Neither of you would have survived during the days of yore and larks tongue pie!
Cheryl
OT: Speaking of the Grammar Police....
Sep 19, 2005
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When I was a child, my parents belonged to a Newcomers' Gourmet group. They gathered once a month in a different couple's house for a carry-in gourmet meal. My father knew that he had been truly accepted when the hosts started telling him not to bother to bring his own Pb&J sandwhich because they'd make him one.
Elizabeth
How is your father doing? I'm sure I would get along famously with him.
Lucille
He sounds chipper on the phone.
Elizabeth
No they do not migrate. As Dianne noted, they change plumage to match the seasons. One little bit of trivia which might interest people not familiar with these birds. In winter, they feed in the open during the day, where they can spot any predators. At night they fly straight into snow banks, so that they dont leave any trail for predators to follow. Another bit of trivia. A small settlement in Alaska wanted to call themselves Ptarmigan; but no-one knew how to spell the name, so they changed it to Chicken.
-- Jim Cripwell. A volante tribe of bards on earth are found,/ who, while the flattering zephyrs round them play,/ on "coignes of vantage" build their nests of clay;/ how quickly from that aery hold unbound,/ dust for oblivion!/ To the solid ground/ of nature trusts the mind that builds for aye. Wordsworth.
No, they don't migrate but stay in the north (or northern mountain elevations).
Dianne
Mirjam Bruck-Cohen wrote:
I am sure she is relieved you managed to hold on !
"F.James Cripwell" wrpte
Absolutely right about their efforts to avoid predators, but even with all that, they are really easy prey for people, and are usually the first things that Inuit children learn to hunt. My DD was nearly born on a Ptarmigan Airways plane as I was medivaced from Yellowknife to Edmonton, so narrowly missed Ptarmigan as a middle name. Dawne
Darla had some very interesting things to say about Re: OT: Speaking of the Grammar Police....:
Wasn't that what I *said*? :-)
I'm not Darla, but I'd like to use this as exhibit A for those who argue that American education is worse than education in other advanced countries.
Elizabeth
Don`t be so supercilious, Elizabeth - knowing Jan it`s far more likely to be just a typo. We all make them. Oh - sorry, I forgot that you were perfect! ;-))
~Pat P
Pat, ya Old GOW, why is it that if you said something like that it would have been funny, but when I say it, it's supercilious? I knew it was a typo. It's also an enormous peeve of mine because even advertisers in the US use 's instead of just s for plurals. Drives me nuts.
Elizabeth (and I have never ever claimed to be perfect)
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