Happy Halloween!

This entry was posted on 10/31/2009 11:05 AM and is filed under uncategorized.

Hope you're planning to have lots of fun this Halloween evening! With one child off at her first year of college and the other gone to her own Halloween party, the Love-of-My-Life and I aren't quite sure what to do with ourselves...

We've thinking of retreating to our recliners for a vintage scary movie festival featuring horror films from the 30s and 40s. Some of our possibilties include:

• The 1930 Dracula with Bela Lugosi
• Boris Karloff's Frankenstein and The Mummy
• 1941's The Wolf Man with Lon Chaney, Jr. and Claude Rains
• Jacques Tourneur's Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie

I haven't figured out our menu for the evening yet. Guess I'd better get busy with that in case I have to run to the store. It's sort of new for me to be able to plan a meal just for the husband and I without any picky kids to consider.

(If you like my photo of the little Halloween Bear, you can get the pattern to crochet him up in the form of an instant digital download (for a really great price) at LeisureArtsLibrary.com.)

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• 1/2/2010 1:48 PM Beth Charette wrote:
  This bear reminds me of the Teddy Bear and the story of how that particular bear came to be named.
  
  Of course, the Teddy Bear was named after President Theodore Roosevelt.
  
  The way the story goes, the President was on a hunting trip at the invitation of the Governor of Georgia.
  
  Roosevelt hadn't "bagged" anything, while several others in the party had done so.
  
  The President's attendants took it upon themselves to have the hounds corner an American black bear. Exhausted, subdued with clubs, and tied to a willow tree, the animal was offered to Roosevelt to shoot. Roosevelt scolded his men for the abuse of the animal, and refused to shoot it as unsportsmanlike. Unfortunately, the bear had to be put down because of the injuries it had already suffered. The President wasn't happy.
  
  The story of Roosevelt's mercy got back to the Washington Post which did a political cartoon of the incident. The rest as far as the Teddy Bear is concerned is, as they say, history.
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