Ladies, you know how we can’t fit more than a single tube of lip balm into the pockets of most of our clothing for reasons that remain unsatisfactory to us all?
Tonight I learned that, back in the days when women’s pockets were separate articles of clothing worn tied around the waist under the skirt, one woman was convicted of theft for PUTTING A WHOLE DUCK INTO EACH POCKET AND WALKING AWAY WITH THEM.
My jeans won’t even hold my keys comfortably. We have been robbed of the joy of surreptitiously stealing large and ungainly objects including waterfowl, dammit!
I found my note on that case!
Court case from 1777, Worcestershire. A woman “of bad character,” Jane Griffiths, was brought to trial for stealing two ducks from a man named Thomas Wainwright. She tried to steal them by stuffing them in her pockets and taking off running. (as quoted in Barbara Burman, Pockets of History).
my dog woke me up at 3:30 am last night because neither of the TWO dog beds in my bedroom were sufficiently soft. she made me go to the living room and get her other bed
Eider ducks sound as though you’ve just told them a very interesting fact or juicy gossip.
estuaries are the best <333
birding from dawn ’til dusk
salal beast
sitka spruce??? maybe?
SNOW GEESE!!! (this picture only exciting to me)
dog & maybe-sitka-spruce
there’s a loon in this picture but it’s too small to see
windy dunes
a birder’s passenger seat
today’s haul!
I went on a birding trip to the skagit valley and whidbey island today and holy cow are there birds up there. SO many birds. That whole area is bird city in the winter. I got multiple lifers today!!!!
I know I’ve finally gotten used to the PNW because I now see eagles and no longer get excited, just mildly annoyed that it isn’t a more interesting raptor.
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 