Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/12/2024 20:21, D wrote:

  On Tue, 3 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 10:45:03 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

I get the impressions Utah doesn't care much about federal laws and
doesn't have too many state laws.

 Utah is an odd state. As you drive down one of the canyons you can look
across and see the rifle pits that were constructed during the Mormon War.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War
 My brother lived in Utah for about 20 years. He had his work but his wife
referred to it as 'camping out'. In the '60s and '70s everything revolved
around the LDS church. If you were what they referred to as a 'gentile'
there wasn't much. The author Ed Abbey quipped that only in Utah can a Jew
be a gentile. It's liberalized quite a bit since then but it's still
controlled by the LDS.

 Was he able to have many women when he lived there? ;)
 

Nice low population density = no need for too much regulation.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population_density
 The numbers are somewhat deceiving. The valley along the lake from Ogden
to Provo has about 1.2 million people, greater than the entire population
of Montana.
 https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ut/salt-lake-city/crime#description
 

Anyone eaten squirrel?

 Yes. Tastes like tough chicken.

 If you catch one, make sure you save the tail hair. Apparently, according to the wife, that's what is used for very high quality paint brushes!

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I picked one up once, it was a bit tame. Then it got scared and ploughed furrows in my hands.

They are very cute, but can be annoying! There lives on close to the camper where I sleep in the country side. In summer, sometimes he goes crazy and starts to throw stuff on the roof of the camper or runs across the roof several times for some reason. Annoying when you've been up at 05 for early morning fishing and trying to recover! ;)

I understand now how they climb trees. They come with crampons built in
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