Notes from my patio

[hollydolly]

Bright sunshine this morning. But, another storm is due in a couple days, so I'll be stuck inside for a while. Only a couple sparrows and a crow today, but the oats I put out earlier are all gone. The crows crack me up. My neighbor has a spindly cypress in her back yard and for some reason the crows like to perch right on top of it. But, it's too weak to support them and it's funny watching them try to keep their balance. Sometimes two of them will fight over the top spot.

One of my wind chimes has a wooden paddle hanging down to catch the breeze. The sun was behind it this morning and I could see a bunch of tiny straight webs hanging from it. There must have been about a dozen. And there was a spec of something at the end of each web. I thought they might be baby spiders. I couldn’t make out what they were with my naked eye, so I got one on my hand and looked at it with a magnifier.

It was a tiny amber inch worm with a round black head. I watched it inch its way across my hand. The webs originated in a blob of mud on the paddle and there were tiny holes in it where they had come out. As I watched, one by one they blew away in the breeze, web and all. Inch worms turn into moths, so mama moth must have laid her eggs on my wind chime.

Last night I tried some McVities Digestives vanilla cream sandwiches from Ireland. Very tasty, not too sweet. I don’t know why they are called digestives though. They’re just a cookie.

they're not irish, they're originally from Scotland but factories in both Scotland England make these bisucits for McVities... they're called digestives because the best selling bisucit ( cookie)in the UK is a dry biscuit called Digestive..it's made for dunking into hot tea or coffee...

so the Vanilla cream added makes them Vanilla cream digestives...

Nowadays McVities digestives come in many flavours including dark and milk chocolate.....christmas pudding flavour, caramel, and loads more

 

[Grampa Don]

they're not irish, they're originally from Scotland but factories in both Scotland England make these bisucits for McVities... they're called digestives because the best selling bisucit ( cookie)in the UK is a dry biscuit called Digestive..it's made for dunking into hot tea or coffee...

so the Vanilla cream added makes them Vanilla cream digestives...

Nowadays McVities digestives come in many flavours including dark and milk chocolate.....christmas pudding flavour, caramel, and loads more

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I learned something new. Anyway, they taste good. The cookie has a strange crumbly texture. I don't know how they do that.