Update on the Petting Zoo

So last night I get home from the "altar of Truth" (it totally lied to me, up.5) and my neighbour comes over with the most amazing "treat" she bought me a huge Zipper kind of Bag full well 2 of PB packs and Cheese Whiz. I'm not sure of the origin of said treats but with those littel PB babies I'll be set for Premeasured PB for the next 2-3wks, if the boys don't eat it all. I think they ate 10 this morning before I woke up?
Sorry tangent, so we're sitting talking and I mention the "pile of evidence" out by my front tree, and she says "wooooooahhhhh I didn't hear about this?" and I said "I'm home all day, I talk to people" and, of course, I told her who I heard it from and who she heard it from. I also may have mentioned how the other Mom at the school confirmed it with her story of 2 large clawed critters. On her way home, I walk out the door and down the front path with her and point to "large pile of evidence" and she says "yeah" and Hubbie comes out with laptop in hand and between the Points and ehhhhh? and the Points and grunts, we all come to the conclusion that we have the answer to the ever present question:

Does a Bear Shit in the Woods?

"NO, he shits on my front lawn"


Okay, let's just take a minute to digest this idea. I'm struggling to fit in activity/exercise in my life? I have a VERY hard time doing things that resemble Exercise as a routine or shall I say regimented program, so I pick things that are fun. Things that are good for me but disguised ever so carefully as "games" "playing with the kids" "talking with the neighbours" so things like volleyball, baseball, running after the kids, tiring the kids out by walking them in strollers, or bike rides. These Activities happen out of doors, we protect ourselves from the "critters" outside with the appropriate "bug dope" or Mosquito repellent. There is NO such thing as BEAR Repellent. Mosquitoes take bites out of us, I can deal with that., BEARS take chunks and they aren't leaving us there to "come back later for another pint of blood" or "saving some for later".


On with the critter count, so last night I'm sitting here "working" OK so I was surfing, and reading everyone else's work but I was on a computer. OK so yes I was virtual Gardening with the mrsblupete and I hear this noise. I almost sounds like a cross between a child screaming or a very female person being attacked. I rush to the window and thinking GREAT!!! now something else to clean up, some one is walking down my street (yes we get teens walking the streets at 1am) and they are being attacked by the critter that left the large pile of evidence? I'm not sure what it is, more crying/screaming but no way am I opening that door. I close the living room window and head for the bedroom Hubbie is standing at the window looking out. He's telling me to "shhhhhh" and of course, inserting various points and ehhhhhhh? and finally we see it the BIGGEST Raccoon I've ever seen is climbing down my birch tree and heading towards the house. I do not even want to know why it was screaming at the top of it's lungs and what it thinks was chasing it, I shut everything off, lights computers, and crawled under my bed clothes for the night, nice and dark and safe, until morning when the indoor critters decided 630am was getting up time.

I would just like to say that I'm Jealous of people that live in cities that don't have Large Piles of Evidence on their front lawns.