The Hobbit Hole XXVI - Home is behind, the world ahead

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[Rose in RoseBear]

We're outrageous ... ask Jen.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I guess I'd fit in as a voyageur or a mountain man, huh? ;)

[RosieCotton]

Is that what she said? ;-)

I just wish you guys coulda made it to Shootmoot and/or Entmoot!

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

We had fun! Hope they did too...

Wish we had gotten a pic of the emus, though.

[RMDupree]

*grins atcha*

[RosieCotton]

Last time I went to the county fair back home, there were some emus there. I'd never seen them in person before - hadn't realized how big they are!

They weren't exactly friendly.

[osagebowman]

You bet, the booshway has a similar beard though a lot more salt; Voyaguer would also be great, given your Great Lakes background. Colorful characters they were, hmm, good match imho.

Oh, Auloutee... :-)

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Yeah, they're pretty big, just a little smaller than ostriches.

The llama we saw was big... his head must have been 7 feet off the ground! Curious creature, too... he was watching us watch him, and we were on the other side of the highway.

[RosieCotton]

People raise emus for meat, right? Like ostriches?

I've never seen 'em on a farm or anything. Wonder if that's more common in other countries. I've seen deer farms, which seems odd...but I can see that before large birds. Heh...

[Ramius]

Evenin' folkses! :-)

[HairOfTheDog]

There's an Emu farm next door to our friend Bob's.

Meat, leather, eggses. Eggses for really big omelets.

[RMDupree]

Hi there!

[RosieCotton]

Dang...yeah, it'd be interesting cooking with those! I've had duck eggs, which are large relative to chicken eggs, but nothing like emu eggs, I imagine! How big are they?

Heh...has Gidget ever seen an emu? I'm just thinkin' our retrievers wouldn't have known WHAT to think of 'em...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I looked it up... emus are raised for meat, leather, and an oil which is used for cosmetic and pharmaceutical purposes.

There was an emu-raising fad in the 80's, lots of ranches started raising them as a sort of money-making scheme. Market was hot for a while, then collapsed (of course...) but lots of places still have them down here.

[Ramius]

Well... I drove one.

Schwweeeet. :-)

When I talked to Dad he asked me how I liked it and I said "Well... it matters less and less how much ~you~ like it anymore..."

:-)

[HairOfTheDog]

The remarkable thing about emu eggs is the color.

People carve them...

[RosieCotton]

Oil from feathers or something? Guess I could look it up myself.

Emu oil. That just doesn't sound like something that one would wanna use for cosmetics or anything. Ya learn something every day.

[RosieCotton]

;-)

But sounds like you *did* in fact like it. Bonus.

[Ramius]

Huh.

[RosieCotton]

Whoa - that's wild. Purty!