This is the difference between Democrats and Republicans—or you and Sarah Palin, Marindenver: Sarah would have shot that moose with a gun.

Count your blessings - not only did you get to feel ‘closer to nature’ for a few minutes - your property is still intact.  Not the same story for a certain car in Colorado…

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti.

Wow. We still get excited when we see a deer and those things are everywhere. And nowhere near as big as the majestik møøse.

You beat me to it, HTP. Then again, I dropped one Python reference over here already today. Need to pace myself.

Sarah would have shot that moose with a gun.

Yes, but she’d have stuffed her freezer with the mooseburgers, blamed her father for hunting moose without a license, then hollowed out the skull, filled it with M&M’s and put it on the coffee table in her living room so the dead grizzly pelt she has draped over her sofa would have someone to talk to when she’s not around.

Sarah would have claimed to have shot the moose.

I reckon most of her mythology is as invented as every other mythology out there.

BTW, just off to the left is the slope where I slipped and fell and destroyed my ankle bone last fall while chasing my defective Sheltie who was trying to round up (and/or herd) another moose.

She doesn’t get off her tie-out much these days.

@Stephen1947 - we have an absolute policy of never feeding wildlife or leaving food out that they could eat.  It’s the surest way to bring about an early death for the animal.  We cherish feeling “closer to nature” and not being “destructors of nature”.

those things are everywhere. And nowhere near as big as the majestik møøse.

Deer are fun but moose are jaw dropping.  This guy had to be seven feet high at the shoulders.  And totally majestic.  He never deigned to even glance at us.  Just sallied around the cabin at an even pace and moved on without a backwards glance.  Leaving us slack jawed and bowing as he went.

Wow, that’s a bee-yoo-tiful moose! He looks solid black. Is that just the lighting?

We don’t have moose here in Florida, but I once had a rather harrowing experience with one in Maine. I was canoeing with friends, and a moose attempted to board our canoe.

As it turns out, panicked humans can drop cameras and paddle a canoe faster than a moose can swim (if properly motivated).

Every once in a while a Yellowstone tourist will think that putting their kid on the back of a moose will make a great picture. Doesn’t turn out that way.

He looks solid black. Is that just the lighting?

He’s about as close to solid black as moose get - more of a deep charcoaly brown.  Glossy too.  A lot of moose look kind of scruffy but he looked like he’d just stepped out the gentleman moose’s salon.

Every once in a while a Yellowstone tourist will think that putting their kid on the back of a moose will make a great picture. Doesn’t turn out that way.

Origuy, that’s right up there with the story Bill Bryson related in A Walk in the Woods about the family that put honey on their toddler’s hand for a bear to lick off. Yeah. (Say it with me: you need a license to drive, a license to hunt, a license to fish—but any moron is allowed to procreate and raise children.)

“Hey Rock, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.”

See, some of us can go pre-Python on y’all.
Also, too, a møøse once bit my sister.

p.s. You sure that’s not a Langolier?