And the wild dogs in the mountains to the north of us come down

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There were coyotes yipping and howling somewhere outside the house last night. Not dogs; or at least I have never heard a dog make that thin, almost whinnying keen before. I will be curious to hear if they return tonight. I expect I will still be awake.

From the sublime to the sugar-laden: for Thanksgiving, Burdick's is selling little chocolate turkeys with sliced almond tails. The dark ones are filled with clementine ganache, the milk with pecan, bourbon, and chestnut. I framed this one in its natural habitat, which was apparently on top of Georgette Heyer's The Toll-Gate (1954). It did not survive long. Fortunately, I memorialized it first.



Most of today was spent with gaudior and rushthatspeaks and an absolutely ridiculous recipe for Baileys brownies which I believe originated with tamnonlinear. My blood sugar might not forgive me until the end of the week, but I was impressed. And the conversation was even better.

I should know more obscene Greek verbs.

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Not dogs; or at least I have never heard a dog make that thin, almost whinnying keen before.

Agreed. That definitely sounds like coyote. They're not uncommon in these parts--I'd say that, while I don't hear them every night (and I've never noticed a pattern as to which nights they're vocal and which nights they're not) I do hear them pretty frequently, and every so often I see them crossing the road, looking like skinny grey German shepherds but moving with a purposefulness that's most undoggy.

I will be curious to hear if they return tonight. I expect I will still be awake.

I hope you find some sleep tonight, but I am curious to hear if you might hear them again tonight.

The turkey looks very cute, and, more importantly, sounds delicious. Thank you for preserving a photograph of this obviously endangered species.

Glad you had both impressive brownies and conversation which surpassed even them. I wish you many more.

I should know more obscene Greek verbs.

You know more of them than I do. That said, I hope you can learn some more soon.

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Thank you for preserving a photograph of this obviously endangered species.

And growing rarer by the day . . .

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And growing rarer by the day . . .

As a general rule I'm sympathetic to endangered species and their survival, but in this case my only regret is that I can only vicariously participate in the act of driving them into extinction.