Happy Bearentine Day!!!

 Hullo! Yes, today is Bearentine Day (or Valentine's Day for the humans)... and as a gesture of my appreciation to my sekrebeary, I am going to...

... conduct the Annual (or Semi-semi Annual) Sekrebeary Evaluation today! Surprise!

I had a look, and the last evaluation was in 2023... which is not great... although the previous one was in 2015... so this is not bad.

The sekrebeary did "meh" last time. The yellow categories stayed the same... the red went down and the green went up. Overall... she was no functioning at a high sekrebeary level.

Oh, and the blue... that is a new category...

So... now... let me think... how did 2025 go...

I don't think I need any new categories... so let's sit down and do this...

Hmmm... "1 Provides snacks (promptly and without eye rolling) when requested from stuffies"... overall... hmmm... let me think...

This might take a while!!!

*** many "hmmmms" later...****

OK... I finally made it through this. It's challenging you know!

And I was, quite frankly, shocked. So when I did the first run through and saw the results, I had to go through it again... just to double-check...

But I think... overall... it is accurate. Brace yourselves!

Can you believe it??? Improvement across many categories!!!

I mean, I did do a tonne of trips in 2025... and she was on the ball with the blog... so overall... pretty darn good. Mind you... she still fails at "providing complex mysteries for stuffies to solve".

So there is room for improvement! But on the whole... impressive.

I can't really complain you know. I think Ajdin has been struggling for years to get a capable, reliable sekrebeary. Jerry and Ben also need to kick theirs in the behind. Although Beanie's and Little Fox's are both doing tolerable.

Have you done a sekrebeary evaluation for 2025??

Off on Another Adventure!

 Hullo!!! Yes, we are off on another adventure!!!

I know... it just seems like I got home (but not really).

This time, we are taking the car over to Vancouver on the ferry...

It was beary wet and windy out there... so there's not much to show you.

And then we drove to a hotel and stayed the night. This little bear went to bed early because we had to get up at 3 am or something equally ridiculous!

So we could be at the airport!!! The international wing!!!

Any idea where I am going????

That's our plane!!!

And... after a beary long trip with only a cookie or two for a snack... we arrived!!! It was dark. I am tired... See you in the next blog post!

New Bus Bingo Card

Hullo. As noted in the last post, we need to make up a new Bus Bingo card for Beanie Mouse's bus adventures. We always give this a fair bit of thought. Sometimes the thoughts pay off... sometimes not. 

Do you want to see it?

By the way... we always (almost always) put #11 in the middle, cause it's a key spot. And didn't you know it... Transport London changed the bus route so it starts from Waterloo Station and not Victoria!! So it took forever to get that square on our last Bus Bingo card... hmph.

Anyhow... there's our spread. We started it last week, so we already have 4 squares marked off!!! That's pretty good already. Notice there is NO #11 on this one. (Hmph). And we did have #88 twice (sigh), so we changed one of those to a 7.

We learned a few things on our last trip to London... and so this time... our secret sauce was this...

We went onto the TFL site and looked at all of the buses that go by the big train stations that Beanie likes to frequent... places like Victoria, Blackfriar's, etc...

Who was it that said... "Know thine Stuffie?"... (Sun Tzu.... but he didn't use Stuffie (of course)).

Anyhow... we'll see if it works. Once we exhausted those numbers, we chose some random ones... And #65 was a shoe-in for the centre because we know how much Beanie loves Kew Gardens and Richmond! We'll see how this one pans out!

Home and Mail Call! (Updated)

 Hullo!! Yep, I am home now. And, of course, after any absence... there is going to be Mail!

Today we have a card from Beanie Mouse! We just saw Beanie so this got here rather quickly. All things considered.

It's one of Beanie's Found-Art cards (cool!). We made sure to go to the found-art blog and check off that we found this one!

Ooooh... a Bus Bingo prize!!!

Yes, I haven't even had a chance to post about that yet!! Let's pause a moment...

Here's our Bus Bingo card, all updated... We needed the 4 corners (done), a horizontal (done), a vertical (done) and a diagonal (done)! It took FOREVER to get the middle...

Anyhow... we've updated that now, and need a new Bus Bingo card... back to the prize!

It's a lovely magnet of the Shard! Question... is that the "real" name of that tower??? Well, yes it is!! We just looked, and initially it was called "London Bridge Tower" (very imaginative)... now it's actually called The Shard or Shard London Bridge.

Beanie's envelope was cute too... covered in mailing labels but.... It's a "Garden for Beanie"...

If you flip it over... you can see a selfie of Beanie surrounded by flowers!

Thanks for the prize!! And in case you are confused by the timing of all this... we really got back from London on mid-December sooo... don't try to time things by our posts!

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and... we're back!!! We forgot a piece of mail!!! Thought we had blogged about this weeks ago but... no. Blame it on the sekrebeary!

It's a packet from Beanie Mouse!

More Bus Bingo prizes!!!

I did pretty good with the Bus Bingo this year...

Another magnet and an uber cute London keychain!!!

Thanks Beanie!!!!