20 years ago…

How can it be that 20 years ago today that we brought home this adorable little guy…

We were young (16 and 18) and scared to death…

Many, many people said we wouldn’t make it…

(Reserve Champion market steer and Grand Champion Showmen)

(Shooting at Nationals for small bore pistol in 4H.)

But, oh how love grows…

By the good grace of God.

Happy 20th birthday wishes to Sawyer!  We are so proud of the young man you are…

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Black Bears

 

 

 

Two different sows with cubs taken about a year apart.  Neither one hung out for long and by the time we stopped to pull over, the cubs that belonged to the sow below high-tailed it out there.

Black bears are North America’s most familiar and common bears. They typically live in forests and are excellent tree climbers, but are also found in mountains and swamps. Despite their name, black bears can be blue-gray or blue-black, brown, cinnamon, or even (very rarely) white.

Black bears are very opportunistic eaters. Most of their diet consists of grasses, roots, berries, and insects. They will also eat fish and mammals—including carrion—and easily develop a taste for human foods and garbage. Bears who become habituated to human food at campsites, cabins, or rural homes can become dangerous and are often killed—thus the frequent reminder: Please don’t feed the bears!

Solitary animals, black bears roam large territories, though they do not protect them from other bears. Males might wander a 15- to 80-square-mile (39- to 207-square-kilometer) home range.

When winter arrives, black bears spend the season dormant in their dens, feeding on body fat they have built up by eating ravenously all summer and fall. They make their dens in caves, burrows, brush piles, or other sheltered spots—sometimes even in tree holes high above the ground. Black bears den for various lengths of time governed by the diverse climates in which they live, from Canada to northern Mexico.

Female black bears give birth to two or three blind, helpless cubs in mid-winter and nurse them in the den until spring, when all emerge in search of food. The cubs will stay with their very protective mother for about two years.

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Nature Notes

Shades of Blue…

My favorite things about summer that are blue.  The majority of them can be found in Glacier….

Playing along with…

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The Littles helping me check the flock tonight…

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