Okay, so I promised my Favorite Husband's bear story today. You see, now that it's summer--a cold, rainy summer, but summer nonetheless--on his way home from work most nights my Favorite Husband enjoys stopping at one of three or four places, hiking a mile or so along a dirt road to a Certain Body of Water. He then--so long as no one else is around--enjoys getting nekkid and jumping in the water for a few minutes before re-clothing himself and hiking out.

I am not particularly fond of this practice for several reasons, mostly because he does this alone, which I think is somewhat dangerous. But that's mostly because I myself am not a particular fan of swimming--childhood trauma, boo hoo hoo--for to be honest my Favorite Husband has been doing this regularly since he was a teenager and he's currently approaching fifty and he has yet to drown himself. As for wild animals Mojo keeps mentioning regarding bears, well, that's mostly to pique the interest of city folk who don't appreciate that, while yes, bears are scary large creatures and not to be messed with, by and large they are terrified of people and usually just want to be left alone. Usually.  MORE Mojo! »

Of course, they've been back for the better part of a month. I've just been lazy blogging about them. "Them" being juncos. They've been taking a back seat to all the flocks of turkeys strutting about, because turkeys are honkin' BIG dudes, whereas juncos are anonymous little flittery things. If they didn't have wings, they'd be mice.  MORE Mojo! »

We've lived up here for going on ten years, now, and while we've seen everything the moose leave behind--huge piles of huge droppings, tracks the size of dinner plates sunk deep in the mud at the edge of the water--we had yet to see a moose itself in all of our many walks in the woods. We've seen just about everything else--even bears have become sort of ho-hum--but not a moose. Sure, everyone else I've met see moose in boatloads. I don't think a month goes by that the paper doesn't have at least one user-submitted candid of a moose.  MORE Mojo! »