Well…as I’ve mentioned before, I saw the evidence that there were beavers in one of the retention ponds alongside M-6…with trees being cut down with the typical v-shaped cuts that beavers do, but hadn’t seen the animals doing it…that changed this morning when I slowed down to really look and saw two of them…one of them was huge and working on what looks like the lodge while the other was just sitting on a stump…the second one could have been a muskrat since I have seen them in this pond before and it was much smaller than the first beaver. With seeing them today, it dawned on me why the level of the pond has changed so much…at first, I thought it was just the really heavy rains that we had a few weeks back….but the water level was much higher than I could remember and the level has stayed really high since then….it was the beavers damning up the outlet to the lower pond….that made me laugh when the realization hit me….right in front of me for weeks but it took until today to figure it out…maybe I AM getting old….