Good Morning, my fellow WikiChatterers, and welcome to another Weekend Chat! And greetings from Cathey’s Creek where there is still toilet paper to be found, but don’t try to find any hand sanitizer. Those shelves will be empty, whether in drug stores or grocery stores. This was true even before the World Health Organisation declared the Coronoavirus a pandemic! Well, we don’t go out very much anyway, but we are being careful. Haven’t seen anyone here wearing masks, though.
On the Hone Front: A “friendly” neighborhood mouse got into my wife’s car, unbeknownst to us, and ate the insulation off of three wires controlling the automatic stick shift. Fortunately, there’s that button that one can push in order to get the car out of park. So, we drove it to our local auto repair, and left It. Turns out the mouse had gotten in near the cabin air filter and left a mess there (we didn’t even know we had a cabin air filter). Still we expect this car (2007, 101,000 miles) to last a good while. We are particular about the maintenance of our vehicles.
All the repairmen men have left, and we are hoping not to have to deal with repairs around the house for a while. However, since my step-sister is in town, we are having her and my stepdad over for a meal tonight, which means... I have to help clean the house today, my favorite activity, NOT! Still, there are certain things my wife will not allow me to do, so I’ll have the kitchen, the vacuuming, and the dusting (plus some other stuff, I’m sure!)
Reading: I finished a fascinating read, The Mad King: A Biography of Ludwig II of Bavaria, by Greg King, who also wrote The Last Empress and The Man Who Killed Rasputin. Presenting, I am working on The Romanovs: 1613-1918, by Simon Sebag Montefiore. This one is turning out to be a great read! Montefiore gives more than just “he did this, she did that,” jading much more information on the culture and political world in Russia. Funny how some families that I read about in other Romanov histories who show up very early in Russian history. I’d check to see if some representatives of those families are on WikiTree, but hesitate as my understanding of Cyrillic is nil. I had a hard enough time with all that Greek I took in college!
Kilts: I received my Paterson Blue, as I told you, and am now awaiting my Macbeth modern, which should be here in a couple of weeks.
On the Genealogy Front: Still in North Dakota, this time adding families to some of the ones for which I found sources earlier in the ND Unsourced Profiles. Talk about your rabbit holes! Yet, this has been a fun experience for me, seeing so many unfamiliar surnames from areas of the world my ancestors didn’t come from. I think I’ll just stay in that state for a while. It seems so much more interesting than my own families!
I hope all of you are taking precautions and staying safe. You know what to do… just do it!
Now, enjoy yourselves in the Chat!