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I don't now about the stock market

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#1

… but I sure know a bear when I see one or even two.

Better get moving, there are dogs!

Hurry up!

Do I have to get up the tree?

Nah, that’s enough distance :wink: Getting bear pictures in the wild is like model railroading … it takes patience. Also helps to have a good optical zoom (10x), unless one feels stupid enough for an up-close encounter with Mama Bear and a Cub. (Not me!!! Distance to bears approx 200ft.) On the patience, this is the third late summer that we’ve been on the lookout for the bears. Yesterday we saw a coyote, but he was hiding in the tall grass and would have been backlit. Better luck next time. :wink: :slight_smile: Oh yeah on the stock market, pretty obvious why they call it a bull market, lots of the stuff being bandied about. :smiley:

#2

Hi HJ,
I like the pics and your fortitude. We have some
a few miles away but they are in a zoo. It’s a long time ago when they freely roamed here lol

I have heard many posting complaints about critters that wreck garden railroads but none have featured bears - yet!

#3
Alan Lott said:
I have heard many posting complaints about critters that wreck garden railroads but none have featured bears - yet!
Because after the bears have done what bears do, the intrepid train nut is in no shape to write about it.

Algy met a bear,
The bear met Algy,
The bear was bulgy,
The bulge was Algy.

#4

Chris Vernell said:

Alan Lott said:
I have heard many posting complaints about critters that wreck garden railroads but none have featured bears - yet!

Because after the bears have done what bears do, the intrepid train nut is in no shape to write about it. Algy met a bear, The bear met Algy, The bear was bulgy, The bulge was Algy.

After the bulge has passed

#5

Coyotes are a dime a dozen around here. They’re getting so bold that they roam through town at night. I’ve never had any problems with deer on the layout (mine’s indoors :D) but I’ve worn them as hood ornaments too often…:frowning: Moose, elk, bear, cougar and bob cat are also common critters in these parts. I sent all the 'coons and “porky pines” over to John…:smiley: Skunks are like cats…they do what they want where they want…:frowning:

#6

Ok, HJ. We’ve had enough of your sh*t!! :smiley: :lol:

#7

Warren Mumpower said:
Ok, HJ. We’ve had enough of your sh*t!! :smiley: :lol:

OK Warren! Just one more for good measure, wouldn’t want you to come up short :lol: :smiley: :wink:

Right in our driveway, by the mailbox.

#8

Guess that answers the age old question about where the bear does his business !!

#9
Gary Buchanan said:
Guess that answers the age old question about where the bear does his business !!
Yep, sure does! Bugger!

BTW the other favourite places seem to be any portions of the many hiking, biking and riding paths (of various width) in Kalamalka Lake Park. I did mention that we go out the back garden gate and are in the park, didn’t I? I also mentioned that deer and bear are fairly regular visitors at the neighbours’ to the left and right, didn’t I? Along with raccoons, porcupines etc.
Easy explantion: our’s is the fenced yard with two huskies and a double fenced veggie garden. Slim pickings at the best of times and lots of harassment the rest of the time.

#10

Speaking of the stock market;
…you see that Canadian Pacific Railroad, has purchased another two American pikes, and a nice enterence into the Powder River Coal market…also by going into a bit more debit, have possibly set back any idea of a UP buy out…

#11

HJ,
Do you suppose that it was EXPRESS MAIL and the Postal Service couldn’t deliver it properly?
Good Luck,

#12

Warren and I were out hiking the other day…

I know, I know, I had to take out my .45 ACP to convince him to go along…:lol:

Anyway, we surprised a bear…

Warren stopped to take off his pack and started to change his hiking boots for his running shoes…

I said, “Warren, you can’t possibly hope to outrun a bear.”

Warren said, “I don’t have to. I only need to out run you, Steve.”

#13

Hans-Joerg Mueller said:

Chris Vernell said:

Alan Lott said:
I have heard many posting complaints about critters that wreck garden railroads but none have featured bears - yet!

Because after the bears have done what bears do, the intrepid train nut is in no shape to write about it. Algy met a bear, The bear met Algy, The bear was bulgy, The bulge was Algy.

After the bulge has passed

Is that the kind with the jingly little bells in it?

#14
Steve Featherkile said:
Warren and I were out hiking the other day...

I know, I know, I had to take out my .45 ACP to convince him to go along…:lol:

Anyway, we surprised a bear…

Warren stopped to take off his pack and started to change his hiking boots for his running shoes…

I said, “Warren, you can’t possibly hope to outrun a bear.”

Warren said, “I don’t have to. I only need to out run you, Steve.”


Too true, too true. Neighbour’s wife did that the other day, didn’t change shoes, just ran!

BTW was that a six-pack or a twelve-pack he was carrying?

BTW2 I can’t see either of you setting speed records with or without running shoes, :wink: just an impression I have. :slight_smile: :wink: :lol:

#15

You guys wouldn’t need to solve your outdoor problems with guns, if you only listened to that old song…
“…Don’t go out in the woods today; today is the day the (Teddy) Bears have their picnic…”

Leave the guns at home and go for a stroll at the mall, and leave the bears to do their own thing in their own enviorment. It's that time of the year where they are all around, trying to fatten up for hibernation......leave them in peace.

I learned that a long time ago from an old park ranger in Algonquin Park…wait until later in the fall to go out there…or better still; wait for the first white stuff…Then the bears will not be in your way, and better still, YOU won’t be in the bears’ way.
It’s a way of co-existing. If more people practised it, there would be less conflict between bears and man.
Guns are NOT always the answer; they are just a poor way to solve some of man’s crude ways of co-existance with his enviorment.

#16

Fr. Fred

Quite right, don’t need a gun.

a few years back we had this two year old - bear that is! - in the park. He’d be parked in the berry bushes on the East of the entrance road, then he’d see us come along with the dogs, stop munching for a minute, get up, walk along behind us and then cross over to the berry bushes on the West side.

The fool people are the problem, not the bears.

Talked to the one neighbour this morning, he had a big moose on his deck the other evening. Now that moose got a bit lost!

#17

HJ, it doesn’t matter what kind of shape I’m in…as long as it’s better than Steve…:smiley:

And Fred, if’n we don’t have guns, how am I going to get a new winter coat…?? :lol:

#18

I never run as fast as I can, only as fast as I have to.

#19

Fr Fred. The gun wasn’t for the bears, it was for Warren, to get him up off the couch. :smiley:

#20

Couch…NO! Computer chair…:confused: