(caution.. rant to follow)
Most days I walk the 1/4 mile to the mailbox. I have to be running terribly late, or be horribly busy or incredibly tired, to want to drive down and back. Last week, one of those things came up and C drove the mail down. Later in the afternoon when we went back to check the delivery, our neighbor popped out of her house, and rather excitedly, too. This was not only a rare occurrence, but the only time she has ever come out to chat. It seems she has been home recovering from a hip replacement and has had plenty of time to watch the comings and goings. And well, we or I would be all of those comings and goings…except for that day. On that particular day, just after C put the mail in the box and headed back up the hill, a mama bear and her three little cubs came across the drive in front of the mailbox, ducked under the barb wire, and ambled their way into the corn field. Dinner, I suppose. Imagine, THREE CUBS! I would have loved to have seen them, from a distance, of course. Which brings me to this… Today is September 1st, the first day of bear season. BEAR HUNTING SEASON. Not Here! Not when I can stop it. There is a particularly odious sport, if you can call it sport, around here. It involves radios, dogs wearing antennas, receivers (more antennas) sticking out the door of a pickup and a lazy ass hunter with a pistol. The idea is to have the dogs run down the bear, tree it and then stand there waiting for the "hunter" to triangulate the dog’s position. Then the "hunter" drives as close as possible, gets out of his pickup, walks over to the tree, and shoots the bear. They call it sport, and love it. Makes me sick. I hear the dogs chasing through the woods. Every now and then one happens into my yard. Even if I wasn’t so vehemently opposed to using radio dogs to hunt bear, I would still be crazed at the dogs racing through where my cats are doing their thing. One morning last week a dog did come racing through. Poor thing was thin as a rail, ribs sticking out. A sweet dog, and easy to catch. I took off the antenna and the electric collar and put them in my truck. Then I tied the dog up in the shade of a tree, with food and water and went off to find the owner. I did find him. I knew that eventually he’d follow the signal and come looking for the dog. I just decided to find him first and have a talk with him about NEVER coming back and if his dog did happen to come back he would not be able to retrieve him here again and on and on and I think he knew exactly how I felt about my bears. harrumph! And now I find that mama has THREE CUBS!
the end.
ps. I think I’ll sing a little louder these days.
12 responses to “summer, now you see it, now you don’t”
Brrrrrr. Send it down here!
Goodness. 34! I’m w/ Laurie. Send it on down!
There’s always fried green tomatoes. Mmm!
I have a recipe for green tomato chutney that I can send your way. Let me know. You can also ripen them on your counter or in a paper bag. I’ll be a disenter here and ask you NOT send the lower temps our way. Trying to hang onto summer by my finger tips 🙂 Lovely skeins there. That cobalty blue one way on the right has caught my eye!
Won’t they redden up eventually if you pull them up by the roots and hang them somewhere dry and cool? It worked for us and we know next to nothing about gardening!
Gorgeous shades! My tomatoes finally turned red and now no one will eat them. I guess I’ll put them up for sauce. I’ll look for you this weekend.
that yarn is divine!
it’s been cool here, but not that cool; mornings in the high 40’s.
I’m with Carole, fried green tomatoes!
Another trick is to pick the green tomatoes, wrap the in newspaper, and place in brown paper bag. They get red 🙂 They aren’t as tasty as sun ripened, but at least they’re not green.
You can feel it in the air here too, nights and mornings are getting crispier. It’s getting dark earlier every day.
Such beautiful colors in your yarns !
Beautiful colors…like the woods.
Hope the weather holds for you!
What fabulous greens! I love how the acid green contrasts with the grey-green… in fact all the colors together remind me of a really well-designed quilt top, for some reason. Beautiful! 🙂
Well, I live in Arizona and I’d love to even consider the idea of flannel sheets. It’s so hot and humid, I can’t remember such a hot summer. I can’t imagine having cool weather in late August,early September. Maybe I should move to cooler country!
That deep navy blue on the right hand side of the picture, can you tell me what weight it is?? how much there is of it?? thanks