Sunday, May 20, 2007

 

An Impossible Task


If you think that Scruffy and I look a bit peeved and disappointed here, it is because we are faced with an impossible task, one that small bears just cannot do. We found this old tree stump in the garden at Captain Cook's Cottage and decided to see if we could work out how old it was when the tree was cut down. According to Dad you do this by counting the number of rings of wood from the centre to the edge. Trees grow one ring every year. Well, this stump shows lots of rings and it should have been easy but we hit a fatal flaw with the process. Neither of us can remember more than 5 unless we have something to count on and small bears like us don't have fingers and toes!! So all I can tell you for sure is that this is a stump that is older than 5, probably older than Scruffy or me and maybe even older than Dad. Mind you, Mum is glad that I don't have fingers because that way drivers who annoy us think I am just waving to them.

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