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Dec. 8th, 2005 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
javacatBlack bear removed from its hiberating spot under Penna. family's porch:
http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/5492792/detail.html (has a nice slide show, and check out the photo of those paws. Yowzah.)
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=157&sid=136863
And, about bear hunting in PA and NJ: http://www.njherald.com/284864220642870.php
It's interesting, and I'm also mushing it in my mind with Fresh Air's interview of Stephen Colbert yesterday. He talked about how, growing up, he had a morbid fascination and terror being mauled by a bear. It was the worst thing he could imagine happening. It's a fascination/fear I share, though it was nearly a full blown phobia before I started backpacking in the Sierras and had several non-eventful encounters with bears, including a mama and 2 cubs, over the years. In this summer's Grizzly Man, Herzog showed Treadwell's footage, seemingly taken at a very close range, of a monsterous fight between two males. You could almost feel the mass and power of their collisions as they slammed into each other, trying to be the overpowering victor. Course, those were grizzlies, a bigger bear than the black.
I wonder who hunts bear. Probably some of the kids I went to high school in Penna. Deer season is such a big deal there, it's a school holiday - the administration gave up/gave in, so many boys (perhaps girls? dunno) would take the day off. My friends in high school - our parents fell into two categories: they were engineers and managed large manufacturing plants, or they owned the manufacturing plants, business schools, lumber yards, etc. I didn't really know any of the kids whose parents worked in those places not at a managerial level. There are families who lived on the Ridges for generations, who had important service businesses - snow plowing, garbage collection, firewood providing. Moonshine was brewed up on the Ridge. Where on the Ridge was always kind of handwaved - I think it was out around the area where you could go to shoot skeet, then have a steak & baked potato dinner. (Our family wasn't into skeet or trap, but it was a good restaurant, a frequent choice for birthday dinners.) I'm sure those families hunted deer and took their limit, but did they hunt bear too? What do you do with a dead bear? Do you eat it? Maybe they ate part of it, and used the rest to feed their dogs or something.
Can you tell I don't want to work today?
The job that I do already is being spun off into a more specialized niche, one that I want. The job was posted internally today, and now I have to apply and interview for it. Oh joy. I'm not looking forward to this, because the last time I interviewed for a job (this job) was 25 years ago, but on the other hand, I want to get it over with. Application is due by next Friday. Wish me luck!
http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/5492792/detail.html (has a nice slide show, and check out the photo of those paws. Yowzah.)
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=157&sid=136863
And, about bear hunting in PA and NJ: http://www.njherald.com/284864220642870.php
It's interesting, and I'm also mushing it in my mind with Fresh Air's interview of Stephen Colbert yesterday. He talked about how, growing up, he had a morbid fascination and terror being mauled by a bear. It was the worst thing he could imagine happening. It's a fascination/fear I share, though it was nearly a full blown phobia before I started backpacking in the Sierras and had several non-eventful encounters with bears, including a mama and 2 cubs, over the years. In this summer's Grizzly Man, Herzog showed Treadwell's footage, seemingly taken at a very close range, of a monsterous fight between two males. You could almost feel the mass and power of their collisions as they slammed into each other, trying to be the overpowering victor. Course, those were grizzlies, a bigger bear than the black.
I wonder who hunts bear. Probably some of the kids I went to high school in Penna. Deer season is such a big deal there, it's a school holiday - the administration gave up/gave in, so many boys (perhaps girls? dunno) would take the day off. My friends in high school - our parents fell into two categories: they were engineers and managed large manufacturing plants, or they owned the manufacturing plants, business schools, lumber yards, etc. I didn't really know any of the kids whose parents worked in those places not at a managerial level. There are families who lived on the Ridges for generations, who had important service businesses - snow plowing, garbage collection, firewood providing. Moonshine was brewed up on the Ridge. Where on the Ridge was always kind of handwaved - I think it was out around the area where you could go to shoot skeet, then have a steak & baked potato dinner. (Our family wasn't into skeet or trap, but it was a good restaurant, a frequent choice for birthday dinners.) I'm sure those families hunted deer and took their limit, but did they hunt bear too? What do you do with a dead bear? Do you eat it? Maybe they ate part of it, and used the rest to feed their dogs or something.
Can you tell I don't want to work today?
The job that I do already is being spun off into a more specialized niche, one that I want. The job was posted internally today, and now I have to apply and interview for it. Oh joy. I'm not looking forward to this, because the last time I interviewed for a job (this job) was 25 years ago, but on the other hand, I want to get it over with. Application is due by next Friday. Wish me luck!