So due to all the freakin' PORCUPINES, we are all on lockdown at the homestead. I'm seriously thinking of fencing off the whole lot o' land just to keep the critters out and so we can have our freeeeedom! I'm going nuts, so are the dogs.
Is it winter yet? *sigh*
Yesterday Jack was out for like, FIVE minutes, and was withing range for me to see him for about 4.5 of those minutes. I called him when I didn't see him and he came back with quills on his back, in his face, under his chin... they were mostly broken and not really "IN" him. I think he came across a porky carcass. Still annoying though, he fights like a possessed demon when he sees pliers anywhere near him! They're totally out to get us, those quilly buggers. Not that I'm paranoid or anything, but I know they're peering in the cabin at night... the whole herd of porcupines, hoping to poke yet another dog... or five. Or a human.
Then I'm at work and find a quill sticking out of my pants today. It's totally a porcupine conspiracy!!!
On the plus side, there's hardly ANY bugs out? What is with that? I'm half expecting the apocalypse.
In other news... ooh, I did run across a BABY elk the other day on the highway! I didn't actually "run across" it, that would be bad. I was on my bike, and momma elk and baby were up a hundred feet ahead of me on the shoulder of the hwy. Not a great spot to be for this wee baby who was the size of a medium dog, soooo tiny! So I waited as to not freak them out riding up close to them and they darted off into the woods, then back out across the hwy... which they made it safely across despite the plethora of RV's zooming by. Saturday was highway patrol day for me. I then had the pleasure of herding the trio of horses away from the shoulder of the road too. All of this within 2kms!
That beats the day I went for bike ride the week before. I went about .5km and ended up coming home with a random husky-mutt. His mini-doberman buddy followed for a bit too, but didn't come right back to the homestead. I had to bush-whack back to my place so they didn't follow me on the road, came back scratched and bitten and sweaty... not the bike ride I had intended on having.
Why can't I just go out for ONE uneventful activity?!?!?!
And my laptop is being problematic again, argh. That's the reason for the lack of my online presence right now. You'd think it would enable me to get more done around the cabin, and that's sort of true due to our long days, but now I also waste significant time reading books like "Eclipse" (damn you entertaining vampires!) and watching numerous movies via satellite and staining my deck and stacking wood and yanking snow fencing out of the trees. Ok, I've been pretty productive. Next weekend is drywall weekend Part 2! The excitement literally never ends.
I have many blog updates, lots of photos, new websites to unveil (hopefully this decade) and lots more for your reading pleasure, but it'll have to wait! Maybe I can start selling porcupine quills for laptop fund-raising??!! :)
5 comments:
Wow Stacie, I was wondering what happened to you. Held hostage by porcupines!
I'm thinking you could get into the quill supply business.
It is really crazy! Didn't they get any inflammation because of this?
Occasionally I meet really experienced and organized mushers who no longer live lives of constant drama. Their dog yard is secure, their dogs get along with each other, their rigs have good brakes, their sleds are ship shape, they have freezers that don't break down. The wildlife they see is pleasant and under control.
There's something very fishy about those people.
Stacie, I'm assuming you know the trick to getting quills out is to snip the ends off first, right? Even then, it hurts! Poor babies!
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