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.
Good Morning. Thanx for the info on Teddy & the bears. Informative reading. I learn so much here.
I will be in and out today. Getting #3 son ready to return to college. Hopefully, this will be his last year.
Hillary's Lovely Legs will be gone today as she attends the Michigan State Republican Convention (hope I got that right) and then tonight she will be at a fund-raiser.
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!
