[the moment] a bear steals your baking sheet

[moment 93]

My husband made breakfast for dinner and, as there are seven of us, made bacon in the oven on baking sheets. Upon removing the cooked bacon from the baking sheets, he put them on a rack outside our back door to cool. 

We ate dinner, and as Jim was then cleaning up from dinner, a bear absconded with one of the baking sheets. It was a young bear, who apparently was attracted from the woods behind our house by the smell of bacon. We had a short, rather one-sided conversation with the bear as they stuck around for a few moments to see if we had anything else to offer. When we assured them we did not, they meandered back into the woods. 

I'm sure they'll be back. It is Spring, after all. Dad usually shows up first. Then mom with cubs and juveniles. Having a visit this early from such a young one is a treat. 

And they did leave our baking sheet for us, no worse for wear.