Yesterday as I was driving downriver to run errands, a huge bird swooped out of the ditch on my side of the road and flew into a leafless tree at the edge of the forest. It was a bald eagle. Cool, right? I turned the car around to go take his picture, which was primarily intended to share here with you rather than bolster my photo library, because to be honest, seeing bald eagles is not totally out of the norm now. We even had one perched at camp's waterfront a couple of weeks ago, drying off after a plunge in the lake.
Life is full of surprises. I don’t think I had ever spotted a bald eagle in the wild until a year ago. It’s just one of many unexpected things that have come to be normal.
Some others:
- Noticing that a new “custom meat cutting” sign has popped up in town.
- Our outdoor moose thermometer. I don’t even see the moose anymore.
What moose?
- The Chevy Suburban in town that Maaco painted in Mossy Oak camouflage.
- That our grocery store is a Quonset hut.
- Canadians. Seriously.
- This view:
Ok, you’re right. Something this breathtaking can’t feel normal.
- This view:
Ditto.
Oh, you’ll like this. Remember the mice that Kiwi has been catching lately? Well, we found their trap door.
Hidden behind one of these moose flags was a perfect hole the size of a nickel that our little field mouse was popping out of at two in the morning. Remember our moose flags? We found the escape hatch because Kiwi heard the little guy scrambling his way out of the hole and ran to grab him, but quickly she realized that she can’t climb walls. We were both a little disappointed. I’ll let you know how long the strip of duct tape keeps the vermin out.
Also, I added a survey gadget on the upper right-hand side of the blog, so check it out. I'll get more creative with the questions in the future... you'll be begging for an easy one like this.
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