Fragments From Floyd

"We've had some excitement at our place" they told me. "First we had the mystery of what was happening to the chicken feed. I blamed him and he blamed me."

Then, she walked into the barn--the kind with the open center that runs the length of the structure, and there just outside the far end was a very large, black bear. Apparently, he'd been around for some time: they found a clear path in the hillside where the bear had been coming regularly for the ants in the big white pine that was felled there last summer.

I told them I probably wouldn't tell Ann this news, but I let it slip. I did NOT tell Tsuga, but all morning, he's been very spooky, barking off into the distance with a line down his back--not the calm, self assured master of his domain as he appears in this picture from a few days back. He senses something OUT THERE. And I bet it's big, black and furry.