Dead bear found near my house4

I guess vossk was right. My overabundance of smiles for pictures recently has crushed the skull of an innocent bear cub from miles away, then carried it here to plant on the road and scare some old guy.

In other news, my grandmother called the other day to check how my mom was doing packing up the house, and to help lower her stress, she sent my grandfather over here to help out. He stayed the night and he’s leaving this afternoon, taking our dog with him because she wuvs him and we can’t bring her to stay with us. While he was here yesterday, he did the following:

• Organize and pack everything in the house
• Fix both of our showers
• Check the piping for our sinks
• Fix the gas cap/door on our van
• Fix our doorbell (it has never worked in the 15 years we’ve lived here)
• Uninstall and pack appliances
• Take our dog to the vet
• Fix some propane lamps we set up on our deck, but never used
• Take our considerable garbage to the dump

Basically, he spent the day doing everything he possibly could to help my mom and lower her stress levels. My mom offered to pay him for the vet and the dump and stuff, and he refused everything but a heartfelt thank you. Now that his work here is done, he’s going home like it was no problem. Swoops in, fixes everything, leaves nothing but good behind.

Like all of my mom’s family, he lives a three hour drive away from us, so he hasn’t had a big influence on my life. Despite that, I think we’re pretty similar.