OMG.What an amazing life you get to live--and I'm so glad you get to keep on living it. Scary, scary, scary. Sounds like you and BF have your heads on straight. Good thing.
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09-14-2006, 12:23 PM #1
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09-14-2006, 12:28 PM #2
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Darn right, Team Danger! Wow! I have had one encounter with a bear in my life and he ran away as soon as we started making noises. I can't imagine how you held it together. You Alaskans gotta be brave to live up there in the bush! Do you live near Chicken, by any chance?
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09-14-2006, 12:50 PM #3
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Wow, glad the bear only got to eat duck. Take care. Stay safe.
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09-14-2006, 12:55 PM #4
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er.. fake duck that is..
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09-14-2006, 12:56 PM #5
rather be riding...
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09-14-2006, 01:10 PM #6
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it was super scary. still makes me weak in the knees when i think about it all. i don't look out the window the same way i use to, thats for sure.
bubba got fake duck and fake brant (actually fake duck that was painted to look like fake brant) and also real brant. he was fat and happy.
it is really hard to get veggies here. we have new owners at the store and the veggie supply isn't there. we get good veggies when someone from town comes in and hand carries it. veggies here are worth more than gold. i scrounge around for roughage. found some high fiber bars that help.
we didn't have a camera (if we did it would've been left behind in the bags) but i did have someone at work ask me if i got pictures. i definatly wouldn't have had to use the zoom feature!
slinkedog no chickens here. bears would probably get them. though we are testing other birds (brant and pintails and steller's eiders) for the avian flu. so if the bears and the avian flu don't get me, who knows what will."Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." – William C. Durant
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09-14-2006, 01:20 PM #7
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you might try sprouting beans for bean sprouts?
I can't imagine living without fresh veggies!
sorry you lost your duck dinner.
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09-14-2006, 01:21 PM #8
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Holy Batpoop!!! That is an amazing story--a grizzly, I presume? I raised an 18 month old 'hit by car' black bear for 10 months before he was released, but they are nowhere near the size or danger of the grizzlies.
Have you seen the docu of the guy and his GF who were eaten by bears up there? Timothy Treadwell, I believe. I have not seen the film, but have read several articles about him. He actually lived out there in the bear fields 'studying' the bears and thought that they wouldn't hurt him....nuts. There is an actual voice recording of him getting eaten--gross.
Anyway, I love the stories of your life...
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09-15-2006, 09:23 PM #9
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The coroner in that docu is my coworker's dad. Originally Posted by horsemom
CWR - so glad you lived to tell the tale. On another note, the only thing that offends me about your hunting is that you don't live close enough for me to trade you some great vegetables for some venison.
Yum, venison.
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09-14-2006, 01:23 PM #10
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More proof that TE women are tough as nails. That "cool head in emergency, fall apart later" can really pack a wallop, but I'm so glad you held it together when Bubba came a-calling.
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09-14-2006, 01:27 PM #11Kitsune06 Guest
oh my god. *hug* CWR- that's scary! I'm so glad you're okay! I can't imagine two loads of bird shot and he wasn't even fazed. Scary, SO scary.
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09-14-2006, 01:49 PM #12
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OMG - wow, how scary is that!
I'm glad you made it ok and even had the wherewithal to make chocolate cake. Good idea.
Stay safe
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09-14-2006, 02:04 PM #13
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That's just too scary for me -- I'm happy to hear that you & your BF kept it together!
Stay safe.
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09-14-2006, 02:46 PM #14
The Hills! The Hills! Eek
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Guess the bears don't get to the corner store all that often either. Worked out how to use you guys as the duck delivery wagon. I'm glad you handed over the birds and didn't wait for a tip.
Half-marathon over. Sabbatical year over. It's back to "sacking shirt and oat cakes" as they say here.
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09-14-2006, 02:56 PM #15
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omg
you are amazing!!!!
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