Ha Ha! I Mauled Your Leg!

Days Walking - 102

Good Grief! I'm so glad we keep Watch at night now, and scared that we didn't start sooner. Get a load of this.

In case the link gets broken, here's a quote from the Juneau Empire, by Mary Pemberton, an Associated Press Writer: "ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A hiker was injured by a grizzly bear that charged through heavy brush and grabbed the woman by her right ankle, dragging her off a large rock before her husband scared it off."

She was just hiking along, minding her own business, and GRAB! Very creepy, especially after our own recent encounter with BFGB. We've been so damned lucky that no one has been seriously hurt. Yet.

Maybe this bear was waiting for one of his friend bears to come around the corner. He was gonna trip his friend and they'd have a good beary chuckle, "Ha Ha Gotcha! I mauled your leg!"

But instead, it was this random human who had no business being in his back yard. He's like "Holy Sh*t that's not Fred!" and before he can recoil in surprise, the hubby is all up in his grill.

I remember, not too many years ago, I was fifteen I think, I was chasing one of my guy friends around his apartment complex with a paintball gun and I almost took out this little old lady. She was eighty if she was a day, and I fired at her, I squeezed off two shots before I realized she wasn't my friend. I missed thank goodness, I could have killed her. But I tell ya, I've never heard such language coming out of such a cute little lady - before or since.

And in other dangerous Ackian news, there's the story of an 18 year old guy from Barrow who drove his snowmobile too far onto thin ice and drowned. How sad, truly. This is a very dangerous place to be.

Every time I think I have a calm bead on this place, that I can handle what is gonna get thrown at me, death and disaster in the news helps remind me that at any moment any of us could die.

Um, on a lighter note, my Dad and his girl Joann have decided to go steady. How mushy is that? Apparently there's like promise rings involved and everything. I didn't know the elder peeps were into the cutesy gestures. I guess love is silly, enjoy life while you can, cause there's grizzlies of one sort or another waiting for all of us behind the next rock.

Litany Webb, signing off

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