If you found this blog via the Pest or Dinner? contest posts, welcome. It's been good for me to have something to laugh about during what's been a bad couple of months around here.
Winning Entries
You all are sick and twisted. Choosing a winner is like choosing whether to eat a palmetto bug or pillbug for dinner. Well actually, I got a big kick out of all of these and next time I think we'll need to do a poll so that I don't have to choose.
Hammy. Carey nominated Hammy way back in January, worthy of a prize in itself. The video trick was a very nice touch and the discussion of Hammy's level of Omega-3 fatty acids made me laugh out loud. Yesterday Carey also managed to find a nutrient profile of a hamster. It never occurred to me that zoos would need this information. Thanks Carey! (Though I hate to calculate whether Hammy actually is a depression buster.) And for those who have emailed me about poor Hammy's fate, you can see from the comments on the Hammy post that Hammy is still among us.
Margaret's Cats. The cats are not the pests, the squirrel is. But those cats make the picture. You know that they are dreaming of dinner in any case.
The Cockroach. Kathryn entered the "palmetto bug" and her emails had me laughing until I cried. The idea of sneaking cockroaches into a child's lunch was beyond even my imagination.
Missy. Missy entered both the pillbug and the triops, both of which spun off their own little series of posts. Who knew they would be so content-rich.
Ladies, send me your mailing address and I'll put you on the free book list. It's still a few months out.
Strange Searches
March brought about 1,500 people more to this site than usual, partly due to a series of "strange" internet searches. If you came via one of these searches, you are likely long gone. But if you've stuck around, it's good to have you here.
What kind of a blog would get such strange traffic? (Who's in charge here anyway?)
Seven people got some advice on making a white sauce with pillbugs when they searched in Google for the phrases:
halibut and white sauce recipe
halibut with white sauce recipe
I don't think they found what they were looking for.
Quite a few people found their way here looking for information on pillbugs. Not one appeared to be trying to eat a pillbug themselves. Some wanted natural pest control treatments and one person was looking for information on pillbug compost. Another sought information on feeding pillbugs to a tarantula. All landed on the pillbug nomination page. Perhaps they will use the white sauce recipe.
Three people landed on the fried grasshopper nomination actually looking for information on fried grasshoppers. One landed on the fried grasshopper page looking for information on "bakersfield okie." (If that was you dad, I can just give you a business card to find the site.)
Someone landed on this site, likely very confused, looking for information on:
stuart halliday 1970s rock band
Perhaps they will enter the contest Rock Group or Depression Buster?
And I'm always glad to be of assistance in providing unusual information. The person seeking
palmetto roaches as dinner
found what he or she was looking for, thanks to Kathryn who entered the palmetto bug.
And the person searching for ground squirrel recipes at least found out the nutrient profile of squirrel.
More on Pests
Send in a pest any time. I'll throw it on the blog. Whether you laugh, are disgusted, or use one of the recipes, it's all good. Send recipes if you have them.
Future Contests
We'll have at least two more contests on this blog before the summer is over, again looking for foods with depression-fighting nutrients.
-->Rock Group or Depression Buster. In this contest, it's not so important that your nomination be a rock band, just some type of music. I have received the first entry for this contest for the performer "Captain Beefheart." No pictures are necessary but you need to provide some comment to me on why the entry may be a depression buster. The Captain Beefheart entry talks about the nutrient density of the organ meat. But frankly, if the entry is funny, you can talk about anything at all. I am not particular.
This contest will probably begin in a month or so.
-->Roadkill or Depression Buster: Just when you thought the contests on this site couldn't get more demented, it will. I am not sure where this contest idea came from, but I already have one entry, so we'll go for it. I believe that the first entry pictures a squirrel and Cynthia who has made the entry even provided a "caption" for the picture. This contest will require a picture. It will likely take place in the summer, so you have plenty of time to plan.
