The weeks news. An unexpected visitor, and school starts… Again.
It’s been a quiet week up here on the mountain, my little slice of heaven in the great northwest.
It’s gotten colder this past week; the stove has been lit, and I haven’t let it go out yet. We had a visitor this week, a young cow moose. I believe she’s the other half of the twins that we have often seen nearby and in our yard, the other twin being the one who had given birth near my son’s cabin, and has also been hanging around. This cow wandered down an old unused road next to the west side of the cabin, setting off the dogs. I stepped out and talked to her for a few min, snapping some pictures before she wandered off towards the mineral lick near my son’s cabin. I thought no more about it, figuring she would go up the road, or wander off into the woods. I was sitting on the couch, when I caught movement out of the corner of my eye, at the same time the dogs saw her. She had her front feet on the top step of the deck, and was about to step all the way up when the dogs started barking, which spooked her. She jumped over the corner of the deck, and down the bank. I stepped out again, and talked to her, snapping a few more pictures before she went back up the same road she had come down earlier.
Last night, I went out on the porch. I had a flashlight with me, and all of a sudden I heard a large animal stomping around on the bank above the cabin, and it started snorting. It was that same moose, I’m sure of it. She had bedded down up there, and the light woke and spooked her. I talked to her until she settled down before I went back inside. She must have moved on, because she wasn’t around the next time I had to go out. Either that, or she just ignored me.
School starts again Monday, and the district has implemented a mask mandate. Hopefully, this will stop the spread, and school will not close again.
I’m as ready as I can be for the coming winter, I still have to put tire chains on the four-wheeler, and a little work on our dogsled, and I will be done. My son left their dogsled behind as well, so I have both to use. I plan on dragging them all up (the two big ones and the little one), this coming week, and make them ready. Our Polaris 2-up is in line at the local shop, they should have it ready this coming week, as well as the carburetors for my machine. I will be picking them all up when the lovely wife gets paid later this month.
Well, that’s all the news for the week. Bye for now.
