Random thoughts from the moose cave.

So the poop is a calling card, and you just wanna know whose.

I have some friends that i.d. scat for a very good living.

There was a link ...

not this one but it's not bad

http://www.bear-tracker.com/animalscat.html

this is better

http://m.extension.illinois.edu/wildlife/identify_scat.cfm

http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coconino/forest-resources/wildlife-fisheries/tracks-handout.pdf

tracks

thankee kindly.

we have fresh snow due tonight. if it sticks, Ima go find something...

I always kinda thought I would make a decent ranger. if I could stop and alter career paths...

anyways, Ima see how much of my Indian blood I can summon up, and see if I can find a den nearby. do coyotes den up...? hmmmm.

and mebbe a spot to shoot deer pictures...

ok trackerMan, how'd that work out?

slow.

ground is mostly hard.

snow soon. that makes it easier.

lotsa trails to follow...

I wondered about this over the holidays - we had a lot of fluffy snow - lots of prints to look at.

We are going to have 4 - 10 inches (supposedly - somehow I doubt it) come Monday. My heart is pitter pattering and I am all a flutter thinking about it. I know it's old hat to you all...but I am SO excited.

Take care of you Rock (((Rock)))

Beth (((Beth))) You're a honey.

we've not had any accumulation yet.

not complaining are we...

Hey Rockie--I just caught your link to Kid Rock and Rock Bottom Blues. Great!! It feels good to me too. It always has except for maybe when that snotty-nosed ******* lance-jack medical orderly stuck that blunted needle in my arm to give me my jabs and immunity from some exotic diseases or other.

A nurse once put me under for an op, too embarrassing to discuss in view of the position I must have been in when I was not there to get it done, but it was painless such was her tenderness and I fell in love with her gazing into her eyes at about the count of four, maybe five. I never saw her again.

I tried Fat Bottomed Girl. If Darwin had seen that he wouldn't have needed a turgid tome to tell us what makes the world go round. He would never have gone on that trip with Fitzroy for 5 years. I'll play that anytime I feel my faith in America needs restoring.

"Love is all there is, it makes the world go round".

And Only God Knows. Thanks a bunch as I guess I ought to put it.

I'll have to see if I can make sense of you tomorrow, spendi.

been stuck in a damned snowdrift all afternoon. in my arena shoes.

and my chimney was broken when I got home, so I got to crawl up on the roof in a firkin blizzard.

exciting stuff.

and the Demon I share my body with has had enough.

full flare time.




I begged off of the out.

no T-shirt for me...

Doesn't sound good, Rocky. Hope you can manage enough hot water to have a good soak once you get settled back inside.

no. it is much much too cold to bathe.

headed for minus 4 tonight. still 20+ mph winds.

and I only keep 20 gallons of grey water inside. (the well tap is frozen solid for a coupla days at least)

and my drains are frozen.

I've an afghan on, and the fire is turned up to 11 now.

it'll be a 2 cat night...

oof!

Sounds brutal.

Glad you're safely home.

I'd not volunteer for this mission again...

cats are pissed.

twas verra smoky inside till we fixed the chimbley. verra...

not leaving till it gets over freezing. i promise.

truck will not move till we get meltage. I plowed it into a drift getting in the driveway...

Kansas sucks.

You need to be someplace more moderate.

Sheesh.

but I gotta ask - any tracks up on the roof?

no?

good

what, firkin reindeers?

I got squirrels run the roof all the time.

drives the cats nuts...

The snow pretty much missed us here west of ya.
But the wind, oh yeah we got that.
I really feel for ya havin to fix a chimbly in that.
We coulda used some a that moisture out here though, not lookin very good so far this year in that regard.

the wheat guys are fretting, I'm sure.

we only got about 3 inches, but we got it six or seven times with the wind.

ugly white-out on my journey home after getting stuck in town.

I can't imagine trying to go back and work the load-out tonight. 3am mishaps are the worst...

my poor chimbley had frozen snot buggers all in the spark arrestor. plugged pert near solid.

I tried everything before climbing the ladder.

brrrrrr.