At about 6:30 am, Janet Pilling heard a commotion in their plum tree Saturday morning, She guessed it was a bear but when Glen got out there all he could see was 3 raccoons. After giving them a warning shout that he was about to shoot unless they got out of his plum tree, he had to deliver the first shot which took down the first racoon. He went to get another bullet for the second raccoon and the noise was still going on. No one had left, and now a black bear was at the tree, trying to get the other two racoons.
Again he gave another warning shout. This time to the bear. The bear looked at Glen. Glen looked at the bear. The bear stared back. The bear seemed very big to Glen. Glen says that the closer you are to a black bear, the bigger it seems. Then the bear took heed of the warning and left, so only three racoons have to be disposed of.
Dave Wood says that for the past few days his compost has been smelling like bear scat, and now he has no more apples on his apple tree.
When Alice heard that she told Dave he could borrow some apples from their tree.
The apples hadn’t been ripe enough to pick when she left, but she is sure they would be ripe by now.
Dave does like to gather the apples in the fall and turn them into apple juice.
For sure there will be one tree less juice this year.
Arta
Again he gave another warning shout. This time to the bear. The bear looked at Glen. Glen looked at the bear. The bear stared back. The bear seemed very big to Glen. Glen says that the closer you are to a black bear, the bigger it seems. Then the bear took heed of the warning and left, so only three racoons have to be disposed of.
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| ... the tree outside of Michael and Betty's cabin ... I have no idea how it could grow apples, since it branches held those children so many times this summer |
When Alice heard that she told Dave he could borrow some apples from their tree.
The apples hadn’t been ripe enough to pick when she left, but she is sure they would be ripe by now.
Dave does like to gather the apples in the fall and turn them into apple juice.
For sure there will be one tree less juice this year.
Arta
Alice's apples were still not quite ripe enough last weekend for picking. I will check this Friday when David and I go to the lake after school let's out. I hope there are a few more ripe blackberries and that the bear left some behind for us. I love September blackberries.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to tell the part where the racoons were breaking the limbs of the plum tree, trying to keep away from the bear who was close in pursuit.
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