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To: Gauguin who wrote (40246)	10/21/1999 8:41:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Hmm... just flipping through a book that I got from the library.. some notes on why porcupines are valuable members of the forest. Mentions how Ojibway hunters would make note of any porcupines that they saw when out in the forest in case something happened and they had to find food... porcupines don't move far.... We have quite a few back in the forest behind our place... along with raccoon, red fox, brush wolves, white-tail deer. Had a weasel in its winter coat come into the basement one time a few years ago... skimmed in through a window that I had left open for awhile that day. Anyhow, whenever I think of porcupines, I have to smile... Thinking back to a few years ago when I was carding some wool to spin. I had my drum-carder out on the back deck and was cranking the handle around as I fed wool into the tines of the drums. They make a bristling-scratching noise as the tines grip the wool and pull it between the drums. All of a sudden I thought... HMMMM!!! What's wrong with this thing?!.. it's getting really noisy!! So I stopped carding, but the scratching noise continued. Then I realized that it was coming from beneath the deck and that it was moving slowly from west to east. So I went and stood at the end of the deck where the noise was headed... And out comes a big porcupine... quills scratching along on the cedar decking.... It lumbered out into the sunlight and slowly turned, blinking its eyes and staring at me... then proceeded on its way... Made me laugh...