Paquette's Camp update Sept 12, 2010 Week of the Bear

Well we have a few bear stories for you this week, first I would like to congratulate Bill on his successful bear hunt. Bill hunted about 1/2 hour the first day of his hunt and got a nice 200 pound male bear. The bear stories do continue from there though. As usual when I go fishing with Dave we leave his wheelchair on shore, This day was no exception, we went out on the lake, it was cold and a little rainy but we did well with the fish. When we returned to shore I could see Dave's chair sitting upside down with the wheels all straight up, I was sure that I knew the reason why too! I went up to look at the chair only to see that it had been chewed up by a bear and that the bear had left with the seat cusion as well. After some looking I found the cushion with big holes chewed into it , the bear had left his mark. What they find interesting about something like a wheelchair I don't know, but Dave will be looking over his shoulder from now on when in Bear country. It could have been worse Dave could have been in the chair, at least it gives him good stories.

That night was the final bear story, we had just gone to bed and Sue looked out the window when she walked by it only to see a bear at our bedroom window. We chased it off a couple of times then went to sleep. We must not have done a very good job of scaring it off because it was back sometime during the night. In the morning we could see paw prints on the siding where it was looking into some of our windows. You may ask, "Where were the dogs while this was happening,"? Well they were treated so good by the people in cabin 1 that they were there sleeping instead of at home guarding our place.

Of course there are other stories , Jim had his line snapped by a big fish only to catch the same fish about 1/2 hour later and get his lure back. Of course there is no photographic evidence to prove it , but that is the story. I was there as a witness. (Big head skinny body right Deb)

It was truely nice to have Jim and Deb here and it was really neat that they brought Jim's sisters Joan and Diane and Joan's husband Jim with them so that they could see where there late father Martin DeBoer came for many years. We all miss Mart (Ace) but it is plain to see that there is a part of him still alive in his children. It even looks like he taught them to fish and mabye even to tell a few fish stories!

Can't wait for the stories to start this week

Lewie
Paquette's Camp