Melting My Hard Hard Heart

It has been raining all day. It is dark and thunder rumbly. I am grumpy. But then there is this:

Burpday Weekend!

There were many burpdays this week. Important ones. Not as important as mine but worthy of celebration. First was one of my apes who turned 7867482354 on Friday. So what do they do? Bake me a salmon cake? Shower me with gifts? NO, the ma ape makes a chocolate cake (bad for dogs, they say) and they go OUT to eat SUSHI.

I believe this is what the celebration probably looked like:



I did rangle a bully out of the deal. Happy burpday J.Ape! While I was totally mad about the whole burpday dinner I did put up a burpday banner AND got him a Wii game. He doesn't have a Wii but it's the thought that counts. Also, I let him watch me eat my bully and I know there is no greater gift than the gift of Wally.

Also having a burpday is Paddington Bear who is 50 years old!



Happy burpday to fictional bears and naked apes!

We will be having marmalade and sticky buns, I believe.

What also may have happened to Ethel

My granny sent me this picture form the BBC Day in Pictures and asked if that was ME! And I think it IS (um, wearing white socks). That's really what happened to my sissy. She got bitten by a BEAR. And then I bravely chased it off and saved her life. Thank goodness I was there.

won't someone think of the bears?

the polar bear has the now dubious distinction of being the first species to be put on the threatened list because of their shrinking habitat. the bears (unrelated to the chicago bears, i hear), have been found drowning and starving to death because the ice floes they rely upon as hunting platforms have been melting and are further apart, requiring them to swim long distances just for food. so in spite of stephen colbert's probable petition that we should eradicate ALL bears and the probable claims of anti-science members of the administration that they see plenty of bears in the coca-cola commercials, the government might step in and try to do SOMETHING for the bears. i offered to share my sister's kibble with the bears but my mawma said that wouldn't help. don't say i didn't try.