
Meanwhile, “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood”…
Monday Bonus Feature: Walking 42 Saint Bernards Through the Woods
Meanwhile, “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood”…
Monday Bonus Feature: Walking 42 Saint Bernards Through the Woods
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I Return to the Place I was Born
From my youth up I never liked the city.
I never forgot the mountains where I was born.
The world caught me and harnessed me
And drove me through dust, thirty years away from home.
Migratory birds return to the same tree.
Fish find their way back to the pools where they were hatched.
I have been over the whole country,
And I have come back at last to the garden of my childhood.
My farm is only ten acres.
The farm house has eight or nine rooms.
Elms and willows shade the back garden.
Peach trees stand by the front door.
The village is out of sight.
You can hear dogs bark in the alleys,
And cocks crow in the mulberry trees.
When you come through the gate into the court
You will find no dust or mess.
Peace and quiet live in every room.
I am content to stay here the rest of my life.
At last I have found myself.
— Tao Yuan Ming (Tao Qian) Chinese, 365-427
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Nice video of the St Bernards. Looked like there were wet and dry types . We had a dry types as our site mascot back in the day. Dry types are less bulky than the wet types. Ours weighed 135 pounds.
ETA…the types of St. Bernards are short hair and long hair. Not wet and dry.
Cat, Really BIG Cat (28 pounds, 4 ft. long, Maine Coon– making American cats great again):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-CoBWQvkow&ab_channel=BarcroftAnimals
We enjoy seeing moose around our house on occasion. I’m squeamish about being in the field when they show themselves, since I didn’t grow up around moose. I once observed a bull come into the area, and as he covered ground (they cover ground in an unreal fashion – very quickly), the deer and even the bucks would jump up about 600 yards in front of him and GTFOutOfDodge.
My now dead black lab mix once chased the biggest cow and calf you’ve ever seen out of our yard, when we had 3plus feet of snow. The cow came into the yard, and Theo charged her at full speed. Momma moose turned on a dime, and beat a fast retreat off the 30 acres! You have to love the courage of dogs.
Note the raw/scare marks on the back of the rear legs. Suspect this guy purposefully chose this location to get away from/due to being harassed by hungry predators, likely wolf. Grassy median, good strategy.
Not dry. Not wet. Moist and slobbering.
New Woodpile!
http://www.woodpilereport.com/
wow what a great video-was that Rainbow Bridge?
I often have moose in my yard.
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/319805/27636025
Saw one out in the marsh next to the Seward Highway last September. It was a monster with a beard that drug on the ground.