beaver walk: 4
Hey All,
A few things, including the last details for now for the beaver walk.
but first
1) An update on the book about my mom's death. I haven't done any primary work on it. I think it's partly because of what I wrote before, about how i prefer books to life, because even if a character dies in a book, you can still start the book over and the person is alive again. And this is true in another way with the book I'm writing, that as long as I'm writing it there's a sense in which she's still alive. Another reason is that as you know I like to write books from beginning to end, and in this book I'm going to intersperse a few interviews of other people's stories about their caretaking of a loved one. I'll do probably six or seven of those. I have done four. One is done and approved by the interview subject. 3 are done and I'm waiting on the approval. I hope to do another interview in a couple of days. I'll feel more free to get on with it when i get those done.
also, I'm agonizing over whether I should keep the family stuff, or whether I should dismiss it one sentence: for reasons that aren't important, for the most part I was the only one available to take care of her. I guess a third option would be to keep the family stuff but make it a more wry and self-deprecating tone. I don't know.
2) I'm seeing 3 or so bears per day here. Last night for the first time this year i had one tap on the window. I don't want to reward that, so I went outside and yelled at him (he ignored me) an then didn't put out any food until he left about 20 minutes later. He came back and got food later.
3) i've been getting lots of ribs lately, which is good since they really like them. "A lot" probably means 40 racks of them. Maybe 60.
4) at almost any time during daylight hours I'm likely to see 4 to 10 vultures circling.
5) the vultures got, today, 2 banana boxes of materials. they got probably 15 pint-sized containers of livers and gizzards, a couple of fairly big trays of ribs, a few pork chops i didn't save for bears or me, a fair amount of salmon
6) i saw this short video that is everything wrong with our attitude toward bears. a bear gets into a convenience store. Everyone is laughing. the bear grabs some food and runs out the door, where and awoman startle each other . hd raises on his hand legs and basically pushes her away. she falls down. She'd been carrying some hot food or soup. The bera runs away. and then the tag line is that so=called wildlife officers killed a wild bear in retribution. they believe it was the same bear. I'll write about this in the book. the bear did nothing wrong. If I were her I would do anything to make those "wildlife experts realize they shouldn't kill every animal they see.
I was going to write about beaver walk more but i'm too tired.
Thank you,
Derrick