{"id":2961,"date":"2012-10-28T14:58:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2012-10-28T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T19:02:44","slug":"our-busy-beaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"Our Busy Beaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re outside tidying up the yard before Sandy starts to get wound up here when the boy come running up to me and says &#8220;Dad, there&#8217;s a beaver and Mom wants you to take a look at the tree.  The actual tree in question is a bit further down in the pictures, but after looking at it, I started looking around generally.  The little critter has been keeping himself occupied of late.<\/p>\n<p>The most remarkable thing is that all of this has been happening within the passed couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures are after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"346\" src=\"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/beaverwork1.jpg\" width=\"614\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a picture of the dam at the end.  I suspect the smaller tree that he took down there on the left is part of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"614\" src=\"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/beaverwork2.jpg\" width=\"346\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I wonder why they stop?  Perhaps they don&#8217;t like the taste or something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"614\" src=\"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/beaverwork3.jpg\" width=\"346\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This one, particularly, is worrisome for us.  It&#8217;s within about 80 feet of the house and, as the next picture shows, this is a tall tree.  I suspect that if it comes down, it will hit the deck, though it won&#8217;t hit the house.  Regardless, the tree is dead since he stripped the bark all the way around.  We&#8217;ll be calling someone in to take it down.  Great timing with the storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"614\" src=\"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/beaverwork3alt.jpg\" width=\"346\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"614\" src=\"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/firsttree.jpg\" width=\"346\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This tree is pretty far from the house, but it&#8217;s a good sized one.  Probably about 70 feet tall.  It&#8217;s some kind of birch, based on the look of the wood. Maybe he wanted to make soda.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how we didn&#8217;t know this tree fell when it did.  Maybe because no one was around to hear it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"346\" src=\"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/firsttreealt.jpg\" width=\"614\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This one gives a better idea for how tall it was.  Why he finished this one, but left others doesn&#8217;t make any sense.  But then, I&#8217;m not a beaver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"346\" src=\"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/secondtree.jpg\" width=\"614\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This is a smaller tree he took down.  Destructive little bugger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"346\" src=\"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/beaverdam.jpg\" width=\"614\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At least I know where he lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re outside tidying up the yard before Sandy starts to get wound up here when the boy come running up to me and says &#8220;Dad, there&#8217;s a beaver and Mom wants you to take a look at the tree. The actual tree in question is a bit further down in the pictures, but after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}