Lions and Tigers and BEARS !! Oh My.

QT and I went to get another look at the house we'll soon be calling home yesterday. Of course, being Saturday, it was a rainy miserable day. Nearly all Saturdays in the last few months have been miserable weatherwise. We're moving into "The Incredible Shrinking House". Well  I.S.H. is still cute but has grown smaller since last visit. We better hurry up and get moved in before our furniture no longer fits inside. I can only assume that once inside, the furniture will shrink as well, remaining appropriate in scale. The development where ISH is located is terribly confusing to navigate through. All the roads arc their way around a lake making it impossible to remain oriented. This should be an adventure! After visiting ISH, we rode around, partly to check out the neighborhood, but mostly because we had no idea how to get out. We pulled into a recreation area to check out the lake and had a  brief conversation with an employee of the Home Owners Association. He lives near our ISH and seemed to really like living there; which I found comforting. This is going to be quite an adjustment moving from the quasi-city to the mountains. During our drive through our new neighborhood, we saw deer both at the side of the road and running across the road, so the subject of "wildlife  fun" came up. I asked HOA guy if there was any trouble with raccoons, which have a well earned reputation for getting into mischief, but he said they weren't really a problem. HOA guy said the biggest nuisance comes from BEARS! Holy crap! I hadn't really considered that option. QT and I are hoping to be able to walk around and get some exercise and fresh air and HOA guy says there are BEARS. I suppose we'll have to arm ourselves; only now I guess WE are the intruders. And the world turns.