Both of my offspring are currently camping with Offspring v1.0's friends, and early on the first evening that they were gone I realized there was the potential for OMGWTFBEARS, because there are deer in my yard on a regular basis, and coyotes and things all over in our neck of the woods, so I texted Offspring v1.0 (who gets cell signal in the camping area, for which I am very thankful): I can has daily updates so I know you weren't eaten by a bear?
Her return text that night: Not eaten!
I <3 my kids.
My biggest worry about bears, though, is that we don't know the ones here—how acclimated to humans they are, etc. When we used to live in Colorado and camp regularly at Wellington Lake, we knew the bears there were very comfortable with humans and also very good at manipulating mechanical things, so food had to be kept in coolers, which were then put into locked cars, because the bears were pretty good at opening car doors if they could smell food around the car. No, really. There's a visual joke about bears and grand theft auto in there somewhere, I just know it.
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Her return text that night: Not eaten!
I <3 my kids.
My biggest worry about bears, though, is that we don't know the ones here—how acclimated to humans they are, etc. When we used to live in Colorado and camp regularly at Wellington Lake, we knew the bears there were very comfortable with humans and also very good at manipulating mechanical things, so food had to be kept in coolers, which were then put into locked cars, because the bears were pretty good at opening car doors if they could smell food around the car. No, really. There's a visual joke about bears and grand theft auto in there somewhere, I just know it.
Anyway, the tl;dr = ZOMGBEARS!