A bear

Yesterday morning, I met a bear in the mountain near my house.

I took for a walk with my dog.  About 10 minutes after leaving home, just entering  a steep slope, I heard something walking.  I saw a animal climbing approximately 20m away from us.  At first I thought It was a big  monkey.
But it was too big for monkey and whole black. I recognized it was a round shape black bear and it walked away behind the ridge and then I couldn't see it anymore.
Fortunately my dog didn't noticed it as she was too short to see over the bushes.

It was my first time to see a bear in about three years near my home.
The bear I saw last time was just a little calf and looked like a stuffed animal while this time bear was about one meter long and didn't seem like a child.  They may be the same bear.

Chase

Yesterday morning, I was chased by a big golden retriever in the snow mountain.
It was about one hour after leaving home, when I almost reached the summit of Mt. Shiroyama, I heard something.  A big dog and a man caught us up on the snow path. Then the golden started to chase me.  First she got me up to the summit.
Next she got me down from the summit while the man and my owner were talking.  I kept running and running, barking and barking on the steep snow covered slope. May be I forgot I left my owner on the top.
Actually the golden went down other side of the ridge, but I didn't noticed that, so I kept running. I got separated from my owner. I thought I had to be looked for more than half day. Finally, I was able to meet my owner around a lower shallow stream after a half of hour.

Frost Bite

Last week I had eight days sick leave. I have been suffering from frost bite in my right foot since around the new year period. Unfortunately it infected on wednesday 2 weeks ago. My right foot swelled and really hurt.
Now I came back to work and feel much better. But I still have a wound　in my foot which is about 3 cm big and I felt severely pain especially when changing boots. Since yesterday I turned the bandage for the wound into a food plastic wrap instead of the conventional gauze patch. That's so called a moisture treatment which dose not dry the wound.
Now I feel less pain. It seems like very good. May be because the wound doesn't dry and some dried solid thing doesn't stab my inner foots tissues.