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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Diane CBPFC on May 18, 2025, 08:59:30 PM
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I am doing a strawberry tea for Victoria Day Weekend and who should show up?
hope this makes up for lack of moose pics this past winter Roger.
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right outside my kitchen window - it was today the 18th got the date wrong naming the photos
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I made a strawberry tea because our son was coming to visit. This is also the weekend we plant garden seeds in northern Alberta.
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Superb, Diane---the bears AND the strawberry tea!
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By the way, Diane, have any dinosaur bones turned up in that lovely garden of yours?
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Alberta has areas of dinosaur finds, I think in flood patterns - the most world famous museum is the Tyrell in southern Alberta but we had one built a few years in the north, the Currie which is about 1.5 hours from here and there have been significant finds in this area for there too. I think if you build the museum then people find stuff to fill them, that's how it works lol
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Two more critter tales:
In Canada they run the power lines overhead and the telephone lines (when we had them for landlines) underground. Well it seems that a squirrel shorted out a power line, either by its own volition or was dropped by a bird of prey but the result was a half acre fire and a lengthy visit by the fire department, this was last week when we were on extreme fire alerts province-wide. Nothing of much value was lost and thankfully the hot spots are being kept in check.
The other story it that the beavers have been taking trees quite close to our house, I can now see the veggie garden from the house were before it was hidden. They also chewed up my watering hose.
It’s like living in a Disney nightmare.
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Good grief, there's never a dull moment in Alberta, is there? Freezing winters followed by summer fires. Then you've got a variety of exotic wildlife. armed with either antlers or teeth and claws. Then you can throw in the ones that slither and are poisonous.
I won't mention the hedgehog I saw in my garden again.
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It is funny that with all the dangerous animals we have, that a squirrel would take out 4 sheds, old machinery and a half acre of trees.
Well at least Alberta has no rats and the only venomous snake is in the far south of the province in the semi desert area - the prairie rattlesnake.
It is indeed a land of fire and ice.
I wonder what will happen today...
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One of the things I love about the UK is the lack of dangerous creatures. Mind you, that's not to say that things from the animal kingdom don't occasionally raise my blood pressure. A few months ago I was a parent helper on a school trip to Peterhead Fish Market (when I was a kid school trips were to museums or country parks). Imagine my terror when my son grabbed about four hundred quid's worth of halibut by the tail and started trying to drag it out of its icy box.
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My granddaughter is now three years old and obsessed with sea creatures. She has little plastic models of them and will happily spend what seems like hours naming them all. "Orca", "Hammerhead shark", "Swordfish", "Hermit crab". When we first started looking after her, she couldn't talk. I miss those days.
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lol to both Zesty and Roger.
That is a bit weird for a school trip but cheaper than a safari park visit I suppose.
And you have to listen don't you Roger, she will know if you are only pretending to listen.
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Now we have drought and grasshoppers (again) our area has already declared as a disaster area - which means you don't have to claim all your cattle sales this year allowing you to buy replacements next year.
Even my beaver pond is super low this year and that's the water I use for my garden.
But on a positive note I am prepping for a solo camping trip to the south where my relatives live and they have had lots of rain. I had a go at putting decals on my vintage camper, thought you would like the Big Foot I snuck in between the trees. My camper is so old that some private campgrounds won't have me LOL
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Bon Voyage, Diane! (I had to google "decals").
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Have you never put together an Airfix model?
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I did my solo trip to civilization, visited relatives and attended a bridal shower but came home through the Rocky Mountains because it was time for me to have an adventure. I did the big corridor trip from Banff to Jasper - without seeing any large mammals at all. The next day after getting home I saw a bear again just outside my kitchen window, but when he saw me he got scared and climbed up a tree.
Years ago they made land bridges over the roads in the parks and fenced off the highways - before this time we used to be over to pull over at the side of the road and see all sorts of wildlife when visiting the National Parks. This is much better for the animals.
I should also mention that the drought situation is better, we have had a lot of rain, things are greening up and my husband borrowed a huge tank and filled it with water (from a truck) to save my lovely sunflower garden.
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Once again, wonderful photos, Diane. And you brought back fond memories of my own trips through the stunning Rockies in Montana and Wyoming.
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I hear that Trump is putting a $250 pp entry visa on us Canadians crossing the border this fall - not sure if it will go through or not because he waffles a lot. This is the first year that more Americans have visited Canada than Canadians have visited America (tariffs).
We are under extra stress in Alberta as we are lead by a right-wing nut-job who wants to separate Alberta from Canada
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Now they have come back for my patio tomatoes. But at least I am IN the house now.
This after scaring me half to death when I was watering the garden hidden between two beds of tall sunflowers, they just came around the corner on me (I shouldn't have been listening to an audiobook). Long story short we each of us skedaddled.
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That's scary, Diane. I mean, REALLY scary! It must be hugely disturbing to have animals around that will actually attack you and not just as a defensive, last resort. As I've mentioned before, the only dangerous creatures where I grew up were adders and they had no interest in you unless you stepped on one of them. I'm not sure how I would handle 800lbs of teeth and claws coming at me. It would certainly involve an expensive laundry bill.
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I bought two air horns today and my daughter has given me some bear spray - I really am hesitant to do the things in the garden and outside that I would like to be doing.
This is the first year we have had troubles with bears. Not just these two but there is a mum and two cubs and perhaps two others out there as well. I stopped throwing out stale bread to the birds after they first showed up and had no idea that tomatoes would be an attraction.
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I take it these are black bears, Diane? From what I can gather, they're not quite as aggressive as grizzlies but have certainly been known to attack people. That last photo of the bear staring at you is more than a little unnerving. I hope you were behind a thick glass door when you took it!
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I was inside with the door ajar.
My daughter is a Land's Officer and had to leave a job due to two bears just the other day. They (2 of them) decided to do a helicopter inspection instead LOL