Assault on the Roads of AEthelmearc

[herveus]

Friday evening, while going out for dinner at Fabric, Fiber, and Fighting, our wagon was viciously assaulted. I offer the photographic evidence:




I have collected the weapons as evidence...

OK, so we are driving down the road. MJ gasps. She saw a black critter by the side of the road. I didn't feel any thumps, so I didn't run over anything. Sunday morning, I notice this patch of stuff on the rear tire. I also saw two in the front tire. I sez to MJ, "I know what we almost hit Friday. A porcupine." That sucker has a bald patch now.

Comments

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

Wow! You must have scared him pretty good.

[technomage.livejournal.com]

Ummmm... what evidence?

[herveus.livejournal.com]

The stuff in the pictures that load now...

[dameroksanne.livejournal.com]

Daaaaaaamn.

Talk about a close shave........

[technomage.livejournal.com]

Nice. Time to make moccasins.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Wow!

Are you going to make anything with the spines?

[herveus.livejournal.com]

I had no particular plans. They are merely trophies at present.

[penguininarmor.livejournal.com]

How do you clean coke that has just shot out your nose off your monitor?

That is just toooooo cool.

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. The fact that the spines managed to penetrate a rubber tire is really telling. Glad y'all are ok.

I take it the tires didn't need patching?

[herveus.livejournal.com]

The spines did not penetrate far. On the order of a millimeter or two at most.

[vikingsparrow.livejournal.com]

Wow. I grew up in the mountains where there were lots of porcupines and I've *never* seen anything like this.

[fiadnata.livejournal.com]

Egads! I wish you had let us all know -- I would have loved to come out and seen it in person.

I think you scared him a bit. File this method away for future reference!

Do you think the spines would make good needles?

[herveus.livejournal.com]

A number of people got the word; I guess I didn't shout it out enough.

[weatherman2111.livejournal.com]

That's one scared critter.

[bronx-baroness.livejournal.com]

Impressive. Can I have one of the quills for the reliquery? :)

[herveus.livejournal.com]

Sure. Will you be at Darkover?

[bronx-baroness.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeedy. See you there!

[kellan_the_tabby]

Awfully surprised porcupine.

[sylvene.livejournal.com]

Wow! The question now is... how do you get the spines out? Apart from "very carefully..."

[herveus.livejournal.com]

I simply pulled them out. The barb didn't really grab the tire strongly, so it wasn't terribly difficult.

[1-big-grizz.livejournal.com]

I can only imagine what that porupine is writing in HIS blog tonight :-D

[danabren.livejournal.com]

LOL

[janielfb.livejournal.com]

Color me impressed.

--Gwendolyn Fitch in Marinus