That walk sounds heavenly, hagatha! Beautiful day here too... but I'm spending it pulling weeds!

my phone says thunderstorm coming for saturday, , monday -friday, i do not have a machine that i can use during the thunderstorm, nor what it cost, and call.

What kind of machine are you talking about? Cost and calling?

battery backup, cost depends, https://www.microcenter.com/product/647002/apc-apc-ups-battery-backup-and-surge-protector.

A battery backup is not meant to allow you to continue to use your computer if the power goes out. It is meant to allow you enough time to save your work or save your game and then shut the computer down. Most of the batteries are only good for about 30 minutes and if you use it all up, you have to buy a new battery - and they are expensive.

thank you drac very much.

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. Breakfast out this morning.

Good morning everyone

Mocha Java coffee, English Breakfast tea and bottled Fiji water in the Break Room.
Sunday projects will keep me occupied for the day
Have an awesome Sunday

Enjoying that coffee listening to the hummingbirds outside my window. Put out 7 quarts this morning and it will be gone by tonight!

Finally on the downside of pulling weeds. I need to dig up and transfer some daylilies and plant some shasta daisies in their place. Going to fertilize the flower beds one more time before fall. Then I will let everything quietly go to sleep over the winter!

Good morning Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room.

I had my coffee on the deck with Dude this beautiful Monday morning, looking out over the water. Apparently a human sitting on a deck is as good as catnip to the little guy. When he's happy he drools.

Sweet

same thing, and grocery shopping.

Good evening everyone : )

Numi Dry Desert Lime tea in the Break Room.

Have a wonderful evening everyone

Well, I just had an interesting experience here. I have lived in this house for 20 years, and I knew of people who had spotted bears in the vicinity, but in general at even higher elevations (we are at nearly three thousand feet). I was standing here looking out my window which is right next to my computer desk, and what I saw was a very large brown bear going across our property. Wow. Kind of scary, and I realized that I have never seen a bear in the wild before but only in a zoo. What seemed like a bear has gotten into our trash a few times in the past, when we left it out overnight for the pickup in the morning, but we never actually saw it. My son saw one once higher up the road when he was out jogging.

It's also worth noting that this happened at 6 p.m. when the sun is still out. The bears must be *really* hungry and thirsty to be coming down here and when the sun is still out, no less.

Have a good evening, everyone. I am going to try not to let this rattle me too much. The deer leaping out of our driveway when I was coming home from the grocery store yesterday doesn't hold a candle to this. Yikes. I don't need this kind of excitement.

I don't blame you Marian! Looking around for bears when you go out does not sound like my kind of excitement either. I hope there's no way for entry into your home. I've read some stories like that happening lately too.

Ob, happily there is no way one can get into our home. Seeing it like that was both frightening and awe-inspiring at one and the same time. I just hope I don't see another one on our property for another 20 years or so. I know they have been on it before - I just never expected to see one when the sun was out!

We are starting to see black bears here quite often. But a measly 300 pound black bear does not hold a candle to a huge brown bear! Yikes!

Good morning everyone

Ethiopian Harrar coffee, Irish Breakfast tea and bottled Fiji water in the Break Room.

Wow Marian, what a sight indeed Stay safe!

Off to work shortly...take care everyone...happy Tuesday

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. Going to vote this morning. Lunch and Netflix with a friend this afternoon.

Marian,

Try not to let the bear get to your garbage. Here in BC many municipalities ban leaving garbage out overnight because bears get habituated and end up getting shot. They aren't dangerous unless they feel threatened. John and I encountered black bears on many occasions while hiking around here and north of Vancouver. Usually you see the hind end disappearing into the bushes. Bears are not nocturnal animals and most sightings are during the day.

Of course, a grizzly is another story altogether. Those ones...let's just say you don't want to run into one of them. There were no grizzlies on Vancouver Island until a couple of decades ago. They swam over from the Mainland, and have started to populate the northern part of the Island.. I guess human encroachment is pushing them outwards.

We have a massive black bear in our neighbourhood. He's been here for years, and everyone calls him Sidney. He lives around here because we have large areas of scrub filled with berry bushes, and we only ever see him when the berries are ripe. By silent agreement, nobody ever feeds him and he leaves us all alone as long as we cede the berries to him when he's around. And the occasional apple tree gets raided.

We also have a cougar around here, which is far more worrying. Fortunately, there's a large population of wild rabbits around here, but it has taken a cat in the past.

Hagatha, the garbage has to be out on the road by 7 a.m. For the past year I have been waiting until the morning of the pickup to put out the garbage (keeping it locked up in the basement during the week), but this gets problematic in late fall and winter when it is very dark in the morning until shortly before that time because obviously I also don't want to be putting out the trash when it is still dark, even with a flashlight. The road where we put out the trash is quite a ways away from our house. Anyway, all this is by way of saying that we haven't been letting the bear get to our garbage for about a year now - but due to what I described above, it's somewhat problematic in the late fall and winter.

That is news to me about bears coming out during the day. I guess that is mainly because bear sightings around here are mostly people showing them on videos captured at night when they were wandering around neighbors' properties.

Interesting what is going on with grizzly bears up there.

Sidney sounds like a good guy.

And your cougar reminds me of our mountain lions and bobcats, although sightings of them are somewhat infrequent. All of this, though, is why our cat is an indoor cat only - it is just too dangerous out there otherwise for small creatures.

And to think mere spiders are on of my scaries ....

Stay safe all of you out amongst those wild animals !!

Around here we only have possums and rats, both of which are sometimes quite big. About 5 years ago I saw a huge racoon 2 streets over that scared me a bit as I thought it was a person at first and I'd never seen a racoon around. Never seen one since.

Raccoon! Don't know how to spell anymore.

I remember learning this in one of my wildlife biology courses. Bears are nocturnal or diurnal (daytime) depending on species and sex. Some are crepuscular, meaning they are most active at dawn and dusk. Black bears are generally considered nocturnal. This is what I found about brown bears...