tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267501.post1062295081652650210..comments2023-10-26T04:53:47.765-04:00Comments on Mutterings of a Mad Bookseller: 30,000 Gallons of Green, Vegetable-Based Food Dye...Forrest Properhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15962708844204376272noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267501.post-49718879161140948432007-03-07T07:36:00.000-05:002007-03-07T07:36:00.000-05:00Phoebe- if he'll eat mice we'll invite him into th...Phoebe- if he'll eat mice we'll invite him into the house.Forrest Properhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15962708844204376272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267501.post-70964748581554347762007-03-06T22:56:00.000-05:002007-03-06T22:56:00.000-05:00How 'bout if they just eat pigeons? Every time I s...How 'bout if they just eat pigeons? <BR/><BR/>Every time I see a hawk circling over the field out back, I'm hoping he found a tasty pigeon. Either that, or a mouse. I figure winding up as hawk-lunch has to be a more dignified end for the mice than winding up in one of the traps in the garage.Phoebe Fayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10425002459681921692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267501.post-1698087674130378132007-03-06T19:35:00.000-05:002007-03-06T19:35:00.000-05:00Mike- Back when we lived in the Boston suburbs and...Mike- Back when we lived in the Boston suburbs and I raised ducks in the backyard, we had a rat who would come and steal their corn.<BR/><BR/>We named him Ricky.<BR/><BR/>One day I looked out the kitchen window and there was a big hawk, sitting on the top of the duck house, calmly skinning Ricky. It took about 30 minutes. He did a very neat job.<BR/><BR/>I can't say we missed Ricky very much...Forrest Properhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15962708844204376272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267501.post-84855168358471180702007-03-06T18:59:00.000-05:002007-03-06T18:59:00.000-05:00My wife feeds the birds at home. I love to watch t...My wife feeds the birds at home. I love to watch them eat from the feeder, but honestly it is much more exciting to watch the hawks take one of them out. They seem to prefer the Mourning Doves.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12325465720003721471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267501.post-10915345167231252202007-03-06T16:34:00.000-05:002007-03-06T16:34:00.000-05:00Phoebe- But I don't WANT big birds smorgasbirding ...Phoebe- But I don't WANT big birds smorgasbirding on little birds in my backyard. We're going to hang a bell around the hawk's neck, like people do with cats. I don't see anything that could go wrong with that plan.<BR/><BR/>Reverend- you're just uneasy because of that giant pile of "How to Serve Man" books in the center aisle. Pay them no mind. Go have some of the fine punch we are serving in aisle 4. It is very popular, and quite unlike anything you will ever again tas... um, I mean, unlike anything you -have- ever tasted.Forrest Properhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15962708844204376272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267501.post-62268549461916125212007-03-06T16:08:00.000-05:002007-03-06T16:08:00.000-05:00Hmmm... going by the seed->little bird->big bird s...Hmmm... going by the seed->little bird->big bird spirit-of-giving analogy, should we be <I>very wary</I> about the tempting smörgåsbord of booky delights laid out in your store...?<BR/><BR/>(Looks over shoulder for cannibalistic librarians...)anaglyphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11451469127150838252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20267501.post-72729383647074291882007-03-06T12:09:00.000-05:002007-03-06T12:09:00.000-05:00You put out a smörgåsbord for the little birdies, ...You put out a smörgåsbord for the little birdies, and they make a smörgåsbord for the big birdies. It's that spirit of giving all around. Ain't nature grand?<BR/><BR/>And the speel-cheeker in this apparently knows all the right umlaut-ification of smörgåsbord. Ain't that cool, too.Phoebe Fayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10425002459681921692noreply@blogger.com