This morning Benjamin went to the creek to retrieve one of his beaver traps. While he was trying to get it the ice broke and he fell into the water that was well over his head. He had on his waders, which made it worse because they were filled up with water and added a lot of weight. He was able to climb back up on the ice, but now he was soaking wet and close to a mile away from home. Thankfully before he had fallen in he had taken off his coat because he had gotten too warm. Therefore he was able to wear something dry for his torso, but is was still a long and cold walk back to the house!
Later this afternoon the three of us went back to the creek to help Benjamin get the beaver trap. It had “caught” a log and we weren’t able to pull out the log without a saw.
I wanted Benjamin to reenact his incident of the week on camera, but he said he’d only do it for money and named a price that’s well over this filmmaker’s Dramatization Budget.
This is a dam that the beavers made in the creek-it keeps this portion of the creek a couple of feet deeper than it would normally be.
You can kind of see here how the trap has engaged on the branch.
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