We'll Try to do Better

We're very sorry that we haven't been posting recently, and we will try to do better.  We've been working a lot, though, which you probably knew from all of the kitty shrieks for the last few weeks.  We're very sorry about that.  Hopefully we will have him recaptured soon, though, so the noise will die down somewhat.  Anyway. we hope everyone had a nice eclipse viewing.  We liked it, but Betsy Bear's complaints did dampen things somewhat.  We chose to view the eclipse from the nicest library and park, and apparently they had been warned about Betsy, because they had security lighting hooked up.  The most she got her paws on was a few cookies so she has been annoyed.  We are sure numerous other bears breathed a sigh of relief that they made it through with their honey supplies intact, though, so that was a good thing.  Anyway, we will hopefully be posting more in the future.  Unfortunately, we will also be working more, so please guard your ears accordingly.

Easter Apologies

We know this is a bit late, but we want to apologize now for the Easter disaster.  We've been trying to keep our ears down so as to not be declared guilty by relation or we would have apologized sooner.  For anyone who somehow missed the news, our poor leader, the Easter Bunny, was hopping down the Bunny Trail to deliver baskets when he was caught in a snare.  He suffered a sprained paw, banged ears, and of course was robbed of all of his baskets.  The rope used to construct this snare had a tag on it labeling it the property of Betsy Bear, as if you couldn't guess who was behind it.  We have never been so embarrassed in our lives and thus have been trying to keep a low profile.  Hopefully things have blown over a bit, by now, though, so we can get back to posting.  We have a class to teach tomorrow, so beware of kitty shrieking, especially as it looks like a large class.  Oh, and on a happy note, we are now up to 990 siblings!

Christmas Apologies

First off, we would like to offer our apologies to anyone who was missing presents that they were expecting to find from Santa under the tree this year.  Due to rain, we didn't visit the country like we were hoping, and thus Betsy Bear was able to raid Santa's sack and give his poor reindeer such a fright that they are probably seeking therapy even as we speak.  If you are missing food gifts, they have been eaten.  We're sorry about that.  If you're missing some other item, please contact Betsy about ransom demands.

In addition to apologizing for Betsy, which is something we seem to do with every major holiday, we would also like to apologize for all of the kitty shrieks.  The human managed to find a major branch on her family tree last night and we spent hours helping her poke at it.  Brother was not happy though, and apparently he has someone's cell phone permanently, although why they are paying a bill for a phone that is in the paws of a cat, we will never know, but anyway, he kept texting us all night, demanding to know why he was hearing a tree growing, and to stop whatever we were doing to encourage that horrible tree to grow at once.  Really, we're very sorry about that, and we hope the noise didn't spoil anyone's Christmas.

Halloween Report

We thought we better update you with our Halloween news.  We had a number of innocent children trotting by dressed in outfits covered with lights.  We're sure their parents thought these outfits would keep them safe, but unfortunately it made them highly visible to Betsy Bear.  We think you can guess the results of her being able to spot these poor children and more importantly, their sacks of candy, so easily.  We probably should have included a business card for a good therapist with the candy we passed out.  We're sure those children will need one after the crime spree they were caught up in.

Sunday Noise and Wedding Disaster

Sorry about not posting this weekend.  First, we were dealing with the disaster of the human's cousin's wedding.  Which was made a disaster due to the antics of one Betsy Bear.  The human's poor, poor cousin.  A reception table with cake and a ton of yummy cupcakes were left unguarded while the cousins were exchanging their vows.  We think you can guess what happened.  We're just glad that the parking lot was covered in gravel that didn't result in a trail of paw prints leading right to our car.  Then we had to spend the rest of the night picking up all of the discarded cupcake wrappers, which took forever.  And Sunday wasn't much better.  The church is taking up donations for needy animals so when we visited the store we looked for something nice to contribute.  And promptly got bombarded with texts from Brother demanding to know what we were doing at the store, and why we weren't in the vegetable aisle, and was that cat food we were in, and what were we up to?  He's now shrieking about how we are planning to fool other kitties into thinking bunnies are nice, wonderful creatures, and who knows what we will convince them of from there, and it is probably part of some plot to convert them to vegetarianism!  Very, very annoying.

Tomorrow

Is everyone ready to be visited by our leader tomorrow?  We're actually hopeful that Betsy won't be able to snatch his baskets this year.  The Grandhuman took her to her room and is letting that bear lounge on her bed, so we think it might be more difficult for her to sneak out, at least without giving up on her fooling the Grandhuman into her continued belief that Betsy is a good bear.  We so hope that means she won't be able to harass our leader this year.  We have so much we are eager to share with him and he isn't going to be in the best mood if he must be rescued from one of Betsy's traps again.  We are thinking of possible classes we could teach if we had that cutting machine, and quilt kits we could assemble for those classes.  Really, there's so much that we could do with one of those machines.  We have to get it!

Foolish News Station

You won't believe the foolish bit of reporting that just aired on our local television station.  Really, shouldn't these people know better?  The local homeless shelter for mountain bears just helped a homeless bear move into a new den today, and the news station aired a feature on it, including giving enough information to allow the den to be located!  Betsy Bear was lounging on the sofa during this report, and of course she took notes for a future robbery.  What was the news thinking?  They are located right up from the street from our home and certainly should know of the dangers that Betsy poses.  So why in the world would they give her the information she needs to rob yet another innocent bear of all of their honey?  They should be ashamed!

Valentine Apologies

We would like to offer our most sincere apologies for all of the Valentine trouble.  We do hope the kitty shrieks this afternoon didn't bother anyone too much.  We hopped to the fabric store and got roughly twelve yards of material, a spool of thread and several little packets of floss for quilt construction.  Brother was not happy to say the least.  We would also like to apologize for anyone missing candy.  Betsy Bear attacked Cupid bright and early this morning and took him for any chocolate he was carrying.  We're just glad he was able to flutter away before she could get her paws on his bow and arrows.  Anyway, if you're missing a candy filled heart, the remains are in the back yard by the fence.  Please pick it up as soon as possible.  And we are sorry again for all of the trouble and noise.

A Little Concerned

We hopped to the teddy adoption center this afternoon and met two of the nicest bears, bringing our sibling total to 900.  We are a little concerned about these bears, though.  They're perfectly lovely, sweet bears, but it didn't occur to us until we got home with them that their fur smells like candy, which is a trait of their breed of bear.  You can probably imagine how Betsy reacted to catching the scent of candy in the house, and now we are very concerned for our two new sisters' safety.  Maybe we need to arrange a bath for them, possibly with some sort of strong scented soap, before Betsy can do something horrible, thinking they have candy hidden somewhere.  Why didn't we think of this when we were at the adoption center?  They have supplies specifically for this type of situation!

Thanksgiving Approaching

Two days until Thanksgiving, and we do hope all of you are prepared, and have arranged proper protection for your food, as Betsy Bear has been shining up her spoon and fork in anticipation of any number of crimes.  We want it known that we did try to warn people about the fast approaching danger, so hide your stuffing and cranberry sauce now while there is still time!  We would suggest hiding your pies as well, but that probably is an action doomed to failure so you shouldn't waste your time.  We will leave the empty pie pans on the fence.  Collect them at your earliest convenience.

Pumpkin

We obtained our pumpkin today, and we got the sacks ready to be distributed to children on Halloween too.  We have 50 lovely sacks stuffed full of candy to hand out and extra candy to construct more if necessary.  We have established a guard rotation to protect it from Betsy until next weekend.  We just hope the carrots we are using for our weapons are pointy enough for the job.

Food Fest

The human went to a comic show today, and we are very alarmed to report that this even was held right next to a hall hosting a food festival.  We think you can guess where Betsy Bear was while we were hopping about, being good little rabbits and teddies in general, offering to dig for comics the human was looking for and offering to hold her bags.  And really, the show was giving away a lot of food, but we don't think they meant to give quiet as much food as Betsy got her paws on away.  And do the tables that the food was placed on really count as part of the general food giveaway that people and hungry bears are allowed to lay claim to?  Because we now have several of those and we don't quite buy Betsy's story about that being okay.

Today's Human Report

Human is in pain once more, we are afraid we must report, and is considering going to the next town over to her doctor's other office if they can work her in, in the hope of getting some relief.  Poor, poor human.  She has a wedding to attend this weekend, and it's going to be a bit difficult if she can't bare to sit or walk.  And Betsy will be so ticked if she doesn't attend the wedding, because she was planning to stow away in the car in order to get her paws on cake.  So if the human doesn't get to feeling better, we might have a human in agony and a ticked Betsy on our paws.  Not good.  And we don't know how, but we are sure that Brother is somehow to blame for this!

Weekend Warning

We thought we better warn you to protect your ears now.  We're planning to hop to a Civil War reenactment this weekend where the human will have the opportunity to gather genealogical information and to hopefully sell a few things too.  Brother is not happy, so ear protection is definitely a good idea.  Also, any bears in the area should probably hide your honey supplies.  Betsy will be going along on this trip and we fear there might be unguarded cannons she can get her paws on.  Never a good thing.

Plans Went Well

Our Saturday plans went very well.  First we hopped to a sale at this church where we got our paws on over 20 magazines devoted to quilting.  We hope the shouts from that didn't awaken anyone who had hopped to spend Saturday morning sleeping in.  Then we went to that lovely comic convention.  It was so nice, and the Disney people were so friendly.  Apparently they didn't associate us with Betsy Bear, which is a miracle.  We even had the chance to learn sewing with leather while we were there, and were able to obtain a book about it.  And to top our day off, we hopped to the homeless shelter and met a horse and pup in need of a new residence.  While we were checking them out, the grandhuman found over 15 yards of fabric as well, which made the day pretty much perfect, not that you would know that from how Brother was carrying on.  We're now up to 848 siblings!

Weekend Plans

The humans are thinking of going to the mountains for the weekend after the stress they have gone through but we're not entirely sure that is a good thing with the human bathing in honey like she has been.  Is it really fair to make those poor mountain bears smell honey they can't have, especially since Betsy will probably use their distraction by the human's honey odor to rob their dens of any honey she can find.

Human Continues Bathing in Honey

The honey baths are continuing and we don't know how we will ever sleep.  Betsy keeps moving on the bed all night and between that and the licking noises, it is so hard to snooze.  Does anyone have any suggestions for something to do, besides tying her up?  The human likes the honey and doesn't seem likely to stop bathing with it.

Honey Baths

The human is continuing with her honey baths, and Betsy is continuing to look at her suspiciously.  We are getting very concerned about this, and the noise Betsy makes moving about on the bed while we are trying to sleep and that annoying licking noise is so disturbing.  Do you think we ought to tie her up at night to control her?

Honey

We hopped to the food co-op to fill a jar with honey for the human's bathing pleasure today. We're still not sure that bathing in honey while living in the same area as Betsy Bear is a good idea but the human seems to enjoy it, so we wanted to help her out.  It seems that the co-op's giant honey vat was low when we were filling our jar, though, because it took much longer than expected to fill the jar up. Do you think we should worry Betsy might have raided them?

Human's Nightly Honey Bath

The human used the honey again tonight, and now Betsy is looking at her funny, and we are getting very worried.  Do you think some of us should try to stay awake tonight in case Betsy tries something? Although really we're not sure how we would ever get to sleep with the suspicious sounds of licking anyway.