I've had some interesting wildlife moments since we moved up including seeing a buck for the first time in my life, which was not nearly as exciting as seeing a Moose on the side of the road a while back. I think the most interesting story was from yesterday which I'll share in a second.
Update on some events. Rendezvous Days was awesome, the weather was great and it was a wonderful first time experience for me. If you are planning to visit us at anytime I would strongly recommend coming during that weekend. Also, still no word on the housing situation. We had a lot of practice in patience over the last year so I think we're doing pretty good with this one.
So, onto my story about yesterday. We came home from our weekend trip back to the cities and everything seemed to be same as usual then on the bus to work the next morning it seemed everyone was talking about bear encounters during the weekend. I felt stupid for leaving a bag of trash sitting on our deck while we were gone and I felt lucky that it didn’t attract any furry friends. That is until I got home that night and found a rather large pile of poop on our deck. I doubted at first whether it was a bear or not because this had to have been the tidiest black bear ever. He pulled the garbage bag open without even moving it from its spot and methodically removed the yummy parts while leaving everything else in tacked. So, I learned my lesson. Sort of, we’ll ignore the fact that the garbage bag is still sitting out there waiting for trash pick up tomorrow. I figured all the best parts are gone now there’s no sense in him coming back...right? Wrong….
This leads us into yesterday. I took Moose for a nice long walk after work. As we were heading back we were about half a block from our house when I noticed what I thought at first was a big black dog peaking out of the woods across the street from our house. Then I realized it was a black bear. I stopped and fortunately Moose stopped too but didn’t seem to notice the intruder. The bear and I looked at each other for a little while then it turned and ran back into the woods. Moose and I proceeded to the house although I scanned the woods as we went by not really expecting to see anything. I’m assuming it was the same bear who left us a present earlier in the week. I think I’ll name him Fred.
Here is the funny part. As soon as I realized I was staring at a wild bear my next thought was perhaps an odd one. It wasn’t the bear I was worried about. I was worried about getting closer to the bear and having Moose notice it and in his usual inquisitive fashion go chasing after it to investigate. I had this image in my mind of a black bear dashing through the woods, Moose chasing Fred the bear, and me dragging along behind clinging to the leash yelling at Moose with a mouth full of dirt. I’d like to think with all the training we just finished five minutes before about not taking off on me that he wouldn’t do something like that, but I’m glad I didn’t have to find out.
As I mentioned briefly before Jon and I were in the cities last weekend. Jon’s best friend got married so we went for the wedding which Jon was in. It was a nice trip we got to hang out with most people we wanted to see but not everyone unfortunately and those we did get to see, we didn’t get to spend nearly enough time with. Good news is I’ll be heading back at any point this month for a certain new arrival. Also the day after getting home from one wedding we received in the mail an invitation for another wedding in October the weekend after a third wedding that I’m photographing in October. So it’s going to be busy from now until probably January.
Pray requests are mostly the same. School is starting next week which means youth group meeting will be starting soon. We need lots of wisdom and guidance about how to approach this. When we sat down and talked to Jake and April a while back he told us that most of the youth group foundation are now heading off to college which means we are now starting back at square one with how we want to run Wednesday night youth groups. Which is both exciting and daunting. Also, pray for continued patience and guidance when it comes to housing. Also please pray often for me. My job is both very rewarding and extremely challenging. I work with a lot of wonderful kids but they all have their quarks. Some I'm more prepared to deal with then others. I'm finding sources to educate myself as much as I can but I need a lot more wisdom and a whole ton of patience.As always thank you for your support and we will keep you in the loop.
Well, that’s all for now.
-Beth