November full moon is also know as the Beaver Moon. I felt was important for all of you to know that.
#moonnamesitisbestnottogoogle
back at that time, 90s, early 00s, when the fauna resurged, the beavers started their bottom lands redesign program. now, i was gettin cranky, 'who put this pond here?' i contact the state, and ask them 'can we blast em outta here?' not the dams, cuz that's easy work for an excavator, but them. they were like 'we prefer trapping them, call this guy.' nice fellow, hvac was his day job. he comes round, i tell him that im no beaver expert -'how big can they get around here?' he says aboot 25-35 lbs. i then ask 'what's the biggest that u ever caught in Connecticut?' around 50 lbs, he sez.
weeks later, there's his b-card stuck in my door with a note on the back 'big beavers, call me.'
ring, ring! 'what up?' he says 'member when u asked aboot size? so far, i got a couple 25's, 2 55's, and one 65 pounder!' i tell him to save those big tails. show and tell, and all that.
Exit 8 on Route 9 is labeled 'Beaver Meadow Road.' now we know why.
one more 'tail.' lol. last winter, i notice an almost perfectly 'machined' white oak timber, around 8'' x 14,' perfectly placed across a stream bed. today, i know way more aboot bucky beaver, and allow their construction stuff at some locales, but im kinda stunned -'white oaks aren't too common in or reasonably near this particular locale, as they really hate wet feet. where'd this one come from?' i hike around the area, and find that aboot a couple of football fields away, and at least a 100 or so feet away from any watercourse, there's the solitary white oak chewed stump.
how the heck did bucky get that from here to there? dang.
a perfect construction timber.
red rocks was Widespread Panics home court, or so it seemed.
