More Scary Things

This is poisonous...I'm sure of it!

But, it was tiny, only about 20" or so. I hear the little ones are the worst because they have no venom control. One bite, unload it all!

Ok...maybe it was a gopher snake...again.

But it looked mean! And I wasn't going to get close enough to see if it had round pupils or "cateyes".

And check this out! Gebhard and I were climbing Page Mill and I saw a big ass spider!

I think it was a Tarantula but I've never seen a Tarantula in the wild. Are they bad?

I flipped it off the road so it wouldn't get run over...dumb spider crossing a busy road.

Dog Logic

My Phanny thinks this way too....
I got a good laugh from this post
and thought you might also.

Happiness

"Last year, a team of researchers added a
novel twist to something known as a time-use
survey. Instead of simply asking people what
they had done over the course of their day,
as pollsters have been doing since the 1960s,
the researchers also asked how people felt
during each activity.

Were they happy?

Interested?

Tired?

Stressed?"

What they found was that:


Men

would rather visit/host friends or parents more than anything but drink.

Is that because hosting friends usually entails drinking?

And, visiting parents requires drinking?



Women

however, disliked visiting with parents
almost as much as working.
And, disliked spending time with parents more
than doing laundry or home repairs.

And, surprisingly
(at least to me)
women would rather
cook,
read,
use computer,
garden,
worship
or even exercise
than host friends?

Imagine how
happy
the world would be
if we spent more time in
cafes
and
bars!


The article was actually
about how much less happy
women are than men
while participating in the
same activities.

Work?

Been spending a little time in SoCal

Having some fun near the Salton Sea.

Time for a refill...or refuel.

Ahh...isn't the blue supposed to be on top and the brown on the bottom?

Through the Heads Up Display.

Snakes are Scary

I don't know much about snakes.

I am, however, fascinated by them.

But, I respect them also.


The one thing I do know is that all snakes are poisonous....well, maybe not all snakes.


This one is a Western Diamondback Rattler.

Deadly. Especially the little ones because they can't
control their venom as well as the adults.

When I leaned over it to take the picture, despite the obvious guts protruding from it, it lifted its head and tried to bite me.
Or maybe it just tried to ask for help...poor thing.

And, actually, I think it is a harmless gopher snake...but, rattler sounds much more ferocious! The first one is probably either a Glossy, a Leaf-nosed, or a Lyer...I don't know. And, for some reason the picture is not as good from the same phone?

I have my phone! I'll rant about that another time...maybe I'll get an iPhone!

Not a Joke

Just like the Marine Corps, don't take a minute to fix the problem and move the trip hazard, but contract to have a warning posted?