Brown bears and Black bear visits.
Some how a few weeks ago i got recuited to help my daughter with her yard sale at her apartment which is located on a hill near the woods. Lots of blue berry patches grow around the apartment complex. Well we had a nice day of it not to many people stopped by but that was ok. The neighbors dog got loose. He is a puppy. So the natural reaction out of all around was to begin looking for him. There we were yelling his name when i walked over to the stairs leading to the parking lot and looked up and around and spotted this black thing in the bushes at first i thought there he is. then on second thought . Nope dang its a black bear. to big to be the dog LOL He was busy munching his way though the berry bushes on the side of the hill about 50 yards from where we stood. Being good Alaskans we moved to the middle of the parking lot to watch him . By this time there had to be about 10 of us standing there watching him. of course we also kept our eyes on the 12 egales swooping and flying around over head too. Now tell me where in American can you find such a show on a sat after noon right outside your own door ? Well maybe a few places. But this is one of them for sure.
A few days before that . my daughter had gone out to see what the ruckess what only to find a brown bear which is highly unusual around here in the same parking lot. She now has a redecorated car as a result of it. He broke the drivers door handle on her new car. Unfortunilty her insureance wont cover it. she said she has half a notiion to wirte to the gov and tell him his pets were not on a leash and broke her car door handle and request he pay for it, after all we do have leash laws and since the bears seem to be more protected them people are he should keep a tighter rain on his personal pets LOL of course most of us feel like that when it comes to the bears around here. and then once we say that we laugh. we know there is no way we could get them to see our point of view and laughing about the seriousness of it all or the bears period is about the best thing to do unless your so close to one you cant find a way out. then it gets tough. just hope it doesnt come to that ever. i worry about the kids up there too as the city has opted to stupidly place a dumpster right next to and not even 10 feet from the only play ground the children in that area have. talk about poor city planning on that one. and of course no ammount of complaining about it will make them change it .
well its late here so i best get to bed got to get up early in the am again and do another yard sale and a birthday party and who knows what other adventures as well.

ok, its been awhile since i have been in here. Sorry about that. But life around here is getting wild in a really wonderful way. Our son came home on leave from the navy before the 4th of July and ever since then this house has been busting at the seams with family and friends who want to see him and spend time with him. As he has been gone a year over seas. So forgive me if i am not in here much during this time.
What i can tell you is this. One night were all sitting around watching tv and this guy walked up to the front door. I couldnt see who it was though the forsted glass window. And thought it was one of my grandsons friends come to see him. So i sent my 5 yr old grand daughter to the door to answer it. As her and her ma and brother and sis were here visiting us that night for awhile. Well she opened the door and the next thing i hear out of here is "UNCLEEEEEEEE IRAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!" and with that she leaped into his arms. Followed by the rest of us at home here too.All hugging him and kissing him and crying. Its a wonder we didnt knock him over. :))))
what i can tell you is this too. It didnt take him long to walk into his room and put down that duffle bag and then with in moments as seems to happen with all military on leave the dang thing seemed to explode its contents all over the room LOL i lovingly go past the room look in sigh and close the door. talked to his aopted brother who was in the service about this and he told me its normal dont worry about it happened to him all the time when he went home on leave.Said when he would get there he would roll all his thing neatly in a drawer and then after a day would think why am i doing this i dont have to i am home and then his duffle bag with spill its contents all over the room too LOL sooooooooo like i said i just smile and close the door. heck i am not going to complain its just so good to have him home (and safe and unharmed ) for even a month before he has to go back to base. I am also so dang tired too but heck this is alaska i can hybernate with the bears this winter to catch up on all my rest and enjoy the memories of having him home if even for alittle while.
catch you later and tell you more of our adventures of our son on leave and our life in wild and sometimes very funny alaska :)