Tuesday, September 13, 2011

My little "thing" about beavers

I totally have a thing about beaver dams, beaver lodges and all things beaver! Seriously. So imagine my excitement when I found the most kick-ass dam/lodge combo I've ever see while hiking in the woods one day.

GAH!!!! Look at the length of that!! So impressive. Kuna is doing his "model-on-the-beaver-dam-runway" pose and in behind him is the beaver lodge.


Someone was hard at work.


The lodge against the cliff and the dogs check out the pond, They loved it. And since there doesn't seem to be much recent beaver action around here, we've been visiting daily.




The ol' winter trails look SO much different in the fall, it's crazy and overgrown. Here's the creek that nothing is currently stuck in!

Aaaaand just when we thought we got through ONE FREAKIN' summer of no porcupines....

Jack goes down as the quickest learner in the dog yard - ONE quill! That is unheard of around here!

Oh, don't think I got off *that* easily! Harris also got nailed and was a bit more of a problem to de-quill. I was too busy wrestling him for 2hrs to take photos though...

Bring on winter!!!! :)

2 comments:

Marg said...

So nice to come back to one of your blogs Stacie. I think you should frame that one quill! On the other hand you could start learning how to do some crafts with the collection. Italy was amazing but bloody hot so we were happy to come back to some cooler weather. We're not looking forward to winter though, a nice Indian summer/fall would be sufficient!

laura k said...

I love beaver dams, too! I am amazed at how huge and complex they can be.

I just noticed that in your masthead, PB! is holding an Orbee! My pups are wild for those!

http://wmtc.blogspot.com/2011/08/planet-tala.html

Don't know why I never noticed that before.