HERE'S A RITIN FRUM
FOR JULY 2001
FOR JULY 2001
HI, Evrybudy! This is Old Bear ritin 2 U agin and this is Firekracker Day month. Its reel name is Independunce Day but I kall it firekraker day cus that's wat I member most about it frum wen I wus purty little. My man's daddy always had sum loud firekrakers and things kalled Roamin Candles 2 shoot off in the yard wear we were livin and me and my man got 2 whirl sparkler things round our heads. Later, wen my man got bigger he culd shoot his own firekrakers and liked the ones kalled Zebras that he used 2 blow up mud dams and boxes and things. But he didn't get to shoot those kalled 2 inchers until he wus a hole lot older cus they were reel danjerous. There were sum little tiny firekrakers called Lady Fingurs that my man used to put in a toy cannon and shoot them at the enemy forts he had built out of match boxes. If he did it jist right the little firekraker wuld go pop jist wen it hit the fort.
Another speshul thing about Firekracker Day is that it is my uncle Dick's happy birthday day. Yep, he wus a Yankee Doodle Dandy borned on the 4th of July in Ilnoyze and my gramma sed that wen he wus bein borned there were lots of childruns jist outside her window shootin firekrackers sew he kum into the wurld with a bang. My unkle Dick culd retire now if he wanted 2 but he still wurks takin kare of peples who kan't take kare of themselves. He is reel gud at duin that.
I jist thot about a firekraker story to tell U that is reel true that happened wen my man wus maybe 4 or 3 years old and it must be true cus his momma told him abowt it. Well, after firekraker day that year there were sum big firekrakers left over so my grampa, (my man's daddy) put them away 4 the next year. That wus in July. Well, in Oktober it wus Halloween time and childrun cum around trikin and treatin and soapin windows and duin things like they did in those old timey days. Sew my grampa thot he wuld skare the childrun sew he got these left over firekrakers and got out on the roof of our house and waited 4 sum kiddos 2 kum. Purty soon a hole lot of kiddos kum sew my grampa started litin firekrakers and throwin them off the roof. Then, at the same time our telfone rung and my gramma went to answer it. One of the childrun wus lukin in the window and saw my gramma du that and hurd the firekrakers go bang and started hollering reel lowd: Run, run! Mr. Sage is shootin at us and Mrs. Sage is kallin the police! My grampa shure thot that wus funny
Well, U no that us riters have 2 du sumpn kalled meet a dedline so I am writin this July story in June and we aren't goin 2 go see the Fandangle thing in West Texas that I told U abowt earlier until 2 weeks frum now. Sew I'll have to rite about that in July wen I do the August ritin. It shure does get konfusin sumtymes bein a riter.
My man is duin sumpn in August that I kan tel U abowt now. He is goin 2 get up in front of peples at his Retyrement Klub and reed sum of his poetry ritins. He picked out a dozen or so that he lykes purty gud and is goin 2 reed them. I get 2 go with him cus one of his poums is abowt me and is kalled A Talk With Old Bear and is a purty sad poum. If I didn't have glass eyes I wuld kry evry tyme he red it 2 me. But he's got sum happy poums 2 reed 2. Bye and be kareful on Firekraker Day!
