A closeup. Because I deserve it.
Hourly fox gave me something I needed during the dark Trump time and still does during covid.
Here is to the fox. Cheers!
Link to tweet
= new reply since forum marked as read
Quite the personality as well. Thanks for posting them. 
We have gray fox visiting us almost every night - they're smaller, kitty-sized with bushy long tails. And they can climb trees like cats. And they're also friendly, too friendly for their own good.
I wish I had a gray fox in my backyard...
. Though certainly nothing Fox Newsy 
.
I'm trying to decide on a trail cam to order now, one I can easily put on my porch to capture & download pics from. I must show folks "my buddies."
They are shy creatures. Raccoons on the other hand have ambushed me often...love them too but they do have sharp claws and fangs .
The info is mixed on the conservation status of foxes. Thankfully hunting with dogs is banned but unfortunately hunting per se is not. They are viewed as a "nuisance species" - bizarre. I thought that was humans 
:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earth-lost-25-billion-years-worth-evolutionary-history-just-130000-years-180970558/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/30/stephen-emmott-ten-billion
I am a nuisance human too, but I try to make large cuts where I can - I am vegetarian, child-free, don't drive and use clothes, electronics etc. till they are in tatters/ before replacing them. Which is why I have to wait on replacing my trashy spyware infested Android and trashy spyware infested Windows 10 (thanks Satya Nadella you super creep for bringing the parasitic surveillance capitalist model into MS!) with the Iphone and Mac.
I too only try..it is pretty hard. I probably have a worse footprint than you in many ways. Because though I am vegetarian, I am also greedy! And I do use my phone, comp and tv a bunch.
And I have fallen off the veg wagon off and on over the years but it is never for meat. Like you my reasons for being vegetarian are purely ethical and so when I fall off the wagon the shrimp get the worst of it...
But I usually climb back on. I do eat eggs but I ensure they are from backyard hens. I once saw the guy from Compassion Over Killing -Paul something (or was it Gary Yourofsky? I forget)-talk about it and he mentioned how if someone asked him which involved less cruelty- a slice of beef or a factory farmed egg, he would say the beef. Chickens are one of the worst treated life-forms since humane slaughter laws don't cover them and those cages are brutal. Pigs have it pretty bad too. But I am preaching to the choir.
As for driving, I have just been lucky in usually living in places with good public transportation. It cannot be avoided in most parts of America.
I have about 10 years on your son. And my ex and I had the same conversation 12 years ago-we were in agreement. And nothing that has happened since has made me think it was a bad decision.
I am also lucky in significantly preferring books to electronics except when it directly involves my work.
