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<\/a>When you’re really little, and the tree is really big, helps if you just have to pick up the plums.<\/p><\/div>\n
We have a good sized black bear who simply won’t take no for an answer when it comes to the plum and pear trees next to the house.<\/p>\n
Middle of last week, Dan pissed this particular bear off by shooting him in the butt with the bb-gun.\u00a0 The bear swapped ends and wuffed at Dan.\u00a0 Dan should have wuffed back!!\u00a0 Instead, he took another shot at the bear with the bb-gun and that time it worked, and the bear left the vicinity.\u00a0 Just not for long.<\/p>\n
Terry is on high bear alert.\u00a0 She sees a black ear peep up over the grass and she screams bloody murder.\u00a0 Hard on the hearing if you happen to be in the sunroom when she does that.\u00a0 Poor Mishkin ducks and runs for cover a lot.<\/p>\n
A couple of days ago, Dan got fed up with it all and when the bear was in the top of the plum tree, Dan shot over his head with a .41 mag pistol, and then again right behind him after he was out of the tree (that only took a few seconds as the bear can evidently climb down as fast as up), and was racing through the aspens.\u00a0 Mish did NOT appreciate the entire episode.\u00a0 The neighbors are also having bear issues, so I’m sure they knew what those two shots meant!!\u00a0 They probably wish we’d shot him instead of simply relocating him to their yards instead of ours.<\/p>\n
Terry’s comment about the whole thing was “ooooooooooooo.”\u00a0 Oro didn’t say a peep, just got skinny and stood up tall.<\/p>\n
Since then, the bear is back to being skittish, which is a GOOD thing, and simply yelling at him gets him to leave the yard, but he does come back a couple of hours later, usually.<\/p>\n
The chipmunks rejoice.<\/p>\n
Next year we’re going to remove both trees.\u00a0 Having them so close to the house was actually moronic on the part of the guy who built this place.\u00a0 They just hadn’t been producing that much fruit so we’ve been putting up with the bears and deer since the harvesting only lasted a night or two.\u00a0 This has been going on for weeks now due to bountiful rain in the spring when the trees were setting fruit. \u00a0\u00a0 I guess we’ve had enough.\u00a0 Too bad.\u00a0 They are so pretty in the spring.<\/p>\n