Member how last year
I told U abowt going 2 the Jane Douglas Chapter NSDAR and meeting Miss
Dorothy, the regent lady, and visitin with peples who cum in wile goin 2
the Fair? Well, I did that agin alredy this year and here's a pitcher
of Miss Dorothy who is still the regent lady and still lykes me purty gud.
The day
we went wus a purty speshul day cus the Jane Douglas Chapter NSDAR wus duin sumpn kalled
a Commerative Event for the Black Patriot's who fought in the American
Resolution back in those old timey days like 1775 until 1783. Here's a
pitcher of Mr. Mark who cum all the way frum Washington DC 2 give a talk
about those old timey days. He is the boss of sumpn kalled the Black
Patriot's Foundation and they are working to make a memorial
to Black Patriots up there near where the President lives.
Later in the day
there wus a real purty outdoors ceremony with singing and
short speeches and readin the names of Black Patriots who
fought in all the wars and salutin and blowing the taps
bugle and it wus real nice. Maybe you kan see the man
salutin in this pitcher.
One of
the speshul persons who did a short speech wus Mr. Drew
Pearson who had been a cowboy. I I asked my man if Mr. Drew
quit being a cowboy cus he culdn't ryde a horse no more and
my man sed he wusn't that kind of cowboy but had been a
purty famus player for the Dallas Cowboy's football team.
He sure wus nyce to let my man take my pitcher with him.
There
were sum other reel interestin peples I got to meet while
I was at the Jane Douglas Chapter NSDAR.
Miss Jeannette is dressed in old timey clothes and makin
everything for the ceremony run gud. Her pitcher is at the top
of this ritin. This is a man dressed up like George
Washington.
Miss Lynne showed
me how 2 du spinning lyke in the old timey days and Mr.
David let me help him du sum blacksmithing wurk.
Spinning luked purty easy but bein a blacksmith shure must
be hard wurk.
Miss Dorothy
likes for my man 2 cum to the Jane Douglas Chapter NSDAR cus
he wurks sellin take-a-chance tickets 4 sum prizes they
have. And they say he's a purty gud salesman.
I guess the best thing of all wus wen they cut this purty cake and everybudy got to
2 eat it and drink punch.
Member
how I told U that me and my man were goin on sumpn kalled a
Mystery Trip in October? Well, we did and it wus purty much
fun. Mr. Steve who is a preacher man at the University
Park United Methodist Church wus the one who thought up the
places 2 go 4 the church' Travel Ministry and there wus 40
of us who got on the bus purty early one mornin waitin 2 C
where we were goin.
What
Mr. Steve did wus have sort of a kontest by makin the
tinerary 4 the trip jist sum klews that if U were a gud
guesser or purty smart you culd figger out where we were
goin. Me and my man didn't figger out enuf klews to be
a winner but one man got them all jist exactly right and
got some money 4 a prize. Here's a pitcher of Mr. Steve who
did the trip plannin.
There
were 2 Klews 2 figger out wear the first stop wus goin 2 B:
“Move along, little doggies” and Goodnight,Loving and ______________".
The answer 2
these klews wus supposed to be The Chisholm Trail Heritage
Center in Duncan, Oklahoma. And that's where we went.
But first wen we got 2 Duncan we stopped at a Braum's
Ice Cream store where they have reel good hamburgers and
that's wat most of the peples ate, but my man had a choklut
milk shake. Here's sum of the peples goin bak 2 the bus
after eatin their hamburgers.
The museum wus
reel interestin cus there were movies and pictures and ritin
things that told jist how cowboys took big herds of longhorn
cattle frum Texus to Kansas along these trails. There was
one xibit that was Mr. Jesse Chisholm sittin by his wagon
talkin about those old days. It looked like a reel man
sittin there. Here' his pitcher.
Outside the
museum wus a reel big skulptur thing of wat a cattle drive
must have looked like in those old timey days and U kan see
it in this pitcher.
The wagon is where the cowboys got their coffee and beans.
At nitetyme the cowboys had to ryde their horses to keep the
cows frum going anywhere and sumtymes they sung reel quiet
songs to keep the cows frum getting nervous. Then sumtymes
in the daytyme they sung faster songs to make the cows hurry
up` goin to Kansas. Cowboyin wus hard work but U didn't
have to be a gud singer 2 B one.
Here are wat
the next 2 tinerary klews were:
"Over hill, over dell" and "Common expression for
dare-devils".
The answers to those klews were
The Field Artillery and Geronimo and that meant that we
were goin to Fort Sill in Oklahoma that is the home of the
Field Artillery and is where the indian chief Geronimo is
buried.
Cus of the bad
thing that happened in Nu York there were soljers on guard
at Fort Sill and one of them got on our bus and checked
everybody's picture kard. Then we went to meet Miss Karen
who wus our guide for a site-seein drive around the Fort
and she told us all about it and abowt Geronimo and all
kinds of interustin things. Then we went to the Museum
and I got my pitcher tuk sittin on an old fire hose wagon.
Here are pitchers of Miss Karen and me.
The next tinerary klew wus
purty easy cus my man figrred it out. " Named
for Indian tribe & long-lost aquatic geological formation".
The answer to that
was Wichita Falls and that is where we went to stay all night
. It wus a reel gud motel playce we stayed in and my man
sed the steak restaurunt where everyone went to eat supper
was reel good too.
Mr. Steve who
did the mystery trip tinerary used to be a preacher in
Wichita Falls so knew all about it and did our guiding on a
sight seeing trip all around the town. He told us all kinds
of things and showed us a house that was mostly underground
and the man who owned it had a bedroom where he could jump
out of bed and slide right down to a swmming pool.
Mr. Steve had
first planned that we all go site-seeing at Sheppard Air
Force Base and go see the airplanes but cus of the trouble
in Nu York it wus locked up reel tite and Mr. Steve said we
wouldn't even be able to get in the gate.
Well, the next clue wus purt
y simple it wus: "Bookworm heaven. Lonesome
Larry’s hangout". The answer to that klew was Archer
City cus that's where Mr. Larry McMurtry, the story writer,
has his book stores. There are 4, named Booked UP #1, 2, 3
and 4. There shure are lots of books there.
The other thing
in Archer City that we saw was the museum that wus made in an
old jail and it wus purty messy but there shure were lots of
old timey things to see in this jail-museum.
The only other tinerary
klew wus "Are you an
“eighter’ from ——–?"
And the answer
to that was Decatur and that's where we stopped to eat lunch
b4 coming bak home.
We shure had a
gud tyme on this mystery trip and my man sez we are 4 shure
goin 2 see my gramma in Illinoyze in November on the Amtrak
and we'll get 2 visit my bestust frend Samatha's momma and
daddy on the way back. Samantha is a skool teacher now so
she probably won't be home.
