The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for March 12, 2017

Now that’s one strong waitress! Not only carrying it, but one handed!

Funny, beavers do not eat wood the way termites do.

“What will you have missus?”

“Oh, dam.”

“Coming right up.”

It looks like he ordered the “Captain’s Log” special…she is just having chips…

Hell’s Kitchen never got going in this town, not with the head chef wielding a chainsaw.

It’s balsa wood, the beaver’s equivalent of junk food.

Who ordered the stake?

I wood not try to eat that in one sitting. I’d have to get a loggy bag.

Wow… that’s a whole trunkload!

NightGaunt…

Yes they do!

Not usually the hard inner wood though….

They prefer to eat bark and cambium (the soft, growing layer under the bark),

but stockpile thin branches for winter food.

They’re much larger and more powerful than most people picture them, usually about 40 to 60 pounds, like a medium size dog, with strong jaws and the ability to digest wood, along with water plants.

And Bilan… I’m not sure what you mean by “digestive purposes”…

but termites do chew up wood, digest the cellulose, and get their nutrition from it…

which I’d call “eating” it.

Is that a Caboodle Treescake? I hope he saves some to bring home to his kits.

I’ll have chops and a root beer.

“Who axed for the Trunk Tower?”

“Gnaw, it’s big, but I can handle it.”