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Naughty bear

 

surprise visitor at our country home
surprise visitor at our country home

 

 

Our new home is in the country and we love it that way, except for the poison ivy, of course.    There is a trout stream across the road from the parsonage.   Yesterday we had a great illustration of our country status.  I had forgotten the garbage day so the garbage can outside the garage was getting a little ripe.  In the middle of the afternoon we had a visitor.   The picture tells the story.   Probably a yearling bear, he (or she) was only as tall as the garbage can when standing as you can see.    But still the bear probably outweighed me.   He was skittish and moved quickly when he sensed movement inside the house.  But returned he later and that is when we got this picture.  He tipped over the can but Keely tapped on the window and he was gone.   We moved the garbage inside the garage lest we create a nuisance bear that goes for garbage.  Our Adirondack camping experiences had trained us well.   Mark held Sam up to see him.   Sam dubbed him the “naughty bear” for getting in the garbage.   I agreed since I had to clean it up.  

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Americana Journal

The animals

Everyone wants to see the animals when they go west, and we were no exception.      One warning, you never know when you will see them.   It might be in a park and it might not.    One of our most exceptional sightings on this trip happened along the journey.  We were just a little ways out of a small town cruising along in Idaho when we saw some cars parked by the side of the road and people looking at something—usually a good sign for travelers looking for animals.  When we went by, we saw why.   On the far side of the pond filled with water lilies were a mother moose and her calf contentedly munching.       I turned around and we went back and took their picture.   On another rural road we passed a fenced in herd of buffalo.    Other times the animals were more where you would expect, like the grizzlies in Glacier National Park.   The pictures below start with the smaller animals.