A Swan
Returned from the Muskokas last night after a great weekend up at a cottage where I took a picture of this intimidatingly large but apparently friendly trumpeter swan:
I looked up the trumpeter swan on the net and found a few interesting facts:
– they’re the largest waterfowl in North America
– they were almost hunted to extinction in the early 1900s
– they mate for life but they can occasionally “divorce”, especially after a “nesting failure”. Apparently the trials and tribulations of married life are not reserved solely for human beings. Other creatures suffer too.
This trumpeter swan very nearly dined on peameal bacon Sunday morning, but a last minute consideration of how this would upend the entire foodchain with unknown consequences somehow found its way into our beer-addled minds.
June 6th, 2005 at 10:29 pm
I hardly believe that wemi would’ve stood by as you prepared a trumpeter swan for breakfast!
June 7th, 2005 at 8:56 am
Although the scenario you mention did go through my mind a couple of times, you misread my post – we considered feeding it bacon for breakfast, not turning it into breakfast. Considering the size of this swan and the fact that Wayne wasn’t with us, I don’t think we could have turned this swan into breakfast if we tried!
June 7th, 2005 at 9:34 am
Make a Swanducken, with peameal bacon layers.
June 7th, 2005 at 10:57 am
Just thinking about that makes my mouth water…I guess my saliva glands are not particularly environmentally friendly.
June 7th, 2005 at 1:11 pm
My saliva glands are neither environmentally friendly, nor humane. I LOVE MEAT!