008-010 Birds, birds, birds

So the last three days have followed a theme of sorts - Birds.

I'm working on something else, for which I need a bird. Some upcoming day I'll put more work into it and finish it off, at which point I'll post it for MSCE (it's not taboo to do something over multiple days, is it?). Because I was working on that project on January 8, I did not have much time left to do my actual MSCE for the day. And so...


Unfortunately, the origami bird is not suitable for my project. And that led to the Newspaper Bird of January 9:

The newspaper bird was made out of - you guessed it - newspaper. It's not even paper mache because I didn't use any sort of adhesive. I only used water. The beak is a pen tip and the legs are paper clips. Unfortunately, the newspaper bird won't work for the project either.

I have a new idea for the project which is not only much simpler but also a bit more clever. But that'll come up in the future.

MSCE for January 10 - we did a cooking contest thing at fellowship. The bird element - chicken.


We worked in teams. Honestly, my contributions were limited. I brought some canned cream of mushroom soup and opened said can. I helped mash potatoes (by hand, with a spoon). I watched over and flipped pieces of chicken as they cooked.

Surprisingly, our team won first place. The best cooking team did terrible at the first two challenges (food trivia and taste test) but our food was fine and we did ok in the earlier events. Woo!

My biggest contribution was (sadly) the naming of the dishes. The first dish is "The Eternal Question". It features chicken and egg. Get it? Yeah. I gave a bit of a speech to introduce it.

"When you sample this dish, you will have both a portion of chicken and a portion of the omelette. Close your eyes and select a piece at random. As you eat, ponder the age old question - what came first, the chicken or the egg (with bacon and cheese)?"

The second dish was named "Bounty of the Earth", derived from the French for potato "pomme de terre" (which literally translates to "apple of the earth"). It was so named because the centerpiece was a little mountain of mashed potatoes (very delicious!). We also had a vegetable medley and chicken with a creamy mushroom-spinach sauce. It was good.