Why does everyone in the world get cute evening beaver footage before me? Jon saw is seeing our little peanut at 5:00 am before he goes to work, but that hardly counts. This is from Rusty Cohn in Napa. Not only does he get two little kits to film in the leisurely evening hours, his footage has no background train sounds, no garbage trucks, and no homeless drunks arguing. It’s not remotely fair – but it’s still adorable.
You can tell him so yourself in person when he comes to table at our beaver festival this year! He and Hank Miller (the photographer) will be representing the Napa beavers together. They need a name. Maybe you can help them think of one? Wine country beavers. Vintage beavers. Vines and Beavers. Fine Whines from beavers. Hey I like that last one. It’s fun, you should play.
I can remember the first time Jon and I tabled at the John Muir Earth Day event in 2008. They gave us the table and we brought Moses’ chew, some photos, books, a scrapbook with three pages filled, and the handbook I had put together for the subcommittee. On the way there it occurred to me to stop and buy some cheap pens and paper from the drug store so that we could have kids draw beavers. What a good idea that turned out to be.
Later in the day we got lucky and FRO came to paint the watercolor she was finishing for me. It still hangs in our living room. (Along with that tablecloth btw.)
I hope she in joyed her time sitting in the sun, because we were never to give her that particular afternoon off at again!
Well Rusty and Hank have their work cut out for them, but we’ll make sure they have everything they need, and lots of friends on hand to help out. In the meantime Cheryl can keep us happy with lovely beaver photos like this, taken the other night when we were waiting for the ROYAL KIT to grant us an audience.
