And no bear visits.
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Three Days.
07-Aug-12Promised Land Salt Lick.
05-Aug-12It took me a few days to notice this, but on the floor by my wood stove I found something out of place: a small cube of Dead Sea salt. I had it in a corner of the cabin by some drying witch-hazel leaves. It was probably a third of its original size; two-thirds of [...]
Where the Bad Bears Go.
05-Aug-12After waking up with a bear on top of my truck, I had forty-eight hours without a bear visit. On Saturday, however, he showed up at my back door at six in the morning. I had somewhat oafishly booby-trapped the back door, putting a cooler full of water in the doorway leading into the extension, [...]
Bear Trashes the Cabin.
02-Aug-12I returned home in the late afternoon yesterday, feeling a bit tired from a pair of days in the city. The cabin looked fine, but as I came up to the front door I paused – there was a beer can by the front door. I had guests last weekend, and we drank more than [...]
Bear Aerated Compost.
28-Jun-12I came out yesterday morning to find my compost pile entirely tossed. This must be the work either of the raccoons or the bears, though in this instance the fact that the board closing off the compost bin had been ripped off indicated that it was the bear. And a neighbor reported having a bear [...]
Further Thoughts on Grizzly Man.
27-Aug-11I have written before that the movie Grizzly Man did not disturb me too much – I felt that the death of Timothy Treadwell – who was eaten by a grizzly bear after spending more than ten summers living in close quarters with them – was appropriate: we all must die, and this was a [...]
The Sound of a Bear.
04-Jul-11It rained most of the day yesterday, and a guest and I came out of the cabin as the skies cleared in the early evening. As we were working putting down a bark-mulch in the garden, we heard a large animal moving through the forest – the snapping of a twig, and the swishing of [...]
Digging with Bears.
26-May-11A friend gave me some offsets from her bottlebrush buckeye plant, but not knowing quite where to put it – they get very large – I stashed the plants in my vegetable garden, which had not been planted. The time has come to plant vegetables, so I chose some spots for the buckeyes and transplanted [...]
First Bear Visit.
28-Apr-11April and May are tricky times for composting in this area, because the bears are rummaging around and are extremely hungry. Wise folk are putting away their bird feeders, which turn into bear feeders around now. When I read about bears hanging out outside people’s homes all day, until the police come and shoot them [...]
Bear Gardening.
11-Aug-10We were landscaping this week in Silver Hollow – a beautiful part of the Catskills, one I’ve known for awhile. Today as I was finishing up – my colleague had just pulled out – I heard some weird chattering in the woods, almost like laughter, and the breaking of a large branch, which then came [...]