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  1. Unknown's avatar

    So these are confessionals where a priest can absolve the bears of their sins? Silly bears, Martin Luther said there is no earthly intermediary between the sinner and God!

  2. Unknown's avatar

    The outhouses answer the classic rhetorical question (“Does a bear…“). The trees are a reference to the “other” metaphysical forest question (“If a tree falls in the woods, but nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?“).

  3. Unknown's avatar

    I have mentioned (ad nauseum I am sure) that I have a teddy bear village which I put together for Christmas (now changed to the Winter Festival as it went up so late this year that it was almost New Year’s and it stays up at least until spring) and it bothered me that in the entire village there were no “facilities” for the dozens (at least) of bears that came for the event. (Well, perhaps the honey store or the first aid building or the church would let them in to use theirs.) So we were in Kmart and the normal Christmas village pieces they sell included an outhouse – and cheap enough on sale to get me to buy it and not say to Robert “Can you make one for me?”. So they now have an outhouse between the ski/sled rental and cocoa/coffee stand and the ski/sled “mountain” (large white box). I love the bear faces I have to make one for the outhouse. (Maybe after I finally make the flags for the flag pole in the park.)

  4. Unknown's avatar

    Meryl — you could have just set up some trees; they are bears, after all.

    (Although, actually, I don’t know if there’s consensus on where bears do number 1; we all agree they do number 2 in the woods, but maybe they P in outhouses…)

  5. Unknown's avatar

    It is the first time in the maybe 20 years we have set up the village that they have even one outhouse – maybe that is why they always seem to go behind their Christmas tree. :-)

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