Friday, September 18th, 2009
The mystery of the bear poo was solved on Tuesday! I was coming back from a run, along the road by the outhouses, heading toward the barn to get some mouse bait. As the clearing by the barn came into view, I saw four shapes on the grass. It took ...
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
A: Yes, and so can you!
Okay, you're probably thinking I've totally flipped out, if you didn't already think this after some of my previous entries about mouse turds, including "The mystery of the dead animal in my living room," and the moving song "Blue turd on my window sill."
But the ...
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Good news! I wrote previously about the trail expansion on the Twin Bridges trail and my concern that regular vehicle traffic would be permitted on my favourite running trail, disturbing a magical pocket of wilderness and the creatures who live there, including the black bear I spotted on my run ...
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Last night I went for another run and skinny dip in the Seymour River. This time I went down the Twin Bridges trail, which is closed for trail work. I felt worried as I ran down the trail and saw that they are widening it and gravelling it. The sign ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
The absolute best thing about Monkey Valley is running with the bears. (The worst thing is the cell reception, but I won't go into that now.) It has not happened often that I've had the chance to run with bears here—only a few times in nine years—but it happened today.
I ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
I actually come home to Monkey Valley quite often. Usually, I make two trips a month to Vancouver, which means I get to come home to Monkey Valley twice a month. The previous post gives some background on why I was away so much before the September homecoming.
Originally, I began ...
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