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Just watched a video on Sally Lloyd-Jones blog. It was fun. It was a spoof on the old movie, "Ghostbusters." Some of the library patrons were younger than the movie itself. Her address is
http://sallylloyd-jones.blogspot.com I'll bet you enjoy it.

Kenyon and our son and his girlfriend and one of our granddaughters were in Yellowstone National Park the last two days. Kenyon and I were able to visit there last year and my daughter and her family were there last month. My daughter actually saw a grizzly bear. I was talking to a friend of mine and told her how they were all going to the Park and she had been in Yellowstone just the week before and she saw a grizzly.

Have you ever seen a cartoon character named Yogi Bear. Well, he lives in Jellystone Park with his little buddy BooBoo and a park ranger named Ranger Smith (maybe Jones). Yogi is constantly getting in trouble because he likes to steal picnic baskets.

When I was a young girl, we could go to the Park and the bears would be sitting at the side of the road waiting for you to throw food at them. Some of the bears started getting agressive and so the bears were moved to the more central part of the park. Yogi and his buddy BooBoo were actually supposed to represent those bears who were sitting and begging for food. At the time there was a famous football coach, Notre Dame I believe, who was named Yogi Berra and the Hanna/Barbera team took Yogi's name from him.

When last I was in Yellowstone Park, a tour guide explained some of the paintings on the walls of the famous Old Faithful Lodge. There were bears depicting all sorts of human activities ie. doing dishes, doing laundry, eating at restaurants, etc. These paintings were famous all over the U.S. It was an advertising gimmic and it worked. I asked the tour guide if they had ever been told that Hanna and Barbera were ever at the Park, but if the two of them were, they didn't announce themselves.

No one in my husband's group saw a grizzly.

Nuff Said
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