Monday, November 15, 2010

A Bear intrusion



Ok, so on oct 19th a Bear tried to push it's way into my garage.

The story:
So the night of the happening I was down in my shop working on a new rig for my video cam. (I make short horror/thriller films) when I heard some snorting and scuffling in the driveway. I went out to check it out, it was dark and couldn't see a thing. But I continued to hear the scuffling and snorting. moments later a moose came charging down by me and into the woods. That in itself was pretty freaky since it was so dark I couldn't see the thing at all until it was going by me. ZOOM, into the woods went the moose. a moment of silence and the shuffling sounds continued from the driveway. Then Bang BAng! something was beating on something. Ok, thats a bear I thought to myself. The sound got more intense so I made my way up to the house, in through the front door and proceeded to the garage. When I opened the house door to the garage and turned on the light the garage door was BANG, BAng, heaving in and being forced off it's rails. ""expletive" BEAR! Get the ,expletive out of here" that's all it took, and the bear was gone. I guess I spooked it. but that's not before it did the damage that you see in the above pic.
What was in the garage that the bear could have wanted? not sure. I've emptied it out over the course of the summer and turned it into an indi-film studio. All that was left in there that I might think a bear would have wanted was an empty freezer, which I had recently cleaned out and bleached. All I can figure is that the bear was all jacked up because it had missed an opportunity of creating moose carnage all over my driveway and took it out on my garage door. Not sure but happen it did.
Well, for what it's worth the bear did succeed in expediting a project I was probably going to do come next spring anyway. That is removing the garage door, and framing it in for a pair of solid,(no glass :) french doors. So that is something I've now done. Of course the doors were special order because it's Alaska and much of what we need seems to be special order. Well, I framed it in the weekend it happened and the door unit came in just last thursday so now I have it all secured again. I had plywood screwed up over the opening 'till the door unit got here of course ;)
So, check back and I'll post some pics of the project of doors, wall, and interior film studio renovation. Right now it's dark outside and I'm just done for the day.
Time for a movie before sleep.

Nite.

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