where to get a bear?

 I ( plus Bob as helper) used to travel to go to bear shows. We went  all over - Texas, Florida, NY, Iowa , Illinois and all over Missouri. But the shows close enough ( in Bob's desire to drive) no longer exist.

So show promoters have switched to online shows... my latest one closed this afternoon.  If you want to look at the sales page ( and there were some that did not sell) ... here is a link

glass dragon bears 

I have been slowly moving toward retirement and so have two shows left - November and December..

all this is in aid of saying that these shows are the only way ( now) to purchase one of my bears . I use PayPal and mail the bear to the purchaser . With all the added  rules etc for international stuff I only sell to those with US mailing addresses.

Aftermath

 Nothing happened to us.. hurrah... but both our daughters still do not have electricity.... and the one with two dogs that like to get out of the back yard ( strong wooden fence)  has a neighbor's tree breaking the fence!!

So Bob and our daughters will be at work this afternoon make a temporary fix!!

On the way to our daughter's Bob is going to stop at the PO to drop off bear boxes from the ongoing show. With "click and ship" I can do paid postage labels and Bob can just drop them off without the PO being manned.. ( it's Sunday!).

The fence  is fixed... ! Harper and Scout can't get out!!

another basement visit

 Sirens took off  again this evening.. tornado watches... tornado warnings... severe thunderstorm warnings..

So turned off the computers and headed down to the basement ... took our cell phones, a drink and set up chairs!

Sirens were going off at both our daughters houses.... they both lost electricity so ended up sitting in the dark. We did not though it looked like our neighbors did too.

Sirens off by 9.30 but the rain , thunder and lightening continued ... 

There was talk on Facebook that several tornadoes had touched down all around us... tomorrow will tell us for sure 

 

another night tonight and maybe tomorrow...

 A tornado watch is in effect until 9pm tonight and maybe another watch tomorrow...a severe thunderstorm is also a watch from today through tomorrow..

bletch... 

checked all the local tv stations... nothing live though all had "crawls".... you know the lines at the bottom with the news/alerts etc from the weather channel

By 6 pm all the stations showed the storms moving more northerly almost to the Iowa border...looks like all my worry has been for naught.  

Up and down... heat... thunderstorms... rain

 We have had several days of hot weather with night time thunderstorms..... they have not down much damage just leaves and branches...and lots of water! Though I did see a whole tree uprooted on our way to the grocery store this morning!!

I have another online bear show this weekend so have been busy getting things posted with Pay Pal buttons!! Bob and I have been discussing "retirement" with two more shows (Nov. and Dec.) and then calling it "QUITS". Part of our discussion has been on what I will do next...

We ( the family) has finally managed to schedule a celebration dinner for our grand daughter's college graduation! She is excited and so is everyone else!  It will be Friday night! Fingers crossed that we can take pictures!!

BTW ... it is currently 89F and the a/c is going like mad!

 

what a night!!

 Yesterday seemed fine.. the posted time for thunderstorms  had past...Had dinner at Moochoos  with our daughter , watched a little tv and went to bed as usual....

I was sleeping when Bob woke me to say the sirens had gone  off. This was about 2 am. Got things together and made our way down to the basement. Bob found chairs... turned on the cell phones to watch radar pictures and there had been a possible tornado in KC... Sirens still wailing. Our younger daughter on the other side of Blue Springs had also received text messages.

Sirens off .. tornado warning cancelled.  Back to bed...

The this morning I read on the BS Facebook group the southern BS ... no warning.  Also Oak Grove ( other daughter) didn't either. 

What a night... but the day was fine! We did spend the day listening to the roofers  taking off an old shake roof and putting on a new one! 

Rain and thunder all night

 Luckily not the super loud version of thunder and no lightening that I noticed.

We didn't do much this morning. Bob had prescriptions to pick up so we did a jaunt around town to see what's new. All the dine-in restaurants' parking lots were full!

Our older daughter has a craving for Mexican so we will head out to MooChoo's this evening!

I finished and photographed my latest bear and  put it "up" for the next online show in two weeks...then decided to start making some Christmasy ornaments for the November show. This will declutter some of the Christmas accessories/supplies...a definite plus..

Dinner was good... Bob and our daughter spent a lot of time talking about using AI , Claud  (?) and other similar things. Not really my thing but our daughter spends a lot of time writing grants proposals and AI etc. is helpful.

More severe weather may be in the late evening...