Saturday, December 4, 2010

Wondering About Teddy Bears

Ain’t coincidences funny, I’m a wondering? I had this blog planned early yesterday and scanned the pictures, but didn’t start to write it until this morning. The coincidence is that I am wandering back in the past remembering things and Hermit Jim’s blog this morning is about, “Do you remember these?”. It was a very good post.

Well, anyway, I was wandering back to my early childhood and remembering my Teddy Bear. He really didn’t have a name, just went by Teddy.

You see, I was an only child and we lived in the country. My closest neighbor’s son was a teenager, about 10 years older than I was. So, I had to entertain myself.


I spent most of my time in the woods. I have always loved the out-doors and it didn’t matter if it was winter snow or summer heat. When I was pre-school age, my friend was a teddy bear. Don’t laugh, a lot of little kids had teddy bears back then. Here is a picture of my friend back then:


And here is another one in front of an aromatic flowering shrub that was beside our back porch:

After I was grown and raised my own family, my Mother gave my teddy bear back to me. He was well worn, missing a lot hair and parts of his eyes. He wore one of my Grandpa’s RR engineer’s caps, pinned back so it would fit, the one that I used to wear when I was little. Did you notice the cap I was wearing?

Old teddy is still with me today. I don’t think about him much, but he sits up on a bookcase in my office and keeps watch over me. You know, teddy bears are faithful.


Here is a picture that I just took of him. I moved him to the couch so that he could pose better for the picture:


I hope you enjoyed meeting my Teddy and maybe it brought back some childhood memories for you. If so, let us hear about some of your memories.

8 comments:

  1. Oddly, I don't remember having a teddy bear. Yours isn't by chance a Steiff Bear is it? If so,it maybe worth a bunch of money.

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  2. No, I there is not and I don't ever remember a tag in its ear. But, my wife has a Steiff tiger that she had when little, but her Mom let our grandson play with it and it isn't quite as nice, but still in good shape.

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  3. Howdy FT, Sort of, it is Roosevelt, Jr.

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  5. Funny you should post this today! Mom and I were talking about the origin of the teddy bear just this afternoon!

    Looks your furry friend is planning to stick around a while!

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  6. HJ, you must have been putting out mental waves. I had no idea what I was going to write, and then it hit me. Thanks for the inspiration. :-)

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