Bear hunt in CR

Last weekend we had the egg-venture in our community (last blog). Yesterday and today James and I were on a bear hunt. Residents had been asked to "hide" (display) a bear. We were provided with a list/addresses so we knew which of the 745 houses/units were participating. Walking in the fresh air is encouraged in these quarantine times. Everybody adheres to the social distancing when we meet on the streets.

The bear hunt was actually a very nice idea. We walk every day and by now we seem to know every crack in the streets. So having something else to do was lovely. There were 49 addresses on the list. Here are my favorites from our Friday walk:

This one says "quarantined too long". Ha-ha, so many empty bottles ... and it's not coke or juice.

My friend Becky's bear things of nicer times reading "'twas the night before Christmas".

It was a "hunt". It took us a while to find the bear here. In the street light!

The same house also made free books available. Great idea.

Almost didn't see these bears.

Amazing of the many ways our neighbors thought of.

This bear was quite big ... and I discovered it had a bird on his head. When we met Linda several streets over and told her that we liked it she was happy that we had noticed the bird.

This was only one of the patriotic bears.

Who doesn't want to ride on a heron?

Several of the bears were looking out of windows, even from the upper story. This one we almost didn't find. Do you see it?

Last one on the way home: two bears with face masks are showing of that yes, they have toilette paper.

Stopping here and there and everywhere takes longer than just walking. We left some to do for the next day. Today (Saturday) we continued the hunt. Yeah, lots of face masks. 

Meeting this neighbor was wonderful. We had the address but didn't see the bear. He sits quite often on his bench and reads. He saw us and pointed to the stuffed animal sitting next to it. We walked closer and had a great talk with him. The "bear" was actually a monkey but who cares. And a great story went with it. He told us that when he was dating the girl who later became his wife, it all started with a monkey. A gorilla-gram in his office gave hime the idea to send a gorilla-gram to the girl. And then many more monkeys, cards of monkeys for birthdays and all kinds of events, etc etc. We walked around the block and when we came past his place again from the other direction he stopped us quickly to show us a book of all the scanned cards he had made. Printed and bound. So special. What a great guy. 

And the walk continued.

A U.S.Mail letter carrier bear between these mailboxes. How cute is that?

How creative are our neighbors! I didn't think there was an appropriate bear in this household. No chance to borrow one from our grandsons. Well, to be honest, I was a bit of a scrooge. The call to participate didn't reach me early enough. And then I kind of regretted it. Thank you to our neighbors. We had fun on these walks.