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Rouladen

 And then there was rouladen.  With potato dumplings, pickled cabbage, and sauce. Our friends from Canada (by way of Germany) volunteered a home-cooked German meal.  Rouladen is bacon, onions, mustard, and pickles, rolled up in thinly sliced beef, slow-cooked, then covered in sauce. A culinary adventure.  All new flavors for us.  Delicious.    
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To those of you.

 …who credit and compliment my birding skills for finding the eastern screech owl in the drain hole, I just want to say “Thank you.”, and “Sometimes skill happens.” Unfortunately, it wasn’t skill that happened on this occasion though.  We have to allow for “right place at the right time”, knowing who to ask, and occasionally, dumb luck.  After walking past that spot five times that day, someone asked me if I’d seen the eastern screech owl and pointed it out to me.   But I’m sure, sometimes, skill happens…