For Older People with Sense

luvmygoats

Leah - Here in Texas feral hogs are a niusance and I think can be hunted year round. Certainly not "protected". Most country people detest them. Tear up landscape, farming, ranching, wetlands.

Gingerbrew

Barbe, thanks. I actually know not to leave the dogs tied put back from Illinois when we had a good sized pack of Cayotes in our neighborhood.  I wish I had a fence right by the house but don't. The paddock is fenced and great big bit I wouldn't leave them out there alone now. I hope the bears go live somewhere else, a nice bear preserve or something. We are pretty close to some State parks and not too far from where you get into some mountains so I am not surprised there are bears I just never thought I would actually see them. doh 

I feel so bad for the East coast people. I wonder what organizations are going to help them fix their houses. I dont think the Red Cross does anything like that. It is just so sad to see people so hurting. 

DH comes home tomorrow3 night. He is at his folks house and out with siblings. They went to my favoirte hot dog stand!  Lucky him.  

Laters 

Ginger

Elisimo

Ginger - there are a lot of groups from civic groups to church groups that travel around to different disaster areas and help people clean up and rebuild.  My dad used to take his vacation days every year and go with a group of Baptist Men to different places and build houses and he would do the electrical work that needed to be repaired or replaced.  He was 78 the last time he was able to go with them.  After that his Alheimers was getting to the point the family really discouraged him from going anymore.

chabba

We have lived here for almost 23 years now.  Every couple of years we have a bear wonder into town but most og them hang around a couple of days and wonder back out.  a few times one has discovered garbage cans and had to be traped and transported.  About 7 or 8 years some cayotes took up resedence in town.  Now we have them all over the place, mostly singles or pairs, rarely as a pack.  The animals that always caused the most concern are the cougars. Over the years we have had one on 3 or 4 occasions.  They really cause excitement when they show up near the grade school.  The State comes after them right away then.

Alyson

I am so pleased I live in a place with no wild animals. Not sure I would know what to do.

SoCalLisa

Chrissy, were your ears burning yesterday?

chrissyb

Ah huh! Were you San Diego girl chatting about me?........lol. Hope you had a great lunch and please pass on my big hellos next time you meet. I so wish I could make even just one more lunch.......lol.



I don't know what is worse, big dangerous things or itty bitty dangerous things?? I just guess that no matter where we live on this great big planet we share our space with both the good and the bad. The good thing is though, we as a species at least can adapt quickly to whatever we come across. Thank goodness for that!!!!!



Have a great day girls!!



Love n hugs. Chrissy

chabba

Just had to share this pic someone took of our local color.

lulubee

Gorgeous!  Beautiful pal there, too!

chrissyb

Oooo Cabba I just love the Autumn color you girls get over there. We get color here as well but nothing on the scale that you do. Thanks for sharing. I love the furry in the corner as well.

marywh

That is so pretty. We lost all our leaves really fast last week due to the storm on the coast, but thank goodness thats all we lost, but I do miss seeing them this year.

barbe1958

THAT is why autumn is my VERY favourite time of year!!! The grass is green (unlike Spring time) and the trees are lit on fire...LOVE it!!!

Chriss, I'd rather have BIG things I can notice than a little spider or snake that wants to nap with me!!!

purple32

Beautfiul, chabba!

I love autumn.

chrissyb

Lol Barbe. I'm just the opposite, I would have more fear about the bears and coyotes........lol

Gingerbrew

You can SEE the bear and coyote. The poisonous spiders and centapedes and s........ ew I dont even want to say it. Those you cant see so easily. 

Ginger

SoCalLisa

I am a late spring person

Gingerbrew

Seattle Summer is quite perfect. 

chabba

Sunrise this morning by a local resident.

chrissyb

Beautiful!! Makes me glad I'm alive!

Leah_S

Gorgeous, Chabba!

I'll tell you the truth, the wild boars here don't make me anywhere near as nervous as the scorpions. Yes, we've had them occasionally in the house. Not.Fun.

Leah

lassie11

Gorgeous photo chabba!

chabba

We have quite a few very good photographers in our little town who share their pics on an e-alert system from our local weekly paper.  Of course it helps that we live in such a beautiful area.    I just pick the ones that most appeal to me.

Gingerbrew

I went and looked up cougars, male 30" high at the should 140 to 180 pounds and 7 to 8 feet long. Can leap 30 feet from a standstill.  There has only been one fatality in Washington in the last 100 years, I think.   It does say you are very unlikely to ever see a cougar, they stay hidden.  We live to the west of the Cascade mountains and while within the hunting range of a cougar I think we are sort of on the outside of the range. I hope.   I am from Chicago so this is new to me.  

chabba

In the 23 yrs we've lived here there have only been 3 or 4 cougar spottings in town, each time at the grade school.  We are on a narrow, long sand spit and the grade school is in the middle.  I think that they show up at the school is why they always try to capture and transport so quickly.

ptdreamers

When we first moved here we went camping. There was a cougar alert posted. My husband got up ane woke me and said we should go use the facilities. as we were walking back he asked what the loud purring huffing sound was above us. I grabbed him and hauled into the camper replying probably the cougar. Needless to say we didn't venture out again.

chabba

Reminds me of a camping trip when I was a teen.  Eight girls, two adults, the adults slept in the back of the station wagon and we had a 8 person tent.  I slept along the back wall of the tent.  One night I'ld gone to sleep before the rest only to be awakened by a couple of girls holding me down so I couldn't sit up and telling me I had to move.  When I looked up the tent was bulging inward just over my head and shoulders.  I scooted out of the way just before the bear sat down, bringing down the tent.  In the morning we found its tracks.

Wren44

Yikes! Cougars do follow kids and occasionally attack. Vancouver Island (BC) seems to have an incident every year or two. I would think a cat that can jump 30 feet and weighs 160 could take down an adult without too much problem. I think I've heard that they occasionally attack joggers in Calif.

SoCalLisa

We have had several attacks in our east county

SoCalLisa

chrissyb

Beautiful Lisa! One of yours?