Oops! They did it again!
After dinner, I was heading out to the kitchen porch for a smoke whilst the dotter cleared the table and chatted with OmegaDad. While I was lighting my ciggie, I heard a crunch-crash-crunch noise; I poked my head out to peer in the direction the noises were coming from. Lo and behold, we had a Mama Moose and Baby Moose chowing down on the cow parsnips in our front yard.
Of course, I had to alert the dotter and OmegaDad, and we spent much time “ooh”ing and “ahh”ing, and OmegaDad managed to dash down to the office, grab the battery charger, run upstairs with it, reload the batteries in the camera, and snap off a few pictures.
The colors are off because it is cloudy and dim right now; the second shot, I believe OmegaDad managed to get some flash into the ambient environment.
So we were delighted and amused (baby doesn’t look too very old to me).
But then…
…then…
THEN OmegaDad decided to check the veggie garden:
The moose had knocked off our veggie garden covering on one of the veggie beds (you can see the pipes and [just barely] some of the netting behind the bed), and they had mown our chard and beet greens down like machines. Sigh.
They were very luxurious, leafy plants only a few hours ago! The beets themselves are still okay; the moose and baby didn’t eat those. But boy howdy, they really liked the greens! And the big lettuce that we were letting go in the next-over veggie bed. They didn’t touch the celery and carrot greens, though–the devastation stopped where the chard stopped.
I guess it’s time to get out the firecrackers again…
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