Royal LePage - Your Community Realty, Independently Owned and Operated, (905) 731-2000  Jim Reid, Broker, (905) 731-2000

TALES FROM "BOB THE BEAVER"   "Winey Beavers" by Bob the Beaver Back when my fur started to turn gray I started my second family with "Barb the Beaver". We soon had two little baby pups that needed all kinds of attention. Since all the big businesses didn't want to hire us "old-looking" beavers, Barb and I decided I should stay home and care for the babies. Well let me tell you, this was the toughest job of my life! It went twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and no holidays! Barbs would get home at sunset and wonder how come dinner wasn't ready yet. With the babies and our two pet retrievers and their two litters of 24 puppies, I figured I moved seven hundred pounds of pooins out of the lodge that year! Over at the play pond the beaver moms didn't talk to me because they figured I didn't know nothing about babies. But by the time our pups were three, they were dropping their pups with me while they went to get their fur cleaned or to forage for food. Soon they were calling me Mr. Mom eh! Well I tell you, some of their pups were really wild scallywags! They sure knew how to wine! But then I discovered the problem. They were infested with wineys! Now wineys are nasty critters. They are long, stretchy, skinny creatures that crawl into kids ears and noses. Some are over two feet long! A kid can get wineys almost anywhere. I used to find them in other peoples kids in stores and near candy counters. Once I grabbed its tail and pulled it out of the kid's ear, the kid usually stopped a hollerin. Some winey's were really nasty. I would get one out and it would crawl into my ear and I would begin to wine. (The kids really liked it when their winey caught me!) Sometimes there might be two or three wineys crawling all over me and I would have to throw them away. Sometimes I couldn't find their winey, but the kids would point to where I might find one. Well - thought you might like to know about the winey's.