The contemplation of a bear living in Missouri
Bad fur day, just the fur though cause my heart is fairly light. After performing you have get all brushed out and detangled and rinsed and all. It can just make your day way too busy. I performing in Carterville, it is a young, first year, Historic Figure Gathering, Turn of the century, pick a century, most all were represented. I stayed mainly in the 1400's myself and was delighted to find several people there who could not only play stack paw but some who could patty cake!
The children gleamed their shiney spirits up at me, their bright smiles illuminating my world. This sort of thing helps a performing bear, perform. The affair was small and rains which threatened, did not dampen things. The price at the gate I think was a bit high, but those attending seemed to enjoy things. A few vendors which are friends and a pirate group whom I had not heard sing before, were quite impressive, their lead singer very strong and the shanties were much less familiar than the common ones. Oh, I like the common ones also, some you nearly have to hear, but this group was strong and quite a good act.
I returned from Missouri to a pleasant rain, so, drying of my fur is going slower than I would like. I wish the bear handler would be a bit less gruff with people. I suppose it comes to all those who would befriend a bear, but I think the bear of me brings the bear of others out. The closer they are, the more frequent, the more effect. I should like him to keep to those issues directly related to bears as his converse, however, I do lose words quickly as I engage myself in performing, words just seem to have so little meaning as I am searching my environment of sounds and learning the where of things, words recede and sounds dominate.
I heard several voices of friends whose voices I know well, many children's voice (they are different as they each express themselves differently in coverse.) I had some children trying to speak bear speach. A few of them understand my hisses, pops, warbles and gutteral utterances, a few and that is always fun.
Now August approaches and there is no work for this bear. I shall be doing some repair work on my small cabin, I return to my normal self again in September and once that I know of in October and in November. I wish there were more performance opportunities. I may have mentioned that we have sixteen cubs this year. The most ever. We started way back in January on the 21'st (the day before yours truly is born as a bear and when most bears are born. That one is doing okay and was taken in to IBBR then we had four come in at ABR and NOW we had more come into ABR as well as IBBR. The funds I have raised through being a performing bear are only 1/4 of the price to provide for these, my sixteen cubs. I need more performing opportunities to arrise.
Still, I have been a good bear. No game department tried (as Oklahoma often tries) to come and catch me up and deliver me to some southeastern section of my state (I do well right here in the woods and travel around just fine without being relocated) and Missouri seems to well appreciate me. I don't know if Arkansas is going to be ready for me to decry the univestigated nuisance bear complaint where a farm owner blamed the problem on a bear and was told to just destroy the bear. Which they did. We had an investigator examine the site and while there were signs of bears in the area, there were no signs that a bear had caused the depredation on the chickens.
Haqve you ever rushed into a coop and tried to grab an alarmed chicken? Not an easy task and if you're big like some of us bears, you're going to cause a lot of accidental damage. Such signs of damage or repair of damages were found. I'll be in Arkansas around the 3rd and I will be sure to show how this has not been taken note of.
Be well friends!
The children gleamed their shiney spirits up at me, their bright smiles illuminating my world. This sort of thing helps a performing bear, perform. The affair was small and rains which threatened, did not dampen things. The price at the gate I think was a bit high, but those attending seemed to enjoy things. A few vendors which are friends and a pirate group whom I had not heard sing before, were quite impressive, their lead singer very strong and the shanties were much less familiar than the common ones. Oh, I like the common ones also, some you nearly have to hear, but this group was strong and quite a good act.
I returned from Missouri to a pleasant rain, so, drying of my fur is going slower than I would like. I wish the bear handler would be a bit less gruff with people. I suppose it comes to all those who would befriend a bear, but I think the bear of me brings the bear of others out. The closer they are, the more frequent, the more effect. I should like him to keep to those issues directly related to bears as his converse, however, I do lose words quickly as I engage myself in performing, words just seem to have so little meaning as I am searching my environment of sounds and learning the where of things, words recede and sounds dominate.
I heard several voices of friends whose voices I know well, many children's voice (they are different as they each express themselves differently in coverse.) I had some children trying to speak bear speach. A few of them understand my hisses, pops, warbles and gutteral utterances, a few and that is always fun.
Now August approaches and there is no work for this bear. I shall be doing some repair work on my small cabin, I return to my normal self again in September and once that I know of in October and in November. I wish there were more performance opportunities. I may have mentioned that we have sixteen cubs this year. The most ever. We started way back in January on the 21'st (the day before yours truly is born as a bear and when most bears are born. That one is doing okay and was taken in to IBBR then we had four come in at ABR and NOW we had more come into ABR as well as IBBR. The funds I have raised through being a performing bear are only 1/4 of the price to provide for these, my sixteen cubs. I need more performing opportunities to arrise.
Still, I have been a good bear. No game department tried (as Oklahoma often tries) to come and catch me up and deliver me to some southeastern section of my state (I do well right here in the woods and travel around just fine without being relocated) and Missouri seems to well appreciate me. I don't know if Arkansas is going to be ready for me to decry the univestigated nuisance bear complaint where a farm owner blamed the problem on a bear and was told to just destroy the bear. Which they did. We had an investigator examine the site and while there were signs of bears in the area, there were no signs that a bear had caused the depredation on the chickens.
Haqve you ever rushed into a coop and tried to grab an alarmed chicken? Not an easy task and if you're big like some of us bears, you're going to cause a lot of accidental damage. Such signs of damage or repair of damages were found. I'll be in Arkansas around the 3rd and I will be sure to show how this has not been taken note of.
Be well friends!