Oh Christmas 🎄 Oh Christmas 🌲 let me see thee🎄

[ShrekDawg]

Tomorrow will be the shortest daylight hours for the year.

And then it will start getting lighter!!!






Tomorrow is also my brother’s birthday.

 

[NanaKat]

Whoops I guess that explains it!! Although I really honestly feel like I’m actually hungry too cause I feel like super weak right now. Idk. I’m used to massive meals and then ice cream or snacks after etc. and that type of thing and/or always snacking/grazing something and I’m also quite large in frame and weight etc. so I feel like my body just isn’t used to veggies and fruit being a meal ??? I would like to get it used to that but I don’t think it is there yet. That was also the only thing I’ve eaten all day and usually I would have had something else. I also find, oddly, when I DO eat something, I get hungrier far faster than if I just wait all day and eat a big meal later on. Which I know is not healthy but if I get my metabolism going then I’m starving all the time

Carrots and broccoli are veggies with low calorie counts per servings.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Carrots and broccoli are veggies with low calorie counts per servings.

That makes sense! And they’re delicious

 

[CHlCKEN]

That makes sense! And they’re delicious

Well I think so, but some would beg to differ

 

[duluthralphie]

Yeah I've definitely seen a few Nova & Discovery channel shows with them over the years.

Not your Gramma's favorite fish tank specimen (smirks)

Here is Wiki’s Bichir page
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bichir

We have a fish up here that looks a lot like the one in @Fishychick photo, but not as large.

We mainly catch them through the ice, when fishing for walleye. I have never caught one in open water.

They are ugly disgusting fish. When you pull them out of the hole the first thing they do is wrap around your wrist and arm, like a boa constrictor.

I normally cut my line and throw them out on the ice for the crows to eat.

However, there are many that eat them, I keep thinking I will try one, but I can’t bring myself to clean one and I eat every almost wild animal we have.

There is a town on a lake up here that has a festival to catch them and a contest for fairly large prizes. Mainly, it’s an excuse to party. They have over 10,000 people on the ice for it, with food vendors tents and trucks. It’s a huge deal.

The fish is called “eelpout”, but as I understand it that’s a local name and it is actually Burbot. It’s also called “fresh water cod” ( I suppose by people that want to sully the good name of the Cod family” and “Ling” I think that is Ojibaway name, not sure, I know my Grandpa called them that when not calling them names that would put me in BYC detention again.

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[R2elk]

We have a fish up here that looks a lot like the one in @Fishychick photo, but not as large.

We mainly catch them through the ice, when fishing for walleye. I have never caught one in open water.

They are ugly disgusting fish. When you pull them out of the hole the first thing they do is wrap around your wrist and arm, like a boa constrictor.

I normally cut my line and throw them out on the ice for the crows to eat.

However, there are many that eat them, I keep thinking I will try one, but I can’t bring myself to clean one and I eat every almost wild animal we have.

There is a town on a lake up here that has a festival to catch them and a contest for fairly large prizes. Mainly, it’s an excuse to party. They have over 10,000 people on the ice for it, with food vendors tents and trucks. It’s a huge deal.

The fish is called “eelpout”, but as I understand it that’s a local name and it is actually Burbot. It’s also called “fresh water cod” ( I suppose by people that want to sully the good name of the Cod family” and “Ling” I think that is Ojibaway name, not sure, I know my Grandpa called them that when not calling them names that would put me in BYC detention again.

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Here, they are a highly prized delicacy. Tossing them on the ice and abandoning them would be considered "wanton waste of game meat" and is punishable by a fine.

 

[Painted Calls]

We have a fish up here that looks a lot like the one in @Fishychick photo, but not as large.

We mainly catch them through the ice, when fishing for walleye. I have never caught one in open water.

They are ugly disgusting fish. When you pull them out of the hole the first thing they do is wrap around your wrist and arm, like a boa constrictor.

I normally cut my line and throw them out on the ice for the crows to eat.

However, there are many that eat them, I keep thinking I will try one, but I can’t bring myself to clean one and I eat every almost wild animal we have.

There is a town on a lake up here that has a festival to catch them and a contest for fairly large prizes. Mainly, it’s an excuse to party. They have over 10,000 people on the ice for it, with food vendors tents and trucks. It’s a huge deal.

The fish is called “eelpout”, but as I understand it that’s a local name and it is actually Burbot. It’s also called “fresh water cod” ( I suppose by people that want to sully the good name of the Cod family” and “Ling” I think that is Ojibaway name, not sure, I know my Grandpa called them that when not calling them names that would put me in BYC detention again.

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That's not ugly. That's a beautiful fish!

 

[duluthralphie]

That's not ugly. That's a beautiful fish!

We may have to agree to disagree on this.

 

[duluthralphie]

Here, they are a highly prized delicacy. Tossing them on the ice and abandoning them would be considered "wanton waste of game meat" and is punishable by a fine.

Sure glad I don’t live there!
I don’t waste them, I feed them to the crows. They need to eat too.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Well I think so, but some would beg to differ

I used to hate them especially raw but now I love them but only dipped in ranch well, carrots are good without anything but not broccoli unless it is steamed then it is delicious by itself.