Comments on: Not Here Yet Lounge

By: Scotia48

Scotia48 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:18:28 +0000

Gosh, if any of you come to Texas and visit the Alamo and really see what happened there, it will bring you to tears!!!
I have a Great-Uncle and Great-great Uncles that were at the battle at the Alamo from Tennessee. Sam had a lot of connections in TN!

By: Scotia48

Scotia48 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:13:59 +0000

Sorry, my family got to Texas (Washington-on-the-Brazos) in 1846. That makes me a “Daughter of the Republic” :troll

By: Kate Petersen

Kate Petersen — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:56:29 +0000

Obviously, I am not a Texan. The only thing I remember about the Alamo is something vague about coonskin caps and Fess Parker.

By: biscuit

biscuit — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:33:35 +0000

Alamo maybe?

Maybe the expulsion of Sam Houston? Mexican American Revolution?????

By: Kate Petersen

Kate Petersen — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:22:39 +0000

1846?

By: Scotia48

Scotia48 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:32:08 +0000

Does 1846 count???

By: Scotia48

Scotia48 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:31:21 +0000

Am I hysterical because that marker gave me a thrill????

By: biscuit

biscuit — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:28:44 +0000

Well. I’ve been banned from the site where all the people who troll the homesteading sites go.

I didn’t even do anything! Well, okay, so I was planning on trolling them on the weekends when I should be shimmying beneath the porch to turn off the water. But still …

:troll

By: biscuit

biscuit — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:30:57 +0000

Today I watched a re-enactment of Plains Indian war dances.

I was really having to watch myself because I kept remembering that a former teacher, a Kiowa fellow, told us that Kiowa always went into battle butt naked.

Comanches probably did, too, if only to p.o. the Kiowa.

By: drchelo

drchelo — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:23:17 +0000

Hey, ¡Viva Texas! and all that, ya’all.
We have a marker like that on the wall at Hart House – the old farmhouse my mother restored, and that building wasn’t there in 1836, yet – but it was twenty years later.
Maybe we could get some more Comanches roaming the plains….