[MamaDearest]

...he kept a bottle of — well, I’ll have to describe it — one of those bottles of spray that you shoot up about 20 feet onto your gutter or somewhere like that to kill wasp nests.

We have keychain containers of capsaisin - enough to give me time to exit quickly in the event of necessity. At home we have containers (large) of bear spray that we take on hikes in our area, but are handy enough to grab quickly in the event we can't make it to our "equalizers." We've already had someone knock on our door at 10:00 PM (and no one was visible at the door). We live rural and police take time to get here. We're not about to be "defenseless."

[matthew fuller]

"At home we have containers (large) of bear spray that we take on hikes in our area, but are handy enough to grab quickly in the event we can't make it to our "equalizers.""

And do you have the little bells that you can wear, so that the bears can hear you coming?