a war mule, a gila monster, and pizza crust

Today I learned that there's a guy in southwestern New Mexico who likes to hunt mountain lions, and his mule, after a few hunts, started beating the crap out of the mountain lion carcasses, which makes for some interesting pictures.

In other news, the gila monsters are out and about and moseying across trails in the national park as late as 9 am.



(This is the same critter from different angles; it deserves two pictures because the last time I saw one was three years ago, and I didn't have a camera with me.)

And by making pizza crust at home, I have now ruined store-bought pizza. I gotta stop making stuff at home.