This is a little outside of the normal sort of things I post, but I recently got a new camera, and on my day off for Presidents Day I went to our local museum/zoo and took some video, and I thought I’d share. Watch at least through the middle of the video, to see some cool footage of various raptors in flight, as part of a daily show at which my wife works.
‘James Dillon and I walked out beyond Ulla to view the ancient stone monuments — druidical, no doubt — and two peasants called out to one another from a distance, alluding to us. I will relate the conversation. First peasant: Do you see those heretics walking along so pleased with themselves? The red-haired one is descended from Judas Iscariot, no doubt. Second peasant: Wherever the English walk the ewes miscarry and abort; they are all the same; I wish their bowels may gush out. Where are they going? Where do they come from? First peasant: They are going to see the navetta and the taule d’en Xatart: they come from the disguised two-masted vessel opposite Bep Ventura’s warehouse. They are sailing at dawn on Tuesday to cruise on the coast from Castellon up to Cape Creus, for six weeks. They have been paying four dollars a score for hogs. I, too, wish their bowels may gush out.’
‘He had no great fund of originality, your second peasant,’ said Jack, adding in a pensive, wondering tone, ‘They do not seem to love the English.’
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
The Love Pirate 