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Well springis here...even if it snows...spring is here...or if it is not someone better tell the bear that roamed our neighborhood yesterday....funny all my childhood here I did not see a bear...in three years I have seen several and two in Anchorage City Limits....guess they like the city life... Coming home I noticed tracks from the mail box over the twenty foot snow berm and across my yard...found it kind of funny that my husband waded through the yard instead of using the plowed drive....when I walked up to the porch the cat was there and he was not a happy kitty....his fur was standing on end...I looked around and did not see the moose I expected instead I noticed the tracks were not human...the excretement definatly was not human...the consistancy of the mess told me it was very new and somewhere in the vacinity was a bear...I unlocked the house and got the kids inside...the cat beat us in...looking out the windows upstairs I could see the path he made as he made his way through the neigborhood looking for small morsals to tide his hunger till fishing season....They warn us not to put garbage out...but this bear was not interested in the garbage cans linning the street...he had checked a few out and must have found them offensive. Guess he wants cat. I followed his marks through yards...onto the street and through more yards...from his marks he did not stick around anywhere for long....at the end of the snow trail I saw....a fairly large brown hairy rump rounding the corner from Ambergate to Cambell Air Strip....he was just taking his time...enjoying the spring......