Une scène noire dans l’après-midi

Late afternoon.

It is raining, as it always does.  A steady patter of water strikes the windows and walls of the workshop.

Within the workshop, there is a bear.  And his bud.  Both are silent.

The bear sits and watches with intense concentration, completely fixated on the task at hand.  With every stitch, an object begins to take form.

The bear continues to watch.  It is coming closer to completion.

It is a hat.  His hat.

Finally it is done.  He leans over and examines the finished work.

Then, with a nod of satisfaction, he dons the Fedora hat.

He is now ready.

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Thanks for making me a hat Nicholas!  This dapper bear is ready to play detective in LA Noir!

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The time I kind of got arrested

My best bear bud and I were acting like good old fashioned law abiding citizens when we got kind of arrested going across the Canada / US border today.

Well, to be precise, we got surrounded by cop cars and drug dogs, and then my best bear bud was removed from the car,  handcuffed and taken away from me to a detainment room where he was searched and interrogated.

I tried my best to save my bear bud and had my paws up ready to put up a fight, but I guess Nicholas thought we’d better not make a scene so I composed myself and instead grumpily surveyed our surroundings.

Glaring wasn’t forbidden so I continued to glare as hard as I could at the dogs who tried to sniff me and at the police officers who were searching the car for drugs, of which of course there were none.  There wasn’t even any chocolate in the car!  And here Nicholas thought having me leave my laser behind would make the border crossing smoother.

40 minutes into the ordeal they finally released us when they realized we weren’t smuggling drugs or guns.  After all we were being good law abiding citizens.

It’s was just a bud and his bear having a road trip.  Why on earth did they decide to stop us?  Jerks.  They delayed our ETA to my resumption of gaming.  At least Nicholas was amused.

This bear, however, was not.

The Grouse Grind

Yep, I did it.

My best bear bud also happened to climb it too.

As did Eric.

It was kind of like a party.

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Nicholas and I completed the grind in 43:30.  Nicholas grumbled about the time.  I smacked him with my paw.  Let’s not be ridiculous.  I bragged about my time to Quatchi.

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PoOn also hiked the grind.  She did it in 57 minutes which is her fastest morning time.

After the hike we went to see some bears.  Orphaned grizzly bears.  Not awesome spirit bears like myself.

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