Meanwhile, “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood”…
Monday Bonus Feature: Walking 42 Saint Bernards Through the Woods
Moose, Really BIG Moose. Dogs, Really BIG Dogs
WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
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After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
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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.