Family Swim - 2226b+ by Jen Hall
Via Flickr:
A sow and her 3 small cubs swimming across a channel in search of food or a safe place for a nap. Happy Bear With Me Monday!
Following another underwater breast-feeding session between Shag Rugg and his mother, Maw Rugg, beside some river in the Missouri/Arkansas Ozarks
MAW RUGG, with some pride inherent: If I may just say so, Shag, I think it's rather interesting that we could nurse like that underwater when the weather allows it.
SHAG RUGG, excitedly: And doesn't it feel so wonderful to be so close to you underwater like we are, especially when we follow things up with a diving session like you wouldn't believe!
MAW RUGG: I sure have to admit, though, that such a sensation like feeding you underwater does feel a little weird, especially holding my breath for so long as you swim out to me....
SHAG RUGG: And I do admit things feel a little interesting all the while ...
Once the harsh winter is gone, when come the good and easier days, we often encounter bears swimming by the ice edge. Polar bears are extremely capable of having fun alone with whatever they find 🐻❄️ !.
HAIR BEAR, after spotting a bumper sticker for Clark's Trained Bears out of Lincoln, New Hampshire: Honestly, guys, we're way too good-looking to be considered for such a tacky performing routine, which is probably rather hokey when you get right down to it! And to us, acting comes rather naturally, don't you think?
SQUARE BEAR: Yeah; remember that time we fled the zoo to try and fill the roles of the Three Bears in that chintzy film series with Twinkles Sunshine--
HAIR BEAR: Who, if memory fails me not, had to be let go from her contract after her voice broke, then the studio quickly sold the TV rights before suddenly going bankrupt, her real parents were killed in a car accident, and it was subsequently learned that "Twinkles Sunshine" was really Sylvia Barbanna, later becoming a surf instructress in her own right!
BUBI BEAR, all the more excited: Yeah, that Sylvia Barbanna, what a gal on the surfboard, what an instructress as well! Showing us quite the grace, quite the deftness--[Square Bear's forepaw shuts up Bubi rather quickly]
SQUARE BEAR, rather sheepishly: What exactly was Bubi saying just now, Hair?!
HAIR BEAR: I assume he was recalling how the former Twinkles Sunshine taught us surfing after she took her real name and the trust funds held in her name during childhood ... and at any rate, if you ask me, we can be quite the hams of the ursine race, don't you think so, Square?
SQUARE BEAR: I guess you're likely right there, Hair; after all, we manage to be cutups in our own right during the bear mating season!
BUBI BEAR: And what could be more graceful than us just diving to the bottom of the lake to see what's at the bottom of said lake the morning after an orgy!
HAIR BEAR: Things, I have to admit, can get to be graceful in their own way underwater ... and such is one of those angles that not even Clark's Bears, or even the Weeki Wachee Mermaids, for that matter, has managed to tap into, knowing how well we bears can swim and dive! (Though we're not exactly the type as would want to take over the former Tommy Bartlett Show or even Clark's Trained Bears, let alone imagine ourselves in online videos pulling off some interesting underwater antics after the orgy!)