FEB 3, bar-fauna: ark's bar (Noah's on-board pub)

   a) Reprise of material posted on February 3 in previous years ...

2020: sister-cities anagrams, ScadRoe/CrabPulse (wordplay map)
2021: sister-cities anagrams, ScotArm/IsraelPub (wordplay map) 
2022: sister-cities anagrams, Modster/PruneBail (wordplay map) 
2023: pluralia tantum, eruptions (poem) 

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 3, 2024): 

Authors' Note:  

barista: italian for bartender at an establishment serving either coffee-based drinks or alcholic beverages.

The story of the primal flood and Noah's Ark provides some opportunity for speculation, as here. What space for care and facilities for recreation were provided for the animals fortunate enough to be selected to board and avoid the environmental destruction that otherwise awaited them? These passengers were slated to become the basis for repopulation of the planet after the floodwaters receded. (One might also ask about the facilities for the animal husbandry crew, but that's another question.) Previous authors seem to have given little thought to these issues. 

The authors, on occasion, visit a waterside watering-hole, known as "Art's Bar", whose name, transmogrified, gave birth to the current fantasy.  

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Followup illustration:

"Two by Two", Alice Anthony
Quilt exhibited at 
N.Charleston Convention Center, March 2022. 

c) current birdie-pic    

                                                           

House sparrows and pine warbler
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