April 27, 2012 Elsie, The Bear Whisperer



Trillium



Pulling out roots





















Spring is back.  Wednesday's high was 51, which I thought was quite chilly, after just last week having thought it was quite warm.  We had about an hour's thunderstorm in the late afternoon.  Yesterday only got up to 38 - 29 degrees cooler than Monday!  Plus we had at least five hours of hard rain that began around 6:00 am.  Didn't have to pump out the crawl space, but we probably will have to today.  It didn't snow last night as predicted, but it is certainly cold enough - 26 with a clear, blue sky.

We spent Wednesday afternoon using JB's jeep to pull out brush from his garden sight.  Certainly is a lot easier than trying to chop and dig it out!  With yesterday so rainy and windy, we spent most of the day inside doing chores and baking an angel food cake.  This time I made an orange/lemon frosting for it.  Yum!

JB walked down with the dogs on Wednesday to get the card out of the game cam.  50 photos.  Half of them were people coming and going.  The other half were the dogs and one rabbit.  We put the card back in yesterday and we probably missed a herd of elk and 6 bears on Wednesday night.  The rain washed away all their tracks. . .  But we did see several trillium down the driveway.  Have never seen them Up Here before, just further down our road.  (See photo above.)

Larry and Elsie finally saw a bear.  Actually three bears, as they stopped to unlock the gate one day last week coming home from work.  A mama bear and two cubs were running along the hillside.  As they came out from behind a cluster of trees, only the mama bear appeared.  Elsie yelled at her, "Mama!  Go back and get your babies!"  Sure enough, mama bear stopped.  Stood up.  Looked, and ran back to get her cubs.  A few moments later, all three came running from out of the trees.  As they watched, mama bear again got way ahead of her cubs.  So Elsie yelled, "Mama!  Get your babies!"  And, once again, mama bear stopped and looked back.  This time she just waited until they caught up, and then they were all off into the woods.  Elsie, The Bear Whisperer.

Thought for the day:  I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower" animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man.  I find the result humiliating to me.  Mark Twain