My wife just asked where that came from, about a recent post. I showed her the triggering phrase from a book that is on the scan and dump pile. Those books that I buy, on a gamble, then ditch at the library drop off. I never read the paragraph in that book. Just a phrase jumped from the tangle.

We’ll have to pluck a lot of feathers from that bird before we eat.

I hope you get more soup than feathers from these small plates.