• Big ass bear in my yard 10' away...

    From tallship@21:2/104 to All on Sunday, December 08, 2019 01:30:54
    I was walking past my kitchen door (a big window, essentially) to get an
    onion while fixing supper and oh man, it was definitely an experience. I saw him, he saw me, we looked at each other for a few seconds and then when he looked away I dunno what came over me but I pulled my phone out and started a video recording.

    Then he looked at me a couple more times in a disinterested way. Suddenly, instead of a charge of exhilaration I began to experience some fear, as it occurred to me that this bear really doesn't understand the principle of a window, or what glass is, so to him I'm just standing on a platform about 10 feet (maybe about 8) away from him, and he could just decide to rip my face
    off any second.

    So at that point I started to back away....

    https://news.Linbord.org

    On another note, my ability to participate is subject to the whims of mother nature, now that we're moving into winter. So there may be extended periods
    of time where I am incommunicado.

    So apologies in advance if it takes me a while to get back to anyone. Things prolly won't get too bad until January, but we just had a freak whopper snowstorm so Thanksgiving was just me and the cat that has adopted me. By the time February hits things will be brutal but I have a few half-hams in the
    deep freeze and about 50 pounds of red beans so I'll be in hog heaven with
    all of the mp4 movies and TV series I've got.

    Gonna go and pick out a Christmas tree in the yard and cut it down in the
    next day or two, and my friend said she froze a bunch of Thanksgiving dinner stuff, with pies and cheesecakes for me the next time I head down the
    mountain to civilization for my final pre-isolation provisioning.

    I hate the cold. With a passion - I believe that water freezes at 59 degrees and no one can tell me otherwise, but there's a solace to comfort you when you're prepared for the dead still of the winter, and one really does appreciate it when the mercury starts to rise again in March/April.

    Enjoy the videos :) There's also one of a little fawn just off my front porch.

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  • From tallship@21:2/104 to All on Sunday, December 08, 2019 01:33:40
    On 08 Dec 2019, tallship said the following...

    https://news.Linbord.org


    https://news.Linboard.org

    I'm such a dufus sometimes lol.

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  • From Phoobar@21:2/147 to tallship on Sunday, December 08, 2019 20:52:51
    onion while fixing supper and oh man, it was definitely an experience. I saw him, he saw me, we looked at each other for a few seconds and then when he looked away I dunno what came over me but I pulled my phone out and started a video recording.

    You want to watch the funniest video ever...head over to Pluto TV & watch
    some of those cat videos. They have 1 where this bear was looking in the
    house when the cat walks in gets nasty. Never seen any animal fall off of a deck backwards & run away.

    Phoobar

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  • From Digital Man@21:1/183 to tallship on Saturday, December 14, 2019 13:57:55
    Re: Big ass bear in my yard 10' away...
    By: tallship to All on Sun Dec 08 2019 01:30 am

    https://news.Linbord.org

    $ host news.linbord.org
    Host news.linbord.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)


    digital man

    This Is Spinal Tap quote #24:
    David St. Hubbins: You're a haughty one, saucy Jack.
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  • From tallship@21:2/104 to Digital Man on Tuesday, December 24, 2019 16:38:54
    On 14 Dec 2019, Digital Man said the following...

    Re: Big ass bear in my yard 10' away...
    https://news.Linbord.org

    $ host news.linbord.org
    Host news.linbord.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)


    Arrghh!!!

    My bad! https://news.Linboard.org

    Dunno if I mentioned this, but it didn't immediately occur to me that from
    the perspective of the bear,I was simply standing on a platform a couple of feet off the ground and a few feet away from him, considering that he
    probably had no concept of glass or windows as barriers of any sort.

    I've also got a little [re]write up of an earlier article I wrote way back
    with the updated blow by blow of the birthing of the Internet between UCLA
    and SRI one late October evening :)

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  • From ryan@21:1/168 to tallship on Tuesday, December 24, 2019 20:45:36
    I've also got a little [re]write up of an earlier article I wrote way
    back with the updated blow by blow of the birthing of the Internet
    between UCLA and SRI one late October evening :)

    Was that the infamous first internet pot order as well?

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