deb and Alaskan -- It's a pack rat. Looks very similar to a chinchilla, but it has a fur-covered rat tail. Yeah, big fat things that do lots of damage to crops and car wires.
deb -- My niece and nephew live in La Mesa just a few blocks from the riot stuff where the Target and their bank got burned down.
Diva -- I've had a couple of colonoscopies. Depends on what type of prep you get... One is like half a gallon of flavored sludge and another is fasting with a couple of tablets of fizzy lemon-lime with lots of water to follow. Then your bowels will do their best. At the doc's you'll get a sedative injection (propofol, I believe) and awaken from the best nap ever with some nurse screaming at you to let the air out. Then you go out for breakfast buffet! They will probably give you screen printouts of the trip through your colon or possibly a video. If, per chance, they discover polyps, they'll take care of them while you're under and excise or cauterize them. And if they find a questionable spot, they'll do a biopsy. All of that sounds scary, but it's not a big deal (modesty aside.)
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Albuquerque took a bit of a hit with the apres-protests protesters injuring the newly renovated downtown and damaging our beloved historic Kimo Theater. Our Gov is an idiot, saying that military presence is not wanted and -- rationalization -- that collateral damage is part and parcel. Too, that Covid restrictions don't apply to protesters. (WTH???) So we're expecting a second wave of virus and another lockdown to follow. No curfews instituted yet and last night's protests were somewhat curtailed by heavy rain.
I moved to the country to avoid masses of people, but we're right next-door to Albuquerque. Our village has only two main roads in and out and our police are very protective of its citizens (we have lots of social programs, so officers and villagers on first-name basis), thusly we don't anticipate protesters would get very far if they decided to leave the city confines. Plus most everyone in NM is armed, anyway, and aware of the Castle Doctrine. (Our sheriff's refuse to enforce gun control edicts.) My neighbors are retired police, military, ATF and U.S. Marshals, so I'm feeling pretty safe.
Still, this made me chuckle...
