We used to have truly spectacular views of the stars out in our backyard. Unfortunately, a new subdivision behind us where they decided to ignore the area rules about street lights needing to be the down-only/observatory friendly kind have turned it into a "Ok not bad, still better than living in the city" thing.
However, if you ever come this far southeast, I will see to it that the visit includes a trip to the McDonald Douglas and also some nights out in various mountain parks.
Apparently that subdivision is also actually part of the city, which irks me as the local animal control has a bad rep, and as annoying as having the occasional angry skunk is, much less the dead-skunk-under-house (I don't think I LJ'd about that, but yeah, for most of December and part of January we had dead skunk under house, house just had permanent miasma, we couldn't get it out until weather behaved, at which point it was a mummy) I'm a bit displeased at the idea of the area skunks being shot. Rabies threat possibly, but it's not the skunks' fault a bunch of people built houses within last years where there used to be huge open desert grassland and scrub.
The skunks really get along well here with our outdoor cats, and I think they're a bit cute as they waddle around trying to find kibble the cats missed. (Usually not much, 30 cats are pretty thorough.)
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However, if you ever come this far southeast, I will see to it that the visit includes a trip to the McDonald Douglas and also some nights out in various mountain parks.
Apparently that subdivision is also actually part of the city, which irks me as the local animal control has a bad rep, and as annoying as having the occasional angry skunk is, much less the dead-skunk-under-house (I don't think I LJ'd about that, but yeah, for most of December and part of January we had dead skunk under house, house just had permanent miasma, we couldn't get it out until weather behaved, at which point it was a mummy) I'm a bit displeased at the idea of the area skunks being shot. Rabies threat possibly, but it's not the skunks' fault a bunch of people built houses within last years where there used to be huge open desert grassland and scrub.
The skunks really get along well here with our outdoor cats, and I think they're a bit cute as they waddle around trying to find kibble the cats missed. (Usually not much, 30 cats are pretty thorough.)