Posted on 07/25/2015 10:17:01 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
They can just stroll around Alaska until the bears have them for lunch.
We had a nice little walking area...worked fine for years...then a lady got molested. And this is a crazy, safe town. No more peaceful walks. They're "wary" walks now.
Beethoven was aware of this.
[[Too bad they also tend to be the people who want to dictate how us ignernt rural hillbillies should live]]
Aint that the truth- I live a a quite rural area- and watched it go from majority conservative, to majority democrat thanks to heebs migrating from the cities to their ‘rural getaway’ in the ‘wilderness’ (Towns of less than 50,000 is ‘wilderness’ to them)- first thing they do after buying vast tracts of land is put up no trespassing signs- then fences, then they run for town board, and next thing you know one liberal rule after another infests your once great town because the board wants the money the rich heebs have- so they sell us out- Next thing you know a swat team is descending on your position if you dare light up a cigarette within 1000 feet of a public park, and you are waterboarded for days as they try to break you of your evil conservative values- and if that doesn’t work, they threaten to take you kids away because you are ‘unfit’ to raise them in such a ‘hostile conservative environment’
The good life is long gone from most small towns now- Liberalism is creeping into every nook and cranny of society- I’m sure there are a few refuges still around, but they are dwindling rapidly
I’m surprised I missed that one- the last 12 I listed were all tick bourne viruses- surprised the one you mentioned wasn’t in the list
[[I have noticed, that for those living ‘in a city’, any time spent in ‘nature’, ‘the woods’, ‘the wild’, heightens not their appreciation of what nature is, but their own paranoia about what nature MIGHT be putting before them, in their sojourn.]]
I’ve noticed that a walk in the wilds triggers their obsessive need to make the wilds off limits to everyone but them because they know millions of people actually enjoy the wilderness- and by golly we can’t have people enjoying themselves according to liberals
I wander in familiar woods without much thought of the “dangers”. There are a few plants I instinctively sidestep but most are edible so I graze. We only have the massassauga rattlesnake and they’re rarely seen. coyotes could be dangerous but they’re well fed.
My poor little gal lost nearly a quarter of her body weight, suffered liver damage, and had to have massive infusions of intravenous antibiotics to get through that one.
Vet bill: almost $1000.00
You are a funny guy Bob. Don’t come to Alaska. You will hate it.
we used to sit I n a park at night with skunks milling about all around us- feet from us- sometimes even brushing against our legs- as long as you didn’t move fast, you were fine- You just had to watch and make sure they weren’t acting aggressively because of high incidence of rabies I n skunks, but usually the skunks out at night were fine, it was the ones I n the daytime you had to worry about as skunks are generally night creatures-
Anyways- we have a couple of foxes that cruz up and down our street most evenings- we sit outside and watch em go by- they just mind their own business and will sometimes stop and see what we’re doing, then move on-
I probably shouldn’t even be stating these things as some liberal might read the post and pass a law outlawing ‘animal harassment’ to include ‘viewing, watching, or otherwise enjoying their presence’ as harrassment
woops, I forgot to add polar bears, grizzly bears, wolves, wolvererines, coyotes, etc- enjoy your walk
(Psssst- I’m an outdoorsman- I’m posting all these to discourage city slickers from ‘trying out nature’- but shhhh- it’s just between us)
[[We only have the massassauga rattlesnake and they’re rarely seen. coyotes could be dangerous but they’re well fed.]]
We have rare timber rattlers- but rarely seen- Coyotes are really only a problem if rabid- some I nthe cities take cats, and might threaten small kids, but that is extremely rare- We do have black bear- had one clapping it’s teeth at me last year- then huffing- it was over a knoll and I couldn’t see it, but could hear and smell it- but it backed off and so did I- kind of unnerving, but bears are rarely a problem- although one local woman had to stab a bear that was following her on a hiking trail- the bear took off running according to her and group that was with her- They likely were carrying food with them as the bear followed them quite a distance according to the report- very unusual for a bear to do that- especially when several people are present-
woops, I forgot cougars too
FYI...... as one with uncountable days in the “out of doors” i would inform you that my current foray is in a kayak where there are no polar bears, grizzly bears, wolves, wolvererines, coyotes, etc.
One can paddle close enough to the shore to touch it with the paddle.
Herons and other fishers pay little attention until you are right on them. Sunning turtles are more wary but one can drift close enough to see their eyes, red ear and carapace markings. I once watched for ten minutes a pileated wood pecker tear up a rotting log from 30 feet away. As I was fishing with my trusty fly rod, a mink came trotting by at the waters edge paying me no mind about 30 feet away in a bright yellow kayak.
the kayak is for exercise. The fishing is for resting between episodes of paddling. Last week I made my 102nd voyage
yeah, unfortunately these types of things are happening more frequently- Growing up we never worried about these kinds of things- now there are warning signs all over the p lace- “Caution, high lyme disease area” or something similar- I remember literally growing up in the woods- and hiking all over the place- camping etc- perhaps we just weren’t aware back then but it just seems like there are more and more cases I n recent years- Had a friend go to health center with high fever which lasted several days- the nurse told him that cases of lyme disease were up 300% this year- Turns out he tested negative- but seeing all kinds of reports in newspaper talking about lyme disease increases and to ‘use caution’ when out and about-
Bleh- miss the old days-
“Something about being in the woods makes you want to s—t” - Richard Pryor
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I missed the sarcasm tag.
Your subsequent posts gave a different impression.
You really would hate it here though. It is an icy hell with polar bears roaming the streets and nothing to eat but whale blubber and seagulls. We all sit in our igloos hugging our guns; except in summer (If it falls on a weekend) when we have the annual BBQ.
Indeed! I grew up tramping through woods, riverbanks, and even inner city vacant lots that had become overgrown. I never heard of a case of Lymes till much later in life.
Very strange.
A walk in the woods is analogous to living LIFE, come what may. If you can't handle it, then quit.
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