{"id":20664,"date":"2021-09-16T16:26:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T23:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=20664"},"modified":"2021-09-16T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T23:27:04","slug":"moose-and-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2021\/09\/moose-and-squirrels\/","title":{"rendered":"Moose and Squirrel(s) :)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, not Bullwinkle and Rocky, but … this morning…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now … I have never seen a moose on my property or on the state land. I have seen elk and I know there is an elk herd that moves through regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I jumped to the conclusion that this was an elk … gah!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmett had gone down the ridge after a squirrel (more on them later) and then looked toward the moose and did a kind of jump-fake run. I hadn’t seen the moose yet, but was concerned maybe a skunk or bear or ??? I called him and he came – YEA!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THEN, I saw the moose. But, I thought elk and I was a bit excited because I didn’t want Emmett going back out there and I only had my phone AND it was big, even if it was some distance away from us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Took my photo, got us home and then cropped and enlarged…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I still had elk on the brain and posted to Instagram as elk. But just after I hit send, I finally woke up and noted that the antlers were wrong and the nose and the shape … MOOSE! Wow. Embarrassing mis-identification, but WOW!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exciting morning outing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Squirrels. I would not be writing about the squirrels except that I wanted to title this post “Moose and Squirrel”, but anyway, the squirrels are a bit of an annoyance. There seem to be more than usual and they are noisy, drive Emmett bonkers and make a mess under the trees. Neighbor Mike will concur if he reads this :)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is just a small sample of the mess they make. Multiply that by 20 or more. And those bits are sharp as well as unsightly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have turned it into a training game for Emmett, though. If he spots one and then sits at the slider, I allow him out for the chase. He is a smart cookie and has figured out the sit, although I have observed that his bottom is nearly off the floor … still, SQUIRREL!! … so I give it to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And we are having lovely weather for going outside: no smoke, sunshine, mild temperatures: my favorite!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tomatoes and basil from the front porch garden!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AND, it is almost Friday! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moose and Squirrel(s) and all kinds of fun here – Happy Thursday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, not Bullwinkle and Rocky, but … this morning… Now … I have never seen a moose on my property or on the state land. I have seen elk and I know there is an elk herd that moves through regularly. So, I jumped to the conclusion that this was an elk … gah!! Emmett […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20672,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20664\/revisions\/20672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}