May 25th, 2018

Hello! How is everyone!? I am okay. It has become rather warm here in Wisconsin! Neither Mom or I like the heat! (Mom says it really isn’t the heat, it’s the humidity, but whatever!)
What we can do outside now is put up the miniature garden! (It’s on the porch!) A few days ago, Mom hauled everything (and my friends and I) outside onto the porch and put everything together!

We try to stick to scale, but sometimes it doesn’t quite work out! This time Mom didn’t go early and buy the plants, so we had to deal with what was left.

She says that the BJD kids don’t care if some of the plants are a bit too big! I think she ought to make a garden for the AG kids, my friends, and I!

A few days later, she found these rocks at a thrift store. Some of the accessories aren’t in the picture any more because they were inside. But it’s sort a bit more finished.
Hope you’re all having a great week! Talk to you later!

February 9th, 2018

Hello everyone! How are you? I am okay. We have had another quiet week. Mom bought me a surprise this week while she was at the retail job.

She says we can pick out some seeds! It’s been rather cold here in Wisconsin, so ordering seeds will make me feel like spring will come soon! What kind of seeds would you order?
Talk to you next week!

June 2nd, 2017

Hello everyone! How are you? We are watching Netflix right now. Mom is trying to stay awake for a bit longer so we can write our entry!
Mom put our miniature garden together last weekend. So now the BJD family has a place to sit outside! We have to buy some stones for the paths, but I really like what we did.

We will probably redo it a hundred times over the summer!

Do any of you like gardening? Mom likes miniature gardening. I like flower gardening!
Talk to you all later!

May 20th, 2016

Hello everybody! Things have been pretty quiet around here this week. Mom spent her two days off taking care of Graham. He’s getting really big!

Oliver is an excellent guard dog. He likes sitting on the ground with Mom and the baby.
Otherwise, Mom and I gardened for a while yesterday. The weather has finally decided to be nice around here.

Mom and I like miniature gardening, but she did do some big gardening last weekend. We now have a vegetable garden. It’s not very pretty yet—mostly just dirt—although you can see some corn from the house! Do any of you garden? Mom will take some pictures of the vegetable garden soon!
I hope you’re all having a great day! Mom and I are kind of tired, so we are going to go to bed!

March 18th, 2016

Spring is getting closer! I’ve been looking through a catalog that Mom bought at work. It’s called the Whole Seed catalog. We like going through catalogs.  It’s kind of a harmless wishful thinking! I love all the pictures of the vegetables. Mom likes growing heirloom vegetables. We have a whole bookmark folder of various places to get them. We usually end up getting them at our local garden store though. Maybe someday we will be able to order them from the internet.

Today we’re going to talk about my friend, Milton. Milton was the third Build-a-Bear that came into our family. He is one of my best friends. He likes reading the most out of all of us. He especially enjoys some of Mom’s science books. He also likes to help. He lifts things for some of the tinies that live here. He’s also very patient with some critters around here who don’t have a lot of patience themselves- like Oliver!

Mom is on vacation this week. We haven’t done anything really interesting yet. Mom is in charge of Graham this week while her sister is at work. We did spend some time today cooking food for the rest of the week. This is ‘spanish rice’. I’m not sure why it’s called that, but Mom loved it as a little girl. So when her parents are gone on vacation, she always makes it. (It’s got a lot of calories, so they won’t eat it!) There’s enough to eat all week!
I hope you’re all having a good week! Talk to you next Friday

September 6th, 2010

Mom and I went onto the BearPlace website and discovered that we did not share the newest picture she took. If we didn’t share it there, we certainly didn’t share it here!

This is the postcard that Berrie and Feddie sent to me from CHINA! Isn’t that cool! Mom showed me where China is on the map! She was also reading a book about a guy who traveled through China, so we’ve been extra interested in it! Thank you so very much!

My other great find is a bear sized camping backpack. Mom found it at Goodwill! Now I can keep all sorts of things in here. I own a few other backpacks, but they are kind of small. I think Caleb will fit in here! Or maybe a book? Hm.

And to end this post with something pretty, this is a photo of one of Mom’s teddy bear sunflowers. Mom planted all sorts of pretty and different sunflowers this year, and this is the only teddy bear sunflower to make it to full grown. Our growing season is getting near the end, but we have already made plans for next year’s sunflower crop. We’re going to try to protect the sunflower seedlings from the birds, bugs, and other assorted things that would eat them.

I hope I have more to report next time. Mom has two days off in a row coming up, and I hope I can convince her to take me outside for a while! Hope you are all having a great day!

May 25th, 2010

A small Caleb and Carabella update! They must have had some time to talk, because now they will sit near each other. Caleb still has not told me what is happening, but I am glad that they are getting over it. I was worried there for a little bit! I don’t like it when plushies in my hug are mad at each other! Maybe Robinson or Fleur has given them some advice! They all have been spending a lot of time together while Mom is at work!

It has been incredibly hot here in Wisconsin for the past few days at approximately 90 degrees Fahrenheit or 32 degrees Celsius.  As an indoor bear, it hasn’t really bothered me too much. But as a bear to a human who goes outside, it ends up affecting me. There is air conditioning here at home, but obviously not outside! The air conditioning at the place that Mom works is malfunctioning at best, so it makes her a rather cranky Mom. Yesterday morning before she went to work, we spent the entire time curled up under the blankets with the fan on full blast. I am glad that I am a bear who does not need to go outside! I’ll go out any time she wants me to, but I don’t have to!

As long as we water them, the plants and flowers have been really happy with the heat. Mom and I took this picture of a chrysanthemum. The flowers have been blossoming, and the plants have been growing. This past weekend, Mom’s parents planted the garden when she was at work. I did not get to help, but she promised to take me out there so I could see the work they did in the next couple of days. Now I will have to be patient and wait for everything to germinate!

May 15th, 2010

Yesterday, Mom took me for a walk to the gas station. She says that I technically entered the gas station, although it was in her backpack. The last time we went for a walk, she went to a park and took me out and I had a nice time in the swing. This time there was a lot of small children around, so Mom didn’t. But I enjoyed the smells and the nice weather anyways!

Today, on the other hand, we went outside! It was time to water the plants on the porch. Mom mostly always takes me when she does things on the porch, and sometimes she takes some of my friends. Today, she took Taft, Cleveland, and Briggs out! Taft and Cleveland were all for it, but Briggs wanted to stay inside and take a nap. Mom and the rest of us convinced him that he ought to go outside to enjoy the nice weather, and he begrudgingly agreed. He ended up enjoying himself, I think—although he is a serious fellow and keeps his emotions close!

I know the rest of us had a lot of fun. Mom won’t let us too near the water hose—she says that bear fur and water don’t mix well—and I don’t want to risk any bath or laundry time! She did let me near the camera, and we all discussed and arranged the flowers to take the best photos! We also decided that Mom needs to start planting the plants and flowers that she bought before she should buy any new ones! She’s got quite the backlog!

It’s getting closer to gardening time. The weather has improved over the past two days, and Mom says that it is a good sign that we are getting closer to summer! I want to go outside and plant the vegetables we have and get lots of produce to eat! I can’t wait!

May 12th, 2010

Things have been very gray around here. The average temperature for the past couple days has been around 45 degrees Fahrenheit or 7 degrees Celsius. Most of the plants we have bought are living inside until it gets consistently warmer at night. It actually looks kind of funny—it looks like a garden nursery in our laundry room!

My friends, Spaulding and Teddy, posted some pictures of the progress in their garden. Since the progress in my garden is either biding time in the laundry room or outside in the dark and gray, I thought I would post some pictures of the flowers that we had out on the porch.

This is a peppermint striped geranium. It has been changing colors as different flowers blossom in each cluster.

Mom’s favorite flower is a tulip, and her favorite color is purple, so she likes these flowers especially. When they opened, they revealed a lighter purple inside. It was very pretty.

 

I like this tulip the best. I think the red color is especially pretty. It is kind of shiny. These tulips were of some of the first to blossom and they are gone now. Mom says that when they all finish blossoming, we are going to put them in the flower bed on the side of the house so we can enjoy them in future summers!
I hope you liked the photos! I hope that the weather will change here in Wisconsin soon so we can share some gardening photos!

May 9th, 2010

It’s been pretty boring around here, so we haven’t posted lately. Mom has been working, working, working—and does not have a lot of time for adventures. Today, she traveled to where her grandmother lives to have Mother’s Day dinner at a restaurant. I did get to go with her, but she did not take any pictures of me when we were there. While her family was in the restaurant, Caleb and I played around in the car—read Mom’s books—and listened to music. Mom’s ipod is a very useful little thing!

Gardening season is near. Mom says we cannot plant the garden until the nights stay warmer. It has been very close to freezing the last couple of days—and that’s not good for the baby plants or seeds. I am looking forward to planting! My friends from BearPlace and I are going have a sunflower growing contest. Since some of our friends are from Australia, it will be mostly a sunflower growing watch! (It is getting to be winter there.)

Mom found some local postcards, so now I have to convince her to go and get some international stamps so I can send them out!

April 2nd, 2010

We have been having a very quiet week around here. Mom went to a book signing in Milwaukee about a gentleman named Christopher Moore that made her very happy. She went with a few of her friends from work, so I couldn’t go with. However, she brought Caleb and he told me that it was kind of fun, although it was a long car ride both ways, they spent a lot of time waiting, and he didn’t get to get out of Mom’s purse at all. Mom has some pictures on her facebook page if you would like to see.

We are still gardening around here. Things haven’t changed much, but we thought we would share the progress. Our morning glory seedlings have not been doing too well. Only about half even germinated at all. The tomato plants are doing extremely well though. So well that we are soon going to have to pick some of them out of the pots! Mom says that we have to pick the strongest ones to keep so they get the most nutrients and water! I think it’s so sad that we have to pick some of the seedlings, but I understand why.

For some unknown reason, this seedling, a cup and saucer vine, is doing the best. This picture was taken a few days ago. Now it even has some tendrils. It is the only one in the pot, so it will get to live—and it might even get put into a bigger pot sooner rather the later. We’re pretty excited about the seedlings that are growing! Our weather is unseasonably warm, so I’m getting a bit anxious about buying flowers and putting things outside. Mom does have to remind me that we’ve got at least a month before we get to even consider putting things outside! Sigh! Moms are so rational!

March 15th, 2010

It’s the ides of March! Yesterday was Pi Day! It’s all full of holidays—even if they’re minor lately! St. Patrick’s Day is a few days! That’s a major holiday!

This around here are much more focused on spring! A few days ago, Mom and her friend planted some seeds to grow in the summer garden. They were all sorts of flowers, like morning glories, and hollyhocks. They also planted various different kinds of tomato plants and some other vegetables. Yesterday, Mom noticed that the morning glory seedlings had sprouted, and today she noticed that some of the tomato plants had. They’re still very small, but it is a sign of spring that is most welcome!

These are morning glories. It turned out that Mom had bought a lot of morning glory seeds, and since she had plenty of pots, they decided to plant them all. Well, not every seed, but at least every seed variety.

Here they are pressing up against the plastic top Mom used. She explained to me that the seedlings need to have extra humidity and the plastic top gathers it. She said that it also helps protect the plants from drafts—since it is still rather cold.

These are the tomato seedlings. They’re much smaller than the morning glories.  They’re still very welcome. Later today, Mom is going to try to set up some lights that she bought for them. She explained to me that the sunlight coming in through the windows really isn’t enough for the seedlings, so we have to provide some extra light. It doesn’t matter—we’re rather patient around here. I will keep you all updated on our seedlings’ progress—along with the garden once we get to plant it!

March 10th, 2010

Mom has been spending a lot of time with her friend shopping and gallivanting around on her vacation. While it leaves plenty of time for snuggling and sleeping, it does not leave a lot of time for blogging or chatting.  As a condolence, Mom found me a brand new—new to me anyways—sweatshirt. It even has a fancy pedigree—it’s from Aeropostale!  A lot of my clothes come from Build-a-Bear, which is a bear clothing label, but I am impressed to have a sweatshirt from a human clothing label! I first felt bad that it once belonged to another bear and that bear was probably naked now, but Mom reminded me that some other human made the decision to take the sweatshirt off! So now I have my own Aeropostale sweatshirt!

Mom planted our seeds with her friend a few days ago. We have four flats of little pots filled with dirt and seeds. Now comes the anxious wait until they start to grow. Mom does not know what we are going to with all the seedlings if they grow, but I don’t think it matters. I like the idea of something growing despite the fact that it is so cold, wet and foggy outside lately. Tomorrow or the next day, Mom is going to set up something she calls growing lights so the seedlings grow short and stout. She explained to me that the seedlings need lots of sunlight that March in Wisconsin cannot provide. So we will put lights above them to give them more of what they need. Right now, all it looks like is dirt in pots, but I promise to keep you updated when things start to grow.

January 30th, 2010

Well, my mom and her mom have decided that spring must come to Wisconsin sooner or later. They went and bought a lot of seeds to grow this summer in the garden. We can’t even start any of them for at least another month yet, but it’s certainly nice to look at the packages!

My mom likes sunflowers and heirloom vegetables. I know you really can’t read the titles on any of the seed packages, but there are approximately six different kinds of sunflowers there. She bought four different kinds of different tomatoes too. Grandma bought different seeds too. Grandma mostly likes growing every kind of vegetable possible. She is not as much into the pretty flowers like Mom.  She did buy a fancy tomato plant that is supposed to look like of like a tree as it grows. It is called a silvery fir tree tomato. It’s really not a fir tree, but it still seems cool. We will probably start them in March. It is a long project—I’m sure I will get to help. Mom let me help gather our first crop of tomatoes a year or so ago, and took me out to admire the pretty sunflowers.

Mom and I did go out and see the extra large full moon. Mom has never quite figured out night photography, so she didn’t take a picture. It was very beautiful though. I hope more people got to notice it!