Welcome to another fabulous Weekend Chat, my fellow WikiChatterers! And greetings once again from a magnificently green and thoroughly wet Cathey’s Creek. These are the dog days of summer! If you want more information than you need, check out this link to find out about the history of “dog days of summer.” This is from The Old Farmers’ Almanac, 1817:
“Dog Days bright and clear
Indicate a happy year;
But when accompanied by rain,
For better times, our hopes are vain.
“Dog Days are approaching; you must, therefore, make both hay and haste while the Sun shines, for when old Sirius takes command of the weather, he is such an unsteady, crazy dog, there is no dependence upon him.”
I’m guessing I’m in for bad times, because it’s been raining like the dickens here. I don’t suppose that those who are experiencing wildfire danger out in the western US would agree.
On the Home Front: I now have a gold tooth! It was much more painful getting the temp crown than the permanent one. Boy oh boy, was it sensitive getting that tooth clean and dry before getting the gold. I told my kids to make sure and get that one out before putting me in the furnace! But then I thought: “Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything with gold prices being so high right now!”
I received my German Heritage kilt in the mail this past Wednesday. Now my poor lesser-percentage ancestry will get celebrated. I have to go back five generations before me to hit my closest-to-the-present German line. Then it blossoms into a whole passel of Palatine migrants. The kilt is beautiful, mostly dark red and black with a yellow line, incorporating the colors from the German flag.
Two more kilts in the hopper. I expect it’ll be another six weeks at least before I get them. I can wait. Too many at one time will make my wife suspicious!
On the Genealogy Front: Once again, I got distracted from what I was working on and jumped over to my wife’s Carey line in Mercer County, Kentucky (Hey, Mindy!). This is one of those intermarrying families, and I know if I keep at it, I’ll be able to connect everyone to the right family. And, if they sit still long enough there are plenty of sources for them. These were tobacco folks, and my wife can tell stories about them and the industry in and around Harrodsburg. One of her grandfathers was a tobacco buyer for RJ Reynolds.
Because I got distracted by the above, the Barcelona 1858 birth certificates will just have to wait. I do have an eye appointment coming up at the end of this month, but I’m not holding out on new glasses helping me with pouring through those documents.
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Continue staying as safe as you can.
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