One of my falling partners in the seventies was putting the backcut in a big ugly decadent cedar, not far from a river on soft ground, so he was staying real aware of the possibility of root pull, where a hollow cedar shell will come apart too soon and flip you by surprise ... and he got lifted up completely, shoved backwards then to the side, when a black bear came out of a hole between his legs, caromed off a tree and some brush and windfalls, sort of half-asleep but still panicked, he says the bear never knew he was there, was only woken up by the saw and probably scared of the noise and fumes ... he came and got me, all excited, said you will not believe, but the ground was still warm where the bear had been, hair all over the place ... he was quite a photographer, had a camera in his pack but no way to get to it in time, for months after tried to keep one handy enough to capture interesting things
Bears like chain oil - sugar is what they put in to make it sticky - especially when they're waking up in spring and the berries aren't ripe yet, so fallers tend to have a lot of bear contact mornings, can't leave oil jugs in the woods unless you rinse the jug well with gas, and even then ... quite often you'll get to your quarter and find your saw has been licked over and over some distance from where you've stashed it ... in a few cases it takes more than one guy to scare the bear off, he's defending it because it tastes good
fvi.to - my largest in silver too, probably will stay that way for a while, can't imagine offing any short of another double unless it got there too fast and spikey ... listed on New York soon, how about that, i don't think quite the same games are played there as are on the Amex so hopefully there won't be the standard anticlimax routine so many have gone through
usa.v - has been biggest silver at times, been trading it back and forth for years now, even intraday in small slices, leaving bids and offers in constantly during long periods ... not so much this summer, mostly out now, watching for how the rollback situation resolves ... still have some in one of wife's accounts where the book value shows at .18/sh or thereabouts, and it's that high only because i'd sold her nickel shares in the .20s then bought the dip, passed up many sell opps since in that account ... ditto with her ngd a-wts, keeping book value of .30, fingers crossed on a hundred-bagger to show her one day
su.to - instead of keeping a cash position in share account, which i find impossible to do, i'm into Suncor big as of last week, looking for gap-fill 31.60s, maybe keep a few after, not sure, anyway that's my biggest position of all right now, and not even metals, plan is to shift that buy power to likely movers next week or so
Generally it seems like bids are a lot better on juniors friday and today ... summer winding down, venture should get to winding up, with loads of results out of the Yukon |
