(With a tip of my affectionate pen towards Rod Serling)
"Imagine, if you will, that you live in an idyllic world where you have evolved a way to protect yourself so effective that no predator dares to touch you. Imagine that you can go anywhere safely and eat anything you like with no consequences. Imagine yourself happy, safe and blissful. Imagine that someone has cut down a tree and left it in your path. Finally imagine that your blissful eating has rendered you unable to get over that tree."
We were backpacking in the Flattops in NW Colorado and we found a campsite with a resident porcupine. He wasn't too smart but he sure was fat.
Porcupines are known for eating the shoulder straps off of backpacks to eat the sweat/salt residue on them, so our challenge was to rout fatso from our camp. We gave chase with long sticks and he headed out at about 1km/hour. We chased him up a tree, but it was only about two meters high... he was just as disappointed as we were...
We eventually packed up and left with our backpacks intact and fatso up a sapling.
I dunno, they're not too fast, so he might still be there...
Mrs Mild spent her college summers working for the US Forest Service at one of the lodges on the Long Trail in the Green Mountains in Vermont. She'd leave her car at the end of the trail and hike up to the lodge. Once she got back to the car she'd find out the hard way that some porcupine would chew her brake lines. They were probably after the salt on the lines.
It’s Flashy! More info on your hed gif here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/flashy-faces-an-obstacle
And your meme chat for the day: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/18169803-2d1e-4c7b-b481-40bc4a16af7a?utm_source=share
Do not sit
on The Porcupine
he'll stick you good
on your behind
donut besmirch the birch, Flashy!
Love the porcupine. I have one - a plushie puppet. The plushies are a collection, not an obsession. I'm afraid he doesn't have a name, though.
Today, I'm just here for the gif, so thanks!
(With a tip of my affectionate pen towards Rod Serling)
"Imagine, if you will, that you live in an idyllic world where you have evolved a way to protect yourself so effective that no predator dares to touch you. Imagine that you can go anywhere safely and eat anything you like with no consequences. Imagine yourself happy, safe and blissful. Imagine that someone has cut down a tree and left it in your path. Finally imagine that your blissful eating has rendered you unable to get over that tree."
Love!
;>)))
Ah, yes, I remember well my introduction to the pommel horse in 7th grade gym class.
We were backpacking in the Flattops in NW Colorado and we found a campsite with a resident porcupine. He wasn't too smart but he sure was fat.
Porcupines are known for eating the shoulder straps off of backpacks to eat the sweat/salt residue on them, so our challenge was to rout fatso from our camp. We gave chase with long sticks and he headed out at about 1km/hour. We chased him up a tree, but it was only about two meters high... he was just as disappointed as we were...
We eventually packed up and left with our backpacks intact and fatso up a sapling.
I dunno, they're not too fast, so he might still be there...
We're not supposed to take in wildlife for cuddling and stuff, so why did Mother Nature make so many of them so sweet?
'Now I KNOW I dropped my phone around here SOMEWHERE.'
I was rooting for that little guy every second. Glad he made it over the tree. 🙂
I was reflecting on what it would be like to have to crawl over chest-high obstacles every day on my way to the kitchen or the bathroom.
Get a higher chest!*
*For you at the low, low price of free!
For women of a certain age, a higher chest is not so easy.
Use your coffee cup
I would have named him Pokey.
Ah ha! The porcupine! The equivalent of JD’s Porsche but with the prick on the outside.
The difference between cowboy boots and regular boots?
Regular boots have the shit on the outside.
Pair of boots with a hat on ‘em? A Texan with the shit knocked out of ‘im.
:-)
I left another little prick in your chat -
https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/18169803-2d1e-4c7b-b481-40bc4a16af7a?utm_source=share
Mrs Mild spent her college summers working for the US Forest Service at one of the lodges on the Long Trail in the Green Mountains in Vermont. She'd leave her car at the end of the trail and hike up to the lodge. Once she got back to the car she'd find out the hard way that some porcupine would chew her brake lines. They were probably after the salt on the lines.
Is he eatin' those mushrooms?...
She’s climbin’! Eventually.
Ah, the Forbidden Fur!
Teddy Bear eating a pumpkin is one of my favorite Autumnal traditions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dnB3IapeAA
He’s really vocal. Cute!
Thanks for that! ;>D
Adorbs!
You cannot help but fall in love with him.
I love that guy!