welcome to the wild kingdom

We just had a guest come through. Anyone recognize it? Not like CP was gonna ask; he mostly held back, making comments like, “no, I don’t know what kind of snake it is, and I’m sure as hell not going to ASK it, either.”

Larger image here. (Click on “all sizes” to embiggen.)
ETA: it ended up [...]

So that’s carpal tunnel.

Turns out you can get it from a lot of things, and, if you’re me, you can get compound carpal tunnel — throughout wrists, fingers, up the arm and the elbow and some in the shoulders. Cripes. But I explained everything I’d managed to do in the course of screwing up muscles/joints so thoroughly, and [...]

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Welcome to Texas: we have a mommy bird and her babies living in our garage.
She comes in and out, feeding them constantly, and she doesn’t seem to mind if I’m within two or three feet, so long as I don’t touch (which I wouldn’t). Considering there’ve been plenty of times I’m out in the garage [...]