And now for something totally different!

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Thanks GMT! Getting in practice for the 3 Kings perhaps.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Had an interesting conversation with a local goat farmer today. He'd stopped by to pick up my garden prunings for his animals and he said his goats were very hungry because they're so cold! He had prepared Agave for them. He showed me a trailer full of agave leaves where he had cut of every edge and end because they are so sharp, so his goats didn't get bad stomachs! 🤣 I thought this was so good and sweet and caring, but funny at the same time.
For anyone who is not familiar with Agave, the leaves are lethal:
 pic from wiki.

He also said his father used to make rope from the Sisal Agave:
 pic from wiki

How many years until all this personal knowledge/experience becomes 'history' only?

[Can the Man]

Is there much agave grown on Fuerteventura ?, it’s used for making tequila

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

It's everywhere Can! It was quite a big industry here at one time, making rope. 
There are lots of different varieties of agave, we have a lot of the Sisal agave and various others grown ornamentally, but whether any are Agave Tequila I really don't know!

[GMT]

I've never seen such a big moth (I would say nearly 3 inches long) except for the hummingbird moths in my garden in Kent feeding from the tobacco plants at night. It found it today in the early afternoon probably looking for shelter from the strong northerly wind.
     

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Snap! Def the Hummingbird moths.



Loads of them resting in the garden today and at dusk the air was full of them - beautiful things! None of my pics of them today on the wing are any good, with the speed of their wings and the strong wind .....

[Johnrgby]

My wife found one on Monday night on one of the spare beds she had gone into the room look for something and let out anall mighty scream  without doubt the biggest moth I have ever seen,

[GMT]

Thanks for the picture Tamara. The one in my photo was my first encounter on Fuerte, never seen one before here.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

I thought I'd posted this a while back but I can't find it so must have imagined it 

Back in April I had another of my strange conversations with the locals. 'Have you lost a racing pigeon? One has been in my garden for 3 days and not flying.'



It was taking water but turning it's nose/beak up at any food I offered and I was worried my dog (a terrier) couldn't restrain herself any longer and would pounce. (Or a stray cat ....)

No joy calling in at places I knew kept pigeons - no one at home - went to bar for coffee with pigeon in cardboard box ............... 

Told the landlady what was going on, she phoned a guy she knew, 5 minutes later he turned up at the bar and took the pigeon off my hands with many thanks. A week later a message was passed on to me, he had fed the bird and identified the owner and then sent it home to Tenerife on the ferry! (It had been released in a competition in Lanzarote and obviously hadn't got a very good sense of direction!)

New words learnt: 
racing pigeon - paloma de carreras
leg ring - anillo de pierna
doesn't fly - no vuela
won't eat - no comerá

[Ducks]

I thought I'd posted this a while back but I can't find it so must have imagined it 

Back in April I had another of my strange conversations with the locals. 'Have you lost a racing pigeon? One has been in my garden for 3 days and not flying.'



It was taking water but turning it's nose/beak up at any food I offered and I was worried my dog (a terrier) couldn't restrain herself any longer and would pounce. (Or a stray cat ....)

No joy calling in at places I knew kept pigeons - no one at home - went to bar for coffee with pigeon in cardboard box ............... 

Told the landlady what was going on, she phoned a guy she knew, 5 minutes later he turned up at the bar and took the pigeon off my hands with many thanks. A week later a message was passed on to me, he had fed the bird and identified the owner and then sent it home to Tenerife on the ferry! (It had been released in a competition in Lanzarote and obviously hadn't got a very good sense of direction!)

New words learnt: 
racing pigeon - paloma de carreras
leg ring - anillo de pierna
doesn't fly - no vuela
won't eat - no comerá

What a lovely story with a happy ending. Thanks for sharing!