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.