On Sunday afternoons, my 'husband' and I sometimes walk about the place (i.e. Montreal) looking at things; as the snows melt, whole buildings are revealed. For example, on the campus of McGill University* is the Redpath Museum. It is a tiny, tiny natural history museum with, for e.g., one cabinet for the Egyptians next to some cases full of rocks opposite one of those formica diagrams of the geographical strata of Quebec (the ones that are only good if they light up or have a button). It smells of beards and eyewash, and small children run about it squeaking; except they do not run far, and they do not squeak for long because it is so very, very tiny.
But in the corner of the Redpath Museum lurks taxidermic genius. I do not know who stuffed the animals that I share below, but if he (or she!) were alive today, I would shake him (or her) by the hand.
If this woodchuck were alive, I would shake him by the hand also whilst asking him - as I believe we all would - how much wood he thinks he could chuck, assuming (as one would) that he could chuck wood.
*If I was from here I would have gone to McGill. I know it. I know it in my bones. I would have read history and smoked "pot", as I believe the young people call it!!!
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That is one creepy looking woodchuck.
Four words -
Island. of. Dr. Moreau.
Are you mad in the head(s)? Look at their kind humourous eyes and amusingly cocked heads !
The woodchuck looks remarkably like Basil Brush (no wonder you put his photo in twice). Are they by any chance related?
The woodchuck is delightful. Personally I nominate him to replace Richard Hammond on Top Gear as they are the same size and the woodchuck appears to be not only more personable but less irritatingly gamin.
I am not joking. I think I have the most amusing (and best looking!!!!!) commentaterors of anyone with any blog, ever!!!!
"Are they by any chance related?" I had forgotten about that!
"Less irritatingly gamin" - joy is shooting out of my every orifice!!!
Look carefully - you will see that the woodchuck photographs are VERY slightly different, each one highly amusing in a different way. I have another picture of him that I am keeping 'for special'. If you are good I will bring him out.
But look at Mr Woodchuck's eyes! The whiff of mania clearly lurks within.
I do very, very, very much indeed need to see the 'for special' photo.
I saw a woodchuck this morning out the window of my aerobics class. I prefer live over dead, but I like the picture that you have here though.
Lutra Lutra, I have done a new web post just for you.
Leilani Lee, what in God's name are you doing aerobics? If you engage in that sort of activity, you should expect to see woodchucks, and also achieve increased cardio-vascular fitness.
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