I hope you are all having a great Sunday, because Moose Pass is under mostly clear blue skies, with a few puffy white marshmallows dancing off our mountain tops. However, there is a noticeable fall chill in the air and the yard is becoming covered over in leaves. Also, those dang spiders are coming in to make their winter housing complexes. Now I leave them alone outside, but inside...they lose if I see them. This is when I'm Godzilla stomping Tokyo, taking out these 8-story webbed buildings and sending spider families scampering off in all directions.
Oh, I've seen the tiny spiders, Black Widows and medium sized tarantulas, and I've had duels with the jungle version of a land-moving Alaska Dungeness Crab. Creepy things. But to my fortune, I' never had the poor luck of finding myself going one-on-one with a Afghanistan/Iraq Camel Spider. From the photos I've seen, they match up with an Alaskan King Crab and the Americans don't eat them. We are a picky people and I was told that often enough in both Vietnam and Thailand.
I looked them up once and they are not actually a spider, though they're called that. They are in fact a weird breed of scorpion.
Anyway, I am glad our spiders here only reach the size of a penny. They don't talk Humanese, nor do they have big blue eyes and one more thing, they cannot fly. Our cats play with them until the spider is worn out and then leave them behind. but the dogs, they'll use them for a mid-day snack. Now voles, they don't stand a chance as all 5 dogs and 2 cats like the taste of voles.
Me, I'm not into small game, and I learned never to ask what the meat was going into my dishes overseas. The big pieces were usually water buffalo or dog. But you had to keep an eye on the street side vendor, especially if you didn't know him well, to ensure he wasn't serving you a meat byproduct you would rather shoo out your door then eat. Don't ask, I won't tell, but if you visit Asia and you have a weak stomach, take a chance and look at the kitchen.
Okay, enough on cooking, we have guesting coming to the door. People are here to conduct a mushroom walk for 25 people. Not me, I'll mind the house. But Lisa McDonald is due anytime now with Halibut and Salmon. I really love Halibut. So, for now, goodbye. God Bless, BILL
I looked them up once and they are not actually a spider, though they're called that. They are in fact a weird breed of scorpion.
Anyway, I am glad our spiders here only reach the size of a penny. They don't talk Humanese, nor do they have big blue eyes and one more thing, they cannot fly. Our cats play with them until the spider is worn out and then leave them behind. but the dogs, they'll use them for a mid-day snack. Now voles, they don't stand a chance as all 5 dogs and 2 cats like the taste of voles.
Me, I'm not into small game, and I learned never to ask what the meat was going into my dishes overseas. The big pieces were usually water buffalo or dog. But you had to keep an eye on the street side vendor, especially if you didn't know him well, to ensure he wasn't serving you a meat byproduct you would rather shoo out your door then eat. Don't ask, I won't tell, but if you visit Asia and you have a weak stomach, take a chance and look at the kitchen.
Okay, enough on cooking, we have guesting coming to the door. People are here to conduct a mushroom walk for 25 people. Not me, I'll mind the house. But Lisa McDonald is due anytime now with Halibut and Salmon. I really love Halibut. So, for now, goodbye. God Bless, BILL
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