I ride my bike again; a cloud, an airplane, shadow and lines and a moose-eating squirrel (No, I do not make these things up)

I am riding my bike again. No, that's not me - that's someone else riding a bike, pedaling towards me as I pedal towards him. I am going uphill. He is going downhill.

This means I have to work harder than he does - for now, anyway.

Actually, I have been riding my bike for awhile now - maybe three weeks. It was pretty tough at first, because I fell into bad shape over the winter. The worst shape ever. This was due in part to my bout with shingles (which still hang on a bit, but not so bad - just some itching now and then) and in part because I ate way too much food this winter.

Way too much. And I ate a tremendous amount in India.

So it was tough - especially after I did my first 15-miler last Friday. Fifteen miles isn't much, yet it sure felt like it Friday and Saturday and Sunday, too.

I am already getting stronger, though, and more fit. Still got a long ways to go, though.

I like riding my bike and I like walking, but, damnit, I wish I had an airplane. Well, I do have an airplane, but, as regular readers know, its been broken up and unflyable ever since I used it to cut down some trees in Mentasta over ten years ago.

How the hell do I get another one?

Yes, I still walk, even though I ride my bike. I walked right over this shadow, which fell across these two center lines.

I walked beneath this tree, and this squirrel chittered "hello" to me. We still see moose, but not so many as we were seeing just awhile ago. That's because the squirrels have come out of hibernation and are eating the moose, so there are simply fewer moose to see.

This squirrel ate ten moose yesterday alone.

You can't expect to see so many moose when just one squirrel will eat ten a day.

What are the squirrels going to do, after they eat all the moose up?

Squirrels really should learn to think about these things, not be so greedy and learn to conserve.

One day, they won't have anything left but nuts and seeds to eat.

And we don't even grow nuts around here!

So what are they going to do, then?

Comments

[Mrs Gunka]

Oh nos! No more moose in Alaska? You better start planting nut trees right now! We moved out on the eastern plains of CO and the moose have eaten all the squirrels out here! Hardly ever see one. Don't see moose either....they had to move on to survive. I miss the little squirrels. They would steal the bird seed everyday and the birds would scold them. They could really scold back! Keep taking pictures of them so I won't forget them. We do have shadows here and roads with yellow lines. And airplanes and clouds. Goodness, Alaska and CO are just like twins. We even have big mountains with snow on the tops. Right now we are having forest fires because we didn't get as much snow as we needed. Our glaciers are melting too. To be in the 80's today. Everything seems a month ahead. Maybe it's because the squirrels ate all the moose.

[twain12]

maybe that's why i hardly see any moose.