I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
I love nature too, but he took it to extremes. I did love the hiking and the beauty of the area.
I love Lake Tahoe. Many years ago we stayed in a friend’s vacation home there. They were leaving to go on a trip and asked us if we wanted to stay there while they were gone. It was right on the lake.
They owned a boat that we would use. I love to hike and we went hiking. Didn’t see any bears that trip. I do feel badly for wildlife though. We have invaded so much of their territory.
Many cities are seeing coyotes. There are some in certain areas of New Orleans. I haven’t seen any but I’ve heard of people keeping their small dogs inside unless they go out in the backyard with them.
Feel better soon .
My friend was staying at her sister’s vacation house at Lake Tahoe once. A bear chased her up the steps to the outdoor deck . She was able to quickly get in the house and close the glass sliding door. He looked through the door then he left. But she told me that the bears in Lake Tahoe know what a refrigerator is, and they know when people are not home . They literally break into houses if they can see a refrigerator . They have to close the blinds so the bears can’t see the refrigerator from outside .
Obviously can't see her nor take care of all the appointments that I had scheduled. And there's a leak in the ceiling of her house that I'm trying to get ready to sell.
Talk about timing...
I went backpacking in the smoky mountains with my boyfriend and a couple of our friends. We purposefully picked out a remote area to camp so we could be ‘closer to nature.’
I didn’t put my backpack up in a tree next to our tent. I also didn’t listen to my boyfriend about not eating in the tent.
I learned the hard way about a bear’s excellent sense of smell! LOL 😆 A momma black bear with her cubs found my pack and shredded it, completely destroyed everything in it, even my tube of toothpaste!
The bear was pushing against the outside of our tent because she smelled the crackers that I was munching on.
"What did the bear say when he fell down the stairs?
'Oh, how emBEARassing!'"
"Got a pun but it's pretty bad.
Bear with me."
I watched a documentary on Betty While because I was a huge fan of hers. I still watch Golden Girls reruns regularly.
In. the documentary they showed her feeding a huge bear while she was sitting right next to him in the zoo. She was hugging him.
It was so adorable how she was snuggling up with him. She was a big animal rights advocate.
I think Doris Day was too. Loved her old movies. Mom and I watched those over and over again. They were cute. She started out as a singer. She had a beautiful voice.
“Why did the bear cross the road?
It was the chicken’s day off!”
It was a young bear. Look up the story online. I think it was last week.
The bear was sighted in Destin, Florida. I have been swimming in the Gulf of Mexico since I was a little girl. My daddy grew up in Florida. We went every summer.
I will be following up with the Fish and Wildlife people. They called tonight and said there had been several bear sightings in the street. They used to put out bear traps but I understood this time that they are still monitoring. I think one that is as bold as this one needs to be removed from this area. I've been here 40 years and never seen or heard of one this bold in town.
Campsites, yes. I have been in Yellowstone camping and we could hear the bears padding back and forth outside the tent at night.
If bears feel threatened they will attack. And you don't always know what will threaten them. There was a fatality here some years ago out at site. A bear actually started eating a woman live and the would be rescuers couldn't get the bear off her. Of course she finally died.
I am aware many people are not afraid of bears. Need, I think your post reflects that. Here we are taught to be very cautious with them. The chances of an attack aren't great. But right now it was a shock seeing the creature a few feet away bold as heck going into my garbage bin in broad daylight. I really don't want to meet one when I am outside in the driveway or on the sidewalk.
People initially thought it was a dog. He eventually ran off into the sand dunes.
I just really want to feel safe in my driveway in broad daylight! I am going to buy some bear spray. Just read that there have been 243 black bear attacks in 10 years (2011 to 2021) in Alberta and one this year out at one of the plants in May. The person survived.
Well, I think this deserves a whine.
I just had a bear come up to the house and try to get into the garbage bin - in broad daylight! I banged on the window and it went away. I went out and shouted but it was gone. It must have been a bear the last time, but it's a tidy one.
Apparently they have a good memory for the places they got a good feed previously so they were back checking it out. So I hauled the bin in to the garage. It only contained double bagged used kitty litter which I wouldn't have thought was of much interest to a bear. Now I will keep my bin in the garage ALL the time and just put it on the curb in the am on garbage day.
I talked to the fish and wildlife guys (fish cops) and they said there have been sightings further up the street. This one is a bit bold for my liking as there was no odor from the bin that would attract a it, The fish guys said the litter would not attract them so the darn thing was just checking the bin out remembering the last feed.
I can't move out of here fast enough!!!!
Your mom lives in your heart. I always smile when I hear you speak about your mom. Your love for her is endless. Love doesn’t stop when a person dies.
So amazing!
I felt that presence once as well.
I always went to her bench on her B'day and the anniversary of her death but this year couldn't because of my foot and ankle. Yesterday I was feeling confident with my foot so decided to go. I truly feel my mom was acknowledging that.
I left itsmehere a PM asking that she update us when she knew she was OK. I have since been looking daily to see if there is a post letting us know she is OK. I haven't seen anything.
If anyone is friends with itsmehere I would appreciate knowing things are OK. That I know of she has posted nothing since the 6th.
I felt her presence today. As soon as we sat down I got this shiver down my right side and could smell her. No lie. I don't look for things like that so I'm sincere when I say this.
It's been a while since we've gone there cause of my foot situation so maybe she was acknowledging that. Who knows.