So the other day (yesterday) I went to this place called Pine Point.
-It's a little campground with access to the Mississippi. Noticing that some unknown individuals had stolen all the wood that the US Forest Service had cut and left for campers, I recalled a few weeks proir when some unnamed persons took some of the wood from there for a camping adventure in Duluth. I believe that a US Forest Service representative will be calling them.
But I digress, this story is about yesterday.
Yesterday I was out there doing some reading and reflecting. After a while I decided to walk around and look at tracks along the paths. Then I followed a deer trail meeting a 4 wheeler trail which I followed a ways. Eventually I tired of this and went back to my car. I putted down the road watching for deer, then took this side trail from the forest service road. Great road for a saturn, but what can you do if all you got's a saturn. Anyway, putting along in 1st gear I saw something ghost across the trail in front of me a ways. I figured it was likely a deer. Eventually, I found the end of this trail and headed back, the saturn unscathed by its trip. Just before I got back to the road I met this porcupine. Not having seen too many of these on the prarie, I got out for a closer look. So I chased this thing off through the brush grabbing a stick along the ways. I got it to stop so I could poke at it a while to turn it around and see it up close. I don't think it liked me, and it took off again and tried climbing a tree. I wasn't done looking yet so I pried it off the tree from 4 feet up and got a good look at its belly as it tried flipping over. Ungraceful creatures if you ask me, poor acrobats too. Anyways, it started climbing again and got above me before I could stop it. I wasn't about to pry a porcupine off a tree above my head so I decided the games where through.
So I'm 10 yds in the woods and start heading out of the woods. When I got to the edge I noticed a wolf coming down the road to check out the commotion. He was 40-50 yds away and noticed me at the same time. He paused briefly, realizing what I was, he turned tail and trotted off. I thought this was neat chasing a porcupine and attracting a wolf.
So of course my next move was to go track the wolf a ways. He had come from the west followed the road towards me, then left the road heading east. The trail I had been on was to the east, and I began to wonder if the creature I saw on that trail was another wolf. If it was, I was in the middle of a pack of wolves chasing a porcupine. hmmph Interesting.
Then I went home. smiling.
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Hmmmmmmm.... what an interesting story, sounds fun, but may I suggest a change of vehicles because my Impala sure seems to attract the animals and I don't have to get out! The other day I saw some glowing eyes on teh side of the road and warily slowed down, only to have this cat launch straight towards my car as I was going about 10 miles an hour. I don't know what happened as I slammed on the brakes. I head no noises and hit no bumps but the car was almost under the middle of my car when I hit the brakes. Next, I was going down a two lane highway when this bunny was hopped down the middle on the white line. I slowed down and this bunny paralleled my car for the longest while. I asked my Mom if she wanted it for supper and she said no it was too small. Then I had some mad tweety birds swoop with in inches of my car, and finally a deer ran right in front of me yesterday. Some on has it in for my car, and I must admit I was tempted to take out the beautiful doe that crossed in front of me so close to home!
lpibauHmmmm... you guys don't update this often?
Hmmmm... you guys don't update this often?
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