Goats. No, not ghosts, goats. 4 hooves, little horns, [smell like goat piss] leave shit in the front drive.
Neighbor keeps goats, he has a ram, 2 nannys and 4 kids, and they escape and come up to visit. I let him know I really don’t mind, we don’t have anything fancy planted, they can eat the weeds as far as I am concerned =) Occasionally a chicken or two will come up with the goats, and one time an Emden goose wandered in. When I see them on barn cam, I will call him to let him know they are up here.
We see deer [I have hobbled out in the middle of the night, headband LED flashlight, sidearm because feral dogs/coydogs/coyotes and well it is out in the sticks and I do worry about the arsonist coming to finish me off.] I have popped around the side of the barn to find myself nose to muzzle with a deer or several. We also have a small flock of wild turkeys that lurks, and we did have an eagle’s next that had a resident pair every year until a storm knocked it down about 3 years ago and they just moved across the road. We still have the owls and there is an osprey pair somewhere on the property behind ours.
This was a regular frog. Not green or tiny. There is some warty tree frog around here, I’ve heard. But I think it’s kinda rare. ( Or hidden, it camouflages)
Nope. Just regular old pond frog. Just climbing up a tree.
Yeah, the best treatment for altitude sickness is NOT oxygen, it’s reducing your altitude.
Supplemental oxygen has not been demonstrated to be real good as a preventative for altitude sickness either. Though it does make exerting oneself at higher altitudes less problematic.
Symptoms of altitude sickness start commonly appearing at altitudes as low as 8200 feet for unacclimatized folks making a rapid ascent. But serious (and possibly fatal) cases of it tend to appear more regularly above 10,000 feet.
It is easy to be both secondhand excited and sophisticatedly cynical when someone comes to Canada, “and sees snow for the first time”. We see it quite a bit.
We have a resident herd of about 30 Roosvelt Elk that are often in my yard. There are 3 or 4 herds of this size in my local rural area. Roosvelt Elk are much larger than the Rocky Mountain elk most people are familiar with, horse sized. Mostly cows, calves and young bulls, the old guys tend to stay separate except for a few times per year.
They do as they please. I had a fence around my garden, 12ft poles sunk 3ft into the ground, double wrap of 3ft wire around it. They just laughed at that. I have seen one make a standing jump, without running, over a 9ft fence. If they get tired of the fence they just push to poles over until they break. Now that it is dry in the summer my green seedless grapes are coming on. They will soon be by to rip them out and eat the grapes and the leaves, apparently the leaves are quite tasty. I used to have an apple tree and they would come by and standing on thier hind legs to eat the apples, leaving coffee can sized holes 8 inches deep in my yard.
They don’t bother me and I don’t bother them. But sometimes I can open the back door and it looks like Yellowstone park or something.
A diabetic would have the same symptoms as anyone else with a mild case. But they might be more predisposed to get a severe case, or get it at lower altitudes, or have a worse outcome. It all depends on what damage the diabetes has already done to the person, along with their natural inclination towards problems with altitude sickness.
The big concern is developing HACE (High Altitude Cerebral Edema) which can cause permanent brain damage or death. One can go from altitude sickness to HACE in as little as half a day.
I like to sit out on my porch in the evenings and read, and the past few evenings, two small planes, one probably a 3-seater and the other a 2-seater, have flown over my house. out and back, with the smaller one behind the larger one. I don’t know what’s going on with that.
They are definitely Rocky Mountain elk. But they are not horse-size, really–a big bull might run 700#, most cows are like 3-400#. Roosevelt elk are twice as big. This is not official information, but I have shot 4 elk (not in Yellowstone!).
There are herds of Roosevelt elk in Northern California, where they have been reintroduced to their historic range there. There’s a herd in the Lost Coast in Humboldt county, where my family camped one summer. They are protected, and wolves are extinct there, hence are stinkin’ tame. They lounge around on the lawn around the ranger station with an air of ennui. They are about the size of small horses, yep.
I’ve a friend with a small ranch in Oregon where they are quite the nuisance. They walk through cattle fence like it isn’t there.
Definitely not to see them die! Elk is yummy if the season is good and they don’t have to eat a bunch of sage. We have elk, bear, cats, deer, raptors and Sandhill Cranes here.