Adventures with Animals

[judecorp]

Yesterday I was driving in a residential neighborhood in Northampton so I could deliver a paycheck to one of my coworkers whose car was in the shop. And, right there on her street, I saw a bear! A real bear, just walking across the street, right past my car and into a driveway. Now, I had seen news stories about "Bears in Northampton! OHNOZ!" but I never expected to actually SEE one.

It was really weird to see a bear walking down the street. I saw a number of bears from different distances when I worked at Philmont, and that was much more natural. This poor guy just looked lost. Either way, I got Beth, said, "There's a bear on your street!" and we went bear hunting. I'm sure I looked nuts, cavorting around the neighborhood with my big ole belly looking for a bear.

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This morning we heard the sound of glass breaking and then Fin running up the basement steps, where he shot out of the cat door at lightning speed. When I got downstairs, I saw that he had knocked down the special ceramic cat food bowl I had made for Daedalus at one of those paint-your-own-pottery places. :( There were pieces of handpainted ceramic everywhere, and Daedalus was looking up at the dryer like, "Where is my bowl?" SO SAD.

Comments

[geniusorafool.livejournal.com]

Northampton. I miss Northampton. I miss eating at the Teapot in Northampton.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Come visit and we can go to Teapot. Or order in Teapot. Either way, it's delicious!

[lemur68.livejournal.com]

Fin to Daedalus: "HAHA CANT ETE NOW FUD ALL MINE"

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Fin makes Daedalus cry.

[rizzo41.livejournal.com]

Hee. Very smooth of Fin. "No one will know it was me if I go pelting out of the room! *I* wasn't at the scene of the crime!"

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Cats are so dumb sometimes. Especially Fin. He is the stupidest cat ever in the history of cats.

[childlight.livejournal.com]

loud crashes are a regular thing here...but we do have 6 cats.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Wow, 6 cats! That's a lot of cats!!!

We have 3.

Lesbear?

[vorpalbla.livejournal.com]

So, given she was in Northampton, I wonder where her bear girlfriend was. Maybe she was on the way to get married?

Re: Lesbear?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

But what if it was a male bear? Hunh?

If there were two bears, maybe they WERE going to get married. It's just so weird to see a bear walking across a paved road into someone's driveway.