Weekend Update: MOOOOOOOOOSE! Edition
Let me ask you this: if it was 7 am or so, and you were at a rustic-yet-not-primitive campground, and you were just staggering out of the communal bathroom the campground so cutely refers to as 'the Comfort Station' and you heard a 'clip-clop, clip-clop' coming down the dirt road, what would you think it was?
If you're any kind of banshee person in the morning like me, you'd be lucky to even recognize the sound as some sort of moving object. But I was lucky that morning, my friends, and for some reason I stopped in my tracks a few feet before I reached the road, to see a massive, full-grown, gray ghost of a moose come striding toward me at what we New Englanders call 'a pretty good clip.'
My first instinct was to scream across the road to my family at their campsite so they could see this spectacle, too. But moose are big, people. They're big, and they don't look like they take a lot of grief. So yelling MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE! across the road didn't seem like the best choice.
I clamped my hands over my mouth - because I don't have a lot of self control - and watched as the moose trotted by, and then as my brother, sister-in-law, neice, and ArcherVision all turned around to see it running by at just the right moment. In the relative distance, I heard my brother half-screaming, half-whispering Moooooooooooooose! as he held up my neice so she could see.
As the moose passed, I ran across the street to share the moment with the fam, and we were all equally dumb-struck. Even Oscar the Dog got in on the action, marking his territory and ruffing - as soon as the moose was well out of sight, of course. He ain't no dope.
Alas, these little life moments are rarely accompanied by a camera, so I don't have a photo of this amazing creature. I did look up 'moose meanings' though, because I like to surmise what's going to happen in my life next, based on random events. This site had a particularly cool description that I latched on to...'you will be full of contradictions...Awkward yet graceful.'
Lack of moose pictures notwithstanding, there were some other photo-worthy moments this weekend. Enjoy.
The maiden voyage of our new Eddie Bauer tent and sleeping bags, complete with zip-up carrying cases. Both are awesome!
SiL and the Bean pontooning on the Otis Reservoir. They look like they're in a parade!
JaxBro by the fire
Oscar the Dog was a good boy
We made bacon on the fire in this grill basket that Max and Cindy gave us
This was another fortuitous meeting on the same dirt road as the moose sighting. Dick, a Camp Host for the Mass. Dept. of Conservation and Recreation, is charged with assisting visitors to the Tolland State Forest. He takes the job a step further by giving free tours in his pontoon boat of the Otis Reservoir - our trip was two hours long and included a cruise through a cloud of dragon flies like I've never seen before. Dozens of bright red flashes sailing over the water and on the horizon ... quite a sight.
Looks like you had a great time! Moose are magestic, aren't they? Scary
mofo's but gorgeous at the same time. They are also very tasty.
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