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YOU CAN TAKE THE GIRL OUTTA NJ,   BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE NJ OUTTA THE GIRL (or Guy!) I spend my weekends at the mall, my summers down the shore, and late nights in a diner with a plate of cheese fries. I know which exits are which, and that there's no decent beaches north of 100. I spent prom weekend in Seaside, and many a summer on LBI. I know the mob isn't just on the Sopranos. I know better than to drive through Camden, and that there are nice areas of Elizabeth. I know what good pizza & good bagels taste like. I  eat Boardwalk fries, zeppoles, & CASE's  porkroll on a hard roll. (yum!) I love to feel the wind in my hair, and the sand between my toes. I know there's no place on earth quite like New Jersey. And that no matter where life takes me, this will always be home.     AND YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM JERSEY WHEN: You've been seriously injured at Action Park . You know that the only people who call it "Joise

While walking into the livingroom to turn off the lights the other night, Jim saw this little guy in the middle of the livingroom floor. Jim's finger is actually pointing at the back-end. Yes, that is it's true color, no, he is not covered with lipstick or fingernail polish...  This is a fully-growed western blind snake, they eat ants and termites.. and, Jim did have a talk with him to let him know this year's review and pay raise would not be favorable...  He turned him loose under the prickly-pear, hoping that he'll not be stepped-on or molested there.  Then realized that he had killed all the termites and ants there a year ago... darn. So glad we don't have scorpions, pack rats, or many rattlesnakes here... (Jim did see a small western diamondback sunning on the shoulder of the road in front of the house a few weeks ago)... at least the coyotes are too big to crawl under the door and just too lazy to jump the wall and get into the garbage

It was a glorious spring morning when Ky O'Tee, the Sabino Canyon Coyote,  rubbed his eyes and awoke from his night's sleep in his cozy den in the Tucson desert. Ky's den is tucked away in  the Catalina Mountain Range in Sabino Canyon, along a gentle stream.  The stream is not much more than a dry river bed for most of the year.  A dry river or stream is also known as a wash by those who dwell in the desert.  But when the summer rains,  known as Monsoons, roll in and bring heavy rain and strong winds, the wash turns into a  raging river of water that just as quickly returns to a quiet stream when the rain stops.  Ky's den sits high above the wash and never gets flooded when the rains come. Ky awoke to the sounds of birds chirping, doves cooing, quail twittering.  All  his feathered neighbors had recently returned from a winter spent in Mexico and South America where the weather is warmer than the desert in winter. The Tucson desert can get mighty cold in the winter.