Because it is a rainy day, I have been busy sorting out pictures to go in my blog. Although I have finished telling you about our summer boat trip around the Cheshire Ring, I still have almost three months of small bear adventures to write about.
Since our boat journey ended we have made two visits to southern England, met some special bear and human friends at their house and near ours, shown Grizzly's cousin around an old-fashioned pottery, enjoyed another little cruise and been to Wales.
We are very busy bears!
However, we are not always out-and-about a long way from Stoke-on-Trent. Sometimes, we have mini-adventures close to home.
As you know, Hanley Bear likes to go with Grizzly to watch Stoke City play football. Endon and I watch it on the television but have never been to a live match. Hanley growls if I suggest one of us could go in his place!
When Stoke have an away match, Hanley Bear listens to the game in the workshop, where Grizzly has built his model railway. It is based on Stoke-on-Trent in the 1950s. We are allowed to watch the trains run and look at all the little houses and buildings but we have to be careful not to get loose fur on the track.
Hanley has been helping Grizzly to build a 'Potbank' - a pottery factory. The bottle kilns were thrown on a potters wheel by a man called Gary, who works at the Gladstone Pottery Museum. I have another blog to write about our visit there this month, but I might not get it done for ages as it is hard to type with furry paws.
At the end of the game, we come in to see what Grizzly and Hanley have done and to give Hanley some hugs if his team have lost, which they usually have this season.
Somewhere else we like to visit for an adventure at home is Polar and Grizzly's allotment. Last month, we helped to harvest potatoes and onions which we had planted back in the spring.
Polar likes to grow unusual potatoes, including some that are pink or blue on the inside as well as the outside. We help to check the potatoes and sort them into good ones for storing and damaged ones for using up soon. Sometimes, however, they are too big for a small bear to carry!
After we had finished with the potatoes, Hanley and Endon helped to gather up the garlic while I made my way down the path to the onion bed. I was really pleased at how well all the onions I had planted had grown!
The small bears came down to help me pull the onions out of the ground. We thought it would be easy to do but their roots were too deep. Polar said she would let them dry in the sunshine for a few more days and then dig them out with a fork, so we shouldn't strain ourselves.
So we went back to the grassy patch in front of the shed and had afternoon naps, until Grizzly wanted to cut the grass, when he sat us all in a deckchair, safely out of the way.
Once the strimmer had stopped we had another nap and, when we got home, we had purple potatoes for tea!
As you can see, we have lots of fun at home but we also have great adventures away from home, and I am going to tell you more about those very soon.
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