I went for a drive this evening just to see the sky, feel the road. Speaking of which, I've never seen a beaver. Don't you think this is wrong? I live in Canada and I
say eh
eat maple syrup almost daily
have been to a Stanley Cup playoff game
own more than one toque
once tattooed a peel & stick maple leaf to my thigh
but I've never seen a beaver smack his cross-hatched tail in the water. On my way back into town I pulled over to watch the sun setting on a lake when a swimmy duck caught my eye. I was wrong. 'Twas no duck but a beaver! He rolled and glided and water-smacked his tail no less than six times (I jumped for joy)and he crunched loudly on snack lily pads (made me laugh) AND in the middle of it all a black fox trotted out of the brush, paced and stood a car-length from me all wary and beautiful. Amazing! What next? Happy, laughing, jumping for joy me, that's what. *
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I had never seen a beaver either until a few weeks ago. Gary and I were walking down our street and there on the side of the road was a dead beaver. Just my luck. I finally get to see a beaver up close and it's gone to that great big dam in the sky.
(Ok, that's funny Sonya.) The only beaver I've seen is on a nature TV show. Nothing for the real. Colleen, you live in the North for sake of Jake ... what a better place to have a beaver sighting! Yeah for you! Love that it was so unexpected like that. There's something more amazing about that rather than a conscious effort to catch one of those critters when they least expect it.
Yay for the beaver!! I only saw one in real life on our holiday. Very unusual to spot them so you are very lucky indeed! P.S. I love that you tattooed a maple leaf on your leg. So very Canadian. :)
Shari - it WAS cool! I was having a huge rush from foxes and beavers and the like. HUGE.
Jillian - you would've loved the beaver. He was putting on a real show so I know you would've been jumping up and down with me. And re: the tattoo? Well, it was a peel and stick so it's gone now although it did last for a couple of weeks. That's about as courageous as I'd get - not a fan of needles!
Rachel - it's true. I could R.I.P. now.
Kori - if you say beaver repeatedly your lips start doing funny things. And thanks! :)
We also had our first Beaver siting on our recent little jaunt around western Canada...Big fatty on the other side of Bow River. I ain't never seen a fox...
Hello L1! The gallavanter is home! And aren't beavers just the coolest? So interesting are they. I think it was reading The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe that first got me excited about them. I like thinking about their dam houses. HA! I love that I can say that. :) Also, thanks. You are a very affirming person and I always feel encouraged when you come by.
Ace! Yup, Little Joys definitely do it for me. They help me through the Horrible Bads. Come see a beaver. :)
alrighty so i've seen a beaver or two in my life (living for half my life near a pond on a tree farm in oregon...really) but what on earth is a toque? am i missing out on something fabulous? please let me in on it... :)
Hi Emily Ruth! Here is where you will learn all about the toque. You probably know of it already only under a different alias. :) This one comes with ear flaps. I wouldn't say it's necessarily fabulous although it is fairly indispensable in the winter for many Canadians.
Ok, you're probably sick of the very mention of beavers now, so many comments later. But I would have been so excited to see it too. Your enthusiasm is infectious in any case.
One of my life's ambitions is to see a wombat, but only because I like saying it. Wombat wombat. (I also like saying the word 'weasel' but as I was almost viciously attacked by one the other day, I'm not too bothered about another close encounter any time soon!
Thank you so much for the comments you left, I really appreciate them, plus the reference to that book - I will order it on Amazon. Thanks so much and great to meet you too!
My name is Colleen. I love taking my time and finding beauty and humour in things before they happen - as in seeds and salamanders.
"The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back."
C.S. Lewis - Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
"Look, it's not in my nature to be mysterious. But I can't talk about it and I can't talk about why."
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I had never seen a beaver either until a few weeks ago. Gary and I were walking down our street and there on the side of the road was a dead beaver. Just my luck. I finally get to see a beaver up close and it's gone to that great big dam in the sky.
(Ok, that's funny Sonya.)
The only beaver I've seen is on a nature TV show. Nothing for the real. Colleen, you live in the North for sake of Jake ... what a better place to have a beaver sighting! Yeah for you! Love that it was so unexpected like that. There's something more amazing about that rather than a conscious effort to catch one of those critters when they least expect it.
Yay for the beaver!! I only saw one in real life on our holiday. Very unusual to spot them so you are very lucky indeed!
P.S. I love that you tattooed a maple leaf on your leg. So very Canadian. :)
Now your life is complete.
I can't believe you girls are all talking about beavers ;)
Love the drawing Colleen, she's very pretty!
Son! Oh no! Dead beavers aren't much fun.
Shari - it WAS cool! I was having a huge rush from foxes and beavers and the like. HUGE.
Jillian - you would've loved the beaver. He was putting on a real show so I know you would've been jumping up and down with me. And re: the tattoo? Well, it was a peel and stick so it's gone now although it did last for a couple of weeks. That's about as courageous as I'd get - not a fan of needles!
Rachel - it's true. I could R.I.P. now.
Kori - if you say beaver repeatedly your lips start doing funny things. And thanks! :)
We also had our first Beaver siting on our recent little jaunt around western Canada...Big fatty on the other side of Bow River. I ain't never seen a fox...
What did Kori mean...talking about beavers...
oh yeah, I meant to comment on the lovely sketch, I assume you whipped it up as you wrote your always amazing antidote of life
Little joys. Little joys.
I'll have to come to Canada to Beaver me.
Hello L1! The gallavanter is home! And aren't beavers just the coolest? So interesting are they. I think it was reading The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe that first got me excited about them. I like thinking about their dam houses. HA! I love that I can say that. :)
Also, thanks. You are a very affirming person and I always feel encouraged when you come by.
Ace! Yup, Little Joys definitely do it for me. They help me through the Horrible Bads.
Come see a beaver. :)
alrighty
so i've seen a beaver or two in my life
(living for half my life near a pond on a tree farm in oregon...really)
but what on earth is a toque?
am i missing out on something fabulous?
please let me in on it...
:)
Hi Emily Ruth! Here is where you will learn all about the toque. You probably know of it already only under a different alias. :) This one comes with ear flaps. I wouldn't say it's necessarily fabulous although it is fairly indispensable in the winter for many Canadians.
oh thank you!
now i feel totally in the know:)
Ok, you're probably sick of the very mention of beavers now, so many comments later. But I would have been so excited to see it too. Your enthusiasm is infectious in any case.
One of my life's ambitions is to see a wombat, but only because I like saying it. Wombat wombat. (I also like saying the word 'weasel' but as I was almost viciously attacked by one the other day, I'm not too bothered about another close encounter any time soon!
Thank you so much for the comments you left, I really appreciate them, plus the reference to that book - I will order it on Amazon. Thanks so much and great to meet you too!
xxx
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