Saturday, February 28, 2009

I dare you to guess what made these marks







































So, I went out to the truck the other morning and these marks were on all sides. Same with the girlfriends Explorer.

I found out what they were after some investigating. Wanna guess?

OK, there were some pretty good guesses.

Robert came the closest in that, yes they were moose oriented.

The marks that you see were caused by...

I thought my 5 year old and her friend had been wiping at the road dirt on the vehicles, so I gave a stern lecture about paint finishes and scratches. - Then the neighbor across the street told me that we had a Momma and baby moose over in our driveway the other night.

Turns out, the marks are from the moose licking off the road salt!

There you have it! Gotta love living in Alaska.

12 comments:

peter said...

So, you made it trickier as I can't tell from tracks in the snow as it seems you moved the truck but I'd guess a black bear licking the road salt.

Tumblemoose said...

Peter,

An excellent guess, but...

Nope.

No doctoring of the scene, by the way. This was two days ago and it snowed last night.

Cheers!

George

roguzsel said...

I guess they are aliens!

Brad Shorr said...

Grizzly bear? Iceberg?

Tumblemoose said...

Brad,

Thank goodness no.

The last iceberg that went through here darn near sank my F150 with the Titanic Package

George

Robert Hruzek said...

Got any moose in your neck of the woods, George? Or is it meeces?

Tumblemoose said...

Why, yes I do Mr. Robert. Could ya be specific?

And ont all the moose up here are tumblin'

George

Stacie.Make.Do. said...

And here I thought you got your own miniature version of Valentine, Neb.'s "butt bandit".

Robert Hruzek said...

So they musta thought your truck was a "moose-lick"? Licking the salt off?

Tumblemoose said...

Oh Stacie. That's too funny. I hadn't thought of that but I know what my sweetie's going to get next Valentines!

George

Tumblemoose said...

Robert:

They must be German moose.

Don't they have Meuxlix for breakfast?

George

Robert Hruzek said...

"Meuxlix"? Oh, Mueslix!

Hey! I get it! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! (Sorry; slow day today...)