Just because it’s the Christmas season doesn’t mean there isn’t time for glorious beaver inacuracies. Bob Kobres of Georgia wrote yesterday pointing our that the article from Buzzfeed had a whopper.
North American beavers, which live in the dams themselves rather than holes in the riverbank, create dams in much bigger rivers.
Ha! We all know that beavers don’t live IN the dam. I guess maybe they want to allay worries about that record-breaking dam in the Canadian wilderness discovered a few years ago that you can see from space. Don’t worry about those American monstrosities! Our beavers will build dainty, flood-preventing kind of dams only. Not the other kind.
Now this morning on the annual published list of Christmas lights written by Rob Hedelt in the state of Virginia there is a description of a highly unusual display in Stafford County:
Rob Hedelt’s 2017 “Grand Holiday Displays” lights list
It was 28 years ago when a Spotsylvania County Christmas lover called to suggest I do a story on his “tacky lights.” That feature very quickly morphed into my annual list of holiday lights.
I suggest you waste no time. Grab Aunt Edna, some ice-cold Yoo–hoo and pile into your ride to cruise out and see some of these holiday lights and displays, all nominated by readers. Ho Ho Ho!
12 Falling Water Court (From White Oak, take Meadow to left on Falling Water.) New additions include a Santa plane taking off on a candy cane runway and a beaver fishing from a pond, with lights and neat figures on the house.
A beaver fishing from a pond? Aside from the fact that beavers don’t fish I don’t even know what that means? Why “from” and not “in”? Do you think they mean this particular beaver is using a fishing poll?
Now Worth A Dam has beaver friends that live in Virginia and I have begged all three to send us a photo of this creation. There’s none online. but I’m hopeful.
To be honest, I don’t know why Virginia even bothers really. Because Martinez all ready won Christmas beaver display and has been reigning champion for years.
