Interesting. We've often seen black bears around BC, always in the day. Of course, at night we're not out and about looking for bears, so that would explain it.

The only time we've seen a grizzly in the last few years was when we boated up to the Bren River river mouth in the Fall a couple of years ago. We saw a mother with her cubs foraging eel grass on the beach. She herded them into the bush when a male arrived and then they popped out again after he left. John also photographed them in various different places in BC, notably in the Bella Coola Valley. I suspect it has a lot to do with the time of year and the feeding grounds.

"Of course, at night we're not out and about looking for bears, so that would explain it."

same thing.

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. Here bears have been seen in people's pools, and one was napping in a backyard Hammock. The bears are much smaller here, and they do have bear proof trashcans we can get. Bears are quite good at climbing fences. The problem here is all their habit has been built on, and they are hungry. It breaks my heart.

Sounds so cute and sweet - lounging in pools and napping on hammocks. Sounds being the key word there.

Speaking of bears, the City here has been upgrading our central downtown public spaces, and as part of that they've made banners from photographs taken by local photographers. They used one of John's Grizzly pictures for one of them. He never got to see it, but he did know it was going to happen.

How cool is that, hagatha!

That is lovely, hagatha. I'm glad this has taken place.

The break room seems lonely today. I hope you all are having a good day!

Ana, whoever is responsible for the color borders around the reply box, I like it!

Good afternoon, I forgot to post this morning. I was on the phone with my sister for a very long time this morning. It is her Birthday, she lives in New Jersey. Have a Super day everyone.

Oh dear....did it change? I'm the only one that does the website html except for reviews, which is Draclvr, and I didn't play with any colors.

Good evening Boomers. Bring on the weekend.

I think it looks different. Seems to me it was just blue before and now it is blue and white.

OK, that's kind of strange. It's red and tan for me!

When you are typing in the "quick reply" box Drac? It is blue and white there. The red and tan is the normal color around everything else though.

Yes, when I am typing in the quick reply box as I am now! There is a smaller single whitish line within the red and tan one.

Well, that is weird then!

What are the rest of you seeing?

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. Snacks and karaoke with friends at Hacienda tonight.

We're headed for another heat wave, with the warning already in effect by 6:30. It's a lovely morning though. Coffee on the deck looking out over the water has become an early morning ritual, with the two felines accompanying me through the door. Most of the time it's peaceful, but every now and again, like this morning, Willow decides that she absolutely has to be a jerk and pesters Dude to the point that he hisses at her. Then she's all innocence and sweetness for the next couple of hours.

There must be something dead on the beach below us because eagles and ravens are circling around.

Great start to the day, hagatha! We've had a beautiful week here - mid to upper 80's F. I finally got ALL my weeding done. We carted away 4 huge wheelbarrows of weeds to the brush pile. Now I just have to divide and replant some daylilies.

oldbroad, blue has never been a GB color and and I have red and gold frame and if replying before submission it's just a white box. I'm totally confused!

Same here - I have no blue at all! Once I start typing, the reply box is outlined in white!

I have blue and white in the quick reply box too. And red and tan around everything else.

I, too, have red and gold frames in the main.

But the reply box does include blue and white lines that show inside the red and gold lines whilst I'm typing within the box then afterwards they disappear

That is so strange! So some of you have a double line in the quick reply box and the rest of us just have a single white line. Odd....