Frag'n Friday

Fridays are perfect for fragments!! Just ask Mrs. 4444s!

*Perhaps you have seen our Cape Cod Bear on National News! Last night with Diane Sawyer and today on Good Morning America! Want a peak, check it out! The twitter feeds are hysterical. If you watch the video, you will notice the absence of the canal that the bear swam across on the map. Who edits these things? Also at about a minute into the feed, you will see a familiar site; my brother in law's boat which is also my header! Cool, right?! Can I stretch it and say that my blog was sort of on GMA today?

*It's graduation weekend around these parts! We are going to a graduation party tomorrow for a friend of ours that is going to UMass in the fall. I figured he would get plenty of cash, so I went with something different. I bought a UMass t-shirt and a throw pillow and sewed the t-shirt over the pillow. Too cute!

*I know I haven't gone on and on about my garden lately, but it is looking quite nice! Remember before:

Here is the latest:

Blooming flowers, planted by me! Seriously, I never thought I would get excited about this. EVER! And yes, I know I need some more mulch.

*1 1/2 weeks until school is out. I know the girls cannot wait and I think it might be double for me!

*Happy Graduation Weekend to my Fantastic Nephew Sam!!!

*What are your weekend plans? Hope they are fun!

Frag'n Friday

It's Friday and the first day of June and National Donut Day and Mrs. 4444s 200th Friday Fragment Post!!! Could this day get any better?!

*The Cape Cod Bear has a twitter account. You can follow him at @BearSwimmer . He has all the local news media following him which is just hysterical. B and I tweeted him on the way to swim practice last night and he even answered back! Talk about making our night!

*The bear has traveled into Orleans today. I feel badly that he skipped Nickerson Park in Brewster because I bet he would have loved it there.

*There are stuffed bears and signs popping up all over Rt 6A. Here's one from a local watering hole: The Woodshed.

*In other news, all my test results came back normal. The conclusion from this: Toughen up, you (meaning me) are getting old. And thanks to some friends on Facebook, I realized that I graduated from HS 27 years ago. Ugh.

*It's funny reading about how other states are finishing school this week when we have 2 1/2 weeks to go. Emotionally, I think the girls have been done since the middle of May.

*The Harwich/Chatham Middle School is putting on a production of Fame tonight(6:30) and tomorrow (2:00) in Harwich. I know that they have been working very hard on this!

*My nephew graduates from High School next weekend. It's hard to believe since I can remember taking this picture like it was yesterday.

Funny that there is a bear in the picture too :)

*Side note, don't be hating the overalls. I miss them so much, but not the white Keds.

*Happy Weekend!

Seals, Sharks and a Bear

There's a bear under there.

Under where?

Haha, made you say underwear!

Have you heard the news? Yes, there is a bear on Cape Cod. Now, that is no easy feat since Cape Cod is essentially an island. Many moons ago, someone smartened up and decided that it was way too far to sail their boat around Cape Cod and that there should be a canal of sorts to cut off some traveling time. A canal was built and then 3 bridges; one for trains and the other 2 for cars. 

Thank you Wikipedia for the photo

These bridges can cause many a traffic problem and often leave people in longs lines trying to get "onto" the Cape on a Friday evening and "off of" the Cape on a Sunday afternoon. I feel lucky to live here just so I don't have to sit in that traffic. 

Anyhoo, there is much debate on how a BEAR got onto Cape Cod since we just don't have any bears. We have raccoons, deer, coyotes, lots and lots of bunnies, seals and even possums, but no bears. Some say the bear swam across the canal. The canal is 540 feet long. Some say he walked across one of the bridges. Some are guessing that he hopped a trash train to the Cape. This is big news down here. Everybody is talking about it and it only became news yesterday. 

I left a bag of trash out on my patio all day hoping to catch a glimpse of the big furry thing, but no luck. And before all you bear loving radicals come after me for teasing a bear, I happen to know as of this morning it was about 25-30 miles away from my house. I didn't think it was going to high tail it to my door. I was just hoping to shoot it. WITH MY CAMERA SILLY! Wouldn't that have been cool if I had a picture of a real live bear hanging out in my yard. Well, maybe a little frightening, but I don't foresee myself trekking through miles and miles of forest  to see one.*

The Cape Cod Beer company has already made a shirt just for this news. You can pre-order them here.

Evidently a "growler" is what they call the biggest jug of beer that they sell. Fantastic, right? They are capitalizing on the bear faster than Chatham capitalized on the sharks. 

Hmmm, how much do you want to bet our bear friend is going to hop a ferry and head to Nantucket next?

No bears were harmed in the writing of this post.

*Camping? So not my thing!! Unless we are talking about a 5 star hotel.