Strawberry Tea

[Diane CBPFC]

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.

[Diane CBPFC]

right outside my kitchen window - it was today the 18th got the date wrong naming the photos

[Diane CBPFC]

I made a strawberry tea because our son was coming to visit. This is also the weekend we plant garden seeds in northern Alberta.

[Roger Kettle]

Superb, Diane---the bears AND the strawberry tea!

[Roger Kettle]

By the way, Diane, have any dinosaur bones turned up in that lovely garden of yours?

[Diane CBPFC]

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 

[Diane CBPFC]

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.

[Roger Kettle]

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.

[Diane CBPFC]

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...

[ZestyWhite]

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.

[Roger Kettle]

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.