We live in the Woods.

 The girls had mentioned to us that there was a moose up by their bus stop one morning.  One of the parents shooed it off and I didn’t really think about it again; until one morning about two weeks ago. I woke the girls up for school and went back upstairs to wait for Ryan to wake up.  All of a sudden I hear Maylyn say, “There’s a moose in our yard!”  So I ran down stairs and sure enough we had a visitor.  He was a young moose and hung out there for about two and a half hours (who knows how long he had been there before we woke up.)

 

I took this one from the street.

Finally he got up and limped away.  One of his back legs was messed up.  According to our neighbor, he and mama moose had been hit by a car.  Mama moose died and he ended up with a broken leg.  That was over a year ago.  I called animal control and they said that because he can get up and move around they don’t do anything about it.  Then after awhile the moose came back and started snacking on all of the trees and plants in our yard and the neighbors’ yards.  There were a few of us out on the street taking pictures of it.  

Maylyn has seen him a few more times since then and Bill saw him down the hill by the grocery store a few days ago.  Apparently this is his hood and he likes it here.