{"id":3433,"date":"2010-08-18T10:28:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2011-10-08T14:48:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T21:48:51","slug":"bear-beds-cappuccino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/bear-beds-cappuccino\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackberries, bear beds & cappuccino"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was on a call with longtime friend and colleague Mike Ramsey when Emma and Sophie – and their friend Hanna – burst into my office this morning to breathlessly announce they’d found a bear’s bed out in the far corner of our property, near a stand of wild blackberry plants. <\/p>\n

“There’s a a pile of poop and some bearhair left in a spiderweb,” Sophie said. “There are even seeds in the scat and we think it’s fresh!” <\/p>\n

They seemed genuinely disappointed when I told them that was probably not a good place to build a new fort.<\/p>\n

Mike never gets upset by the frequent interruptions on my side of the conversation. I could hear him softly laughing as I broke the news to the girls that a bear wouldn’t want to share his favorite hideout with them. <\/p>\n

He kicked-in with, “Especially during the height of blackberry season” and I repeated his words to the girls who all murmured assent as they scurried off for more adventures in the yard.<\/p>\n

Moments later, Sabrina waved to me as she wandered by my office door. Oops.<\/p>\n

Sabrina, our friend who lives a couple of minutes away, had sent me a note on Facebook earlier this morning saying she and the kids would be coming over so she could have a cappuccino and chat with Di. I had, of course, forgotten to pass on the message to Di.<\/p>\n

Sabrina was trying to whisper-yell up the stairs to get Di’s attention without interrupting my phone call. “Di.. is the coffee on?” <\/p>\n

I didn’t even bother to excuse myself with Mike this time and instead just leaned toward the door and said loudly enough for both Di and Sabrina to hear, “Di. I forgot to tell you that Sabrina was coming over for a cappuccino this morning.”<\/p>\n

Much laughter from Di as she stood at the top of the stairs clad only in a post-shower towel.<\/p>\n

Mike Ramsey, ever the Kentucky gentleman, mentioned it would be a good time for me to end the call to prepare a mug of serious coffee for Sabrina and an apology for Di for forgetting, yet again, to forward a reminder. <\/p>\n

Life happens here. <\/p>\n

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