Posted on 08/24/2002 7:08:21 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
TEDDY BEAR REUNION IN THE HEARTLAND
America's Unique Teddy Bear Convention
Clarion, Iowa hosted its first Teddy Bear event, "Teddy Bear Homecoming in the Heartland", in 1990. Through the efforts of the Clarion Chamber of Commerce, local Teddy Bear artist Steve Schutt, and community volunteers this event attracted Teddy Bear artists and collectors from around the United States and many foreign coutries. Held again in 1995 this event has become the largest artist Teddy Bear convention in the world.
Tragically, in '95 we had no knowledge of this earth-shattering event, and went to see the corn grow without reservations - yikes. Never again. ;-)
Thanks for the nice fresh thread BWB - well done.
I would like to tell The Guild about my new electric pressure cooker. This is the greatest thing since sliced bread!
I must thank Hillary's Lovely Legs for convincing me to try one, can't believe I been cooking all these years without one! It's call Cook's Essentials and is available on the QVC website.
I was one of those who was scared to cook with a pressure cooker because, "it might explode." A common reply when asking people about pressure cookers. HLL assures me this one cannot explode. And it's so easy even I could figure it out.
Yesterday I tried it out while preparing food for my father-in-law and I'm as happy as a pig in mud. Finally I got a pot roast to "fall apart", the meat sauce for the lasagna took 15 minutes and the meat with so tender. Fstcwgrl gave me her chili recipe and we cooked up a batch in 50 min. Delicious!!!
Fstcwgrl will be getting one for Christmas. (don't worry she knows already) :-) Run, don't walk to the QVC website to get your own Cook's Essential's pressure cooker!
How delightful to open this thread to see the great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and to wish a happy birthday to the TEDDY BEAR!
Here's a teddy bear chair to curl up in when cuddling your teddy. :-)
Tell #3 son we wish him well and to study hard. :-)
COULD it be that after losing Kathie Lee Gifford from his syndicated morning show, Regis Philbin actually misses his previous preternaturally perky sidekick? Spies on the set of ABC's "Live with Regis and Kelly" say the animosity between Philbin and his co-host of one year, Kelly Ripa, is so thick, the two won't even talk anymore.
"They weren't speaking to each other at a recent promo shoot" for the popular talk show, one source told msnbc.com's Jeannette Walls. "It was just awful.
"You could cut the tension with a knife. When the camera wasn't rolling, they wouldn't even go through the motions of pretending to like each other. They would barely even look at each other. It was painful." rest of the story from Page Six.
Hoookay, just in time for Christmas. Link
ARE Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Melissa Etheridge, Cindy Crawford, Courtney Love, David Duchovny and Sherilyn Fenn unwittingly part of a cult? According to the L.A. Times, the stars are all under the influence of yoga teacher Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, who is a devoted follower of Yogi Bhajan, the founder of 3HO, the "Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization." Rick Ross, who runs cultnews.com, says 3HO is a cult. Khalsa, the stars' guru, is said to be "the teacher whom much of prenatal Hollywood has come to trust." But in 1974, Khalsa's own guru, Yogi Bhajan, told his followers: "Your dead bodies will lie on these roads, your children will be orphans, and nobody will kick them, rather, people will eat them alive! There will be tremendous insanity. That is the time we are going to face." Since then, Khalsa has softened Bhajan's message and now tells his devotees that through "special breathing, meditation and chanting" they can "balance the energy centers of the body and harmonize physically, emotionally and spiritually." Love says it's "better than Prozac."
Gee golly, I can't imagine why hollyweird is wacky.
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I love those soft, adorable, cuddly teddies too!!!! |
Speaking of hint and clues, here's one I would like to share with all the parents on this thread. I'm not sure if it shows this morning but I'm so angry I could spit.
My son has a friend who is a really nice kid. He usually goes over to said friend's house Friday's after school and then spends the night. This friend's house is the gathering place for many kids (three children in their family) and the boys and one girl go to one another's houses to hang. I've always been grateful for this particular friend's parents because I thought they were strict like me. I got such a wake up call last night!
My son calls to ask if he can spend the night at Jane's house. That's right, Jane.
No, was my response. I told him his dad would be there in a few minutes to pick him up. Two seconds after we hung up the friend's mother calls me and want to make sure I understand about Jane. They're all very good friends and Jane IS GAY! So of course there will be no hanky-panky going on, she says to me. (sure! a gay teenaged girl with three boys, no.... no trouble brewing there!)
Then when I tried to make her understand that doesn't make a bit of difference to me, that I have no intention of teaching my son it's perfectly ok for 16 year olds to spend the night with the opposite sex, gay or not.
She became so condescending I almost heaved the phone at the wall. You're just a fuddy-duddy or some such nonsense, she says to me. I said, "Yeah, didn't think I was that much older than you." Oh- wait there's more...... When I laughed that how does a sixteen year old girl know she's gay her response was, "Well you know they figure out if they are by the age of 13."
She didn't get my drift, does the girl think she's gay or has she been having sex with other girls so she knows for sure. What if Jane decides on one of these sleep overs she's bi-sexual? None of these things make me comfortable, duh.
I'm surrounded by idiots. This kind of crap has been going on since my daughter was in school.
So parents of young ones, check to make sure the slumber party you're about to send you son or daughter to is NOT a co-ed sleep over. These kinds of stupid parents try this crap with the young one too.
I must go do 40 laps in the pool so my arms will be so tired I won't have the strength to strangle anyone.
END OF RANT
I was wondering how long it would take you, almost 7 hours? You're slipping. :-)
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