HERE'S A RITIN FRUM
FOR AUGUST 2000
FOR AUGUST 2000
Hi, evrybudy!
This is Old Bear ritin 2 U agin and I thought you mite lyke to see a pitcher of Sue the dinosurs head that me and my man saw in the museum in Chikago wen we were there.
Wen the peples who put bones together put all of Sue's bones together they diskovered that the head bone couldn`t be connected 2 the neck bone cus it wus 2 heavy sew they put a artifishul head on the neck bone and made a speshul zibit 4 the head.
We didn`t stay very long in this museum cus it wus reel krowded. It wus sew krowded that wen it wus time to go we culdn`t get 2 the way out door through all the peples sew went another way and got losted in sum sort of an Egyptian toom thing. It tuk us maybe 30 or 20 minutes 2 find our way out of this toom thing, but it wus purty much fun to get losted there.
I hope U had a gud Firecracker Day. It wus my Uncle Dick's Happy Birthday day and we sent him a Happy Birthday pitcher card 2 his e-mail address and sure hope he got it cus it wus a purty card.
We didn`t get 2 du very much on that day but on the day before Firecracker Day my man got 2 go 2 sumpn kalled a Patriotic Concert at one of the churches and he sed it wus a reely gud concert with lots of musik and gud singin and even had fireworks in the church He sed they even had Marine soljers who marched down to the front carryin the Americun Flag and protectin it with rifle guns.
He got an invite 2 go 2 this Patriotic Concert frum a gud frend of his who is a DAR lady and she wanted speshully 2 go cus there wuld be sum other DAR ladies at this Patriotic Concert and one DAR lady wuld be duin sumpin speshul in the concert.
Do you know what a DAR lady is? I didn`t no and thought it might mean a lady who wanted to DIVIDE ALL RICHES. But my man sed, no, that wat DAR reely stood 4 wus DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN RESOLUTION. My man's gud frend who give him the concert invite is a member of the JANE DOUGLAS CHAPTER NSDAR here in Dallas. My man sez these DAR ladies have a little house out on our fair grounds that looks like Mt. Vernon and every year have all kinds of histerical things 4 peples at the Fair 2 kum inside and see and they have meetins there and plan wut gud things they are goin 2 du durin the year.
I wus still konfused abowt wat a DAR lady wus cus the Americun Resolushun wus a reel long tyme ago and my man's gud frend shure don't luk lyke she wus borned back in those old timey days. My man sed that wusn't xactly wat it meant sew we luked it up on the NSDAR internet home page and here is wat it sed abowt becumin a DAR lady.
Any woman is eligible for membership who is no less than eighteen years of age and can prove lineal, blood line, descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence. She must provide documentation for each statement of birth, marriage and death.
Well, that made a lot more cents to me. I guess my man's gud frend had a great-great-great granddaddy or sumbudy who did sumpn 2 help in the Resolution. Me and my man did sum more lukin up, trying 2 find out who Jane Douglas was. We culdn't find out nuthin abowt her but did find out that sumbudy named Mrs. John L. Henry started this chapter in 1895 and it wus the second chapter in Texus and the DAR ladies didn't start getting together until 1890.
We found out that there is sumpn kalled The Sons of the American Resolushion who du patriotic things but my man sed he kuldn't qualify for the SAR cus he didn't no none of his ancesturs past his daddy and probubly didn't have no resolutionary ancestors.
It wus sorta fun 2 luk up things about the DAR peples. U shure kan find out lots of things on the internet thing. The music U are hearin is sumpn that my man found wen we were lukin 4 DAR stuff. It is sumpn kalled The Lads of the Village and cums frum around 1782. Maybe that's wat peples were singin wen boys went marchin off to the Resolushun.
I'm goin 2 B purty busy in August getting ready 2 go to Spain in September but will try to du another ritin 4 the September DDN. My man sez he thinks we will have time to du one for September.
