Cardinal, Cam, and Mudbugs
Happy Holidays!
Ahhh... Nothing says "Season Greetings" like a cardinal with a snowy background. How timely... But alas, the snow is melting. (Breaks my heart... No more back-breaking shoveling for the foreseeable future.)
Onward...
The shot below reflects a bunch...
First off, note them two bags of red ecstasy. That's ten pounds of crawfish. (Count 'em, ten pounds of Cajun bliss... Call them "mudbugs", "crawdads", "crayfish", "yabbies", or whatever.) But the fact remains that that image holds the best Christmas present I ever received - ten glorious pounds of the finest eating humanity has ever known. I can't even begin to imagine how I'm going to boil them. When done right, a bowl full of mudbugs and a near-frozen beer will plop a soul smack dab in heaven for at least an hour. And there are months worth of bowls there... Oh, the mind boggles.
Beyond the rapturous culinary bacchanalia to be, note also the camera on the tripod. That's right, it's...
It's back... Once again, Richard at Birdhouse Spy Cam came through with a new test cam. (Richard... I'm working on a review, and you'll be seeing that shortly.) OK, OK, OK... The streaming cam is indoors right now and it ain't perfect and it certainly ain't in focus, but it's plenty good for turkey watching and backyard night fishing. Don't worry, it will get better. (BTW, if you're not BNF'in, you're missing out!)
One final observation about the photograph above... Ya see how that cable magically appears up from the counter? Welll... That wasn't magic. That was the result of a little Christmas Eve construction/destruction in which Mrs.CCA and I bore a hole down through her kitchen alter, down through the bottom of cabinets, and down through the floor and sub-floor. Just think of it all as love in crustaceans and sawdust.
See you by the feeders,
CapeCodAlan
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