[LMB] (chat) mink!

[Doctor Nightfall]

>From: "don_iain" <don_iain at verizon.net>
>Reply-To: "Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster 
>Bujold."<lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
>To: "Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster 
>Bujold."<lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [LMB] (chat) mink!
>Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 06:06:12 -0400
>
> > anmar mirza wrote:
> >> One of my first wildlife encounters out here at the ranch lo these
> >> many years ago was a mink.  It was unaware of my presence until it
> >> was about twenty feet away.  I've also seen a weasel and
> >> last summer saw a bobcat!
>
>Several years ago while walking back from Home Despot,

...surely it's not that bad?

I looked
>down in the ditch along US1 where a culvert went under the highway
>and there was a 6-7 foot alligator waiting for an unwary meal to take
>the 'safe' route under the road. Then I have also had to chase a pygmy
>rattlesnake off my sidewalk. Not all Florida wild life is all that safe.

I should consider myself lucky to live in the UK, where the worst I 
generally have to deal with is the (very) common Chav, and once, a Badger 
going through the bins...

*****

What am I doing here
half asleep
and the rest of me
still in bed
making coffee
with tea bags...?

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