Living in the middle of nowhere has its advantages. One of my favorites is the fact that fewer people means more wildlife! The Marvelous Mr. Murphy takes a long walk/run almost every day usually somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-15 miles!! Consequently, he sees many animals and since I’m usually not with him (He leaves the house before dawn, people😴🥱), he will try to snap a picture to share with me. Thanks to his early morning walks, he has discovered that a family of beavers is living in the creek that runs near our place. They are kind of amazing and adorable! The babies are called kits! ❤️ We learned from a PBS documentary that beavers are second only to humans in their ability to change an entire ecosystem. A single beaver can fell up to 200 trees in one year. Beavers are nocturnal and very hard workers. Their lodges are amazingly complex structures that have multiple underwater entrances, a food cache and two rooms - one for drying off in and one for sleeping. These rodent geniuses engineer the heck out of the environment in order to create a safe place to live all year long, even under a layer of winter ice. Their amazing bodies are specifically designed for the aquatic lifestyle. Their fur, eyes, ears, feet, tails and respiratory systems are all part of a beaver’s super powers!!
For centuries humans have admired beavers for their hard working, diligent natures. Undaunted by long hours or crisis, the small but mighty beaver maintains its lodge and cares for its family with passion and purpose. They have been the subject of many character building stories and fables and the beaver is the national animal of Canada! 🇨🇦 Beavers have even been known to share their lodges peacefully with muskrats! 🥰 (But I did read about a beaver that attacked a scout leader floating down a river on a pool noodle...so...you know...don’t mess with animals!!😳😬)
The beaver must be a pretty amazing animal because it has been honored on a postage stamp in many different counties!!
Guess what? April 7th is International Beaver Day! What a great opportunity to send some mail, especially to your Canadian pen pals!! 😁
Wood you not agree? (Hee hee!!)
Go postal, people.
XOXO
Mrs. Murphy
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