Last week as I was getting the kids ready for bed, our neighbor pulled into the yard on his quad. He had just come back from shooting beaver in the creek behind our home and he had one on the back of the quad that he wanted to show the kids.
So the kids all got to see what a dead beaver looks like. (Not many city kids would be able to have that kind of experience!)
For the next couple of days they kept asking why he shot the beaver. The beaver have built a couple of dams on the creek in behind our yard and they’ve chewed down quite a few of the trees along our fence line.
I took them for a walk down by the creek to show them where the neighbor was shooting the beaver and the trees that they had chewed down. It was all so fascinating for them. I was a little upset to see all the trees that they had chewed down but my husband just said that it will give the spruce trees more room to grow. I guess that’s one way to look at it.