Paperwork. Files. Back up your computer. Organize. Folders. Record retention.

Any of these things sounding familiar? It’s what we all do – we keep things around, just in case if we need them again in the future. As I was doing that a couple of weeks ago – digging back through old files to repurpose something for a #TBT (throw-back-Thursday) – I came across this picture.

How coincidental too, because as you’re reading this, I’m at the same trade show in Kansas City a few years later. So what was the surprise? Teresa Scanlan, American beauty pageant titleholder from Gering, Neb., who was named Miss Nebraska 2010, a subsequently won Miss America 2011, stopped by the beef booth at the trade show!

Now, I’ve admittedly never watched the pageant, but will say that as the sparkling crown came walking down our aisle, I knew who she was and knew she was from my great state. And admittedly, I thought that was pretty cool…to see Miss America at one of my work functions!

She paused for a photo opp with Beef Board Past Chairman Weldon Wynn from Arkansas. What man wouldn’t smile this big with Miss America’s arm around his waist?

Maybe some year Channing Tatum will make a surprise visit? Ah, the ladies in the room could only hope. You KNOW that would be a picture I’d save in my files.

Until we walk again …