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December 4, 2025

500 pound bear living in crawl space of an Altadena, CA residential home (News article and two YouTube videos)

Now the owner of the home found a second bear walking in his driveway. There's no mention if the second bear is tagged, the first bear is tagged.

https://abc7.com/post/altadena-man-has-bear-living-underneath-home-gets-surprise-visit-another/18240675/

ALTADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- A man who's working to get a 500-pound bear out from underneath his Altadena home got another surprise: a visit from another bear.

Ken Johnson, a local product photographer, said the second bear stopped by his home around 2 a.m. on Tuesday.

Video shared with Eyewitness News shows the animal walking up to his driveway and turning around.

The first bear has been living in the crawl space underneath Johnson's kitchen for the past week.

November 1, 2025

How to keep your personalized background from automatically changing on Windows 11

I did the start menu into settings select personalization on the left hand side and select background and into personalized your background with picture selected.
Double check that slideshow or windows spotlight in not selected here.

Go back to start menu into control panel and then into control panel window. Double check that view by is selected to large icons. Go into power options into change plan settings and then into change advanced power settings. Expand desktop background settings and expand slideshow.

If there is a on battery and a plugged in option be sure to select that both options are paused. Click on Apply. For me, my option expanded option under desktop background settings was slide show and so I paused that option and clicked on Apply.

I was doing all of this and my background was still changing on the daily and it was driving me bonkers.

The solution was to go back to the start menu into settings select Apps from the left hand side into installed apps. I found a third party app called Bing Wallpaper and uninstalled that app.

My Windows 11 background has been my personalized and unchanged since I uninstalled the third party wallpaper app.

I'm not tech savvy at all and I'm hoping that I explained this clearly. I'm also hoping that this will save someone else some frustration.

October 31, 2025

🎃 Halloween Has Arrived, Boos & Ghouls 🎃

Wishing all DU'ers and their loved ones a spooktacular and safe Halloween/Samhain of 2025.

It was enjoyable but at times challenging to create the Halloween countdowns.

Today's "Halloween Has Arrived" is a bit image heavy.

🧛👻🎃🧟

The infamous "Kraken House" New Orleans, LA

A creative Jack and Wendy Torrance (The Shining) Halloween costume (source unknown)

Trick or treating in the 1950's

October 30, 2025

🎃 1 Day Until Halloween 🎃

P.J. Soles, Nancy Kyes (Loomis), and Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween 1978

The credit for this image goes to True Dough although I removed a glowing neon sign off the steeple with an eraser editor. It's spooky, I'll add it to this years collection!

October 29, 2025

🎃 2 Days Until Halloween 🎃

"My, my what big eyes you have."

Halloween on Cemetery Hill by Tom Shropshire

Source unknown

October 28, 2025

🎃 3 Days Until Halloween 🎃

"Are you the Keymaster?"

Haunted Gilnean House (Warcraft) by Elod Horvath

Norman Reedus with his cat Eye in the Dark. Eye in the Dark passed the Rainbow Bridge in 2022.

October 27, 2025

🎃 4 Days Until Halloween 🎃

Elizabeth Montgomery in The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)

Anita Page and Gwen Lee reading Witch Stories. Photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull.

This isn't my photo, my decorations or my kitchen. However, I purchased an identical black cat with long hat table top decoration a few years ago at an estate sale.

October 26, 2025

🎈Happy 78th Birthday, Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary posted this on Facebook this morning. It's not like I exactly knew it was her birthday today.

I often wonder if she's aware how much she is appreciated.

The 2nd photo is one that I have stored on Imgur.