Mooses!

I was feeling good in my leg today, I went away and bought asupport bandage for my knee that gets a lot of beating now when my hip goes down the drain. So I decided to take the long walk down to the creek. The moose hunting starts soon, so I woun´t go that way until the hunt is over. Hunters finds any reason why they didn´t get any moose this year and I woun´t give them the chance to blaim me :-) :-)

My dogs stayed on the road all the time, so I had no reason to shout to them like I do sometimes top warn the wild animals in the forest. The sun was shining and the wind was rather calm. One or two birds were singing and I could hear cranes shout from a big distance.

If You click to enlarge this picture it will become very big. I have changed the light and contrast so You can see the two moose calves. The original picture was so dark thet it was impossible to see them. The two calves are by the end of the road in this picture.

We followed the turn of the road and suddenly I saw them, two moose calves. There were no time to adjust the camera, because they saw me at the same time and started to run as soon as they dared. I think they were unsure of my dogs so they stood still for a couple of seconds.

Just when I had taken the picture I heard a car approaching rather fast, so I and my dogs went of the road and it was to late to take some more pictures. It was my neighbour on his way to put out some more apples to the wildlife. Since he also is one of the hunters here he was delighted to hear about what I´ve seen. He was also delighted over that my dogs stood still by my side as long as we saw the calves :-) I leashed my dogs until we had passed the place where the calves had stood. One never knows where mother moose is and I didn´t want a close encounter with her :-) :-) Angry mooses are dangerous.

I can´t find any english name for this mushroom unfortunally. But I can tell You that it is derlicious! It tastes much like the more common Chanterelle, if You know what kind of mushroom that is. These however were alredy attacked by different worms.

I was hoping that we would see them again on the other side of the forest, when we came out to the fields again, but a couple of neighbours were already walking there so the mooses stayed in the forest.

Diane, do You recognise this mushroom :-) The read toadstool.

Beautiful, but poisouness mushroom. The white spots are actully the rests of a skin that covers the mushroom when Young. If there comes heavy rains they might fall of.

I was so tired yesterday so I didn´t bother to start a fire in the stove, something I regretted this morning. The night wasn´t cloudy as I thought it would be, so we had frost this night. The ice on the car windows was like concrete so it was a bit difficult to scrape it of :-) There were no ice inside however :-) But it felt like that when I got up :-) :-) So i had to start my radiators so it was bareble to eat breakfast :-)

There´s no risk for that tomorrow morning. The fire is already started and the radiators are of again. I have no tea and no coffee at home, so I think I´ll do a cup of cocoa instead. That and a cheese sandwich is never wrong when the weather is cold outside.

Have a great day now!