Bear Repair, Part I

This is my first time writing a blog on my phone 

—trying it out because the wifi is out at the house

And my neighbors are away on a bike trip for a week!

So—here’s Part I of my next Bear Repair:

Opening the back seam with a seam ripper,

and dumping out the nasty old stuffing—

Some petroleum-based foam that wants to return to being oil—

It breaks down into sticky stuff.  

I usually have to turn the stuffed animal inside-out to get all of it out. 

Surprisingly to me, this is often cute. 

This bear is named Canteloupe (for now).