Friday, July 20, 2007

Day 22 and Day 23 (7/15 and 7/16): Boulder, CO (0 miles)

Two days off to hang out with Loretta, her folks, and the Matzuks who were kind enough to share their beautiful home with the lot of us. For the two days off we just hung around the house, took some walks on some loggin roads, watched some of the Tour de France (though who cares anymore seeing they all on dope and all that junks anyways...what a bunch of lame homosapiens if you ask me...), and just plain ol' relaxed...

The first morning Loretta and I were sittin in living room watching the parade of hummingbird activity outside on the back porch when I saw an adolescent-sized blackbear lumber across the porch. Loretta thought it was a dog or something so she didn't freak out too much at first...then it kinda sunk in and she freaked out...but only for a bit...I quikcly got my camera and started video taping the action when the bear decided to clamber up a tree to wehre the birdfeeders were....I quickly handed Loretta the camera and jumped outside to try and scare it off by clapping and yelling at it...it just looked at me a few times, kept tryin to get the birdseed, and then eventually lumbered on off to the woods of Colorado/back behind the Matzuk's house.

The bear was back an hour or so later and everyone in the house got the chance to see it...then we went hiking later in the day and saw a much, much bigger blackbear who didn't seem to care about us hiking parallel with him for a bit....

But yeh...it was good to see Loretta and rest the weary legs for two days.....

2 comments:

Loretta said...

The Matzuk's actually had not seen ANY bears in the year and a half they'd lived in CO. But as soon as Michael showed up they saw 3! What is it about you Dubovsky's? What have you not told me eh?
;-)

Loretta said...

Haha somehow the gold locks must have been bread out of the gene pool! But really, everyone loves Michael so it was no problem to hang out with him! We know that you would have shown the same hospitality (and have) to us Vitts and/or the Matzuks.