August 22, 2005
spiders and ants and bears, oh my!
Not as bad as lions and tigers, but we do have a bear that tore down our bird feeder and mangled our large garbage bin last night.
Such is one of the many differences between living on the third floor of a steel and cement building two blocks off the busiest street in a small city and digging in in the middle of the woods.
We wage a constant war against the insect kingdoms. The bear we leave alone and hope he/she finds better pickings somewhere else. Apparently DEC sees no reason to hunt him/her down; he/she hasn't hurt anyone, yet.
And so we coexist.
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Spiders And Ants And Bears, Oh My! on 24 Aug 2005
When will there be just birds in the bird feeder?...
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Melissa on 22 Aug 2005
spiders? Oy have we got spiders -- as for coexisting...well, if they stay off the house and off my garden and off Lex's swingset, fine. But if I find them stringing webs over my front door, over windows or across the slide, well, sorry. Gotta go.
And some of 'em are just too damned big and creepy to be seen so close to the house. I don't need any egg sacks with a million spiderettes crawling through cracks under the door.
myrln on 22 Aug 2005
After careful consideration, I've decided this is a matter either of grin and BEAR it, or in the case of a certain grandson, of grin and BARE it.
sharon medforth on 05 Nov 2005
We have a lot of bears around our house but they do not come to close because of our dogs . See our mastiff web site and our mastiff puppies http://www.englishmastiff.com
Vancouver Island on 07 Jan 2007
I'd gratefully endure the odd visit from bears over the constant plague of spiders and the annual invasion of flying ants that we endure.