I’m Alice Outwater, 48, and I live in a valley at 7,000 feet in southwest Colorado with my 16 year old son Sam and my husband Bob. I have an engineering background and have worked in water for most of my career; I am the author of Water: A Natural History; The Cartoon Guide to the Environment with Larry Gonick, cartoonist extraordinaire; and The Beneficial Reuse of Sludge and Minor Wastewater Residuals.
I am writing a blog because of a four-day stretch this fall when a bear kept breaking into my 94-year-old neighbor’s Honey House. First Bob nailed some 2×4s across the door, and the bear tore them down. More wood and bigger bolts came next, and that was history. The handyman wired the door with an electric shock system powered by a car battery, and the bear took that out too. By the time the door was barricaded heavily enough to deter the bear, the Honey House looked like a cartoon version of a shack under seige. On the grand scale of things bear problems aren’t very important, but our little adventures with nature and neighbors highlight a side of life that is getting too little attention. In these times of global change and conflict, this website is dedicated to small happenings, and to the creatures among us who don’t wear clothes.
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