BYC Café

[Perris]

I guess it's catching.

too right! who can visit Barcelona and not return with an urge to try mosaics!

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning, Cafe. Thanks for the coffee.
It hit 91F here yesterday. So within 2 weeks we had blustery blowing snow and melt your eyeballs heat. Gotta love NY! Who says Mother Nature can't have a little fun with a keg of beer?!
The boys are crowing away out there.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe. Heavy fog this morning - can't see across the road to the pond. Bullfrogs were booming away last night.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning, Cafe. Heavy fog this morning - can't see across the road to the pond. Bullfrogs were booming away last night.

Have they spawned yet?
I heard the t meoads singing in the creek this past weekend. The toads always manage to spawn before the frogs arround here. I didn't see any strands of eggs though.

 

[sourland]

Toads became active over a month ago on an unusually warm day following a rain - they spawned early this year. The bullfrogs, I am not certain about. Last night was the first that I heard them. There would be a crescendo of sounding and then a spell of silence when I could hear the green head frogs, and then the bullfrogs would start again - neat.

 

[drumstick diva]

I relocated a minor toad yesterday, was too close to the driveway. Don't enjoy flattened toads.
Gonna be a hot, miserable day again- whoopee!! July is usually our hottest month - something to look forward too - NOT!!

 

[ronott1]

Good morning, Cafe. Thanks for the coffee.
It hit 91F here yesterday. So within 2 weeks we had blustery blowing snow and melt your eyeballs heat. Gotta love NY! Who says Mother Nature can't have a little fun with a keg of beer?!
The boys are crowing away out there.

We are headed towards 104F here today

 

[Bunnylady]

Mentioning FROGS

 

[ronott1]

Mentioning FROGSView attachment 2162463

Nice Frog!

 

[Perris]

I imagine all you Americans are very familiar with liquid smoke, but it's fairly new here, and I absolutely love it! It really made a maple-mustard glaze for pork ribs taste like it had been in a smoker for 5 hours, as per the recipe (and I don't have a smoker, so that was never an option). With a rub of smoked paprika, smoked salt, fennel seeds, and asafoetida, the ribs were truly scrumptious