Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: Marc St Louis on May 30, 2007, 11:22:45 am
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Pappy has a thread titled "life is good" and life is good but sometimes it can give you a kick in the pants. A couple weeks ago I had this guy come out on the road across from my house right at dusk. I took a picture, although the quality is low you can still make out what it is.
(http://marc.stoneflake.net/Msc/Animals/Moose1.jpg)
He came across, walked down my drive between my truck and the entrance stairs then went through my garden and into the swamp behind my house. That was nice to see, then.
This morning I get up and go outside and see a rather large hole in mygarden where I have Onions and youmg Spinach growing. I thought something has been digging, it happens. Not the case. This is what I saw
(http://marc.stoneflake.net/Msc/Animals/Moose%20Tracks-1.jpg)
Fortunately his 6' gait was enough to clear the Fennel and Tomatoes but the Potatoes on the other side got driven down a few more inches into the ground :)
(http://marc.stoneflake.net/Msc/Animals/Moose%20Tracks-2.jpg)
Now he is not such a welcome visitor but this Fall......................................
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MMMM moose roast with onions and fennel eh LOL
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It is apparently a nuisance now, but still pretty neat, for someone like me that does not have those here!
It must be dry there. I see you are watering your plants. It rained here last weekend, but we still need more.
Harold
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Your deer up there sure are awfully big and funny-looking..............If one of those came through my yard, it might walk right into the freezer ;D
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They sure are heck on gardens aren't they. Not much you can do to stop a critter that size either. Wait for him with some blunts and put him on the run. Justin
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I also have that life could be better,and this is what I am taking about,he could have just hung around till fall and stayed out of the garden.I agree that is pretty cool to see at least for us Southern boys.I have Turkeys doing the same thing and that ant to good either. :)
Pappy
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You forgot the Potatoes Dana
It was dry Harold but we just got rain and it's supposed to rain for the next few days
Ah Steve. If he hangs around long enough the freezer is where he will go. Wrong time of year right now and I still got meat.
No not much can stop them. I've seen them take down page wire fencing that will hold back Cows and Horses and just keep on going. I don't think they see stuff like that as an obstacle
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He looks like a tastey chunk of meat to me :PLooking at the garden though,you need to fertilize more.Those are small plants.
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Gee Eddie. I thought they were doing pretty good considering we were getting freezing weather not much more than a month ago.
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That moose probably did fertilize the garden on its way thru ;D
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Marc, Eddie lives in perpetual summer. He wouldn't know frost if it bit him on the nose! ;D Pat
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EXCUSE ME but I visited Eddie in Feb this year an it was 26 deg that morning. Went to knap-in and it wasnt much warmer than that all day with wind blowin' ! Now thats cold and fer southern boys its hell ! >:( :D :D.....bob
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Guess you're right Marc.I started my garden the first of Jan.I've already cut the collard greens three times,Picking tomatoes now and have 7 pineapples not far from picking.celantro,hot peppers ready to go.But then my garden will burn up in another month.
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Marc, don't the bears get into your tomatoes? Justin
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And exactly where is it that you live again Eddie. I think I'm about due to pay you a visit :).
I've never seen a Bear eat a Tomato. The like berries. grains and meat but not to big on veggies
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My sister in Colorado has had bears crawl in the green house window and eat the tomatoes. Justin
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A few years ago a local woman came home to find a bear in her kitchen. She screamed and caused a racket to scare the bear off and was successful...but the bear grabbed a cake that was sitting on the table before he left. ;D Pat
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Sounds like the bear had better manners than some of the house guests I've had before ;D
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Pat, fess up- that weren't no bear- hell, that was you in there stealing that poor old woman's cake. She just saw a big hairy critter and thought it was a bear ;D
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Justin
That must have been one hungry Bear. I've never even heard of a Bear raiding a garden up here but look out if you have apple trees.
An old farmer down the road told me about some cub Bears that got into one of his apple trees one time. He peppered them with #9 out of a .410. They didn't like it.
Pat
The Bears up here are not that considerate. They are more likely to take your kids on the way out the door, of course with some parents that might just be a blessing :). There's been plenty of Bears trying to and sometimes succeeding in getting into a home around here. They will sometimes renovate or make minor adjustments to the exterior just to get in.
I was going to bed the other night and looked at the window beside my bed, my bed is on the ground floor. I started to think that if that Moose were to be going by and happened to stick his head in the window that he would probably scare the crap out of me.
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The bears we see around here are passing through. They winter in the Pisgah National Forest and when the turistos show up the bears head for the Greenville, SC watershead where no one is allowed. Brevard just happens to be between the two. They are primarily looking for free food, ie bird feeders.
A few years ago a woman wrote to the editor of the local news paper and said she wished the G&F Dept would do something about the bears. She said that she was here way before the bears ???and she wanted to see them gone. Someone wrote back that she must be pretty damn old to have been here before the bears. ;D Pat