Notes from Scottsdale

I saw an owl.  For real.  Wow.  I hear them at night in my backyard and have NEVER seen one in the last 12 years ...that's why it's a wow.
Here's a pretty lame pic (I don't have the new iphone4...obviously).

Not for the squeamish:

I've been on the lookout for rattlers since Tuesday.  Hadn't really seen one (although everything looks like a snake: seed pods, sticks, leaves, lizards when you are running the trails in Arizona) until dinner (not at the resort)  last night.  Yeah, dinner.   Snakes in an aquarium at the restaurant.  At the restaurant.  Had the good fortune (?) nerve (?) to ask the bartender who feeds them.  That would be "Joe"...he feeds them mice after hours.  Mice after hours.  In the restaurant.  Does anyone else see a problem with this?  Skipped dinner..... had a big breakfast this morning.  Bacon!
Enough on the wildlife.....have to hit the pool.
Do something lovely for yourself!
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