When I think of summer, I think of bears. Nearly every summer when I was a kid we’d visit California’s Sequoia National Park, and every visit had its bear absurdities:
Like the bear that broke into a nearby camper’s Volkswagen and sat on the emergency brake. The man heard the racket and peered out of his tent just in time to see the bear “driving” his car downhill into a redwood grove. The bear survived. The Volkswagen didn’t.
Or the morning we woke to the sound of the blusterous old lady in the cabin next to us, shrieking, “Bad bear! No!” A huge black bear had decided to shop for groceries in her cooler, so naturally she’d felt the need to discipline him. We came out to see her fearlessly (and stupidly) whacking him on the bum with her broom. The bear continued to fish for goodies with one paw while nonchalantly swatting at her with the other. He finally galumphed away with a tender salmon in his mouth, opting not to eat the much tougher old lady.
Bears Can Be:
Adorable
“Hello, world!”
Amorous
“Not in public, Larry.”
Cool
“She’s all ‘Whoa!’ and I’m all ‘How you like me now?'”
Dangerous
Man: “Look, dinner! Bear: “Look, two dinners!”
Devious
“I’m not the droid you’re looking for.”
Nostalgic
“If ya want it, baby, ya got it. Just bust a move!”
Parental
“Don’t leave the lid up. Mom hates that.”
Embarrassed
“This never happens, really. I just slipped on the…oh, never mind.”
Come to think of it,
bears are a lot like humans.
Lol. 😂🤣
Love it! 😂
But Bears eat raw food, we cook deliciously😀
Good point, Ramani. ;>)
Adorable.
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My friend E just sent me a picture of what a bear had done to her trash the other day. LOL She lives in the mountains. I told her, “You act like this isn’t something you’re used to.” She gets so aggravated with them!
Lol 🤣
This reminds me of D. C. Gilbert’s book “Adirondack Bear Tales”!
Here in the Northern part of the Lower Penisuala of Michigan, we have black bears in our neighborhood. Have to watch out when we let our dogs out to do their business after sundown.
I have an unhealthy fixation with bears. I have stalked them. My husband put up a motion sensor light to alert us to them. You wouldn’t think they would be an issue in our Orlando-area neighborhood, just off of I-4, but they are. They have taken down our feeding station a few times. I have video of them standing in our backyard eating birdseed. They are destructive, but I don’t think it’s intentional. I have had opportunity to yell, “Hey, Bear!” in my own backyard from the unsafety of our pool cage. It ran off just like they do on Alone (history channel). Thanks for your stories! I could go on, but I have my own blog to work on! Maybe it will be about bears (again).
Enjoy them, Bonnie, but stay safe!
No worries. We do.
I love all these pictures, especially the bear creeping up behind the fisherman. My only bear experience is with Yogi Bear!
Who is, as we all know, “smarter than the average bear.”
Just don’t be the last one biking or hiking. Great pics! )
LOL, bears are a lot like humans. we co-exist where we live. They get bigger though and think they are superior sometimes. My wife chased a mother and 3 cubs out of our garden…Me…I would have been eaten.
Gary, I immediately thought of you on this post! And what you sent! LOL!
;>)
I have an upcoming camping trip, and the berries are attracting bears. This should be exciting.
Indeed.
What a wonderful collection of bear stories and jokey captions too. I love the salmon one but hope the guy was not dinner.
Don’t worry, it’s Photoshopped (I’ve seen it without the bear in the background).
Funny though!
We are un’bear’able at times, aren’t we? But NEVER your posts, Mitch! Do you hear me giggling? And I “awwwed” at the adorable cub. We had small black bears down in the Branson area that would visit out on the roads and sometimes, sit on a friend’s deck. She obliged!
And another ‘awwww,’ Karla!
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Thanks for the cute and the funny! We have black bears here in the foothills of Virginia. We had a young one come up to the house. He put his paws on the window and looked in. He stood there on his hind legs for about 5 minutes before he decided we weren’t very interesting. 🤣
Love those bears. Too bad bears are not like teddy bears. As a small child I believe I was four years old. I had two large-sized stuffed bears one was white and one was brown. The only way I would sleep at night was with the white bear at my right side and mom would have to place a chair against the bed to be sure the bear stayed in place and the brown bear on the other side of me against the wall. I also had a stuffed bumblebee on top of me. When I see the photo of me lying there with the two bears and bee I wonder how in the world I managed to sleep at all. LOL
Awww!
Lulu: “Hey gurl!”
Love this. I remember being in Yellowstone Park and people getting out of their cars to get closer to a bear mama and her cub to take pictures. The rangers showed up and made them get back in their cars before they were attacked. Everyone loves pictures of bears, but I wasn’t about to take that chance.
Smart move, Carla.
This was such a fun post! Loved reading the stories and hilarious captions, and those bears are so adorable! I was smiling from ear-to-ear for the whole post.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Damyanti!
when momma bear is grunting away at the picnic table when you stupidly forgot to hide the chocolate cake and her little one is looking for a taste, they both look enormous.
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