Can the geese be far behind?
The leaves are slowly turning orange and scarlet...the air on these chilly nights smells like a bonfire and hoodies and sweaters are now the fashion!
Fall is back!!!!
Fat Bear Week is over...and there were some serious contenders...
but when it was all said and done...with over 97,000 votes...
Maybe we all did.
When he first showed up in June I doubted very much that he would even survive the season.
A huge bite to his back, limping from an injury to his leg, and his jaw completely broken along with most of his front teeth...the jaw hung open and at an angle...the one canine he still had was broken and jutting forward...he couldn't even close his mouth.
He was a mess.
But #32 was smart.
He stayed away from everyone for a month or so.
He walked the banks and lived on scraps which were plentiful.
He rested his beaten and broken body and jaw in the ice-cold river water and ever so slowly learned to chew with his back teeth...healed...about 2.5 months in he moved back up to the falls and took his old fishing spot back...started catching salmon...his back and leg now healed and he could sort-of close his mouth again.
And now he has captured the title of Fat Bear!
Things change quickly in Alaska, though...and the bears in the morning mist...
are busy, now, digging dens for their long winter nap.
And the first snow is seen on Dumpling Mountain.
Soon the bears will be gone and the cameras will be off until June...when it happens all over again.
And a certain giddiness to the arrival of The Spooky Season!
I've already watched Charlie Brown's Halloween.
An annual thing of mine.
Chris and Lachlan popped by...and the baby knows some German. Chris can say things to him and he understands!
Caught up with James and Lennon on the phone.
Everyone is good.
Yesterday, John and I had an early lunch together!
We got some of the very best news last Friday...his cancer seems to be in complete remission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
....although it will have to be gone for 5 years before they will call it cured...
We will take it!
Plotting and planning a Fall Getaway...also Sister's Day later this month...because Tina's daughter is getting married, soon!
She and Cody are so well matched and happy!
New pizza from Pizza Hut to try tonight.
Our Little Caesar's is, now, open.
...bleah...
Not pizza pizza, but disgusting disgusting.
And a couple of new Fall items
...Interesting...but probably not...
Football on Sunday...and we'll be rooting the Colts and The Chiefs on.
Have a Wonderful Weekend!
Love,
Carla, John and The Cats
