The Moose are Back!

Sunday night, about 10:30pm, Robert came quietly up the stairs, sneaking into the bedroom, gently waking me up with the words...

"Do you want to come watch the moose?"

Sure enough, Mother and Baby Moose were feasting on the black current berry bush - stripping the leaves right and left. The baby is so small. She wondered perilously close the the Halloween decorations until a car scared her/him back toward Momma. Along the way, the baby nibbled on the broken birch limb which had fallen to just the perfect baby moose nibbling height - about 6 feet from the window we were watching from.

Squirt just does NOT understand why those giant dogs get free run of the yard when he has to stay inside and be quiet!!

They left about 11:00 and the pumpkins had so far survived...

However, a second, lone moose (based on telltale tracks) stopped off at the Trosper Buffet later that night for a pumpkin snack. There are only a few seeds and a small piece of rind left. This turned out to be record eating time for pumpkins. They lasted 4 days this year. Hope he enjoyed it! (Time to go buy more this weekend!)

BTW - we have had 13.1 inches of snow this year. The average for October is 10 inches. I am predicting an above average winter!

Robert is off grouse hunting tomorrow. We may have fresh meat for dinner tomorrow night...

Or leftovers!