February 24, 2004 - From Ms. Mary to TML:
My family does not discriminate by race, gender, color, creed, or kind of stuffing. Everyone with a heart is welcome; we don't concern ourselves with the package that contains the heart -- although the fur and down (don't forget the ducks) and felt (the Bag Lady loves to have her felt felt) do make the packages fun to be in contact with.
The family has pooled their savings and is willing to provide transportation for any additions that need help getting here.
The Bag Lady had a little joke this morning:
Question: "How do you get down off a duck?"
Answer: "You don't get down off a duck, silly. You get down off a horse."
Yeah. Well. I guess you had to be there. The family (especially the ducks) didn't laugh much at first either. Then the Millennium Bear explained that a horse is even bigger than he is, or, at least, the rocking horses he saw at the Robinsons-May store were bigger. He saw some little bitty kids having trouble getting down off the rocking horses. The big people with them had to help. Oh, my, you should have seen the big eyes on the littlest members of the family when Millennium told his horse story! The little Tarabear sits between his big knees and had the biggest eyes of all. And Patriot Bear SIR said he had seen some real live horses when he lived back East and it is true that they are bigger than the Millennium Bear. "HARRUMPH!" And he warned everyone to not get too close to those big hooves. And, of course, Just Ducky had to put in his two cents worth, "That is juust ducky, juuuust ducky" and he scowled his scowliest scowl. And suddenly the shy twins, in their excitement, shouted joyously, "I get it. We get it. Down off a duck. Down off a horse. Different downs!" And even the ducks clapped their wings and laughed. Now that the twins have started talking, they will probably never stop . . .
Anyway, the more the merrier . . . just no big live horses.