I listen to radio out of Alberta, CAN, all day and there've been some news items about bears in homes and stuff lately. Poor guys. They're just hungry.
There's actually a law in Missoula (where the younger sprog is in college) that forbids people leave fruit under their yard trees or vines. I'm glad I've got cattle to take care of the apples, here, although the half-acre of blackberries impinging on my house are fine bear-bait. There was a random bear in my neighborhood two years ago- that was stupid enough to be seen, that is, I've found bear scat at the bottom of the driveway.
The only thing keeping the bear-human interface from getting more violent than it is, is that bears are smarter than people about avoiding us, most of the time.
Julia, wishing my windows weren't right at ground level, or barred, some days.
I know, right? They've been having issues with them up in Alberta, Can. Down in Winter Park they just wonder around. There was a great pic in the paper several weeks ago of one standing at a dumpster, raising the lid. And then there was an article a week after that about a WP cop shooting him because the bear was moving toward him "threateningly". *sigh*
If the bear was "threatening" I'd bet my non-existent bonus the cop provoked it. Assholes.
I'm in a mood today. BUT!!! The guys + the Beaver are coming over for the Olympic opening ceremonies tonight, there's a 1/5 of Hendricks gin, 1/5 of Plymouth gin, untold amounts of other booze and we're ordering Chinese in honor of the host country. I'm going to make them eat off paper plates and catch a lovely buzz. But not so lovely I can't get up and teach tomorrow.
Fortunately, I'm only teaching 5 classes next week and not six. ::sighs::
Okay. I am totally one of those STUPID-ASS humans who would get MAULED TO DEATH after a bear showed up on my front porch and I took that as a sign that he wanted to be BFF. But! THEY ARE SO GORGEOUS.
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The only thing keeping the bear-human interface from getting more violent than it is, is that bears are smarter than people about avoiding us, most of the time.
Julia, wishing my windows weren't right at ground level, or barred, some days.
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I'm in a mood today. BUT!!! The guys + the Beaver are coming over for the Olympic opening ceremonies tonight, there's a 1/5 of Hendricks gin, 1/5 of Plymouth gin, untold amounts of other booze and we're ordering Chinese in honor of the host country. I'm going to make them eat off paper plates and catch a lovely buzz. But not so lovely I can't get up and teach tomorrow.
Fortunately, I'm only teaching 5 classes next week and not six. ::sighs::
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And yeah, no one's believing the "threatening" thing.
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Okay. I am totally one of those STUPID-ASS humans who would get MAULED TO DEATH after a bear showed up on my front porch and I took that as a sign that he wanted to be BFF. But! THEY ARE SO GORGEOUS.
BEAR!
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