I'll post pictures from the retreat next week......we had SO MUCH FUN!!!!! I was hoarse for a couple of days from all the laughing! One of the things that happened had a little something to do with this bear............
Jan lives at Lake Wenatchee....way out in the woods above Leavenworth, WA. She got a call from her husband on Saturday night while we were all sitting here stitching. He was all excited... telling her how he'd had a visit from this bear that's been trying to get into their garbage. First, he said, he went out to chase it away with a broom in one hand and gun in the other.......then, it took a swipe at their dog (missed, luckily)......THEN! This was when Jan totally lost it and couldn't stop laughing.......he "called it every name in the book" and it STILL wouldn't leave! (Imagine THAT!!! Calling bears names USUALLY works like a charm!!!) The gun you say?? What about the gun? Warning shots?? No.... the broom and "names" !!!! Anyway, she sent a couple pix of the bear on it's return visits after she got home. The game dept. has put out a live trap for it, so hopefully the problem will be solved soon.
Janice and I are stitching on another new pattern this weekend called Autumn Hopscotch (name's still possibly going to change.......everybody here thinks it's a stupid name for it.... we'll see!) I'll take pix on Monday and post them with the retreat photos.
Have a great weekend! Summer's really here! xoxox
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Hi! We live in the Sierra Nevada mountains and we have always had bears around the area. Our community has adopted an ordinance that requires all garbage/trash to be either locked up in a garage or some other bear-proof container and that has worked great - No trash (i.e., bear food), so no bears! It also works great because the bears now look elsewhere for their food (as they should!) away from people/homes and they don't cause any property damage because they're not trying to break into anything to get the trash. It's also been great because the bears don't become what is considered to be a "nuisance" bear that would be destroyed by the Department of Wildlife. Their saying is that, "a fed bear is a dead bear", so the community works really hard to keep our trash contained and not available for bear food. Hope this helps!
P.S. Your stitching is just gorgeous!
My sister has a Karelian Bear dog. Regan would take care of that bear in a heartbeat. Will work for food. Do we get retreat pictures soon? Curious minds want to know.
Thanks for sharing....I still have a wide smile :D
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