It was the famed e.e. cummings who once wrote
in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious when the world is puddle-wonderfulWell last night was Just-summer when the world was KIT-luscious and PADDLE-wonderful! Last night there was lots an lots of this
Which was followed a smart young family with fascinated little girls, the youngest of whom kept repeating to herself the helpful reminder that you couldn’t pet beavers because they were WILD. [Yes, I agree, unless your name is Sherri Tippie.] I invited the girls to the Beaver Festival and the parents promised they would come but sadly they weren’t around when this happened!
You have to watch all the way through to see an epically cute little tail.
It was a magical beaver night an the second [smaller] kit made an appearance as well. Three adults and both kits came up from the secondary, which has me thinking the family has relocated AGAIN!
The tree is looking worse for wear an the beavers are still obviously enjoying their ‘windfall’,
Finally an email this morning from Margaret about the success of the first-ever Canadian EcoFest! 
Well, I survived! The weather was perfect, hot and sunny. I am sure you are seeing some pictures on the facebook page and there will be lots more coming. Aspen Valley did not have as much beaver stuff as I hoped, but they were there. Vicki and Florine were the volunteers doing the booth and Florine was the one that did so much work trapping and transporting the Stanton beavers to safety, so if anyone had questions she certainly had the knowledge. I was happy to have one of my neighbours show up and she asked why an EcoFest. So I told her about the London beavers and what happened last year and I think people are so misinformed about the wildlife around us, so a Festival is a great place to learn in a happy setting.
Congratulations Margaret! I know it was a huge amount of work but you made a real difference!
{And as an aside, a series of unfortunate events lead a drop of water to fall upon my ‘d’ key yesterday and now I cannot type any d whatsoever. The d’s you read in this article I all needed to paste in. Worth A _am & Hei_i is what comes out when I type.}
It is eeply eeply annoying.
