Memorial Day Weekend

Our weekend started out better than our last trip of last summer to the cabin. It wasn't flooding and I remembered the keys to unlock the canoe. It was a good start. We proceeded to repair our walkway that floated apart last summer and dig a lovely new pit for a new outhouse location. All was fine and dandy until I heard Shannon yell from the canoe, "MARTY!" I poked my head out of the hole and naturally hollered back, "WHAT?" The next words kind of took me by surprise, "BLACK BEAR OUTHOUSE!" I turned around in my pit and not 20 feet away was this black bear staring me in the face. It was a good thing I had shovel to protect myself. So I high tailed it to the cabin, after which I remember someone saying don't run from bears, oh well. We watched the little guy wander around the cabin for some time while Shannon, Ian and Piper decided to paddle around the cove for a while longer. The bear would not go away so I decided to intice him to leave with some loud noises from a 12 ga. shotgun. After the first blast he just turned around and looked at me with eyes that said, "What's all the racket around here." The next blast moved him to the other side of the cabin. With the third blast, he decided to come walk across the front of the deck and across a couple of boats. That showed him!:) So I decided to watch him from inside the cabin with the rest of the kids.

He left for a while, then came back. He sure was a curios little bear. Shannon and Ian were finally able to dock the canoe. Many campers paddled over and got some good pictures of the little fella before he scampered off. I believe this little bear won't have a very long life if he doesn't give these people creatures a little more space.

We finished the outhouse hole and decided to head on down to Ray's to refill our water. Little did we know we would run into a party boat party. We made our way about the lake with Captain Dan at the helm. We finally made it to another ye old watering hole, filled up our containers, had a nice dinner with family and headed home on Monday. Many good memories to store for later years.

Marty and Shannon