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The security cameras I am experimenting with logged a bear prowling around the house and garage again last night. Fortunately no damage to any of the bird feeders this time, so I guess he was just passing through.
If you hear anything at the door tonight, it might be this bear and not a trick-or-treater. Keep the candy inside and the door closed
Hah! In the 25 years Connie and I have lived here, we have NEVER had a trick-or-treater come to the door. We live in the middle of the woods with the house down a long winding driveway, and all the locals "know" we have snakes and guns. (We don't advertise that we have retired the snake business.) So I think some kid would have to be pretty desperate to show up here. Gosh, if someone DID show up here, I would probably have to give him or her a can of nuts or something. Or maybe an apple........
But if you did, wouldn't it be nice to be the one to prove that they exist?
Probably I would have to spend the rest of my life trying to prove that I didn't fake the images. And even with absolute proof, not everyone would believe it.
They are something aren't they? I'll never forget as a kid, one came to the bird feeder just feet outside our picture window, stood on two legs and just ate his fill. See one about once a year there in the remote area of WNY. Haven't seen one in a while but I moved some hours away to the city.
Rich the Bears are very active this fall. I live on the other side of crawfordville near lower bridge and spring creek. And people are getting there trash cans knocked over nightly over here. We have three bears that frequent our neighborhood