August 5th, 2016

Boy, it’s been hot around here in Wisconsin. I’m very glad that we have air conditioning. I don’t think I’d be a very happy bear if we didn’t! (I know I talk about the weather a lot—I just don’t like the heat! When fall comes, I’ll talk about the leaves or something else instead!)
So Mom survived the Harry Potter night. She took pictures and posted them on her Facebook page and on our Flickr page in an album. Have any of you read it?
Mom loves buttons. I spend a lot of time helping her sort them. We have jars of buttons sorted by color. After a bit, we then spread those buttons out and match them with their friends. The sets of buttons go into little bags. We have big plastic bags filled with these sets. Some of the sets we take pictures of and post them to Instagram. We have it so Instagram automatically posts to Flickr where we have a whole folder of them!

Do any of you collect anything like this?

May 6th, 2016

How is everyone!? It has decided to be spring this week in Wisconsin. Mom and Grandma have bought all sorts of plants! Mom also bought some plants—including a little tree—for our miniature garden. We’ll take pictures of that soon!
We spent most of the evening watching Parts Unknown with Anthony Bourdain on Netflix. Mom and I have binge watched all of the Layover and now we’re on the third season of Parts Unknown. Mom likes food shows and travel shows so it fits both! I mostly just like watching shows with Mom!
Mom has been back into collecting buttons. She finds them at thrift stores and antique malls. There are all sorts of different buttons out there!

Mom is especially fond of purple buttons. I really like the blue ones! There are a lot more blue buttons than purple ones though.
We finished a book today. It is called Jungle of Stone. It is about gentlemen in the 1840s who rediscovered the Mayan civilization. Both Mom and I liked it a lot. It was very much an adventure story with a lot of cool finds!

We read several books at a time. We replaced that one with a book called the Network, about the birth of the communication age.

Are any of you reading a good book now? Mom mostly likes nonfiction, but we’re willing to try anything!

April 8th, 2016

Hello everybody! How are you all? Mom and I are all right. Spring still hasn’t arrived here in Wisconsin. According to the weather app on Mom’s ipad, it’s supposed to snow this week!
One of the things that Mom and I collect are buttons. She finds them at thrift stores and antique malls in jars. We then sit on the bed and sort them. We have several jars, one for each color, and we fill them up. If Mom or I think a button is uniquely pretty, different, or we have more than one, we put it in a little plastic bag. These will someday go in boxes for each color. The other buttons, the plain ones, the ones that we don’t have pairs for, or the ones that we just haven’t sorted yet go in the jars. We have full jars of the black buttons and white buttons.

Mom often posts pictures of them on Instagram. This one is a yellow button, possibly made of Bakelite. Mom likes the vintage ones the best. I like the blue ones the best.

We find all sorts of buttons though. Along with buttons, Mom and I collect books, domos, postcards, and miniature things. Do you collect anything?