a confession i once stole wood from a beaver dam but we had moved to the farmhouse and i was just learning to build fires in our woodstove! riding my bicycle to the little country store i spotted a ditch packed with perfect little logs that fit in my huge paper
carrier basket! the farmer (our landlord) was always fussing abot the dam beavers and their dam beaver dams and threatening to blow them up with dynamite! i only took a few logs
i learned to build a fire ( and Grampa
cut plenty of wood to keep us warm!)
i never had to steal wood from a beaver again!(and i lived to tell the tale
I had no idea they could weigh up to 70 pounds! That's dam big! I also did not know they lived in lodges. I am going to start looking for signs of beavers when I am somewhere along the water. I love you guys.
a confession i once stole wood from a beaver dam but we had moved to the farmhouse and i was just learning to build fires in our woodstove! riding my bicycle to the little country store i spotted a ditch packed with perfect little logs that fit in my huge paper
carrier basket! the farmer (our landlord) was always fussing abot the dam beavers and their dam beaver dams and threatening to blow them up with dynamite! i only took a few logs
i learned to build a fire ( and Grampa
cut plenty of wood to keep us warm!)
i never had to steal wood from a beaver again!(and i lived to tell the tale
LOL Mamie. I am still waiting on your substack "I lived to tell the tale"... xo
I had a rare mammal sighting last week, Bea and Belle ... only the second one I’ve seen since 1974 ... a River Otter !
Fantastic! On the Haw?
In my pond ... probably eating frogs (oops ! Troubled times, indeed)
i had a rare mammal sighting in the tree outside my kitchen window!
a groundhog ! up in a tree! not on the ground! ( we actually thought it was a bear!)
I had no idea they could weigh up to 70 pounds! That's dam big! I also did not know they lived in lodges. I am going to start looking for signs of beavers when I am somewhere along the water. I love you guys.
there is a beautiful beaver pond right outside of Mechanicsville on rt 360
you can see it from the road! Beaver ponds are beautiful serene places