Ted enjoying the sunshineA Lily Fan captured 5 minutes and 21 seconds of Holly’s life as she groomed, checked her foot pad, lay back and looked at Lucky and rearranged her bed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c931v0z-czU&feature=youtu.be. Ted enjoyed the 40° F sunshine today in his thick winter coat. For the last 3 months, he has been growing his winter coat of dense, fine under fur, so he probably doesn’t want it a whole lot warmer than today.
The Bear Center staff went a step better than I dared to announce about the calendars on Friday. Starting at 8 AM tomorrow (Tuesday, December 8) the 2016 Calendars will be up on the webstore (the Gift Shop tab on bear.org) and the staff will be fully ready to take orders. 
The calendar has the best pictures we’ve taken of Ted, Honey, Lucky, and Holly since we opened in 2007. It will be hard to beat in coming years (but we’ll try). The staff set up good-looking tables full of new gift store (webstore) items to show during Live at the NABC on Wednesday at 1 PM bear time.
I’m back in business on the computer. The last email I got before 4:31 PM today (Monday) was at 6:55 AM this past Friday. I discovered how dependent I am on email to get things done. I am told by our webmaster/technician that all the emails that were sent during that Friday to Monday period were automatically returned to the senders. He said I won’t see them unless people resend them. The problem was that an error in the email setup years ago finally caught up to us. Instead of emails automatically deleting from the server when I received them, they kept building up to the 30 GB limit. I understand we deleted many Gigabytes of emails today to make room for new ones. The non-deleting problem has been fixed, so this should never happen again.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center