Moosed again!
posted in Alaska, Wildlife |
I had been kicked off my computer by the dotter, who wanted to play ToonTown with her best bud, A. For hours. This does not please me, mainly because it consists of the dotter getting on the phone and talking with A. and playing ToonTown and hogging my computer. The other computer, upstairs, is too slow.
Anyway, I was reading upstairs, when I heard an uproar. Slowly it was decoded as “Mommy! Mommy! Come quick! Come and see!”
So I ambled down the stairs to see OmegaDad at the office window and OmegaDotter standing on the office chair and the moose above, right outside the office window.
He was eating our yarrow. Great big honkin’ mouthfuls.
And our black-eyed Susans. And our Shasta daisies. And…and…and.
So I dashed upstairs to get the (old) digicam and the dotter and I quick shot some pics while OmegaDad barrelled upstairs to grab a cherry bomb and a lighter.
I was so outraged at the moose-alicious munching going on that I opened the window to yell. The moose moved off a few yards:
The OmegaDad got to the bottom of the stairs and started chasing the moose off. It ambled, gathered some steam, and then stopped at the edge of the grassy area, turned around, and laid its ears back. At which point OmegaDad decided that just shouting and chasing wasn’t going to do the job, that the moose was about to charge, so he lit the cherry bomb and tossed it. The moose ran off.
The toll:
- My forsythia! Chowed down to a foot from the ground! Argh!
- The aforementioned yarrow, black-eyed Susans, and Shasta daisies.
- All the new leaves on our lilac bushes–though none of the stems, thank heavens.
- Our sunflowers by the greenhouse.
- All our almost-ready-to-harvest brussels sprouts, also by the greenhouse. Wah!
Harrumph.
