{"id":6055,"date":"2013-10-29T10:43:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6055"},"modified":"2013-10-29T10:44:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:44:16","slug":"yes-virginia-there-really-is-a-hardscrabble-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6055","title":{"rendered":"Beavering Away at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/beaver-ponds10-13.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6056\" alt=\"beaver ponds10-13\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/beaver-ponds10-13.jpg?resize=360%2C541&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"360\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/beaver-ponds10-13.jpg?w=360&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/beaver-ponds10-13.jpg?resize=99%2C150&amp;ssl=1 99w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/beaver-ponds10-13.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>Once in a while, I like to note that Hardscrabble Creek is a real place. The beaver pair had kits this year, and they also expanded their dams from two to five. A couple of years ago, they left because they had eaten all the available deciduous forage, mostly narrowleaf cottonwood and willows. Will the rising water table encourage more beaver-edible trees to grow? (They don&#8217;t eat pines.) Can they keep expanding their string of dams upstream?<\/p>\n<p>And here are some links:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b6 At <em>Occult Chicago<\/em>, Rik traces s<a href=\"http:\/\/occultchicago.blogspot.ca\/2013\/10\/satanism-in-suburbs-exploring-previous.html\">ites associated with Thee Church of Satan in the 1970s.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b6\u00a0 <em>Artforum<\/em> notes the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/artforum.com\/diary\/id=43770\">Occult Humanities Conference: Contemporary Art and Scholarship on the Esoteric Traditions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b6 Anton Lavey&#8217;s daughter Zeena describes how her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/halloween-in-a-satanic-household\">Halloween experience when she was a little girl living with her father, the founder of the Church of Satan.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the first quarter century of my life, back when I was the devil&#8217;s defender, Halloween wasn&#8217;t the fun and merriment it was for many others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00b6 Oh no! I bought the Halloween candy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charismamag.com\/blogs\/prophetic-insight\/7134-the-danger-of-celebrating-halloween\">but I forgot to pray over it!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while, I like to note that Hardscrabble Creek is a real place. The beaver pair had kits this year, and they also expanded their dams from two to five. A couple of years ago, they left because they had eaten all the available deciduous forage, mostly narrowleaf cottonwood and willows. Will the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,184,23,66,39,81],"class_list":["post-6055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-chicago","tag-colorado","tag-halloween","tag-occultism","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1zF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5843,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5843","url_meta":{"origin":6055,"position":0},"title":"Yes, There Is a Hardscrabble Creek","author":"Chas S. 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