Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

So, I saw this little old bear on eBay, and I bid on it, I won it, it is now here.......why do I do this? This poor little bear is in big need of repair.

When you repair bears, do you remove the old stuffing? That's what I think I want to do with this poor guy.

On Thursday, I was supposed to be at work at 8:30....made a call at 9:00 when it started pouring rain and I dashed around the house closing all windows, and was asked why I wasn't at work! Dashed off and made it by 9:15, the program I was doing started at 9:30. I have the same time frame tomorrow.....hope I remember it!
My car, which my hubby broke on Mother's Day, was in the shop 2 hours away, no chance we could get there when they were opened.....Called them and paid by charge card over the phone so we could pick it up whenever we could without them being opened....that worked and finally, after 3 weeks, I have my own car to drive again!!!!!

Bad days seem to come and go......hopefully the good days are more than the bad ones.........   Just hug a teddy bear and life has no choice but to get better! 
pandamac

4.5 cats??????? is a cat pregnant?????? where else would you get 1/2 cat from?  

Love Hedgehogs!

I have a major challenge for a different beast! My son wants me to make his girlfriend a opossum! Guess I need to do some research on that one!
pandamac

I think they are cute.....hubby just walked away saying "OKay...."

I be ready to order at least one! Thanks for making it possible    :hug:  :dance: 
pandamac

Congratulations Marion! I know what a relief it is to finally have the wedding over. It was certainly a very warm and sunny wonderful day for the event!
pandamac

We had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.....taking me forever to get caught up on these posts! 
We went to camp where we were joined by a lot of our 'adopted' family.....my husbands college roomate, Dinger, a good friend, Scott, our son, Aaron and his girlfriend Meg, niece, Theresa and Brett, the boyfriend, and Jeremy, our son's best friend, a former member of my hubby's boy scout troop, and an adopeted son, his daughter, Savanah and his girlfriend Jennifer, our daughter's best friend, a former member of my Girl Scout troop and an adopeted daughter (Scott's real daughter!)  
We were able, because of all the help, get the new dock put in, the old sailboat taken out, the new one put in, played games, sat and talked by the campfire....water was too cold to swim for most of us, but did get out in the newly finished canoe and took pictures of the new dock, our camp and the neighbors new camp that was just finished.
Only thing that was missing was our daughter.....but she lives on the other side of the country from us!
it was a wonderful weekend with all the friends, AND, the most beautiful weather. (last week it was raining and only about 55 degrees, over the weekend the sun was out and got up to 85 degrees!!!!) 
Hope everyone else had a good weekend!
pandamac

Sorry to hear all the bad news, Jane........   :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :pray: :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :pray:  :pray:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:
pandamac

1. What time is it? 7:40 AM EDST
2. What's your full name? Ellen Marie (Stearns) MacMaster
3. What are you most afraid of? besides Spiders, never seeing my children again
4. What is the most recent movie that you've seen in a theatre? 8 Below
5. What was the most recent book you read: WICKED, the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
6. Place of birth? Amityville, Long Island, New York (my kids called me the Amityville Horror!
7. Favorite new food?New?? not new, but Chinese 
8. What's your natural hair color.originally Dirty Blond, curently, gray or silver
9. Ever been to Alaska? No, but been to Antarctica
10. Ever been toilet roll papering? Many, many years ago, don't remember much about it
11. Love someone so much it made you cry?Yes
12. Been in a car accident? with a school bus, twice, in a car, once both as the driver, no one hurt.....
13. Croutons or bacon bits? neither
14. Favorite day of the week? the day I have something new and different to do, or get to visit friends
15. Favorite Restaurant?  Whatever one I am in at the moment!
16. Favorite Flower? Lilacs.....white or the dark purple. Poppy
17. Favorite sport to watch?  eeewww....none!
18. Favorite Drink? non-alcoholic, Iced Tea, alcoholic, wine or Apricot Sour
19. Favorite ice cream? Cherry Panda Paws or homemade vanilla
20. Disney or Warner Brothers? Disney
21. Favorite fast food restaurant? chinese
22. Color of your bedroom carpet? [b]off-white
23. How many times did you fail your driving test?[b]car: 0, School Bus: 0, Motorcycle: 0
24. Before you filled out this, who filled it out before you? Put the name of the person who filled this out before you.Clare
25. What do you do most often when you are bored? Bored? who has the time?
26. Who will respond to this the quickest?
27. Who is the person you enjoyed reading their responses most?
28. Who is the person most likely to respond?
29. Who are you are most curious to see responses from? Everyone
30. Favorite TV show none.....they are all terrible. Favorite old show to watch: M.A.S.H.
31. Ford or Chevy? Saturn or Kawasaki
32. What are you listening to right now? The oldies channel on the TV

33. What is your favorite color? Blue
34. How many tattoos do you have? none
35. How many pets do you have? 1 dog and many, many stuffed animals
36. Which came first the chicken or the egg? I don't know, the rooster?
37. What would you like to accomplish before you die? to sit among the Moon Bears and the Panda Bears and play with them all.
38. Who's answers did you enjoy the most? All of them!

So glad you are having such fun Andy! Hope you are behaving yourself!
pandamac

Love, love cactus......I have 7 of them that I keep tabs on. I am about to put 5 of them outside for the summer! now that it has finally warmed up. Arent' they so beautiful when they get flowers on them? Mine don't like to give me flowers    but I keep hoping! Wonderful pictures! Thanks
pandamac

:hug:  :hug:  :pray: hugs and prayers to you Daphne... :hug:  :hug:  :pray:  :pray:

I just finished reading the book "Wicked" my son gave it to me. It is the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wizard of Oz fame) We used to live in the town where L. Frank Baum, the author of the Wizard of Oz was born, and I always dressed as the Wicked Witch for Oz Day and Halloween......so my son thought I should find out more about Elphaba! she is a very interesting person, and was not wicked at all. I am now waiting for my son to give me "Son of a Witch"
pandamac

Bambi, The Fox and the Hound, Dumbo......lots of kids movies that I could sit and watch many times.
Musicals....Okalahoma, Oliver, The Fiddler on the Rood, etc.
Every Which Way but Loose, 8 Below, March of teh Penguins.
Most any animal (true life) movie........
DO NOT like Horror, (sorry no Alien or things like that.)
Orca is the other one I like. Gives the whales personalities like people.
No Jaws, though.

pandamac

The following is a poem sent to me by Jane in UK, who runs the China Bear Rescue Spport Group South Somerset. This poem was written by her when Andrew died.

SLEEP TIGHT ANDREW

Goodnight our dear sweet Andrew, we all loved you so much
Your friends will miss you deeply and from all the hearts you touched

You`re sleeping like an Angel, the stars are now your home
You loved to sleep beneath them, now amongst them you will roam

Your friends are there to meet you, you know them all so well
The pain they all had suffered living in their cage of hell

But now they are at peace now, just like your final years
You`ll inspire us to carry on amongst our deepest fears

You came to us our first dear Bear, you will always be our star
We will carry on for you Andrew now we have come this far

Sleep Tight our dear sweet Andrew, goodnight, its not the end
And thank you for the joy you gave to all

God Bless Our Very Special Friend

Just thought I would share it with everyone here.

pandamac

Mother's Day is now past and gone, but I had a nice day. Went to church in the morning, we were actually home by 9:30! Opened up the whole day. Read the paper, watched some TV. Then we went to a nice restaurant in the Adirondacks way out in the woods. It was about a 1 hour drive in the rain. No animals even though the restaurant is set up with lots of windows so you can see out into the field and woods. On the way home, we tried to find a neighbors camp on a lake that we drove by. Mys Hubby ran over a rock, pulling it out of the ground that went clunk, clunk, clunk under the car. We barely made it home, lost the transmission fluid! I talked with my son, and my Mom......my daughter was probably working, preparing dinners for all the Moms that went out for dinner! It was a nice relaxing day.....didn't pick up anything bear-related......probably should have though.

So, today, I get to call to tell Saturn that the car is on it's way, and AAA to get the car towed the 80 miles to the dealer.......

Happy belated Mother's day to all.
pandamac

I'm in.....don't have any idea as to what I will try, but I will.
pandamac

Christine, I forget that there are parts of the world that keep the birds year round. Up here, the birds migrate south beginning in September. Some birds stay all winter, and it is great to see them, but the really colorful ones that return in May just brighten up the days........mainly because we know winter is over and we will be able to get outside and enjoy the warmth and sunshine (and bugs and other things)
pandamac

Thanks Sue Ann......had just a small piece, so only made the little bear out of it.

As I was watching the hummingbird feeder this morning, the silly Northern Oriole landed and started to drink! Her feeder is 10 feet away on the other side of the window! With fresh orange slices to eat! Silly birds, guess they can't read the signs 

As I sit here on my computer, I am watching a Northern Oriole on one feeder on the side of the house and a Hummingbird at the feeder on the front of the house!      So nice to see them back enjoying the feeders again, it has been so long.
pandamac

Introducing Black Raspberry made from raspberry colored synthetic fur with black paws. Nose is embroidered, safety eyes and 5 way jointed. She measures 8 1/2 inches tall. Her blanket is made from a Winnie-The-Pooh print front and backed with a tanish-print cotton. Velcro is used to close the "cone" which can be opened and Black Raspberry enjoys sitting on her quilt for a picnic.

Wow! Andy, sounds like a fun-filled tiring day. Hope you got some good rest last night so you're ready for the next adventure! This is Franzi writing, I'm about to leave for a tour of Australia then England. Hope I have exciting tours like you are having!

Franzi (as told to Pandamac)