Okay - now I am not a happy camper!! All of my indoor houseplants are out on the deck for the summer. When I say all of them I had about 60 potted plants that I put out there every year. This summer has been the worst yet encountered because between the bears and the raccoons I now have 28 on the deck, 3 back in the house, 4 in the back porch and a whole lot of little bits sitting in water hoping they will take root. I had a yearling bear on my deck the other night. Now that in itself is not that unusual as I regularly get animals wandering around my yard and they often come up on the deck to investigate but this time was different. He left his mom down by the road and decided to do more than investigate the things on my deck. He bit holes in my water container then upset it, smashed flower pots, bit plants in half, tossed some off the deck onto the ground and finally woke me up in the middle of the night with his antics. I say he but it could just as easily have been a she - I didn't stop to ask. The first time I just shooed it. It came back about 5 minutes later and this time I yelled a bit. The third time I grabbed a stick, stomped out the door and hollered really loudly. That one finally got it's attention and got it to realize I did not want it on my deck. Mind you - I also woke up the downstairs neighbours with that one.
Don't get me wrong - I love the bears when they are passing through, I am just not overly impressed when they stick around and leave piles of mud (or piles of anything), broken pots and flower, and the worst part - waking up the neighbours in the middle of the night.
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