Sandy offers a Tour of the Bearbnb's Main Bedroom

Hullo! I thought I'd give you a little tour of the main bedroom in my Bearbnb...

You might have seen in my earlier posts that I have mastered the art of towel rolling.

Still working on my towel animals but... we do provide chocolates!

The main bedroom also has a snazzy sit/stand desk with a keyboard and mouse! 

This is so your human can do their blogging in comfort and not have any excuses that they don't have anywhere to work. That excuse does not WORK here... heh-heh... Oh, and that's our Bearbnb Guest Book in the background... this little bear LOVES to get complimented on how cute he is...

We also provide tissues... not that stuffies need tissues...

But if your human leaves you behind... a great expression of disgust is to take a tissue and shred it and sprinkle it around. Gramma's dog did that all the time and it worked wonders for not being left home.

There is also a full-size closet (with a luggage rack and laundry baskets) and a dresser! So you have plenty of room for your stuffie wardrobe.

And one drawer even has some office supplies... and we've added a hand-held luggage scale and an internal plug converter!

Oh, and there's some fast food coupons too... in case you get peckish and want some fast food...

This little bear is always trying to think of ways in which the humans can increase the comfort of this Bearbnb! Did we miss something?

R.I.P. Miss Minnie Princess Pretty Paws

I have some beary sad news today.

Our little cat, Minnie, has not been doing well since last August.

She was diagnosed with Stage 3 kidney failure and the humans had to inject her with subcutaneous saline every few days. Then in February, she got a urinary tract infection and stopped eating and started losing weight.

She got beary skinny and the humans tried everything...

But on April 5, the vet agreed... it was time to let her go.

Minnie was sleeping all the time, burrowed under blankets.

She would still purr but... you could tell she wasn't happy anymore.

Little Minnie minoo...

So the humans took her to the vet on April 10 and said good-bye to her.

As a little bear, I can't shed any tears... but I can issue tissues...

Lots and lots of tissues....

Need a new box of tissues...

The humans are beary sad. And miss Minnie terribly.

Little Miss Minnie Princess Pretty Paws... Rest in Peace little one.

Spring Waterfalls are the Best!

 Hullo, today I am going for a little hike to check out one of my favourite waterfalls.

There are a set of dams here that used to provide water for the city (back in the day) and for the coal mines (back in the day). There's been all sorts of uproar in the last few years about the dams being an earthquake risk, cause if they ever failed... there'd be a wave of water that would wash away houses and people. So far... the dams are still here!

That's cause people like the little lakes above the dams! You can go swimming or fishing or just sit and stare at the water on a misty morning.

We came here a LOT during Covid, cause there are picnic tables where you can sit and journal or eat a chocolate brownie (ahem).

Someone has been carving little wooden owls and leaving them tucked between tree branches.

Lots of little owls!

Too many to take pictures of...

Alright... let's go find us some waterfalls!

Well, that's new. They have a fishing line recycling station, which is a BEARY good idea!

Alright, here's the overflow... and if we follow it down...

We come to this waterfall! It's pretty impressive. And in the summer, it's only a tiny trickle...

Now we'll wander up through the forest.

I love this forest... all the ferns and the cedars... and the mist makes it a bit mysterious.

This is my favourite part... all these boulders tumbled down...

You could almost think you were in Middle Earth...

Then we walk along the walkway...

And up some stairs...

And then under the highway...

Ooh... the creek is really flowing well!

We're almost there!

Whew... there is a lot of spray coming off of it!

And you can barely hear yourself think!

And yes, this was the stuffie olympics waterfall... when the water was barely a trickle!

Let's see if I can find a pic...

Yep... waterflow was practically nothing back then... and in the summers.

A spring stuffie olympics here would be beary different...

I'm not sure I'd even do it...

The current might grab our little barrels and whirl us away, never to be seen again. Yeah... no... not doing that!