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Wow!

I am the luckiest bear with the coolest pen pal!

Gilcrest did this drawing of me and him and I feel SO COOL!



Can't wait to hang out with Gilcrest again one day!

Hullo Schlop friends! As you guys know, I am the luckiest bear and have been able to go to places like the Great Wall of China and the Grand Canyon and even meet Lemony Snicket! But this week a new lucky adventure fell into my lap most unexpectedly and I can't believe it! Molly called Lee yesterday ...

Lee and I and Gulliver are excited to see the list of next year's Muny shows that drops tomorrow! They have been giving clues on nibstagram in the form of chocolate truffles, and Lee and I are loving reading all the guesses. It would be so cool if Hadestown came! Or Moulin Rouge. We can't wait to se...

Lee and I really like Full Speed Ahead and Open Arms (songs 3 and 4) of Epic the Musical. Here are my favorite fuzzy shots from Open Arms... the Lotus Eaters are so cute! https://i.imgur.com/NS60RVK.png https://i.imgur.com/0qjsGsa.png https://i.imgur.com/uCzastP.png https://i.imgur.com/RzlJFlv.png h...

Also we recommend bears watch Song 4 (Open Arms) because there are some fuzzy bear like creatures in that one, hoo hoo.

Lee and I have long been intrigued by this thing called Epic the Musical that was created during the pandemic. This eccentric music writer guy wrote the whole thing based on The Odyssey and then held auditions on TikTok for the singers and recorded it all as a concept album. It's never been staged b...

Wow, it's hard to believe Ash is 10 today! That has been 10 years of us bears cheering him on. This year he moved from Bearsville to Boston and started a new Bostonian life. There hasn't been many social media photos of him, but here are a few I found from his 9th year of life. https://i.imgur.com/E...

Hullo Schlop friends! Lee and I are off on another world traveling adventure. This time we are in the capital city of Denmark, also known as Copenhagen! The most famous thing here is a 1913 statue of The Little Mermaid. Lee and I walked over to visit it early this morning (8 am) and we were the only...

Last night I almost immigrated to the Great State of Texas! One minute I was napping peacefully in a backpack on an airplane. The next minute the backpack was being jostled every which way. I stuck my nose out to see what was happening and accidentally got jostled right out and onto the airport floo...

Yeah, Duddles! It was so fun! We got really stuck the first day and then Lee and I tried a million things and eventually figured out how to get through the maze of rocks to climb the mountain to the Horned King's castle. We also got pretty stuck in the castle until Lee figured out to leap from the b...

Hi bears, We Forest friends have been watching Andor Season 2 with the St Louis bears! We are only 3 episodes in and so far it's a bit complex, but I am taking meticulous notes and hopefully the St Louis bears are listening to podcasts that will explain everything. We really like this universe thoug...

Hullos! Some of us Forest Bears are heading to St Louis next week for a Sneechmas together! I hear there's gonna be a mini tree and some good foodstuffs and there's even talk of homemade cookies?? This will set a new record for us Forest Bears since this will be Trip #6 this year to St Louis! Can't ...

Wow! Gilcrest sent me a great letter in the mail, warning me to steer clear of Moana 2 and letting me know that he wanted to hang more ornaments on the tree.

He also included this very elegant selfie:



I'm so glad to be friends with Gilcrest!

Hullo cat friends! For years there has been a fuzzy black cat who lives in the Horse Barn in Forest Park and who sometimes can be spotted on a very special night by those walking past with a sharp eye. Schlop has spotted this cat a few times in years past, and Dave spots him regularly. But two night...

Just less than 48 hours ago, Sneeches and Dave managed to throw down the BEST SUNDAY PUZZLE TIME yet accomplished by us bears! They completed the puzzle "Breakout Performance" with a time of 16:49. This was mostly due to Dave's encyclopedic knowledge of The Shawshank Redemption and how to ...