Ok, So I realize this is not the city. I get it that I am living in the country and therefore should heed those “Deer Crossing” signs because there are probably a family of Bambi’s around. I see road kill literally everywhere. I have mice in the house and wild turkeys all over the property that my neighbor Nancy like to feed every single day. They take the trek up to her “cafeteria” and back in the afternoon. They have a better life than I do.

Nancy made a point when she introduced herself that there have been bear sightings. Now – let’s be honest did I really take her seriously? Nah – this is a woman who when invited to my housewarming replied without hesitation “We don’t socialize”. Full Stop. So her telling me there was bear sightings kinda went in one ear and out the other.

Until today. Yes today changed ALL that.

I was feeding the goats – yes there are more than just Joey & Trudy. We now also have Ben & Jerry and Cookie and Peanut Butter. I digress –  I will get to them later – that’s a whole post to itself.

So I was feeding the pigs and out of my right eye on the outside of the pen I see this MASSIVE brown things walking along. He/She walks around the back of the pen and I manage to run out of the pen into the house, slamming and locking the door. Of course I have no phone so I dart upstairs wheezing, screaming, panting and looking for my phone. I went to the upstairs balcony and I see Big Bear trudging through the forest behind my house. Let’s say this is not the best picture! It kinda looks like Loch Ness and Big Foot had a kid.

I have not seen him since and I think that everyone is wondering if I was drinking – I was not – there is a bear somewhere but he’s here.

Now onto the other wildlife…

One morning I went outside and saw that my swing bed that is usually clean and untouched – was covered in sand – lots and lots of sand. Now I did do something after the bear sighting which was to install cameras outside. I scrambled to my phone to look and see what could possibly have been on the swing bed! The bear? Hmmm no – what I saw at 10pm the night before was a fox or a baby coyote – he strutted up to the bed, hopped on, shook his ass to get comfortable and picked a pillow for his head.