1. We love your face! Bring.
2. ...leave at home.
3. Who doesn't love Rock n Roll Dinosaurs? Bring.
4. It's one of your faves, bring.
5. For obvious reasons you MUST bring.
Did you know that ostrich eggs are the largest eggs of any living bird species? These massive eggs can weigh up to 3 pounds and are equivalent in volume to two dozen chicken eggs!
Ostrich egg collecting requires great care and attention due to their delicate nature. In some cultures, these impressive shells are used for art or even as serving dishes!
Have you ever come across an ostrich egg in your travels? Share your experience below! 🥚🌍
#OstrichEggs#TravelDiscoverExplore#ostrich#egg#eggs#ostrichegg
Diverse climatic events this past season have taken a toll on grapevines, causing #frostdamage to buds, shoots, and bunches, as well as high velocity #wind events and #cool spells during #flowering. These events, combined with #Vintage2024#heatwaves, have led to sparse #fruitset and significantly reduced #yields. To assess the potential #yield in 2025, now is the time to consider a snapshot via Bud Fruitfulness Assessment. #viticulture#winegrowing#yield
RANTON WITH ANTON - what came first chicken or egg
After years and years of discussion I have the answer
It was the egg
Modern day chickens were created when someone bred a red jungle fowl with a green jungle fowl which this gave birth to the modern day chicken. They would have laid an egg out of which the modern day chicken popped out.
That’s the end of that
#askantonanything
Laurus nobilis is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub with green, glabrous (smooth) leaves. It is in the flowering plant family Lauraceae.
It is native to the Mediterranean region and is used as bay leaf for seasoning in cooking. Its common names include bay tree
#lylf
Last legging it over here.
Made it to Australia (barely).
Been up for 39 hours.
Our hotel room still isn't ready.
Waitress at the coffee shop asked what was wrong (guess it's that obvious that we aren't functioning like normal humans).
What I've learned about Australia so far:
1. Bin chickens (normally named Australian white ibis) look like a scary dinosaur. Narrowly escaped an attack.
2. Flat White is a latte with less foam.
3. Trash is called rubbish (rubbish sounds so much classier).
4. Yogurt is spelled yoghurt (still undecided as to what spelling I like best).
5. Hungry Jack's is Burger King.
6. Ketchup is tomato sauce.
7. Jogger pants are the IT thing to wear when traveling (1 in 4 people were rocking them - a bit too casual for my taste).
8. People think you are a drug dealer if you try to buy something with cash (cash has basically been banned).
Send HELP. And a bed.
Writer, Curator, Experimenter
(Previously TED, Countdown, Stanford U, World Economic Forum, New York Times, FIFDH, CERN, ForumDes100, Swiss & international press)
TIME TO HARVEST YOUR SPAGHETTI
It’s April 1st and so let’s resurrect one of the best #AprilFools' pranks of all times. Broadcast by the BBC in 1957, it was set in my region of #Ticino, Southern Switzerland, where apparently - tells the persuasive voice of respected television man Richard Dimbleby - the spaghetti harvest was in full swing.
What, you didn’t know that #spaghetti grow on trees?
"There is nothing like real home-grown spaghetti", says the short "documentary", which was aired during the current-affairs program "Panorama". The images are convincing, showing a family of "spaghetti growers" carefully harvesting spaghetti from trees and laying them out to dry, in the typical happy mood associated with sunny lands. The uniform length of the product is explained as the result of "years of plant breeding". And today’s culinary trends, such as farm-to-fork, are obviously anticipated: "picked earlier in the day, dried in the sun, brought fresh from garden to table".
The joke was taken seriously by millions of Britons, aided by the fact that at the time spaghetti were still a rather new thing in the UK. Many phoned the BBC to ask whether they could be grown locally, and how. There are still at least four restaurants in the UK, and one in Australia, named Spaghetti Tree.
One might wonder why this film is set in Ticino and not just across the border, in #Italy. Ticino is Italian-speaking, and food culture (allowing for regional variations) is the same. But the global stereotype associates spaghetti with Italy. A hint is provided by a comment early in the video, when Dimbleby says that on the slopes overlooking Lake #Lugano, spaghetti-growing is "not carried out in anything like the tremendous scale of the Italian spaghetti plantations in the Po valley": it must have felt too difficult and expensive for cameraman Charles de Jaeger to convincingly fake images of those "industrial" operations. Suggesting that in Ticino spaghetti growing is more of a family affair, a sort of artisanal and organic variation capable of "obtaining top prices in world markets", does the trick.
Watch it here, 3 minutes: https://lnkd.in/dSKw4rWe
(Posted 1 April 2024)
A New #KinderCharacterChallenge starts today: Sneak Zucchini onto your Neighbor's Porch
August 8, was ‘National Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day,’ but we will celebrate it much longer. Zucchini can grow so prolifically that it is necessary to share so that it doesn’t go to waste. If you leave them on the vine too long, they continue to grow to what our family refers to as Zuke-a-melons! Not everyone grows zucchini, so if you are not one of those souls, perhaps you can share other produce you may have. You can also pick something up from a farmer’s market and share it with a neighbor. Or maybe you can do like I do and share Zucchini Bread. It isn't necessary to ‘sneak’ as it could become a feast for local wildlife (Raccoons - I’m lookin’ at you!)
According to the website National Today, the day was started by Thomas Roy. “It’s believed that zucchinis never really made their way across to the United States until the 1920s, and were brought across by Italians and then cultivated in California.”
Thankfully, Zucchini can be used in breakfast omelets, salads, as a vegetable with a meal, and it can be hidden in a multitude of baked goods, rendering them ‘healthy.’
#Kindness#RAK#KindnessMatters#CharacterStartsWithMe
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3moLeave #5, that’s best saved for Oct - Nov, for sure.