Pandamonium Saturday

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Pandamonium Saturday - Today, my dear Mill Otters, is officially, "Red Panda Day" - worldwide. Check it out. You will see that (for once) I am not teasing you. Yes. Today is the day when farmers located in the bamboo-growing regions of China go out into their bamboo fields and cast tons and tons of bamboo seeds, helter-skelter, just all over the place in order to insure an ample supply of feed for our good buddies, that little red-furred critter, the Red Panda. The way things used to be, the happy little clown, the Red Panda Bear, used to look out for his own well-being by nibbling only on every other bamboo shoot, but, like the rest of us, those rascals let their appetites get the better of their intelligence. They gobbled up all of the bamboo shoots that their stomachs would hold. Enter that wise Chinese farmer, Chung Why. Farmer Chung spent much of his time fishing in the Guacamole River bottoms - catching the ubiquitous spiny-finned carp fish by the dozens. His method of catching those carp was to string a strong line onto the end of a bamboo fishing pole and cast that line into the river, counting on the hook and bait at the line's end to nail the carpies and get them into his woven reed fish creel for the trip home. Along came the Chinese manufacturing revolution. Metal fishing rods became the norm, so Farmer Chung abandoned the bamboo fishing pole thing. Instead of using the bamboo for fishing, Farmer Chung plowed up the bamboo fields and planted chicken feed in place of the Red Panda's favorite food. So it is that on this celebratory day, Red Panda Day, panda lovers go out into the chicken feed fields and sprinkle bamboo seeds among the rows of chicken feed. In return for this helpful effort on the part of those panda lovers, Red Pandas visit the outskirts of these farming settlements and, there, hold paws, one to the other, and dance their little Red Panda dance in the moonlight. When the sun begins to rise over the easternmost Guacamole River bank, the Red Pandas disappear into the bamboo thickets once again, staying out of sight amid the bamboo shoots until the next international Red Panda Day, September 17th, 2017 * * * * * * * * * * Image source: Pixabay dot com * * * * * * * * * *