greybeard
Herd Master
This is how we die....the little things we deny ourselves...
Today, I did not deny myself tearing out a little beaver dam that was preventing my pond from draining down to normal level..
I had a watcher nearby, keeping an eye on me...do you see him?
I bet you can now... I was keeping a close eye on him too.
The dam is in the center of the picture, betwixt the trees close to the water in the picture above. Typical of a dam where there aren't a lot of softwood trees and debris. They make it out of mud and grass, which would have eventually dried like concrete if I hadn't cut an opening in it.
And, after I shoveled it all out..there goes the water..the last couple hundred feet to the river:
Wasn't without incident tho...
Slipped and fell off in there, flat on my back and all I could think of while trying to get back up was "Where the he// is that dam serpent?"
The muck was nasty (which is partly why beaver smell so bad) but it cooled me off a little...water was pretty cold which made an uncomfortable ride back to the house on the 4 wheeler.
Today, I did not deny myself tearing out a little beaver dam that was preventing my pond from draining down to normal level..
I had a watcher nearby, keeping an eye on me...do you see him?
I bet you can now... I was keeping a close eye on him too.
The dam is in the center of the picture, betwixt the trees close to the water in the picture above. Typical of a dam where there aren't a lot of softwood trees and debris. They make it out of mud and grass, which would have eventually dried like concrete if I hadn't cut an opening in it.
And, after I shoveled it all out..there goes the water..the last couple hundred feet to the river:
Wasn't without incident tho...
Slipped and fell off in there, flat on my back and all I could think of while trying to get back up was "Where the he// is that dam serpent?"
The muck was nasty (which is partly why beaver smell so bad) but it cooled me off a little...water was pretty cold which made an uncomfortable ride back to the house on the 4 wheeler.
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