Bear Aware...

Well, we were aware last night when a thump out back awoke both Emil and I...not Silky...
When Emil went to check on matters, he discovered our big Rubbermade garbage container ( holds two pails) was overturned and the door ripped off and garbage from here to kingdom come. Being a brilliant man, he quickly brought out his Mega powered flashlight ( Thanks John and Ronda) and shone it down towards the garden and all over the back yard. He stopped at three pair of eyes staring back at us, from under the cottonwood trees. (those big trees just above the lamp standard in the photo, above)
It was a black mother bear and two cubs!
Their feast was interrupted, (tho most of my garbage is empty plastic ziplock bags and some milk containers. )They must of discovered the turkey bones from my pot of turkey soup that I made, and probably the fish bones from our salmon , or the lamb bones from the lamb. Two bags of garbage were down by the garden and the rest was still up and around the two garbage pails. Emil repaired the bin and now we will either move it or put a padlock on it... Mrs Bear is pretty clever....well, sort of clever. She couldn't maybe open the lid to the bin, so she just dumped the whole thing over on its side and that caused the lid to pop open enough for her to rip off the front door.
So the bins are good things, but perhaps better if one has a lock on it. I told Emil that he could put a combination lock on that only he would know the combination to:-)
In the meantime, he has asked me to make up two signs in Bear language...one for the front of the property and one for the back of the property...they should read "STAY AWAY"!!!
maybe that would read " GRMPH GRR - AGRWLY!"


"The Creator"