Thought I would tell this one.
Jan 20, 2020 16:37:44 #
CDB is awsome wrote:
I think that worked.
It sure does Thanks. Now we just got to get ghaynes1 to follow your lead.
Jan 20, 2020 16:41:02 #
Either way its a compliment. Take them when you can get them. At times they are few and far between.
Jan 20, 2020 16:41:08 #
ghaynes1
Loc: Strawberry Plains, TN
Btw. You said you broke up the fight. That means Bigfoot could have won. No money for you.
Jan 20, 2020 16:45:16 #
Thats what you think I went easy on him.
Jan 20, 2020 16:46:58 #
OK guys , I'll tell you one and it is a true story.
My wife and I were at our house in Tahoe a couple of years ago and some friends of ours from our church called us and wanted to get together for dinner, so we agree and meet up and eat. After we finish and say our goodbyes, my wife and I return home. Now most of the houses in Tahoe don't have air conditioning bein in the mountains and all. So when we got home we went all around in the house to open up all the windows to cool the house off. Now we don't have a screen door but we use to leave the front door open anyway to create a draft to help with cooling. We don't have a TV or computer or anything up there so it is really a place for us to just have down time away from everything and just read and whatnot. Now we live out aways from town right on a meadow surrounded by national forest. So after we open up the house I sit down in my recliner and pick up my book and start reading. Not reclined but sittin there, I Hear my wife in the kitchen behind me and think nothing about it. I hear her for a little bit and then from the bedroom , which is in the other direction from the kitchen, I hear her in there. Now bein a little old and slow my brain finally said " If she is in the bedroom, whose in the kitchen?" So I swivel my chair around and right behind my chair about 6 feet away was a 350 pound bear standin there just lookin around. When I saw him I yelled "A freakin bear." When I yelled, I heard my wife CLOSE our bedroom door. Well when I yelled , it startled the bear and he literally jumped because he had no idea I was sittin there right next to him. He didn't run, but took off down the hall towards the front door. Well, I jumped up and ran after him and got to the front door and it was CLOSED. That kinda freaked me out a little because now I don't know where the bear is. Well, it turns out that he went down the hall and out the front bedroom window. Walked right across the bed and back out the window it came in through. Turns out that we hadn't left the front door open after all. My wife in the master bedroom and me in the other bedroom both look out the window and see this huge bear just slowly walkin across our yard just lookin around at us as if to say "Hey, sorry, I didn't know anybody was home." Turned out the noise I heard in the "kitchen" was the bear coming through the bedroom window. Those windows are nearly 6 feet off the ground to the bottom of the window. After this incident I took 3 1/2 inch nails and plywood strips about a foot wide and made bear boards and have them under all the windows now. This summer when I'm up there I'll take some pics. of the bear boards and post them so y'all can see what I'm talkin about. My family in Texas and all our friends down here in Windsor just can't imagine bein that close to a bear. When I told my nephew in Texas this story, his little girl who was about 4 years old at the time. I said that the reason I didn't hear the bear walk up right behind me is because they are real quiet. And she thought for a second and looked at me and grinned and said "That's because they're bearfooted."
What a smart, cute and funny little girl she is. OK my fingers are tired now cause I just know how to use2.
My wife and I were at our house in Tahoe a couple of years ago and some friends of ours from our church called us and wanted to get together for dinner, so we agree and meet up and eat. After we finish and say our goodbyes, my wife and I return home. Now most of the houses in Tahoe don't have air conditioning bein in the mountains and all. So when we got home we went all around in the house to open up all the windows to cool the house off. Now we don't have a screen door but we use to leave the front door open anyway to create a draft to help with cooling. We don't have a TV or computer or anything up there so it is really a place for us to just have down time away from everything and just read and whatnot. Now we live out aways from town right on a meadow surrounded by national forest. So after we open up the house I sit down in my recliner and pick up my book and start reading. Not reclined but sittin there, I Hear my wife in the kitchen behind me and think nothing about it. I hear her for a little bit and then from the bedroom , which is in the other direction from the kitchen, I hear her in there. Now bein a little old and slow my brain finally said " If she is in the bedroom, whose in the kitchen?" So I swivel my chair around and right behind my chair about 6 feet away was a 350 pound bear standin there just lookin around. When I saw him I yelled "A freakin bear." When I yelled, I heard my wife CLOSE our bedroom door. Well when I yelled , it startled the bear and he literally jumped because he had no idea I was sittin there right next to him. He didn't run, but took off down the hall towards the front door. Well, I jumped up and ran after him and got to the front door and it was CLOSED. That kinda freaked me out a little because now I don't know where the bear is. Well, it turns out that he went down the hall and out the front bedroom window. Walked right across the bed and back out the window it came in through. Turns out that we hadn't left the front door open after all. My wife in the master bedroom and me in the other bedroom both look out the window and see this huge bear just slowly walkin across our yard just lookin around at us as if to say "Hey, sorry, I didn't know anybody was home." Turned out the noise I heard in the "kitchen" was the bear coming through the bedroom window. Those windows are nearly 6 feet off the ground to the bottom of the window. After this incident I took 3 1/2 inch nails and plywood strips about a foot wide and made bear boards and have them under all the windows now. This summer when I'm up there I'll take some pics. of the bear boards and post them so y'all can see what I'm talkin about. My family in Texas and all our friends down here in Windsor just can't imagine bein that close to a bear. When I told my nephew in Texas this story, his little girl who was about 4 years old at the time. I said that the reason I didn't hear the bear walk up right behind me is because they are real quiet. And she thought for a second and looked at me and grinned and said "That's because they're bearfooted."
What a smart, cute and funny little girl she is. OK my fingers are tired now cause I just know how to use2.
Jan 20, 2020 16:55:26 #
" I heard my wife CLOSE our bedroom door. " And left you all alone to fend off the bear. Now you know where you stand!!!!!!! He He He LOL
Jan 20, 2020 16:55:41 #
ghaynes1
Loc: Strawberry Plains, TN
We have idiots here that visit the Smokies from all over the country. Despite warnings and a strict law about staying at least 50 feet away, these morons aporoach black bears for pics or whatever. Some of bears have cubs. Let's just say that the bear will always win if it feels the need to charge these fools.
Jan 20, 2020 17:02:15 #
Thanks gh. I show 5 others from Tenn. No one else from Strawberry.
We to have them idiots around here. Big black bear area here and occasionally the cubs play in the trees. The smart ones don't get out of their cars, the idiots get out and stand around the tree looking up not realizing momma is watching them.
We to have them idiots around here. Big black bear area here and occasionally the cubs play in the trees. The smart ones don't get out of their cars, the idiots get out and stand around the tree looking up not realizing momma is watching them.
Jan 20, 2020 17:06:35 #
Jan 20, 2020 17:10:14 #
ghaynes1
Loc: Strawberry Plains, TN
Saw1. Consider yourself lucky that the main wasn't viewing you as the main course that day.
Jan 20, 2020 17:14:08 #
Yeah, I'm just glad he went off peacefully. That could have gotten ugly real fast.
Jan 20, 2020 17:17:36 #
ghaynes1
Loc: Strawberry Plains, TN
It doesn't happen too often here but once in awhile they turn on people. The outcome is always fatal. Sad. But true.
Jan 20, 2020 17:19:53 #
Oh, well ! Stupidity is its own reward ! Mama moose is
another critter you don't want
to mess with ! Some years back, there was actually a news video about just such an incident; a
moose cow came moseying
right down the main street of Caribou, Maine (very near the Canadian border) with her calf ! Some idiot thinks it's a good idea and a little bit of fun to tease,
(hound ?/harass ?) the calf;
Mama Moose was not much
more than 50 ft. away when this idiot starts doing his thing ! She
no sooner saw him than she
was on him in an instant,
dancing a jig on top of him !
Satisfied with her work, she
called her calf over to her and
they moseyed right back down
the main street and into the nearby woods ! The idiot wound up in the Emergency Room in critical condition; hopefully,
smart enough not to repeat his little 'faux pas' ! (Prime example
of what can happen when people are totally lacking the merest shred of common
sense !)
another critter you don't want
to mess with ! Some years back, there was actually a news video about just such an incident; a
moose cow came moseying
right down the main street of Caribou, Maine (very near the Canadian border) with her calf ! Some idiot thinks it's a good idea and a little bit of fun to tease,
(hound ?/harass ?) the calf;
Mama Moose was not much
more than 50 ft. away when this idiot starts doing his thing ! She
no sooner saw him than she
was on him in an instant,
dancing a jig on top of him !
Satisfied with her work, she
called her calf over to her and
they moseyed right back down
the main street and into the nearby woods ! The idiot wound up in the Emergency Room in critical condition; hopefully,
smart enough not to repeat his little 'faux pas' ! (Prime example
of what can happen when people are totally lacking the merest shred of common
sense !)
Jan 20, 2020 17:20:35 #
Jan 20, 2020 17:27:33 #
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