting quite grumpy at first seeing the number of clues tied to each other, but once I sussed the theme, it had me smiling. Managed to FIR, although it took 16 minutes. 43A coulda been EYE or MUD, had to wait on perps. 7D I thought three-times-a-day on an Rx was written TID. Boomer, another outstanding write-up, thanx so much for all your efforts. You never disappoint; always keep it fun and interesting. Unrelated thoughts: yesterday I was scrambling some eggs and had the thought of squirting some Redi-Whip into it (sadly, about as wild-and-crazy as my life gets anymore) and adding a bit of shredded cheese to the eggs, scramble it all up and fry it using bacon grease. It turned out SUPER GOOD, and would be a GREAT way to make an omelette. The Redi-Whip made the eggs a bit lighter, and the sugar in it helped the eggs brown nicely, the cheese made the eggs foldable, adding some gooyness. The bacon grease as fat also helped the eggs brown really well and added just a little bacon flavor. I’ll be doing this the next omelette I make. My maternal grandparents used to save the bacon grease in a bowl in the refrigerator and use it instead of butter on bread, with salt on top. They called it “fetbrot”. Dreadfully unhealthy, right? G.Pa lived to 87, G.Ma to 96. The mention of Tater-Tots reminds me of when they were first introduced they were a big flop, marketing-wise. They were really Ore-Ida trying to find a use for the mountains of potato peels it had, so they grinder them up, created the Tater-Tots, and sold them cheap. Only after they changed their marketing, raised the price on them and sold them as “something special” did they catch on and become popular.
ReplyDeleteThank you Steve for an ever so slightly crunchy Monday, but I prevailed nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you BOOMSTER for a very punworthy review.
Fav clues and commentary:
15A AMELIA is one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite 20th century geniuses.
32A GO LOW - Links limbo lingo?
47A ÈTÈ? What are PRINTEMPS, AUTOMNE, et HIVER?
65A LUCILLE was the name that B.B. King gave to his guitar, but apparently he had more than one. Sounds like he played around.
75A "Gets hot on Twitter"? Now that's REALLY a PDA!
9D And DINAH's SO is with her in the kitchen, "strummin' on the old banjo".
23D I use EASYPASS to pay A TOLL. They were in the news today for overbilling Maryland drivers. Money laundering on wheels!
74D SONS - I only had one too Boomer. But he has 4 sons and 4 daughters.
58D The news today is that ISIS is AT IT with the TALIBAN. Couldn't happen to nicer people.
Cheers,
Bill
HUSKER, you sure you're Tutoned car isn't a VW?
Hola!
ReplyDeleteA well SEASONED puzzle, thank you, Steve Faiella! Finished too quickly.
CSO to my daughter and her husband at STARWARS.
AUTUMN? Really? Here in Arizona we have two SEASONS: hot and mild. AUTUMN never appears. We go from SUMMER directly into WINTER. Right now at 9:09 it is 84 degrees and will likely reach 100 by mid-afternoon. The leaves barely have a chance to change color before they fall. The desert has its own SEASONS.
Very good symmetry in this puzzle with EQUINOX at the center, crossing SOLSTICE and the SEASONS at the ends.
Two of my brothers and my father had RENAL problems.
YR:
I am sorry to learn of your problems. Please do take care.
Boomer, thank you for the witty words. It sounds like you are doing well.
Happy Monday, everyone!
ReplyDeleteNice season changing puzzle and Boomer's treatise on the subject was also enjoyable.
Around here (Central PA) the joke is that there are two seasons: Winter and the 4th of July.
I got it done, but stumbled on two entries. I had RESTainED before RESTORED became obvious and PAIRof before PAIRED.
Had to wait for perps to decide if Turkey's neighbor was IRAN or IRAQ. Actually Turkey shares borders with Greece, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Syria. The Syrian border is 511 miles long, while the border with Azerbaijan is only 6 miles long.
CanadianEh, is today an election day in Canada? Not trying to be political, just curious.
Unclefred: I remember my grandparents and my father-in-law using bacon grease on the griddle for pancakes and eggs. The jar with the grease was kept on the side of the stove where it wasn't hot. I like to fry eggs in the same pan that I cook the bacon in also. I think I'll have bacon and eggs for lunch.
Have a great day everyone.
Unclefred @ 1051. Re: Fetbrod. My Dad liked lard /salt on his pumpernickel for "Tweete Fröhststück" (2nd breakfast ~10am). He lived 'til 86.
ReplyDeleteDelightful Monday puzzle, many thanks, Steve. And always enjoy your fun commentary, Boomer, along with the pictures. Nice to get your explanation for AU LAIT.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed watching the seasons fall into place as the puzzle moved along.
Some nice women popped up here and there--AMELIA, LONI, and even DINAH.
ISIS and NERO took us back to early culture.
Enjoyed your poem, Owen.
Have a great week, everybody.
Hi Y'all! Fun & fast romp thru the seasons, thanks, Steve Faiella. Fun expo, Boomer, thanks.
ReplyDeleteThe only place that really slowed me down today was with EXPOUNDS/AULAIT cross. WAGd a "U" finally and perps had filled the rest.
My movie was "X" RATED before "R".
OAT milk is being advertised on TV a lot lately here. Don't want it or almond milk to deprive those cows of having a reason for living. Farmers aren't going to keep cows around feeding them unless there is a market for what they produce.
Enjoyable season theme as we approach the EQUINOX. I have shared many photos of our SUMMER SOLSTICE festival.
ReplyDeleteHere I was SKATING on ICE in Union Square in San Francisco.
From Yesterday:
Vidwan Thank you for your explanation about DIEGO RIVERA vs DIEGO GARCIA! In psychology there is a concept of "priming". You were probably primed with DIEGO GARCIA because you were familiar with that tiny island.
Wendybird Hand up thank you for sharing your cautionary tale! Glad it had a happy ending for you!
Thanks for a really fun puzzle to start the week off.
ReplyDeleteOc4beach- yes, we have a federal election today. DH and I voted last week in the advance polls; with Covid restrictions and spacing, the line-ups may be long today. There was also the option of mail- in ballots. We may not know the results tonight because it is expected to be a close race, and some ballots may not be counted until tomorrow. Trudeau may be sorry that he called an early election (while still in a pandemic) in the hopes of winning a majority government. I don’t think this is too political for the Corner - just informing my American friends about how it works here in Canada.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteNice Monday grid.
Write-overs….NERO/NYRO, EXPLAINS/EXPOUNDS.
Gotta run, see you tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteCanadianEh, thanks for the info. At least your campaigning season doesn't last as long as ours.
D-N-F ... on a Monday!
ReplyDeleteBut y'all know I never add *** to my NEAT Scotch, Rum or Ouzo ...
So 16-a was, of course, left blank.
The rest of the solve was easy.
A "Toast-to-ALL" at Sunset.
Cheers!
Hi from Token Creek. Fine job again, Boomer. Take, eat, barf ??? Really. Steve, your symmerty left me AWEstruck. Didn't notice it until I was proof-reading. Jees.
ReplyDeleteoc4beach- this was the minimum 36 day timeframe for a federal election. Elections Canada (the independent, non-partisan agency responsible for conducting federal elections and referendums) was in a state of preparedness, but with Covid restrictions, they had their work cut out for them. But you Americans always seem to be in some kind of election mode from my perspective!
ReplyDeleteThe science on bacon fat being unhealthy was unscientific. Not to speak of whole milk vs low fat. And of course eggs and cholesterol myth.
ReplyDeleteBoomer as mentioned never disappoints. I think the "Mark" gets a card would be better in candlepin. Maybe two cards for a strike.
I did this online and had a typo thus no congrats. Easily fixed but a technical FIW
ETE has two accent aigu not grave. Perhaps "Hot time in Paris " would've been better
WC
Boomer ~ I tried it.
ReplyDeleteI can do it! I can say "ISIS Osiris" three whole times--before stumbling on the fourth.
And I've had years of practice. (Can you do "Theopholus Thistle"? It's my fave.)
Thanks for a decent, ultra-EZ Monday PZL from Mr. Faiella! (Hmm. Didn't we have PAELLA recently?)
Funny. AnonymousPVX and others have noted similar fills (NYRO/NERO, etc.) but nobody has yet mentioned 8D (ELI) and 38D "Eli's Coming"....
As an old (Oh-SOoo-old!) Yalie myself, this fairly LEAPT out at me.
CandianEh! ~ Can you guys vote by mail? If so, is it a controversial issue up there?
~ OMK
___________
DR: Nope.
OMK - in this election during Covid, there has been more interest in voting by mail ( and a large turnout for advanced polls. The procedure for mail- in voting is more complicated to ensure you meet the deadline dates for application and mailing etc. Security seems to be ok.
ReplyDeleteThis link goes to the mail- in vote info, but the entire Elections Canada site outlines all the procedures.
ElectionsCanada
I liked this puzzle, although my nose wrinkled a bit at OHS. Nifty theme.
ReplyDeleteI learned that OAT is a milk grain. I wouldn't want it in my café AU LAIT.
My favorite clue is the one for CALLED FOR.
I noticed the answer ELI and the clue "Eli's Coming".
Ever notice that many news outlets seem to PARROT each other, oftentimes word for word?
Here's wishing that all of you injured folks heal quickly and thoroughly.
Good wishes to you all.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteQuite the fun puzzle, Steve. Like unclefred, I was not amused at all the cross-references until I saw - OHs, seasons... Now where do they go in the grid. Nice touch putting EQUINOX horizontal and SOLSTICE vertical.
Wonderful expo to brighten my Monday Morning. Thanks Boomer!
WO: RRated
ESPs: NYRO, ISIS (as clued)
Fav: RAG TAG is fun
//ever hear of the RAG TAG team that abbreviated the states? [Standup 6:19]
{A, A, B+}
FNL - Wendybird - Glad to hear you got it checked out, fixed, and that you're feeling spry again. Where's the hike? :-)
YR - Girl, you need to stop falling. :-)
My grandparents taught Pop and me to keep bacon grease in the fridge. No better way to finish green beans than a DAB of fat after draining.
PK - show me a teat on an OAT or an almond and then I'll call it milk. 'Till then, it's nasty juice. :-)
Back to work; play later.
Cheers, -T
Didn't refresh b/f posting say...
ReplyDeletePicard - ICE skating in SFO? Musta been in July :-)
Nice to see you again, Tin.
C, -T
ReplyDeleteAnon-T: Amen to the Oat and Almond milk.
oc4 - glad there's another mind AKIN. Google Lewis Black Milk for some not-Cornerpropriate Stand-up :-)
ReplyDelete//wait!, I found a clean(ish) version(?!) of his routine.
I forgot my Runner-Up Fav today: LONI Anderson. [WKRP - click while it's still online. Hi BillG!].
Cheers, -T
Milk has meanings other than "a fluid secreted by the mammary glands of females for the nourishment of their young"
ReplyDelete(1): milk from an animal and especially a cow used as food by people
(2): a food product produced from seeds or fruit that resembles and is used similarly to cow's milk
almond/coconut/soy/nut milk
Some recipes call for coconut milk.
YR - forgive me for being ornery*
ReplyDeleteThere are 10 types of people in this world:
Those who understand Binary and those that don't get a [milk] joke.
*insert impish grin*
Cheers, -T
*Mom's words, not mine :-)
AnonT: I guess we milked that subject, didn't we? Got a kick out of George Lewis.
ReplyDeleteFIR with no problems. Liked the theme and the way it was constructed.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Steve and Boomer.
Burt Reynolds --- Also, Judy Carne and Sally Field, but they didn’t make today’s puzzle.
I saw the first hummingbird of the season this afternoon. The feeder was NOT filled yet. He was NOT happy, so he flew to his next target of opportunity. The feeder is NOW filled, little fella. Come back!
PK - yes we did. That horse is dead :-)
ReplyDeleteC, Eh! -- I'm watching your election returns and it looks like Trudeau is going to keep a slim majority - the coasts seem LIB while inland seems CON. I'm still trying to figure out what PPC is vs. the NDP
//Insert Python?
LeoIII - Boss-man and I were talking about the arriving humming birds today; his advice was 2 feeders (one out front & one out back) to keep a bully (those little aerofighters can get nasty!) from supping all the nectar [s/he can't defend two feeders at once!].
What's funny about the humming bird is they know where the feeder is. Pop's wife has two (one out front &...) and when she was cleaning the front porch one last Friday (as she does every Friday), I watched...
One birds came to the chain and then get confused. It flew away and came back with a buddy. I could just imagine the conversation:
"It was just right here, right?"
"Pretty sure Bob. Did you look over... nope not there either."
Zip. Zim. Zoom.
They both hummed about searching in the same spot until Pop's DW re-hung the feeder. Then they ate.
Cheers, -T
AnonT- NDP is New Democratic Party. PPC (People’s Party of Canada) is fairly new and currently focused on individual rights and freedoms ie. protests against Covid restrictions, vaccination mandates/passports. They did not win any seats but picked up around 4 or 5% of the popular vote this time (probably from the right- wing Conservatives).. They do have more on their platform.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/platform