Hi, Evrybudy!
This is Old Bear ritin 2 U agin and it will be the last tyme I du any ritin in this year
2005 cus next time it will be January in 2006 and wat is kalled a nu year.
Since I rote u last tyme me and my man have tuk a day trip to Ft. Worth to C the mint.
This mint wusn't the kind that smells good and is in gum and candies and things like that.
It is the place they make paper money. Cept it's not reely paper at all but sum sort of
special cloth that is made speshully 4 the mint by jist one Paper Company. The guide man who
tuk us
all around the mint told us that and told us lots of other thngs about making money at the mint. Did U know that there are only 2 places in the US of A that makes paper money? One is in Washington, Dee See; the other one is in Ft. Worth, Texis. They were making sumpn kalled Nu Generation Fifty Dollar bills wen we were there.
I didn't reely understand everything abowt making paper money but it wus reel interesting
2 C these big sheets of paper with nuthin on them come into wear the printin things are and
then go through the machines and get printed and piled reel high until the ink gets dry and
then goes to another printing machine where they do the other side. The guide man told us that
the most important thing wus that all the money is done without any mistakes. All the fancy
printin machines have got sum sort of computer stuff inside them so that if any paper is not
printed just right the machine stops and that piece of paper is inspected 4 why it is wrong and
then sumone fixes the machine so it don't make that mistake agin.
Each sheet of the money paper is reel big and 40 money pictures are printed on one sheet.
Then later on these big pitchers are cut in two 2 make 20 money pitchers then later on after
all the printing is done they are cut up again so peoples can put them in their pocket. The
guide man sez that none of the money is really money until it gets put in the secret place
where they keep the money that has been finished. That is wear it stays until somebody lyke
a big bank sez they need sum money then the mint peoples get it out of the secret place and
sends it to the bank.
Wen we were at the mint they were making wat they call Nu Generation Fifties. Here's sumpn
they give us that has a pitcher of this new Fifty Dollar Bill.
All the money that doesn't get made zactly right is destroyed so nobody can spend it.
We got 2 see a movie showin how they du the destroying and also how you can send in old tore
up money to a place that zamines it and if these people can find 51 percent of a bill that ur
dog tried to eat or sumpn like that then u can get nu money instead of the old money.
They didn't let anybudy bring a kamra into the mint sew my man didn't get no pitchers
there and he only got 2 or 3 at the Cowgirl Museum that wus the next playce we visited.
We didn't stay there very long and I didn't think it wus very interestin. They wuldn't let my man
take pitchers there either but he sneaked one wen the guide lady wusn't lukin. It wus of 2 Red
Hat Ladies who were lukin at the cowgirl stuff. The pitcher he tuk is at the top of this ritin.
After we toured the Mint everybudy wus pretty tired of walkin and it wus time for lunch sew
our coach driver tuk us to a famus restrunt named Joe T. Garcia. I never du eat sew I stayed
in the coach and tuk a nap but my man sed it wus reel gud if u lyke Mexican food.
It wus after eatin lunch that we all went to the Cowgirl Musuem. It wus getting tyme
to cum back to Dallas by the tyme we left there so we did and got back to the church house wear
we left frum about 5:00. My man and I had cum over to the church-house on the bus but Miss
Wylene who went on the trip with us tuk us home. That wus shure nyce of her.
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