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Post by gingerale on Feb 27, 2022 5:52:59 GMT
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Post by queenzod on Feb 27, 2022 6:02:39 GMT
Happy birthday @limminowpea! I hope you have the very sexy dreams of Ben every night for a week! 😉👍🏼
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Post by Hannah Lee on Feb 27, 2022 7:14:45 GMT
Happy Birthday! 🎉🥳🥳
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Post by mllemass on Feb 27, 2022 11:50:34 GMT
Happy Birthday!
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Post by llminnowpea on Feb 27, 2022 12:16:13 GMT
This may be a touch early in your time zone, but Happy Birthday llminnowpea ! Hope you had a fabulous time celebrating. Will you regale us with another stray animal story to mark the occasion? Thank you and everyone else for the birthday wishes! You all were so chatty while I was sleeping off the dinner party! We had lasagna and coffee cake and then watched two horror movies: Ready Set Go which was a funny-ish horror movie with a lot of horror movie tropes and a tiny, adorable lead actress. The other one was Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, which was even funnier this time around. We spent 30 minutes discussing the merits of - wait for it - Canadian indie horror from the early 2010s, then finished things off with this Youtube video . What is great is they teased the hell out of me about Benedict and if they ever meet him, they are totally going to call me. OK, this came up because my friend is a professional illustrator and we were talking about his upcoming projects, so I mentioned "The Tiger Who Came to Tea," because we were fantasizing about who would voice the characters. ANYWAY, it was a great time!
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Post by llminnowpea on Feb 27, 2022 12:40:13 GMT
Will you regale us with another stray animal story to mark the occasion? OK, so I forgot about the stray animal story. Which animal should I choose today? Cow? Pig? Dog? Moose? Flock of wild turkeys? The fox and the dogs? OK, maybe moose & turkeys aren't technically strays, but let's go with that one today. It is actually two separate stories. Moose 1: I was driving home from a late work meeting (like, really late - I was two hours from home in the middle of moose & snowmobile country). A coworker was driving behind me and I was listening to Enya (of all things) in my little red VW Golf (omg, but I loved that car). ANYWAY, there I was, driving along, thinking "I wonder if Steve (a flatlander) knows to be careful when driving at night up here because you can't see moose eyes shine when car lights hit them." Suddenly, out runs a moose right in front of me. I lay on the brakes, ducked, and, I am sorry to say, take the legs right out from under the poor thing. We did a perfect vector - I was going south, it was going east, and we ended up on the opposite side of the road going directly SE. Enya was still playing. I opened my eyes and looked around for the moose, realized I was on the wrong side of the road, popped the cluth, and pushed the car out of the driving lane and into the breakdown lane. People started stopping at that point. The sheriff was called and we all stood around waiting. A local nurse who stopped checked me all over. When the sheriff got there, he looked around as I walked up, shined a light in my eyes and said: "you should be dead." Then we all look back at the Golf, which had the windshield and roof crushed right down to the headrest. I respond with "I ducked" and we go sit in the car and fill out various reports. The sheriff asked me if I wanted the moose and I said no, so it was taken by one of the people who stopped (It was a yearling, so it was taller than my car, but not at its stud weight, which is what saved me). My coworker dropped me off at home and I went to bed. Moose 2: This one was closer to home and has a happier ending. It was after dark in the spring and we had had a new snow the day before, but it was warm enough that we got a heavy snow fog (which is gorgeous, btw, and I highly recommend googling it). ANYWAY, I was driving a Toyota Rav4 this time and because cars were coming towards me, I saw what looked like a large, stray horse. Nope, it was the silhouette of a moose. A big one - fully adult, just standing in the road. Now, you can't just honk at a moose or drive by. You gotta be real careful, because you never know if it is going to lose its temper and charge the car. I stopped and put on my hazards and turned off my headlights (to stop blinding it). The cars approaching were not good people and they were honking, flashing their lights, and yelling and the moose has decided to cross the road right where one of the local cemeteries is located, so it was stuck. It didn't want to go back and started to get scared and was trapped by the fence. So, I had to yell at the idiots and tell them to turn off the high beams and shut their mouths to it could have a chance to figure it out. We sat there in the dark, with no noise but our engines idling and hazards blinking waiting for that damn moose to move. Finally, since I was on a timeframe, I said "fuck it", slid to the passenger side, got out that door, and walked down the road a bit. The moose saw me and decided to hightail it around the cemetery and into the woods beyond.
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Post by llminnowpea on Feb 27, 2022 12:41:07 GMT
Happy birthday @limminowpea! I hope you have the very sexy dreams of Ben every night for a week! 😉👍🏼 Those would be preferable to the f-ed up one from the other night. Still not sure I have recovered.
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Post by mllemass on Feb 27, 2022 13:15:35 GMT
Those are fantastic stories! Thanks for sharing them! My raccoon, bird and deer stories would pale in comparison!
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Post by llminnowpea on Feb 27, 2022 13:43:45 GMT
Those are fantastic stories! Thanks for sharing them! My raccoon, bird and deer stories would pale in comparison! I want to hear these stories! Please!
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Post by llminnowpea on Feb 27, 2022 13:59:08 GMT
It isn't a dumb question.
You need a hunting license to go out and shoot game here (wild turkeys, ducks, moose, deer, bear, etc).
But, when you strike and kill one with your vehicle, you can keep the body and have it butchered. Or, someone else can have it.
Many times, people take the dead animal and clean it, package it up, and donate it frozen to soup kitchens and food pantries so it doesn't go to waste. Venison (deer/moose/antelope/elk) meat is very popular here. I know many many families whose only source of meat is that which they hunt/fish themselves.
If someone else hadn't taken it, that would have been 3-400 pounds of meat that would have gone to the scavengers (like coyotes and turkey vultures). This was a younger, smaller moose, so less meat than a full grown one (which weigh about 1600 pounds and give about 950 pounds of dressed meat/500 pounds butchered - remember the hanging cow Phil was skinning in the movie - he was almost finished dressing it but not yet on to the butchering - do not google this if you are squeamish, since there are lots of how to videos for hunters).
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