geese, misc
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Y’all have been hilarious and I haven’t been able to easily keep up, so
this is a big misc dump, sorry!
in re: asks going missing, laurelnose https://laurelnose.tumblr.com/
said:
actually if you scroll
through your drafts you might find it again? tumblr backdates drafted asks
to when the ask was sent which if you have a lot of drafts makes it SEEM
like they vanished into thin air
Ha, thank you. Yes, I did discover that while I was rewriting it, and it
turns out my fresh reply was better than my original one, so I rolled with
it, but that is a Top Tip for all y’all out there trying to function on
this hellsite, and also possibly I’m telling on myself that I keep things I
like and want to find again in my drafts folder which is why it’s currently
sitting pretty at over 1600 entries. Whoops.
Oh in re: the sewing bird from ages ago, I remembered where I know Lacis
https://lacis.com/catalog/ from– they’re the only manufacturer I’ve
currently found of tambour needles, so I have a tambour needle set by them
I got on Amazon or somesuch. So I ordered another set from their website
because I bent the finest needle of the set which of course is the one I
use, and you can’t buy replacements anywhere else but their website, and I
also ordered myself a sewing bird, so I will have photos of that soon, it
arrived while i was at the farm and I have only just opened it and am
delighted but haven’t tried it out yet. (A modern one with two clamps would
be faster and easier to use, possibly more versatile for travel, but this
one is darling.)
mikkeneko https://tmblr.co/mQinCuAEZN8fzW1FQO_b2Vg ‘s family punchline
was just that they had to flee the Puritans to come to the New World, which
is hilarious because my folk had to flee the Stuarts to come to the New
World so like. I mean, it’s not so much give me your tired and poor as all
your political refugees. That must’ve been fun to be neighbors about.
Weird trivia fun fact: my sister’s farm’s first occupant was a German who
moved upstate to work a Rensselaer tenant farm and then fought in the Rev
War on the WRONG SIDE and somehow managed to keep his farm, which is
evidence that he was either a fast talker or actually the locals weren’t
that fired up about it, hard to say. (He and a small collection of his
fellows from the local German-speaking Lutheran church went up to the Battle
of Bennington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bennington and
joined the Hessians under Baum, fighting against Stark and his folks. That
was, as far as we can tell, the extent of ol’ Heinrich’s involvement in the
war.)
oh yeah I wanted to reply to this one too
dalekpoetryreading https://tmblr.co/mZeB_2FF8_fCZOMwpdp2i4w reblogged
your post “wtf geese” and added “They don’t, that’s why they are screaming”
which made me laugh really really really hard.
Also over on the DW crosspost DW-user light-of-summer replied with this
which is so interesting I’m cross-platform posting it:
I googled “why do geese fly at night?” and found a moderately interesting
article about Canada Geese, specifically, at
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/03/01/why-do-canadian-geese-fly-at-night/amp/
TL;DR: reduced air turbulence, reduced risk of overheating, and reduced
risk of predation.
That article didn’t mention their eyesight, but I found another site that
says Canada geese don’t see in the dark as well as cats do, but they do it
twelve times better than humans!:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2013/11/05/morris-nighttime-geese-flights/amp/
So, now we both know! 😊
so, we are answered in both hilarious shitposting and actual
knowledge-knowing. I don’t know how I feel about the fact that geese can
see in the dark, part of why I can handle poultry is that I know i can just
wait until night for my pathetic-but-still-usable night vision to render me
the advantage. Sleepy turkeys are much less terrifying than their daytime
velociraptor impression.
I’m forgetting stuff but anyway. I’m back in Buffalo for four days, let’s
see how much of my mind I can recover. This has been a long fucking season.
I have been writing but nothing is quite ready to post, it’s really
incredible, argh. Maybe I’ll do a snippet post of what I’ve been working on
later though.