Strange Mathematics

In math class we learn that you can't add apples and oranges.  They are two different things, thus unlike terms.  Alaska would like to challenge this mathematical theory.  Here fish = bears.  Since the fish are beginning to die in pretty big numbers, the bears are coming down to the creek to feast on their finned friends.  Mike has set his game camera out and checks it regularly.  He's trying to stay on a weekly schedule, but has found himself battling with the desire to check after only a couple of days.

The bears have brought with them a few "only in Alaska" moments.  I have the bears to thank for the best tardy excuse I will probably hear in my career.  We had a parent call to say their kids would be late for school because a bear was in the yard so they couldn't leave the house.  We have also had to have an announcement at the end of the day to warn the kids to be careful on the way home because they had seen a bear on the north end of town.  We seem to have a mamma bear who has gotten lost.  Instead of hanging out by the creek to eat fish, she is hanging out by the dump to eat trash.  She has two cubs with her so the community doesn't want to put her down if they can avoid it.  We are hoping when they hibernate this winter, they will forget their source of tasty tidbits.

Hey!  What's this think doing on my tree?

"Who's a pretty bird?  I'm a pretty bird!  Oh, I'm sorry.
Were you expecting a bear picture?"
The seagulls have replaced the squirrels from back home for
triggering the game camera.