Gum Spring Road » bears http://www.gumspringroad.com This site is dedicated to the 10,000 people who travel it each day and my family that has lived on Gum Spring Road since 1988. Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:01:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Animal Control Worker’s Worst Nightmare http://www.gumspringroad.com/animal-control-workers-worst-nightmare/ http://www.gumspringroad.com/animal-control-workers-worst-nightmare/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:45:34 +0000 David http://www.gumspringroad.com/?p=60 After receiving the series of photos below I finally understand why the woman at the Loudoun County Department of Animal Care and Control really didn’t want to make the trip out here when we called to report a bear the bear we had in our backyard!

“Gee thanks pal for all the great pics you took!”.

Attention all kids! Grow up to be photographers!!

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They lined the bottom with smooth-stone gravel all around to avoid knee scrapes and other injuries. They finished building it one Friday evening and were very pleased with the end product.

The following morning, the mom was about to wake up the boys and have them go out to play in their new play center. These are pictures of what she saw from the upstairs window:

New Playground

Happy Bears

Bear Party

I wonder if the family still lives there or if they high tailed it back to the city?

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