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[coxy]

be spring i saw the first bear tracks of the season in the snow this morning  >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

[Jeff]

I wonder what he will think when he sees his first Coxy tracks?

[rjwoelk]

Cox it will be a good christian bear and say grace first. :D

[thecfarm]

My Father lived on the farm for 40 years. Hunted this area hard. Never saw a bear in the woods. I've only see a bear a handful of times and twice was on my front lawn. Never seen tracks,yet.

[coxy]

I wonder what he will think when he sees his first Coxy tracks?

oh ship  wonder if hes got a gun  :D :D

[breederman]

I saw on face book this morning someone down to Sidney saying that Mr bear broke in and killed her chickens last night

[Andries]

Thats called 'take-out chicken dinner'.
Momma's back in the den with the cubs!

[breederman]

 :D

[Brucer]

No bear tracks here, yet. Mind you, there's still 3' of snow on the ground.

There's been a chipmunk running around on top of the snow for the past week. Apparently it doesn't quite grasp the idea of "hibernating".

[Magicman]

No bear or coxy tracks here but ....


 
The grass needs mowing again and this Red Maple is showing out with the green Red Oak leaves as a background.  ;D

[mike_belben]

Ill have what hes havin.  

[starmac]

No bears out here yet, but I have it on good authority that down on the coast where our next job is, they are out pretty strong.

[coxy]

No bear or coxy tracks here but ....



The grass needs mowing again and this Red Maple is showing out with the green Red Oak leaves as a background.  ;D

MM you should not be allowed to post pic like this when most of us are still in the ice age it just isn't right  >:( >:( :D :D :D :D

[Magicman]

Well maybe you could hop on the next Glacier headed South and come down and stay until the next blizzard passes.   

[starmac]

Shoot, just the picture caused me to start sweating, think I will pass, maybe even go lay in the snow to cool down for a bit.

[coxy]

Well maybe you could hop on the next Glacier headed South and come down and stay until the next blizzard passes.  

thought about it for about 30 seconds and will have to  pass you have way to many critter crawlers down there  for this northern boy  ;D

[Magicman]

 :D  Ah don't be skeered.  There are folks that have survived their entire lifetime down here.  'Course some of them lifetimes are shorter than others  :

[starmac]

Then some of us, just got tired of mildewing, and headed north.

[OntarioAl]

The view from my dining area window
Yesterday morning apparently we are under a Polar Vortex
The ice age cometh!

[Magicman]

I gotcha on the mildew thing and Alaska in July is a nice place to be.  'Course there are things that will bite you there too!  Skeeters!! 

Pat and I talked about an Alaskan return trip last night but sadly I don't think that our butts are up to the journey.  Well hips, but they are on the butt end.  :D

[starmac]

Yea, we got skeeters, but to tell the truth, they are no worse than on the gulf coast, but bad enough in both places. 
That is what they sell DEET for.
Too bad you can't make another trip up, the place is big and a guy really needs to take a year to see a big part of it, it just can't really be done in a short vacation, in my opinion.

I just a few days ago got the go ahead to start getting ready for the logging job on the coast, sooooooo I hopefully (gods willing) will be spending the summer and fall on the coast a hundred miles or so from a town or road.

[Dan W]

Years ago an old Yooper logger said "If I saw a bear in the bush with a gun I'd shoot it!"

[crowhill]

My wife had never seen a bear until one day about ten years ago she saw five within half mile of the house! Headed to home town with my mother saw a big bruin cross the road and run across a field. About an hour later headed the other direction taking mother to Dr. appointment they had gone less than half a mile and a big old momma with 3 cubs ran across the road! Only time I ever saw one in the woods was about 65 years ago when searching with the hired farmhand for a cow and calf, saw a momma with two cubs. I got really excited being a kid but his excitement to get out of there was way beyond mine! I don't remember finding the cow or calf that day...

[Andries]

Years ago an old Yooper logger said "If I saw a bear in the bush with a gun I'd shoot it!"

That seems fair - a bear in the bush with a gun could shoot back.
The best shot wins!
;)  :D  ;)

[coxy]

well went to work yesterday got up to where the dozer was on the hill  and sure enough the  thing bit holes in my gas and oil jug that was hanging on the dozer don't know what it is about gas and oil that they like but i wasn't happy