Automotive battery terminals get oxidation fouling in blast-furnace deserts just like they do in hell-holes of Hoth. It used to be a "no-loss" equation to undo the terminals from posts and brush them clean a couple times each year, but with the modern digital clocks and radios you lose all of your programmed settings. Marie whines about that; I point out that losing time-of-day and radio channels is better than a no-start in a dark parking lot at 10 P.M., and she grudgingly sees the sense in that. I do reset the clock afterward, in the interests of domestic harmony.
In Kalifornistan, the departments that maintain the roadways generally remove the road-kill in a given city or county. Cal-Trans handles the state highways and the U.S. highways by contract. In my county, Animal Control officers removed dead animals when requested by agencies or citizens, during weekday/office hours. Something large like a cow, horse, or wild donkey killed on a roadway would enable ACO call-out for removal "after-hours".
I go out to get the paper this morning and laying in my front yard is a dead doe. Laying on it's right side with a bloody right rear leg, don't know if it was hit by a car or shot but dead just the same. I called the sheriffs office to see if they knew who to call to get rid of it, they suggested fish & game. Called fish & game and they said nope, we don't pick them up, try county road & bridge or you can bury it or burn it. Called road & bridge and they said if it chose your yard to die you own it, property owners responsibility to take care of.
Hhmmm . . . Back forty. Yes, that would make it easy except for the pesky little problem that the back forty would be someone else's yard. This is a one acre place, my back forty would be behind the house instead of in front of it. All of the places around here are 1 to 5 acres.
but since he volunteered....
