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New neighbour! I'd never seen a wild hedgehog alive until Sunday. Now it's a nightly routine to leave food out for these 3 wee guys. Tonight the two older ones were angrily snorting at each other for about half an hour. Friggin adorable.

1. This desert hare was hopping around the oil rig the past couple days. A somewhat common occurrence. Saw a jackrabbit too, hoping to get a pic. (Bonus: that’s the CreepMobile in pic). 2. Millipedes everywhere too about 6 weeks ago. About 7” long in that photo. I got lots of strange critters pics from the deserts of West Texas. “That’s not your back yard, Sir Creep”. Aye, ‘tis seeing as I’m on the rigs 75% of the time. SC

What kind of animals do y'all see in your yards and neighborhoods? Living in a suburb of Chicago, I don't get to experience much. Squirrels are widespread here, as in much of the US. We have a family of rabbits in our backyard. We occasionally see foxes in my area - my cousin who lives a couple blocks down said they once had a fox den in his backyard. But that's about as much as it gets here. My aunt who lives further west into the suburbs occasionally has coyotes in her neighborhood. What about you guys? Anything interesting?

Here's her recent Australian 60 Minutes interview:

Lili Rosson, who had a small part in the film, was alive but just died at age 87. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lili-rosson-dead-north-by-northwest-ozzie-harriet-actress-was-87-1230001

"Berman announced a new project called Purple Mountains. He released a self-titled album under that moniker in July. His North American tour behind the new album was set to begin this weekend. Oops! Hey -- whatever happened to unwritten rule we post a video clip when possible or musical artists? Do I gotta do everything around here? (Non Admin role, if you honestly believe that. ) SC

Wow! How is this even possible? Not a bigger name WORLDWIDE for a week or so. And die and no one in the media noticed?

Why was there a need for this thread? This isn’t a pool, I don’t understand why this couldn’t have gone in his thread.

Honestly, I don’t see a point in guessing the age a famous old person will die. I just don’t see the point. And I apologize if I seemed a little snappy then, but I’ve been really stressed recently.

Lots of different birds, especially wood pigeons, unfortunately. Noisy clumsy great oafs. Rabbits - thankfully rarely in the garden these days since better fencing installed. Hedgehogs. Current dog is a wuss, doesn't know what they are and just barks at them. Previous dog (JRT) used to bring them into the house, blood all over him (his own). His sidekick (greyhound) preferred to try and open them with her paws, which led to her gouging huge pits in the lawn. Hedgehogs invariably win all these encounters. Mice - they get on the bird feeders. Recently tried to set up home indoors, but we think they have been successfully ousted. Rats, obviously, but rarely seen. Moles, ditto. Occasional grey squirrel. Went out with dog the other day on to path accessed from garden. I noticed a roe deer in the adjacent hayfield. I passed the field and turned into the lane at the bottom. In the distance was a dude on a bike coming towards me. My dog chases bikes, so I was rooting around in my bag for the lead when the deer leapt over the fence just to my left, clocked the dude on the bike, turned in my direction, clocked me, and leapt over the fence on the other side of the path into a barley field. That doesn't happen often!

There is not a single bit of that millipede that I like Not quoting it so I don't have to see it again.

Wtf are you on about? Are you trying to tell me I should give a shit about someone he may or may not have known 3-4 years ago to be correct? The guy has been noted as being obsessed with mass shootings and violence. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/08/05/us/connor-betts-dayton-shooting-profile/index.html Does that make sense with being pro-gun control? Regardless, wanting gun control because it would start a race war and wanting gun control because it will save lives are not agreeable stances. Blatant lie. Where are you seeing that he was a Democrat? He literally stated in his racist manifesto the exact opposite. https://crooksandliars.com/2019/08/el-paso-shooters-manifesto-uses-trump-and And you must be on another planet if you think there’s a rise in left wing violence and terror when literally white supremacist attacks are at an all time high. Strawman. Absolutely nobody claimed that all mass shooters are white.

Chiwenga is remarkably stable, and is starting a new treatment. Fucking third-world political bastards...

Population of USA growing by about 7,000 people every day - it's going to take more than a daily mass shooting to cause the end of the empire. As for Lizzie Warren - if she wanked you off while you played with her tits then at 15 I'd have been pretty happy (and at 51 I'd be pretty happy).

@the_engineer Sorry I took you away from your Fox News broadcast to read this message, but this is something you need to hear. You are the problem. Not 'dem illegals. Not 'dem libtards. You. You are so corrupted by conservative propaganda that you will just eat up anything these lying pricks tell you, won't you? 1. Gun control =/= taking away every. single. fucking. gun. I cannot comprehend how ANYBODY could be against implementing SOME form of gun control. You DO NOT need an M16 or AK-47 for "muh protection". You don't need bump stocks for "muh protection". You don't need 100-round magazines for "muh protection". Do you get the point? That's what gun control means. Nobody gives a shit that you have a Beretta. 2. These mass murderers you seemingly agree with were motivated by prejudice, not the possibility of a civil war Both the Christchurch shooter and El Paso shooter were motivated by far right conservative ideas of prejudice against Muslims and Hispanics. Both of these types of racially-motivated attacks have increased in magnitude since Trump was elected. I had to stop here. It was difficult. There's so much more of your bullshit you spewed that is so fucking wrong and straight up racist and moronic. I can't do this. I really hope this civil war you preach of happens. They'd call it the Darwinism War.

I just turned 39 and I believe The old Bugger will outlive everyone on the list.

16 months down. 22 to go. You can buy me a pint on the day of his centenary, Deathray.

Bernie Sanders refuses to pay his workers at least 15 dollars an hour! (They are averaging 13 dollars an hour since they are salaried and not paid for over-time. Part of HIS agenda is to increase the Federal minimum wage in the USA to that amount.)The man is a peach! The workers demand a liveable wage. Bye! Bye! Bernie! Socialism is a bitch when you yourself have to pay for it.

They all as shite as that?

It truly costs not a cent to be kind. Check this out.

I like surly Y-Dub the best. He doesn't appear nearly often enough.

What I meant was a pop star in the UK. Like A-ha, Abba, Vanessa Paradis. As you can see from my post, I actually researched the fucker! Sorry I wasn't clear enough. Jesus Fucking Christ.

Here's my post from Monday in the Dead on Wiki thread: Here's the faint praise from alt obits guy from Tuesday referencing only writing Brandy/Mandy: So maybe if he'd cross-quoted my post, I wouldn't have had to point out that alt obits guy had damned him with faint praise, @maryportfuncity, and you wouldn't have misunderstood my post and repeated what I'd already posted. He was a UK pop star and all.

Well, I'm going to be riskier and predict he'll die on a day that ends with day. Hope I'm right