These tracks were created when a gray squirrel jumped across 3" of snowfall, then it snowed another inch or two over the tracks, then the wind blew the snow. They ended up looking pretty alien! LOL! You need just the right combination of conditions.
OK, I was thinking in the right direction, but didn't quite make the connection--a vaulting rodent! I remember reading about some sort of rodents or mice or suchlike that made tunnels under the snow and on top of the ground in the winter; I seem to recall that they were in eastern North America.
"Ratty" is adequately pejorative, listener, but not obviously specific (like "Rash Limburger," for instance). We should be able to put our noggins together and come up with a clearly associated pejorative nickname... And while we are at it, I notice that right wingish columnists (at the New York Times, for instance) are trying to stick the name "Sandernistas" on Bernie's supporters. Have they a favored nickname at Bernie HQ?
(It wasn't Howard Dean.)
ReplyDeleteBut Howard Dean is still First! :-)
Could it be some sort of rodent who had to come up for air from time to time? That would seem rather more likely than a vaulting unipod.
ReplyDelete--Alan
Close, Alan, very close!
ReplyDeleteNote on the last thread.
ReplyDeleteVole?
ReplyDeleteDo you have kangaroo mice around there?
ReplyDeleteThese tracks were created when a gray squirrel jumped across 3" of snowfall, then it snowed another inch or two over the tracks, then the wind blew the snow. They ended up looking pretty alien! LOL! You need just the right combination of conditions.
ReplyDeleteOK, I was thinking in the right direction, but didn't quite make the connection--a vaulting rodent! I remember reading about some sort of rodents or mice or suchlike that made tunnels under the snow and on top of the ground in the winter; I seem to recall that they were in eastern North America.
ReplyDelete--Alan
"Ratty" is adequately pejorative, listener, but not obviously specific (like "Rash Limburger," for instance). We should be able to put our noggins together and come up with a clearly associated pejorative nickname... And while we are at it, I notice that right wingish columnists (at the New York Times, for instance) are trying to stick the name "Sandernistas" on Bernie's supporters. Have they a favored nickname at Bernie HQ?
ReplyDelete--Alan