Hmmmmm.

Chewy granola bars that have been left overnight in sub-freezing temperatures aren't.

Useful bits of knowledge from this weekend:

Biscuits and bacon gravy can be an adequate substitute for about four hours of sleep.

The camera goes into the car to start with, so one does not have to stop somewhere and fetch it out of the trunk.

Timing is everything.

My car is a drama queen.

Duct-taping the driver while she is driving is not allowed. Passengers are a different story.

Aleister is faster (and about a third again as fuel-efficient), but Amanda has a better stereo system.

My car is still a drama queen. Even though he's a boy.

Twa Corbies

Twa Corbies
Anonymous

As I was walkin' all alane
I heard twa corbies makkin a mane
Tha tain unto the other ane say-o
"Where sall we gang and dine the day-o
"Where sall we gang and dine the day?"

"In ahint yon auld fail dyke
"I wot there lies a new-slain knight
"And naebody kens that he lies there-o
"But his hawk and his hound and his lady fair-o
"Hawk and his hound and his lady fair

"His hound is tae the huntin gane
"His hawk tae fetch the wildfowl hame
"His lady's ta'en another mate-o
"Sae we mun mak our dinner sweet-o
"We mun mak our dinner sweet

"Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane
"And I'll pike oot his bonny blue een
"Wi ae lock o his gowden hair-o
"We'll theek our nest when it grow bare-o
"Theek our nest when it grows bare

"Mony a ane for him maks mane
"But nane sall ken where he is gane
"Oer his white bones when they are bare-o
"The wind sall blaw for evermair-o
"Wind sall blow for evermair."