Sounds like tre's trouble bruin.

Good one pixi. Maybe he will end up lobernating instead of hi.

At first there'll be one bearnating. But it might end up threebearnators by next spring.

Generally, the male bears do not stay with the female and her cubs. In actuality, the mother often has to protect the cubs from any male intruding into her territory.

You're right, vmarie. That's why she'd be one-bearnating in winter and in spring (supposing she had 2 cubs) threebearnating.

I was responding to the Parson's quip about "tossing and turning." Hugs.

Hugs to you vmarie. Have a very bearable day.

Now I'M em-BEAR-assed that I can't think of any more puns.

Paw you.

Wow. I didn't believe you really ran out of material. I thought maybe there would be an exclusion claws or something.
You know not every quip has to be a home run. Sometimes you need to pun-t.

I seldom run out of puns unless I am real tired, not just re-tired:

I tried to sign up to a new website the other day. For my password, I used the BEEFSTEW. They said it isn't stroganoff.

6:30 is the best time on a clock, hands-down.

I dropped my IPhone in the bathtub. Now it's syncing.

A conversdation between two melons went like this: Honeydew you want to get married. The reply was: I canteloupe.

I knew you just needed a bit of winding. You're off and running now--hands down terrific just like your clock! Funny how a digital clock lacks digits. Some day kids may not know how to tell time on a "convent-ional" clock. Nun of them will know how.
They will have been LED to believe it unnecessary.
Your puns remind me of the knock knock jokes.....Cantalope one anyway...Cantelope tonight 'cause my father's got the ladder was the answer.

A ladder would have been a great way to have rung in the new year.
I would have fingered they could have found a way to put them on digital clocks.
I noticed it got real quiet when the cannibal chef offered finger-foods at the party,

I heard he cooked a professor who was a-stewed...
pass me the belly button, please. He was an outie and it looks so cute floating around in the gravy. Sort of like a stuffed olive.
He'd hoped to leave behind a whole body of work (the professor that is) but I can safely say at least it will be fully ingested.

I find all that hard to swallow. Why didn't they donate his organs, and I don't mean to the diners. Better to be a donor than a diner at that meal.

Well these cannibals were enlightened enough to donate his brain to science. They never liked his views and didn't want to end up unduly influenced.
His heart, however, was considered worth the effort of preparation. All at the feast are hoping it will strengthen theirs to live a long life. (It was served with the finger food and vastly preferred. Apparently the professor was also a pick pocket and nobody wanted to end up that way.)
They could have had a huge haul of cash if they'd sold his body parts but opted for "spiritual" growth instead (tribal fashion of course. Not anything we could view as spiritual.)
I spent some years studying (on my own) the religion of the Borneo head hunters who were NOT cannibals, to try to understand how they came to such a strange religion. Never did find how it originated. The natives of the next big island, New Guinea, are. Didn't study them. Mad cow disease beccame an epidemic among the female cannibals--this is the truth. Apparently humans were consumed because of a shortage of other protein to be had. Only those who were ill were given to the females. Turns out the sick ones had died of mad cow disease and the eating of the brain passed it on to the women.
I guess I have strange appetites when it comes to brain food. I can blame it on my fourth grade teacher who did neat stuff like cut the heart from a living frog to show us how it would keep beating.
I'm sure in this day and age that would have done more than keep him from being rehired.

I saw a cartoon once of a cow on a couch and the psychiatrist telling the cow: "You're not mad. You just have issues." Yes, I know Mad Cow disease is no laughing matter.

Won't want to run into any of them if I was on a hike!

Happy New Year to all, everywhere. Cold here expecting more snow. Had our pipes freeze up yesterday, put more insulation on them, hope that will do it. Wonder what those two bears are looking so intently? I pray the new year will be better for the world and there will be peace finally. Everyone be safe.

Happy New Year to you too!!

You can get wraps for pipes that heat. Maybe thy'd work for you, darambo.

Thank you for the suggestion Pixipixil, tried that and we could only get half the pipes done. This is a very old house we are remodling ourselves. It was built by a woman who was a member of one of the founders of our town. She built it herself as therapy after a logging accident killed her husband. Our house is in a history book written about our town. Anyways thanks again and be safe.

That should have read " those two bears are looking at so intently ". They are beautiful, but I sure wouldn't want to run in to them in the wild.

You're welcome, darambo. For all the headaches it poses, having a piece of history surrounding you must be exciting.

Darambo, in our last house the pipes used to freeze up no matter how much insulation we put on them. We finally discovered that on nights when the temp was supposed to go below zero degrees, we would get the water hot in the sinks nearest the freezing pipes and then leave them dripping all night long. It also helped to to leave the cabinet doors under the sinks open so the house heat would warm them up. Worked every time! Happy new year!

Joyce, those are really good ideas - especially for pipes that are near the exterior of a house. If your pipes do start to freeze, you might need to heat the pipes up so they don't burst (water expands when freezing). A blow dryer, heating pad, or, if really bad, a blow torch, which can be really dangerous.

Be careful!

JoyceRogers when we know the temps are going to be in the single digits or lower that is what we do and you're right. The problem is our laundry room where we can't do that to. We have even had the drum in the washer freeze up. Put a portable heater out there for the time being as the temps are supposed to be in the minuses for several days. Thanks for the suggestions. Take care and be safe out there.

JamieT the first time those pipes froze my hubby was back east on the road ( drove truck ) and our son was about seven I had to crawl under the house with my hair dryer. Took hours to defrost. We have some heat lights down there now, but sometimes just not enough. Luckily haven't had to do that again. Thanks for the good ideas. Please be safe and take care.