Lynette was tall, anxious, original, in her late thirties, with coffee-colored freckled skin; her hair was shaved above her ears, and the rest of it, dyed bronze and pink, was piled up in a striking bird's-nest mess, into which soft spatters of sleet blew and melted.
Then he takes great handfuls of the mixture, an unwieldy mess resembling a bird's nest, and kneads it into heavy, pliable strands, like old wisteria vines.
Kudos to Charles M. Blow for standing up for Big Bird ("Don't Mess With Big Bird," column, Oct. 6).
They are a squalid bird, making a mess of my farm and eating every living annual crop in sight.
Keep in mind that if you add more then one parrot to the household, you will be doubling the amount of time needed to attend to the bird(s), the mess factor, and the noise factor.
Some residents say the large birds cause a mess with their droppings, never mind their loud squawking and damage to gardens and flowerbeds.
Be aware that birds make a mess with their seeds, their water, their feathers and so forth and making noise.
Enniskillen is the centre of Fermanagh's lovely Lakeland, a nirvana for hiking, fishing, bird-watching and messing about in boats.
However, too often stuffing absorbs too much of the cooking juices and comes out of the bird a soggy, unappealing mess.
