Boris was caught in a spring down pour while out in the garden with the three yearling cubs, his daughter Izzy, and the two male cubs. All three were recovering well from their near starvation when they came out of hibernation, due to the lack of enough food in the forest last fall.
The two year drought seemed to be ending and Boris would note this in his weather journal later that evening, now he was showing the young bears the finer points of planting peas and early greens in the garden. Izzy was quite attentive to what was happening and the male cubs showed some curiosity that what they were doing was about food. Loosing interest quickly as any young animal would, the two male cubs tumbled off into the tall grass and began wrestling and testing their muscles against each other.
Izzy stayed with her father until the section they were working on was planted, then she too headed into the tall grass to play. Female bears need good muscles too, and Izzy was quick to pin one of the boys in a good wrestle hold. They tumbled and played for what seemed like a long time, then Boris called them all in for dinner, porridge again, and what a porridge it was filled with all kinds of good and healthy things for a growing bear cub, including a bit of maple syrup for taste.
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