Well, the more that we've talked with folks in the area the less concerned we ate about our personal safety...

...the vegetable garden, however is goping to be trickier and folks are recommending a chain link (cyclone) fence with an electic wire and close to the house...

Seems to make sense.

Ahhhh, as fir guns... I got me a big old 12 guage pump shotgun and a 410/22 over under Survival rifle an' I certainly ain't gonna go carring them around.

I like the idea of wearin' a bell around one ankle.

I was talkin' with an old farmer who knew the guy who built and lived in the house up until his death last year and this ol' farmer told me that there was one particular bear that would come down and sit on top of the same fence post (60 feet to the house) every evening and it was making the wife a tad nervous and after a couple weeks of this the guy shot and killed the bear???

I'm not sure I would have done that but I guess if the P-Vine were rattled enuff I certainly could but wouldn't get any enjoyment out of it... Though I'm sure that the P-Vine would enjoy the meat...

Bobert