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Conditions Excellent!
In case you're reading this fast-breaking blog at this moment -Wednesday morning, December 12th - in Madison, and in case you own a pair of cross-country skis, I recommend that you stop what you're doing, take a long lunch or leave work early and get out to your nearest park or the Arboretum to ski!
With the amount of snow cover we have, you can almost snap on your skis right outside your door.
We left the car behind in a snow drift, headed over to the lake and, following someone else's tracks, felt almost magically pulled along as we glided over perfect snow.
And now, after our breakfast of blueberry jam on toast with hot tea, we just heard the weekend weather forecast: more cold, more snow. Whoopie!
Truly and very happily yours,
~Polar Bear Witness
~*~Kiss and Tell
with Donna & Danielle!~*~
These are the Garden Gnomes, Donna and Danielle. Donna, as you may know, is also Madison's premiere tap-dancer-ess. Kind of like a Princess, except in the context of tap. And Tap-It they do at Tap-It, New Works Dance and Performance studio. You can even take lessons, as Monona did, and learn how to shuffle, ball-change-reach and all the like of which.
Danielle is no lightweight either, even though she looks quite slim. She's a playwright of local and international acclaim.
Does it look like Donna is giving me as kiss? Well, I have to tell you, this attraction that women have for me, is just what it is.
Truly,
~Polar Bear Witness
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~*~I've Got My Love
to Keep Me Warm~*~
Like global warming, sex, I've learned, is another topic that people can get steamed up about. Partly for that reason, I haven't talked about it before but, sooner or later, it was bound to come up. It's a subject that's either kind of taboo or that people go nuts about, so to speak.
And I've noticed a certain phenomena that goes on with some women I've met. First there was Catherine, who threw her scarf around my neck. Gosh, I wondered, is this a technique that women use to make a guy get hot?
Then, the other night, as we innocently strolled along snow-drift-lined Atwood Avenue at the Winn-Atwood Winter Festival, Jean waved to us from inside a shop window, wildly. And, I'll tell you, as a predator myself, I know what wild is.
Fortunately, I was in the company of Monona and Professor Lee, so I had two chaperons. Nevertheless, Jean took me off with her through Salon Studio's small back rooms, telling everyone in sight: "At last, I've found my perfect man!"
Truly yours,
~Polar Bear Witness
P.S. Please share the bear! www.polarbearwitness.blogspot.com
Thanksgiving
While I enjoyed joining Monona and her family in Milwaukee for Thanksgiving festivities, I was a little shy and hung out behind the potted pine tree near the window. Part of the reason I liked it there was because the tree gave me a little cover.
This business of a national holiday centered on bringing a whole tribe of people together around a table to carve up and devour an animal . . . well, OK, a bird . . . but even so, a large, upright one that gets around on two legs . . . it just made me a little nervous. Although I must admit I sampled the dark meat and it was yummy. And the cranberry relish - you know how I love anything with a berry in it - was excellent!
I was also standing by the window because it was cooler there and it gave me a good view of the freshly fallen snow outside. I was polite and patient until Monona and I took a walk down to the river, where I let loose and sang out my song: Old Man River.
Truly yours,
~Polar Bear Witness
P.S. Please share the bear! www.polarbearwitness.blogspot.com
~*~Silent Sports~*~
Meet Malcolm. He is a neighbor and an all-around cool guy in the 'hood.
As you see, it snowed last night. Snow, as you know, is a Polar Bear's delight!
So Monona and I took a walk around to thank those folks who were using their own muscle-power and shovels to move snow off the ground.
Where I come from, we just leave the snow where it wants to fall. It's even more cool when you don't move it at all!
Around the corner from Malcolm, we met Becky, Callie and Bret. They were the most powerful trio of snow-shovellers that we have seen yet!
Polar Bear Witness praises those who shovel snow with their own power. Our engineers must design snow plows that use solar power! How much time do they have? Should we give them . . . an hour?
Truly yours,
~Dr. Polar Bear Witness, PhB
P.S. Please share the bear! www.polarbearwitness.blogspot.com
Wild Blueberries
Oh, oh. I got caught loading up on food again. Well, you've got to understand that's mostly what we Polar Bears do.
Lydia here is helping me. She found a couple of cardboard boxes for us to put all our stuff into. Willy Street Co-op has a special now on wild blueberry jam. Excellent for breakfast with toast and tea.
Lydia's in high school; she moved here from Columbus last year. When we asked her how she liked Madison she said, "I like it. There's more diversity here."
I'm glad she brought that up because diversity is something me and my relatives are big on. Being a bio-diverse creature is part of what I do, my schtick.
Lydia said she wasn't sure what she's doing to reduce global warming. We said that working at the co-op helped, because the co-op works to buy more food from local farmers and food producers. "Yes," Lydia agreed, "instead of having it travel from thousands of miles."
When we got home we looked at the label on one of the jars of our Wild Blueberry Conserve. It read: Product of Canada. Hum . . . .
Monona wondered: how about getting Wisconsin-made jams on the shelves of the co-op and local grocery stores too? In time for the New Year?
Personally, I also think some all-Wisconsin-grown, organically-grown cranberry-apple jam would taste very nice! Organic strawberry would be quite yummy too.
Truly yours,
~Polar Berry Witness
P.S. Please share the bear! www.polarbearwitness.blogspot.com
Conditions Excellent!
