Beavers
Beavers, it now seems, have been around a long time, a lot longer than we have. They swam, if you can believe recent headlines, with the dinosaur. A mammal hanging out aeons before we showed up.
For an entire summer, the wettest in memory, we tried to defeat the attempts by the beavers on our pond in Vermont - who were there long before we were - to construct a new lodge and a new dam. We were convinced it was raising the water level of the pond so it would threatent the road, and another family of beavers would hopelessly pollute the pond. Of course for more than 100 years our house had a straight pipe that emptied into the pond and I don't remember any attempts to destroy our house as a result.
We failed. The beavers could replace what we tore down before we had paddled our canoe back to the house.
We are rethinking our place in the order of things.
For an entire summer, the wettest in memory, we tried to defeat the attempts by the beavers on our pond in Vermont - who were there long before we were - to construct a new lodge and a new dam. We were convinced it was raising the water level of the pond so it would threatent the road, and another family of beavers would hopelessly pollute the pond. Of course for more than 100 years our house had a straight pipe that emptied into the pond and I don't remember any attempts to destroy our house as a result.
We failed. The beavers could replace what we tore down before we had paddled our canoe back to the house.
We are rethinking our place in the order of things.
posted by Blayney at 1:55 PM
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