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Toilet paper for gasoline! Hahaha!! Yes, I’ve had enough of that silliness, too, Scott.

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I hearken back to Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule.

"People are stupid, they will believe what you tell them."

Toilet paper, gasoline, pennies, etc. If you lie about it, they will believe. It's sad really.

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Pip,

Just think about all the kiltless people and donate them. :)

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Hahaha! Spreading the joy around. Good idea, Betty!

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Oy and I couldn't find the answer button so........

I haven't had a dollar that didn't scream for mercy so when I saw that 2x4 boards were eight dollars a piece, I decided to scrounge. I'm (meaning me and hubby) building an a-frame chicken house for my Silkie chickens. I hunted in the yard for some spare lumber and came up empty. So I called the neighbors. I got six 2x6s which I cut down to 2x3s and four 2x4s. I have enough to build the coop and it was all free. Love thy neighbor(s wood).

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Mornin', Pip! So sorry to hear about the passing of your cousin. Hope you travel safely to Gastonia.

Yah, shure, even here in da upper Midwest, where we rely on different suppliers than out east, my husband has noted some hoarding. Said a guy pulled into the station with a trailer containing 6 jerry cans, which he proceeded to fill. Of course, he "needs" gas for his boat, jet ski, ATV, lawn mower and all his other toys. The turistas are descending upon us...

Through MELCat (MI's interlibrary loan system) I checked out a history of Walton County, GA. When I showed our friendly librarian the last due date 6 years ago (that was me!), she kindly let me renew it. Not a hot commodity here in Michigan, and it is thick. A few errors here and there, but contains (among many other lists) CW muster rolls...so I was able to add a few details about some collateral relatives, Delaware Hale and his son William. Still no DoD for Delaware, but he's not in the 1870 census...so...? (Probably got smallpox, or something.)

On my upcoming trip, hoping to find the grave of my Maine 6x ggrandfather, who fought in the Revolution. It's probably in some farm field and I hope they don't run me off with a shotgun...;)

Hey, you never can have too many kilts! And my tree has a few Scots Irish (the ones Cromwell kicked out). Speaking of DNA tests, don't feel bad: my alleged Spaniard in the woodpile vanished some time ago...But I'm listed as 14% Scandinavian, which makes sense for Yorkshire.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

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Betty, the reason we’re not building is exactly that, the price of construction materials. We’re looking for a house instead.

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Scott, My daughter said she saw some people trying to pump gasoline into garbage bags. That is not a smart idea anytime.

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Hi Pip, I was just reviewing your post and want to express my condolences for the death in your family. Seems like there have been several posts these past several weeks where 'chatters' have had deaths in the family. I keep all in my positive intentions. It seems you have has several losses, though, these past 6 or so months. Just know you are in my thoughts.

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Carol, you are so kind, thanks!

Answer 1

good morning Pip

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And, good morning to you, too, Tommy! Hope all is well with you.

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If Tommy, or anyone else is upright, reasonably mobile, capable of some measure of speech, after the months and months of The Virus, we salute him (them) ... 

Hopefully he will not be a patient of Jackie P's dentist ... ye gods ... you will not credit what happened to her in an hour's time ... 

Answer 2

Today is....

              

NATIONAL BUTTERMILK BISCUIT DAY

May 14th ushers in National Buttermilk Biscuit Day to celebrate this high-rising breakfast staple.

Biscuits are made using baking powder or baking soda as a leavening agent rather than yeast.  A typical buttermilk biscuit recipe contains flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, and buttermilk.  They are often referred to as a “quick bread,” indicating they do not need time to rise before baking. While being made, the dough is beaten and folded to incorporate air, which expands while baking, causing the biscuit to rise. 

Before the American Civil War, biscuits emerged as an inexpensive addition to meals. Note: Alexander P. Ashbourne patented the first biscuit cutter in 1875. 

This sturdier bread product soon became popular as people realized it absorbed the gravy on their plate better than plain bread. Soon a new family favorite, biscuits, and gravy, was created. 

Supermarkets offer canned biscuits that are refrigerated until ready to be baked. Note: In 1931, Ballard and Ballard patented these refrigerator biscuits.

Biscuits have been a staple of the Southern United States cuisine for many years and are often made with buttermilk.  Traditionally served as a side dish with butter, they are also served at breakfast with molasses, light sugarcane syrup, maple syrup, sorghum syrup, honey, jam, or jelly, or as a breakfast sandwich.

HOW TO OBSERVE Buttermilk Biscuit Day:

Aside from biscuits and gravy, give these biscuit ideas a try:

• Make biscuit breakfast sandwiches with eggs and cheese.
• Serve biscuits with your favorite soup. It’s better than dumplings!
• Use biscuit dough to make pizza crust. Partially bake the dough before adding toppings.
• Warm biscuits with butter and jelly satisfy every time.
• Serve biscuits with pork chops, pork loins, or pulled pork.
• BBQ and biscuits hit the spot, too. They soak up the juices quite well.
• Whenever you have fresh fish, serve homemade biscuits. Catfish and biscuits are particularly delicious.
• Who likes tomato sandwiches during the summer? When fresh tomatoes ripen on the vine, slice them up while they’re warm. Add a little bit of mayonnaise and sprinkle of salt and sandwich them between two warm biscuits.
• Don’t forget dessert. Biscuits make an excellent base for strawberry shortcakes. Just add a little sugar to your dough to sweeten it. You’ll make up the rest of the sweetness with the strawberries and whipped cream.

If you’re looking for a recipe, try one of the recipes below:

Easy Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits
Easy Biscuits

Share your favorite recipes and biscuit combinations.

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OK, I can eat ten of these. If my mom was still here, I think I could add two to that. Good one, Dorothy!

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Hi Dorothy! I love, love, love buttermilk biscuits. Wish I had some right now!

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Why did I immediately think of Pip when I saw this and yet remained unsurprised by his comment? That said I'll take five.

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NOTHING can be better than biscuits and gravy, pepper gravy, unless the biscuit is wrapped around a sausage and THEN drowned in pepper gravy ... yum

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Susan - that hits the spot. MMMMMMM!!!

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Aye, Scott, that it does. Lived in Reno some 20+ yrs and used to eat biscuits and gravy when I could get downtown

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Being totally Southern, Buttermilk Biscuits are my faves! My grandmother made the best big ole biscuits and we topped them with freshly churned and chilled butter. Would love to repeat that in her farmhouse kitchen one more time!!

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Thank you, Dorothy! I love these...gotta see if the buttermilk left over in the fridge from my last batch (and hubby's birthday cake) is still good.

In one respect only, I'm such a bad Southerner: never wanted to ruin a perfectly good biscuit with gravy! (Though I understand the rationale...good way to fill poor folks' bellies.) It's a Midwestern staple too.

Answer 3

Buenos días from the Old Pueblo. It’s 7am and 72F (22.2C), an expected high of 98F (36.7C) with 3% humidity in Tucson today. I’ll be starting my summer rain dance as soon as I am through with my chat!

My mum is doing very well in the memory center! My brother has been keeping me apprised on a twice-weekly basis. The center supervisor sent an android photo of mum snacking on nachos and drinking a margarita! Ole! I wouldn’t mind joining her for that kind of care. They allowed visitors for the first time this last Sunday (Mother’s Day) so my sister and niece had their first visit. They brought mum to their home for a few hours and she was actually happy to return to the memory center. I did notice on FaceBook that my sister took a brief vacation to Baraboo (the Circus Museum) with the family. I am glad to see that she has the opportunity now to spend more time with her husband and adult children. My concern now is my brother. I speak with him a couple of times a week and he informed me this week that he’s been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. So now, he’s had a change in his medication. Naturally, I send positive healing energy.

It's been a busy week workwise. I had a zoom meeting on Tuesday to discuss my work on the global health syllabus section for which I am responsible. This weekend, I have to get serious about completing to PowerPoint presentations for two modules, one on human subjects protections in global health research and the other on finding the best evidence. This past Tuesday evening, I finished my comments/revisions to our provisionally accepted paper to the American Journal of Nursing. It was a great way to celebrate and conclude the International Week of the Nurse! Wednesday following the genealogy course, I participated in a zoom meeting with colleagues in Mexico. Our group is developing a training protocol for high school students to reduce/prevent diabetes related to diet, physical activity and sleep. We are supplementing the training with complementary approaches, including a guided imagery technique I teach to the health providers enrolled in the certified diabetes educator program at the university. I also have to write up my review of a paper submitted to the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. It’s poorly written so it is an easy evaluation to do.

Genealogically, we had our fourth Mastering Genealogical Proof course with Cyndi Ingle this past Wednesday. The chapter covered analysis and correlation. Even though it is specific to genealogy, there are elements of scientific research that warmed the atria and ventricles of my heart. Plus, it is so darn fun interacting with my classmates. It’s like having 26 siblings who don’t get on each other’s nerves. As to WikiWork, I have been growing the Bates/Banning/Case/Knowlton/Holcomb tree. Tomorrow and Saturday I will be doing some clean up on the Baldwin aisle again. There are so many of them, and so easy to get them confused and messed up. What irritates me, and what I am working on are profiles that were created say 7 years ago with no biography, no sourcing, and comments like ‘personal knowledge’ for profiles that date back to the 1700s! Nice trick time travelers! OR, they’ve just ‘plunked’ some mile-long numerical link (that someone had to have made up) from Ancestry. Several of these have a name and maybe a ‘sort of’ birth year and maybe a location, but nothing else. And then we wonder why we have ‘data doctor’ issues.

That’s my rant and chat for the week. I’m wishing everyone a fun, happy and productive (or not) weekend! Saludos!

And, Yes, Pip...I read your Post. "One mair toot and Pip's oot!!!"

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Carol, I am so pleased your mum is doing well, my parents were starting that loss of memory journey a few years ago, but and this may sound horrible, other events intervened and the situation and its multitude of complications did not happen.

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Carol! So glad to hear your Mom is doing well at the memory center. What great news! I know that is a load off of you. 

A cousin of Grant? You are now declared a suspicious person and will have to go to a re-education camp. 

When I participated in the last thon, I was stunned, stunned I say, at the number of untagged profiles that had zero bio, gedcom junk, or were unsourced. Spent a lot of time on that.

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Hugs neighbor! Glad your mom is happy with the center and that your sis has time for her own family again. As always you are one busy lady! I've been in a funk for various reasons (as you'll see from my post). Been trying to find new ways to market my novels, but everything costs money which I really don't have to spend! However, I did join the Independent Author Network, so I could submit my first novel to their 2021 Book Award Contest. I've also created accounts with LinkedIn and Twitter and doing my best to master using #hashtags! Spending a lot more time trying to promote on social media. Ugh!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend. Don't think your rain dance will work until late June. LOL

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Carol, good news about your mom. And margaritas at assisted living? Might make it tolerable! :)

Yah, lots of "personal knowledge" (we could all use a time machine like that!), unsourced GEDCOMs, and promises that "sources will be added by May 26, 2018."

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Ummm....suspicious person? Maybe a re-education camp for you, Pipster, but perhaps you could wear a Reb kilt, if there is such a one.

Yes, it was absolutely stunning to see the junk, lack of bios, lack of sourcing, etc. I really wish there was a way that Wiki-we could put some constraints on this. I don't rack up a lot of points on the CATs because I feel compelled (along with a bit of OCD) to add a brief bio with one source to the profiles I come across. They look so lonely and lost without something and, after all, there are people who wouldn't be here if not for them!

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Hi Diane, I was hoping to hear from you, neighbor! {{{HUGS}}}!  Yes, it is good news about mum. She is in a good place and helps my kid sister find a new place in her life experience with her children.

I truly hope you find a market for your books in various ways. Might there be a personally owned bookstore where you might arrange to do a book signing? Or see if they will let you place flyers in their bookstore. If I come across any ideas, I will send them along.

Know that I send on-going hugs to help reduce your funk.

Answer 4

Well, there is light at the Corona lockdown tunnel. Finally the number of hospital beds used by Covid patients is slowly going down... For the ones that love to look at data: the peak of young people entering the hospitals is 10 days after our National Holiday in which people could not wait to celebrate and forgot that also young people can get seriously ill and infect others.

I am greatly inspired by the massive number of new linked documents available at wiewaswie. I finally have some time to visit Python again and have great visions of linked data there. Let's see what I can achieve in a the few days I have nowadays for programming.

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Googled wiewaswie which turns out to be WieWasWie and it's the CBG|Netherlands Centre for Family History WieWasWie (thank you, Google, for providing a translation program, LOL) 

Googled only because wiewaswie was a new word for me and I was curious about it   

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Hi, Michel! I'm relieved that Susan looked that one up for me and saved me the time. WieWasWie.

I followed your link, let Google translate it for me, and the stats are looking good for where you are. Here's hoping your restrictions will be eased soon. Are you able to travel yet?

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National holday - Koningsdag? I know when that is, WIllem-Alexander shares his birthday with my dad

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@Pip, well, the world was changed from red (disallowed) to a variety of red and orange (should not travel). I will be happy if there are some festivals nearby to visit, so real travel will be later this year probably (when I do not have holidays ).

Answer 5

Good Afternoon from a deary, deary North of Scotland.

What can I say about my time since I lasy spoke on here.  Major meltdown of computer, total blue screen of death, due apparently from a glitch in Windows 10 if some computers are put in sleep mode they never wake up!  I am sure there was a move about that somewhere .... the only one that comes to mind is COMA from the eighties.  Anyhoo 1 week in the pc doctors before my precious came home, 3 days of which I was informed would be for covid quarantine before anyone could look at it, then the techie promptly pick up the computer , tucked it under his arm and wondered off with it, no longer in the wrapping I had brought it in! No words!

I managed to limp along doing the bare minimum to keep the Scotland Project peeps and the Greeter peeps from not getting angry with me by borrowing my husbands laptop.  Which is older that Methuselah.  He threatened to take it off my if I kept on inventing swear words everytime I used it.  He has now bought me a second monitor to make me more efficent, it also means I can catch up on my crafting as well.

Here is my new set up (if I can get the image to upload)

After all that  I ended up at the dentist yesterday.  With the new covid restrictions having at firstput all denal treatment on hold her in Scotland for over a year and now they are doing all your treatment in one go. Imagine my shock (and pain) at having 2 root canals, 1 normal filling a clean and polish and a tooth extraction all in an hour.

Yes Pip I did resort to Whisky last night.

Pressing button in the hope my picture shows

Have a good day all

Jackie

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Our condolences about your computer --  My Sig O has had some choice world-curdling comments about Windows 10, himself, having had to "restore" his computer function from days earlier in time about a half dozen times in the last 3 months ... he is NOT a fan of Windows 10

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"Imagine my shock (and pain) at having 2 root canals, 1 normal filling a clean and polish and a tooth extraction all in an hour."

Think I should have said condolences on your having a dentist who was a fan of Marquis de Sade 

On the other hand, your dentist sounds like an accomplished, skilled, dentist who provided a compact stream-lined service ... 

Yeah, I do NOT doubt shock and pain is an accurate description ... ye gods ... and you left him alive to continue his practices ? You are a strong woman ... 

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Susan

Acutally he looks about 12 years old, speaks in a very soft Edinburgh accent, quiet almost to a fault and has bambi eyelashes to die for.

I did think about it then remembered I would still have to come back.  Denists don't scare me, but this was a long time in the chair.  On the positive I don't have to go back for a year

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Hi Jackie, I had a computer meltdown in early April. I was to do a presentation on a DNA proof for our local genealogical society. We did a test run the night before and NOTHING! I had to call friends and they were kind enough to let me use their computer (and home) for the presentation. And then they treated me to breakfast! I could have used a sedative as well. I totally understand your meltdown. Sending healing energy following your dental appointment!

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Bambi eyes  ... and do you know what Godzilla did to Bambi? Hahahahahaha ... saw a cartoon (film) 3x ... BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA (Short Animation) - YouTube

Saw the original one, on TV, that is, this one is not the original one we saw back when ... prior to 1971 ...  

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Jackie, I not only think that my wife would NOT allow me to use her laptop, I wouldn't dare to. It's keyboard is configured differently than a "normal" one. I'd be inventing swear words, too (but would never be able to out-do my wife in that category).

I need a bigger desk. I want a double-screened work station!

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I blame another WikiTree'er who suggested it lol

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Whisky while WikiTreeing. Bet that makes for some interesting results. (Don’t look at my evening contributions!)

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Pip, I tried out one of the ergomaniac keyboards and came away convinced my hands were going to fall off of my arms -- painful experience ... also tried out the touted chair and that also proved painful .. Pretty sure my body does not bend around and about like an ergo-body should

Answer 6

Good Morning but it's almost afternoon here. I was up late greeting and slept in.

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Nothing wrong with thinning the herd occasionally, as I certainly love me some fresh fried chicken. And it can't get much fresher than from the back yard.

I've heard wringing their neck and letting them run around a bit is a common method of preparing them, although my Granny was always a hatchet woman - one quick CHOP and they'd run around like a chicken with their head cut... well, you get the idea. Of course, boiling the feathers off them is a stinky business, but once you get past that part, it's home free with the carving, frying, and the best part - eating.

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Thanks!

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LOL! You are funny. My mom said she was goning to name them. I said I don't know thier names but I know thier friends..."Sweet & Sour" and "Dumplin" : )

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The chickens are the initial "starter flock" for a business that Pam's da is going to have. 76 members brought home.  Dunno where Pam is located geographically -- one supposes it is Canada or US or possibly Britain and there will be regulations concerning the sanitation, care and feeding and such of the chickens -- and if the intent and effort is made to own and operate a business then there will be regulations about that also 

The least unpleasant way to end a chicken's life is to hang them upside down for maybe a half-hour (or so I read) which effectively sedates the chicken, remove it from its position and decapitate it ... there's "life hacks" to loosen the feathers so the chicken can be plucked clean and there's regs about the offal (one has to eviscerate the chicken) ... that's the limit of what I have read so far ... There's also a technique etc for eviscerating the chicken "cleanly" so to speak ... 

Gah. 

Anyway the "sedated" chicken is much easier to deal with and behead without the mess -- we lived next to a farmer when I was a child and HE hung his to sedate them before he beheaded them ... 

gah 

Need an industrial sized cooler or freezer also to put the dec'd chickens in if you are going to be selling chickens ready for cooking ... 

Rubber gloves, face masks, rubber aprons if you are going to butcher your chickens -- my suggestion is that you sell the live chickens to some butcher or two or three and let THEM do all that ... they have the equipment and training etc 

Two roosters in a pen with the hens and it will be a fight to the death, or so I have read, so once you identify the roosters you need to keep them separated ... you could sell some I guess to those who don't have a rooster for their hens? Dunno. That's something the feed store might know or the Ag Extension office etc 

gah 

Pretty sure I have emptied my basket of info on chicken farming ... predators are any four-legged carnivore and the usual humans .. 

DO find out about the newest ideas about the coops and humane chicken farming or face the wrath of some enraged PETA or similar ... 

I will say if you get to the end of 2021 still with a flock of 75+ despite gifts, sales and predators, you must be doing something right ... Judging from what I saw and heard from the neighbor across the street ... and the farmer of yore ... 

Sig O thought at one time HE would like a flock of chickens and by the time I had detailed the work HE would be put to (NOT me) and the HAZARDS to the chickens (cats, mostly) etc he gave up the idea wholly ... 

Chicken farming -- even if your flock is only four hens and borrowed rooster -- is not for the weak or easily discouraged 

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I won't be the one butchering anything. I don't have the heart for it. (Or lack there of) I'll leave that to Dad or like you said a butcher. I'll collect the eggs and nurse the babies. I prefer watching life begin not end.

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Sound idea, there, Pam, let the butcher deal with it ... dunno if you have any butchers who can be hired, so you might want to check that out also ... national or regional chain groceries have their own "farms" or buy in bulk on contract ... but it is possible there's an independent who can deal ... 

It is a bold venture for you and your father, and I for one hope you succeed -- it's a lot of work, but you CAN keep the flock under 100 for instance or hire someone 

Is Raising Chickens for Meat Profitable? My Cost Breakdown | Hawk Hill

How do I find a local butcher? | BackYard Chickens - Learn How to Raise Chickens

Cost To Butcher Meat Chickens (With Examples) – Family Farm Livestock

ANYWAY, are you likely to expand beyond 100 chickens to care for, feed, water and keep an eye for disease for maybe a year plus some? Two years? Until you have a good grasp of what's involved? 

Because you'll want to be sure you know what you are getting into and how to deal with it --  I think the first couple of years ought to be filled empirical education (hands-on) ... 

 

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Chickens raised for eating are usually sold at a younger age than will be laying eggs.  She may need to look into ages before making too many egg box purchases.

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No, My plan anyhow is to keep it on the smaller side. We are guestimating on having about a 1 to 1 ratio so about 35 hens and we will be selling most of the Roosters. Our focus will be on egg production.

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Did you know mush Chick you buy in the store are no more than 6-8 weeks old when they are butchered? They are just pumped full of hormones to grow so fast!

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Smaller side is good, Pam, for the next few years -- for all their noise etc chickens are delicate creatures -- bacteria, virus, predators etc and believe it or not after a month or two of caring for them you will be GLAD you are staying on the small side in quantity ... 

Six months from now you will have a fund of experience and knowledge gained from it you never ever thought you'd have and never thought to ask about beforehand 

Answer 7

Hails and horns, Wikipeeps!

On the genealogy front this week, I've been taking part in the year of accuracy for my friend, Devon Noel Lee. Working on her tree has been interesting. I can't spoil what we've found. But, we've unraveled some mysteries.

I also posted a blog about Mother's Day. Check out the details here: https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2021/05/52-ancestors-week-19-mothers-day.html

That blog was fun to write as I wrote about how Mother's Day quickly became "Cousins Day" for us once all the little old Italian ladies passed away. Hopefully, it will continue in some form once things are semi back to normal. And they are getting there. Slowly but surely.

On the non genealogy front, I helped the 'rents take care of some boat stuff. Boat batteries are heavy. I don't recommend anyone lifting them by themselves. Looking at you, Pip. I'm watching you, buddy.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

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Ciao Chris! Busy man as always! Have fun in Devon. It's near my peeps in Cornwall!

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Thanks! But, it's my friend whose name is Devon. She's nowhere near Devon, UK. Her peeps are in OH, KY and such.

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Carol, we are working in the WikiTree-Challenge on the tree of "name=Devon Noel Lee" ;).

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Chris, I've been to a few restaurants in my lifetime that I could categorize along with The Pond View! So bad that I've been unable to finish the meal.

I love that photo of Giuseppe and Clementina, the one with just the two of them. Do you remember Giuseppe at all?

Ok, Chris, if lifting batteries is becoming a problem, time to join a gym and beef you up! 

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I never met any of my great-grandparents. They passed away in the early '70s with the exception of Clementina in 1965 and Maria in 1943. My mom knew her great-grandparents, Joseph Laplante and Georgianna Ross, though. So sad that my dad never met his nonna Tedesco. =/.

I don't remember my great-grandparents but I do have stories about them.

Every once in a while, though, I'll mention the Pond View fiasco. I think I remember what I had. Stuffed chicken breast. It had ham in it and it was just disgusting. I did not finish it.

There was this other place where I ordered lobster with breadcrumbs and mashed potatoes. There were like 5 pieces of lobster and the rest was breadcrumbs. I had plenty of room for dessert.....

And hey I can lift batteries fine. I just wouldn't recommend you lifting them.

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Sounds like a Chicken Cordon Bleu, which is normally delicious. However, it sounds like you got a really bad one.

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Definitely. Thankfully, other places were better.

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Chris, we usually give a place two chances to get it right. If not, we never go back. And in our small town, it’s easy to keep a list in our heads and where to go… and not go.

Big Mike’s: good food, long wait

Pisgah Fish Camp: always good

Mayberry’s: off the list.

Zaxby’s: off the list

Quixote’s: not like it used to be, but still good.

El Chapala: always good

Etc, etc, etc.

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I had the best chicken cordon bleu and to top that off jaeger schnitzel at a speck on the map in Germany. I was going to be in Mannheim for a 2 week training trip, and had a former assistant manager whose maiden name was Nierste. Well, she had mentioned they had come from a town by the same name, Nierstein. I thought - what the heck! We're here in Germany and that can't be too far from Mannheim. We had a rental car and time on our hands. We'll go and visit, I'll get her a souvenir, and surprise her. Well, we had a hard time figuring out how we were supposed to get across the Rhine river - there didn't seem to be any nearby bridges. But there was a dirt turnoff from the road, so we cautiously took that and it led to an old fashioned ferry. We paid the couple of marks, and the gentleman had us drive our car up, and off we went. Nierstein was on the other side and was a small town (maybe population 8,000). We were hungry, so we stopped at the local food place and were treated to a feast. Since it's not a tourist spot as far as I could tell and we were one of the few visitors, we were treated like royalty. I ordered jaeger schnitzel - my friend cordon bleu. And they shoveled out a huge pile of pommes frites. We traded meals a few times and I had to admit that not only were these truly home cooked, but were both two of the best meals we'd ever had. Every time we'd start to run low on anything, the young ladies would be back at the table, refilling our bier, adding more pommes frites, asking if we wanted desert... now it may have been partly due to me mentioning that I was there on behalf of a Nierste and wanted souvenirs, but either way, I'd go back and eat there anytime.  But that's my favorite cordon bleu story and one that will stick in my head forever.

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A maybe-historical note on pomme frites ... According to an early 19th century manuscript written by then-US President Thomas Jefferson, he talks about a dish called 'Pommes de terre frites en petites tranches' (Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small slices). Some historians have claimed that this recipe came from the French chef, Honoré Julien.  Jul 15, 2020

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@ Pip: I think we went there twice. I remember having something else that did NOT agree with me. Let's leave it at that. Restaurant was gross. The 1686 house was better. AND was on Phantom Gourmet. So, that's a plus. Phantom Gourmet is a local restaurant review for the Boston area and southern NH.

@Scott: The idea of chicken cordon bleu sounds good. I would try it again if people made sure it was prepared correctly. Just goes to show some people can mess up even the most simple food. =)

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Sigh. MORE new words ... LOL ... jaeger schnitzel  so like what is a jaeger schnitzel ... in the SciFi Historical Fiction series initiated by Eric Flint (1632 etc) a Jaeger is mentioned, a hunter, of the Germanies, 1600's,  so that word was familiar ... so online it says there are FOUR types of schnitzel in Germany, but that the Jaeger is " Crispy breaded pork cutlets served with rich mushroom gravy – that's Jaegerschnitzel. And it's one of Germany's most popular and delicious foods. This authentic Jägerschnitzel recipe will absolutely delight your taste buds! There are four basic kinds of Schnitzel in Germany."Jan 21, 2018 Authentic German Jägerschnitzel (Hunter Schnitzel with Mushroom Gravy) - The Daring Gourmet

(sounds like totally yummy. ) 

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That's definitely Jaegerschnitzel. One of those things I ask my wife to make me on my birthday each year, and most years, she does. Normally, we buy the regular thin sliced pork loin chops, and still have to get the meat hammer out and beat the living daylights out of them to make them nice and thin so that they come out just right, but she got smart this year and had the butcher just slice them extra thin. Saved a bit of time. Of course, if you enjoy taking out your frustrations on a piece of pork, or prefer a cutlet that is larger around once its been pounded down a bit, you can aim for a thicker chop to start with and end up with a much bigger piece.

The real key is the mushroom gravy. We've had to experiment multiple times with slightly different ingredients to come up with a taste that we like. The key for us seems to be the Dijon Mustard, and not too much - just a dollop of that - but it brings out the tangy flavor. I suspect everyone would be different, but I look forward to it each year.

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Scott, think you are right about the Dijon ... that WOULD be just the perfect mustard ... best one out there for taste .. my father spent part of his youth in the heart of the "Germanic Texas" area (where German was spoken daily until WW 1, and with WW 1, switched overnight to English) and he was a cook; a number of things he cooked came very close to the recipes for German cooking that I have seen ..  and he cooked a few times something very much like the Jaegerschnitzel a few times that I recall ...

Answer 8

Greetings from Everett, Washington!

The power pole is working just fine.  Yesterday, however, when I tried to save the Excel spreadsheet of descendants of William Robe, I was told there had been a power interruption. First I knew of it.  I lost a few that I had entered recently but no big deal. Husband is still waiting for the Geek Squad at Best Buy to rebuild his computer.

Yesterday went well with the schedule. Adult children and I attended the 6:30 a.m. Mass for the Feast of the Ascension, so husband only attended the High Mass with the Bishop and the Confirmations. He was home in the nick of time before 7 p.m. when the Historical Society Zoom meeting started. Without him there I could not have shared the PowerPoint for my Mukilteo Minute that I do every month. It was for a "name only" burial in the Pioneer Cemetery who turned out to be a military veteran, hence my saving him for the month of May.  Our speaker for the main program was a woman after my own heart, a documentary filmmaker who does her own research, obsessed with finding old newspapers, old film footage, and living descendants of the people involved in the "Everett Massacre" of 1916.  She described how she sifted through a trunk of material stored in someone's attic and finding a precious photograph, how she tracked down court transcripts that had been auctioned off and stored in an archive, uncataloged.  Like me (and my husband) she is obsessed with all the details because after hours of scanning newspapers, that one precious detail might appear that makes the search all worthwhile.

I paused in my Robe descendancy pursuit to create profiles for the parents of a dear friend and to bring one of his lines back to Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. My friend and his wife brought me purple columbines on Wednesday from their garden.

This morning I took Billy, the Pom/Chi who adores me, for his morning walk. But he wasn't done.  He wanted to play with me at 7:30 a.m.  I spent ten minutes playing "squeak soccer" with him in the upstairs hallway. That is, Billy takes the rubber squeaky toy in his mouth; I manage to get hold of it, then kick it as far as I can down the hallway and he brings it back, and we continue.  Husband is talking about buying another purebred Yorkshire Terrier to take the place of Peppi (although not in our hearts).  I'm not confident in my ability to give two dogs the attention they need.  We are all too interested in our computers and video games to give dogs the attention they deserve.

The mess upstairs demands a cleanup and a resolution to the lack of a working sewing machine.  When we have time (!) husband and I check out dealers in our area.  It's just that I want to get the broken one fixed before I donate it somewhere.  In the meantime I have been doing computer stuff and not sewing (except hand sewing and constant mending of holes in socks).

Daughter has gone back to work but has a bad sinus infection.  I told her to stop using the netti pot because it only makes it worse.  She is determined to fill her 3 hours today.  Then I will have the pleasure of dining out with her after her work is done. She is scheduled for a nasal scan on Sunday afternoon.

I am happy for all God's blessings and am actually in a good mood this morning.  Early morning exercise must be helping.  I appreciate all Pip does for WikiTree. And I appreciate the virtual vacations, foods of the day, and National Day of Whatever.

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Be assured that we here appreciate you and your commentary. I find it fascinating in fact

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Why, thank you, Susan.  I wish I had your spontaneity and turn of phrase.

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Margaret, you sound so much more upbeat this morning that it gladdens my day!

Has the historical society got it's YouTube channel up yet? I haven't been able to find it. After all this time these past two years, I feel like I've gotten to know more about what your society is doing than my own!

I missed Ascension as I was having stomach problems this week. I didn't want to go and be an interruption, leaving and coming back, leaving and coming back. I'll count you having gone as proxy for me!

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Dear Pip, watch the space mukilteohistorical.org for updates. As of now, the tech who volunteered the upload service is still in the preliminary stages of the YouTube.  This was a proposal presented at our last board meeting.  You and all my fellow weekend chatters will be first in the loop.

Yesterday I went to the sewing & vacuum place to look at all their offerings.  Turns out that I knew the young saleslady as a fellow member of the Mukilteo Lighthouse Quilters Guild.  We looked at Pfaff, Janome, Brother and Bernina.  I was blown away by what modern machines can do.  One can stitch sideways.  One has a laser light as a seam guide--aha! use it to make half square triangles without marking the fabric!  I am also thinking of getting a new table/cabinet for the new machine to sit on. AND-I don't have to get my old machine fixed before I recycle it.

Thus today's task is to figure out where to put the new toy.  Husband knows that as my bum knee ages I will feel less inclined to haul things up and down stairs. He suggested putting it in the spare room downstairs by the carport.  Uh, I looked and I see barely enough room. Whisper to self: that's the room in which I was going to put all my genealogy books and papers.  But the antique bookcase has barely anything in it.  Shuffling, tossing out (I'm for that--judiciously) and shifting about may make it possible for me to both sew and do genealogy down there. We'll see.  I must resist the temptation to fill the room with fabric scraps.  Thus the need to ponder and prepare this weekend.

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Fabric scraps - lived next door to a woman who was a Sewing Fiend and had scraps by the ton, she solved the matter by having plastic barrels with lids, and stowed her scraps by color (more or less) so that what passed as red / rose and such went in one barrel, green / moss  etc went in another one 

The barrels have handles, a lid and are easy to relocate, barring the weight IN them, but as long as the lid is kept tight the barrels can be stored out on the utility porch? 

INSIDE her "sewing / craft" room she had maybe 6 or so of those plastic utility shelving units, which one assembles, legs to the top, and then one can stack them ... so she had them six ft tall (5 shelves, 16 legs) and more than enough room for those plastic "milk crates" you can buy at Kmart or Walmart etc and THOSE were filled with other items she used 

In your case you'd have 2 maybe 3 units for papers and another 2 or 3 for sewing, and a large table, two chairs (one to each end) -- one end of the table for paper work and computer, the other end for sewing machine -- right kind of table and you could put a few barrels for scraps under it 

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Margaret, I’ll watch that space for when the YouTube videos!

my mom kept a sewing machine from back in the 70s to the day she died. About two or three years before, she got a Bernini, and while she did some sewing on it, she much perfected her old one. She just couldn’t wrap her head around the new technology!

Answer 9

Good Morning Pip and everyone.  Carol already gave our weather report for Tucson.  I was going to meet her for coffee until this darn accident.  I am now in the wheelchair almost full time (for mobility) because my arm is cramping up from using the walker.  Thankfully my sister came for a few days as I can't use the chair in the bedroom because of the carpet.  She got me to bed last night.  Physical Therapy meeting next week will hopefully give me something to do for the arm and also for everything around the pelvis and the shoulder pain.

My brain is still working, so I have used this time to do more on the Acadian project.  You may not know this unless you work with french records.  The french (Quebec, Acadie, France) often had multiple first names.  They never had middle names.  They did not use middle initials at least in the 1600-mid 1800's.  After that they were occasionally used to help distinguish children of the same name.  They certainly did not all get their fathers first name letter as a middle initial because that would not be distinguishing.  In the earlier years they often had "dit/ditte" (male and female versions) names which is like an "also known as", which did help distinguish brothers of the same name.  Sometimes the dit name was a nickname, such as l'aine for older boy.  Though the word dit itself was not always used in the nickname.  More often the dit name was used in the last name, such as dit Parisien for he was from Paris.  On Wikitree dit names are never used in LNAB but can go in the current last name if it was actually used by that person.

I mention children of the same name.  This was common.  Especially if a child died young, the next one might also be given their name.  But sometimes they just did give them the same names, Pierre is one of the favorites.  And then it makes for crazy when Pierre 1 marries a Marie 1 and brother Pierre 2 marries a sister Marie 2.  Which Pierre/Marie couple had which children?  If we are lucky a census gives us the household listing.

So I am working on names this week!

And Pip, how could you think that we don't read your whole post?  Could "toot" = "tweet" in today's terms?

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Isn't there some Scot's saying about plans that oft go astray -- it's awful that you have been thoroughly banged up ...

Do you think Carol could drop by your home? She could always bring along a thermos of Starbuck's ...

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Hi Cindy, I am so very sorry to hear of your health travails! If your sister is nearby, might she bring two 2 pound hand weights. I have to do physical therapy almost daily and am expected to use the weights for strengthening (along with some other exercises) due to muscle loss and weakness from the multiple sclerosis.

I thought of you the other night when I watched finding your roots with Henry Louis Gates. One of his guests was a woman named Chloe Sevigny. I'm not sure who she is as I not seen her in anything; however, she has strong French Canadian roots and I think you might have enjoyed seeing the show. I believe it will be repeated on Saturday (tomorrow) around 2pm on our local PBS station.

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Cindy, while I have not seen it in records of my family in recently times, I have found two children of the same name, one for a child who died earlier. I always thought it such a strange practice,

The show that Carol mentioned... you might be able to log onto PBS and see if they have it online. I've seen a few things I missed there.

You get well soon! As soon as our creek bank restoration is done, I am coming to see my brother in Tucson!

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Cindy, hope you will be feeling much better soon. Although from what you say, it will be a few months yet, what with the pelvis, arm & shoulder and etc

Answer 10

Thank You for hosting the Chat Pip, Is it Friday already.

This week.

Monday, With a 9 hour drive home I really did nothing else except load the car and unload the car. We even ordered dinner and had it delivered.

Tuesday, We were planning on babysitting the great granddaughter but with the parents and baby all sick we decided not to get involved with them at this time. We were also planning to see the youngest granddaughter but she also got sick so that did not happen either. The parts finally came in to fix our washing machine. The problem is they did not work. We are getting a refund for most of the cost for parts and we ordered a new washer.

Wednesday, Cut the grass for the last time ever. I have had a grass allergy but it got really bad, I had red raised blisters from head to toe, so we hired a 16 year old who will be cutting the grass from now on. My health is more important than a bit of money. Needless to say I did nothing on the computer or WikiTree after cutting the grass.

Thursday, I did do a bit on WikiTree, in fact I managed to open up a few profiles that were unlisted, a good thing for the tree.

Today so far I have spent several hours on the phone with my daughter who is driving up from North Carolina. She managed to fill up her car earlier in the week before all the madness down there got too bad and with a hybrid car she made it into Virginia and only needed 6 gallons to fil her tank again. After that she had enough gas to make it to our house where gas is still plentiful so she should be good to go home as well. She is in southern Ohio at the time I am typing this and I expect her within the next 2 to 3 hours. After that my time on the computer will be limited until Monday morning.

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The new washing machine was delivered on Thursday and later that day the microwave decided to quit working so we bought a new one. it was a mixed day for sure.

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I do plan on going out to the store and buying a new baking pan for our new Microwave/convection/air fryer oven to test some of the new features out.

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Mind boggling week, and I'm pleased you and wife are at home safely -- was worried

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Susan, when we left on Monday we had enough gas to get to the middle of Virginia and the gas was no problem there. We filled up and got almost home before we stopped again but Ohio has no gas shortage. I guess averaging 36 miles per gallon is not bad especially going thru the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia.

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Ah Dale, the GAS supply wasn't what worried me, it was things like exploding tires (been there and done that), multi-car wrecks (seen those), road rage (seen that). flash floods over the roadway (been there done that), out-of-control vehicles (dodged more than one in my 250,000+ miles ) and a multitude of other dangers that abound ...

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Dale, did the new parts not work because something else was wrong? I believe that this is one of those rare times where I've not seen you able to fix something. On my end, if it doesn't work, throw it out and get a new one!

I know you really enjoyed your visit to the Blessed Realm (the South), even with two nine-hour drives.

Give that 16 yr-old my number. I've about had it mowing here.

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Pip, The repair man could not get the "motor", he called it something else, off of the "transmission". The computer board worked fine but without repairing the other problem the computer would burn out rapidly. The end result was we needed to replace it.

As for the 16 year old, I think the 9 plus hour drive each way would make him say no to doing your yard, Sorry.

Susan, I can safely say I have made trips totaling more than 250,000 miles between Mexico and the James Bay in Canada and from New York State to New Mexico and have never encountered multi car wrecks, road rage, out of control vehicles, or flooded roads. I have seen many truck escape ramps in the mountains however and my grandfather told us their purpose many years ago

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Dale, I am pleased you did your 250,000+ border to border without incident.  Has to be a minor miracle IMO since I've seen all that and more.  

I too have seen those truck escape-ramps and they gave ME a bad case of the horrors when they ended on the edge of a cliff with no where else to go but into a chasm.  I had to assume a driver would still able to leap from the cab before the truck went over the edge -- at least I hope they were able.

Answer 11

Good afternoon from cold, cold and did I mention cold London!

Even though my hands feel like they're icing over, I got a brand new SD card for my previously broken scanner this week and have uploaded my first pictures to WikiTree this week, so yay.

In other new, I've been watching too much TV this week and so for my genealogy research today I've been running "signature analysis" on my 3x great-grandmother (Kate Trendell) to try and find the reason she married in 1906 when she had already had 14 children in a 24 year relationship with her 'husband' William Powell.

She had been going by Kate Powell since 1891 but was Kate Trendell in 1881 and so I thought to have a look for a marriage between those dates, when lo-and-behold I found a secret husband named William Thackery whom I can find but a single record for.

Weirder yet, in 1891, Kate Powell and her 'husband' are housing a lodger by the name of Edwin W Thackery - and this man is by all account a ghost....

Pick an easy profile, I said. Someone you know lots about, I said. Have a relaxing weekend, I said. Well now I just have to know about this new husband don't I 

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"Pick an easy profile, I said. Someone you know lots about, I said. Have a relaxing weekend, I said. Well now I just have to know about this new husband don't I "

Ah, David, this is the old "open the closet door and get attacked by 17 boxes of goodies no one told you were stored in there ..." 

 I have actually had loaded closets unload on me, and packages frozen stiff hit me when I opened that freezer compartment and a cupboard of dishes fall off the wall when I pulled on the cabinet door and ... the list is long, sadly 

But yes, and DO keep us informed about what you find out, that woman sounds rather remarkable 

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Hi David, this sounds like the start of an exhilarating and exhausting weekend opportunity. When I first started reading your post, I though 'ghost'. Might this be a ghost topic for this week? This new husband? The story gets curiouser and curiouser!

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An easy profile? Is there such a thing?  OK, I'll admit that there are, but you are right about some of them being humdingers. Good detective work on your part, David!

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David --  Cold London, cold icy hands, and I'm curious, doesn't the room or the apartment (flat?) or house have heating? 

There's stoicism and then there's uber-stoicism ... my hands that cold (icy) would cause my entire arm to ache ... 

Answer 12

Hi from southern Ontario;

Chez moi/at home: I am somewhat disgruntled; Hmm what happens if you are gruntled?  I'm sure Susan Smith will look it up!

I have been reviewing our Covid lockdown history for Peel Region, Ontario. Except for a short time, August 1- Oct 10, 2020, we have been in some form of lockdown since March 23, 2020. From November 20 to late March/early April local area lockdown, mid April to present day province wide lockdown, with an extension to June 2, and probably longer. 

We are the only place in North America to have closed golf courses, because as our premier says, he asked his golfing buddies, and they get together after the game to have a few 'pops' he meant alcoholic drinks. A highly scientific way to research. Not that I golf but…..

Weather: has improved significantly this week temps in the 18 C range and supposed to get warmer. I have been able to prepare the vegetable garden for planting, but lots more still needs to be done. 

Reading: I finished Peter C. Newman: Hostages to fortune: The United Empire Loyalists and the making of Canada. It includes a detailed family history of the Jarvis family from the late 1600s, to the 1940s. They lived in Connecticut and moved to first, New Brunswick and then Upper Canada. It is an excellent source for any Jarvis family descendants. I plan to contact some of the WikiTree members who are researching this family. The book was published in 2016, so is not available online, but could be borrowed from library or purchased. The list of sources for the book is 12 pages long. 

Alton Cemetery project; I have permission from the Heritage Committee to use their photographs of the many old family homes that belonged to those buried in the cemetery. They will deliver them to me on a flash drive. 133 profiles in the cemetery category now, only 1267 to go.

I made contact with someone through FS who happily is descended from some of the families I don't know much about.  She is willing to help out connecting those people to others buried in the Alton cemetery, and Robbie's cousin on Vancouver Island is also providing information. Now that I think about it, he has another cousin on Vancouver Island okay another source to tap into. 

I should be able to find others who are descendants who can provide information about family interconnections. I have been searching for each buried person and/or family separately, very few of them are on WT  so that I can create the profiles to add to the category; it is very time consuming, but other than gardening there isn't much available to do and I'm not scrubbing the kitchen floor everyday like someone I know. 

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Hahaha, MRoss  ... I done did 'gruntled' back in ... 2019? 2020? Been a while ... but I leave you the pure pleasure of discovering it -- Terry Pratchet's character (Disc World) Carrot describes his boss to a new coworker "He's never actually been gruntled .." 

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Come The Day when all lock downs are no longer necessary (according to various govt agencies etc) no one in your area of Canada, perhaps in all of Canada, will have the least idea WHAT to do now that they CAN do anything (outside the home) ... 

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Hi M, you're having a busy and productive week. It's great that you met someone from FS who is willing to help. Might this information also be added to FS for others to use? On the positive side if 'yes' there will be accurate information. I am finding as I do some of my searching that FS has more than a few 'conflated' families, or inaccuracies due to these conflations.

And you are getting more photographs? Hmmm...what could you possibly do with photographs! Looking forward to the next virtual vacay! Have a great week!

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I'm happy to use already attached sources to confirm connections between the interred and to use information from those who do have accurate profiles for their ancestors.But after I make sure they are accurate. 

I'm not sure about adding new information to FS.   Before I joined WT I had created a number of profiles for my ancestors on FS, and continually find that extra unconnected people are being added by other users. Just trying to keep the profiles I have created there from being conflated and adulterated could be a full time job. 

It's all about of course there can't be more than one family with the last name X in any area at any given time, so they must all be part of the same family. Yes Thomas' wife had 3 children in 1853, and 4 more the next year, how could that be incorrect. 

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I gotta say, M, and I don't want to add to your distress, but where I live we are off of restrictions for just about everything.

That Newman book? I wish there was one that would cover my Underwood UELs so I'd have a collateral line there to work on.

Scrubbing the kitchen floor? I'm not allowed.... thank goodness.

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The photos are from 3 walking tours of Alton Village, there are about 100 maybe more photos of the historic homes and businesses in the village, most of the buildings belonged to Robbie's ancestors or the myriad relatives that lived there.

Thought they would be an excellent addition to this project when it is eventually finished. Perhaps the house pictures could go with the headstone pictures, and names of the people who lived in the houses.

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That sounds like a great idea, M!

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Pip, depending upon the type of flooring and the method of cleaning it ... 

FLOORS -- I knew a woman, grossly pregnant, who got down upon hands and knees and scrubbed her floors in her home, and said it was because it relieved the discomforts of the pregnancy on her back and hips  --it's  the weight, all that weight hanging around in front when upright .... gah ... boy I remember THAT ... and she was correct, it was a relief to crawl around AND get the floors clean too 

Of course getting back UP again was another whole project but she had that worked out, she'd head for the wall and a chair beside it and UP she'd go, a level at a time ... 

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FS, WT, Ancestry dot com, WeRelate and all the other sites do contain errors and do have conflated families and so what?  I always look for verification of the information -- I find ever official certificates issued by city, county or state to can have errors in them ...

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Pip, Henry Underwood is your UEL 4X grt grandfather? What do you need to know? Or have you already done everything possible?

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Yes, that’s him. Problem: research seems to indicate that there were two Henrys. My Henry also had a brother, Benjamin, who took his whole family with him. Henry left his behind in North Carolina, for whatever reason. A conundrum.

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Your Henry is 20 degrees from my Robbie! 

Henry Underwood

→✖Underwood-170.jpgSamuel Underwood

(his father)→✖Thomas Underwood

(his brother)→✖Elizabeth Cloud

(his wife)→✖Ann Bailey

(her mother)→✖Joel Bailey

(her brother)→✖Mary Bailey

(his daughter)→✖Abner Mendenhall

(her son)→✖Mary Mendenhall

(his daughter)→✖Baltis Lemon

(her husband)→✖John Lemon

(his father)→✖Jacob Lemon

(his brother)→✖Lawrence Lemon

(his son)→✖Elizabeth Lemon

(his daughter)→✖Robert McClellan

(her husband)→✖William McClellan

(his brother)→✖Catherine McClellan

(his daughter)→✖William Dods

(her son)→✖Roy Dods

(his son)→✖Dods-238.jpgRobert Dods, my father in law 

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Now, that’s cool!

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I may have found them, some of them, Abner Mendenhall (1769-1842) - Find A Grave Memorial, son of Mary Baily Mendenhall (1737-1818) - Find A Grave Memorial, 

NOT that they were lost or anything like that, but I was curious -- that's like several hundred and some years ago? 200 yr is 1937 for DOB on Mary Baily, 2007 would be higher math and I don't have my calculator handy ... okay well, whatever, too tired to hunt for the calculator ... 1987 is 250 yrs, okay 2007 would then be 270 yrs, and 2017 brings it to 280 yrs ... 

Where there is a will there is often a means, method and mode 

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Virtual Vacation!

Time to go somewhere tropical. The Hawaiian Tropical Botanic garden and Bio-Reserve is on the east side of the big island just north of Hilo. These pictures were taken by me on 2 October 2018.  It is such a fascinating place, huge trees, plants everywhere, it was hard to choose just a few photos for this virtual vacation, I took 380 that day. 

Tree ferns

Ginger plants grow in many damp areas of the Big Island, they are not native, the island has many unique plants and trees. However, lots of plants that grow in similar climates have been introduced to the island since it was first settled about 300-800 AD. 

Blue ginger

Fan palm, the leaves can be huge, this one is at least 6 feet across.

This picture was taken at the edge of the garden where it meets the ocean. When I looked up, I couldn't figure out what the little shiny 'things' were, using the zoom setting I could see the spider webs. 

There are orchids everywhere growing on tree trunks, climbing over fallen trees and branches. 

The undergrowth

A basket fern growing on a tree trunk. 

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Given all the totally gorgeous photos we've been fortunate enough to view, I keep wondering what WOULD you do with a wedding or a coronation or a parade (start to finish) ... you are a totally awesome Photog !!

(Except of course you don't "do" people, waiting for their absence before clicking ... hmm ... )

You open up my eyes to beauty

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OMG, M! These photos are breathtaking! I love seeing nature 'in the wild' and you have really captured the color and habitat. I've just been sitting here and scrolling up and down trying to make believe that I am there with you and imagining the sounds and smells as well. Thank you, again and again!

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These are plants I've never seen before! On my trip to Costa Rica many years ago, I saw quite a few unique (to me) plants, but nothing like these. Great photos, M!

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Thank you, M, for another wonderful VV.  Great photos!

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Hi M, I am revisiting your photos today (Sunday). They remind me so much of the medicinal island near that Changi WWII prison camp in Singapore that I mentioned several weeks back. It's one place I would like to revisit...if only. I know I took photos, but cannot find them with so many moves in the ensuing years because I used one of a shadow puppet play that I included in a holiday letter a number of years ago. Anyway, thanks for the vacay!

Answer 14

On this day:

1881: The British-Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole dies

1940: While the Netherlands negotiate to surrender to Nazi-Germany, the German Luftwaffe throws bombs on Rotterdam

1948: Israel declares its independence

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I think I'm World War II-ed out, so I choose Israel's independence, even though I know a little bit about it. Thanks, Professor!

Answer 15

Greetings from Brightlingsea, Essex, England

Yes and its another weekend. I do wonder where the time goes.  Feels like only a couple of days ago, I did weekly chat but its a whole week.                                            Maybe not achieved alot this week, but did manage some painting  at the front of the house early in the week. Kept me busy for a day or so.                                                 

Had my Foresters meeting - by conference call on Monday evening. Discussed our social programme for members for later this summer which we are hoping we can do. That is as well as having proper meetings. My trip to Llandudno in Wales,  for the Foresters  High Court Meeting (AGM/Conference) is  now actually a series of zoom meetings and 2 days of webinars in June. A "live" event is set for 2022.

I am looking forward to the further re-opening this Monday, you will be able to go in the pub, cafe etc, not just sit outside in the cold. I just hope things keep on track.

Trying to keep up with wikitree. Am always interested in my Brightlingsea connections and I like to keep working on those.

Hope everyone has a good weekend...

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If you stay as busy as you are, Chris, Friday always comes sooner than you think! I’m really excited that you round will be opening up, and I hope it’ll stay that way.

Answer 16

Check out this Death Certificate. I wonder if it was admissible in court....

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N9CN-NYN 

It belongs to [[McClain-4582|Ernest McClain (1909-1928)]]

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Am I to assume it was the coroner's report of an instant death
By "gun shot wound gave in (hand or head) of Albert P????"
Profile says Pitman was the shooter.  Penmanship should be a requirement for public officers who file paperwork.

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wait, how do you call that? Something with chicken... . That clearly fits here.

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Beulah, I think that was a theme here…

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/615849/retroactive-rules-for-ancestors-1700-present?show=615849#q615849

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Sign that coroner up!

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Hahahaha! How I wish. Have you seen my repeated posts to G2G for handwriting help?

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Pip, that's hilarious!

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D, if you can think of something to add, be my guest! I’m sure we have not exhausted the ideas.

Answer 17

Good evening all!

The Covid-numbers are going down - in my town we're in the two-digit-area if we break it down to infections/100000 people. Yay! The county isn't yet as good, but it is on a good road as well.

Personally, we finally started the process to get money of mum's insurance for the broken arm. And mum asked friends if their grandson can use our car - old, but still working. Turns out, the oldest granddaughter of my social mum will now start getting her driver's license (yeah, she's that old already). We'll see if my social sister takes the car.

WikiTree-wise, I'm diving into the WikiTreeChallenge this week. Turns out that many of Devon's branches end up somewhere in Germany. I just corrected the locations to make them Holy-Roman-Empire-fitting, and folks, I tell you, I learned of territories I never heard of, although I know where the towns are.

Stay safe and have a great week ahead

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Jelena, I know you’ll be glad when this is all over. You’ve had to rethink all sorts of what used to be trios to the stores, doctors, friends, relatives. You’ve had it pretty hard. I really do hope things get back to normal SOON!

How is your Mum doing? It’s been doubly hard on her with the arm problems. (And you getting her to her medical appointments.)

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She's more and more accepting that her arm won't work anymore. She doesn't like it, but she can't change it anymore. She's doing quite well what she can do, but there's enough stuff where she definitely needs help.

Considering Covid I really hope that the numbers will continue to decrease although under the incidence of 100 some measures will be lifted which automatically means more contacts. We will see...

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I really feel for you Mum, Jelena. That has to be frustrating, for her and for you.

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Hi Jelena, just wanted to send positive thoughts and wishes to you and your mum. Very glad to hear that the COVID numbers are going down!

Answer 18

Well, this week...

Week summary

• Had an email purge, had one of those stock standard messages querying the validity of information on a profile. A query into a search engine led to a google site with a pedigree list which may help connect a WikiTreer (awaiting a confirmation message whether the individual is the owner of the located google site)
• My trust in leaders continues to wane when guidelines are selectively followed. I'm guessing most saw this during the week. Considered whether it is an idea to go down the path towards project leader. Initially having been against the thought because it was going to be too hard, but given how a lot of people have been treated recently, I need to ignore the personal feeling of "it's too hard" and just do it, for the betterment of those who had been wronged.

Friday

• Phillip Sidney born in 1853
• Charles Shelley born in 1838
• Thomas Valpy French died in 1891
• Grandfather's birthday

Saturday

• Fiennes Wykeham Mann Cornwallis died in 1921

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I had to hunt a bit to see how Fiennes was related to Gen. Cornwallis of American Revolution fame. He was an uncle.

Answer 19

Currently, it's 17˚ C and sunny in Fort Erie. This week, it's been warm enough that the light of my life and the delight of my eyes has been out in the yard. She has planted the rhododendron that we bought, and the first of the itty-bitty cedars. (When I dug the hole for the second one, I turned up a big root from the maple tree in our front yard. We haven't decided how far the cedar needs to be from that root to avoid conflicts.) She has also mowed part of the lawn that was too wet to risk going over with our electric mower last weekend.

The big excitement for the week was that I finally got my first shot of the Pfizer vaccine. The second shot is scheduled for August 31st. (The light of my life and the delight of my eyes didn't qualify for the same round of shots as me because I robbed the cradle, but we were finally able to schedule shots for her, too.)

I haven't had much time for genealogy this week, although I am going through the Unconnected Notables page, deleting notables who have been connected for more than two weeks, marking newly connected notables, and adding more unconnected notables in place of the ones who have been connected. I'm also working on profiles with a Last Name At Birth of Cutlip or French.

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Ha! I see that my answer follows Richard's, which is kind of appropriate since I've been in awe of him for years.

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I glanced over that Unconnected Notables page and it looks like the counts on the branch size are a bit off. Hattie's branch is actually 349 profiles long (and no connection). It may be that specific item isn't terribly important, but I figured I'd mention it. On a positive note, I remember not being able to connect Alan Rickman of Harry Potter fame, and when I glanced back at him, he's now connected. So I guess there won't be a need to add him to the list. (hurrah!)

Hattie's tree currently shows up as tree64 in WikiTree+, which is how I get that accurate count. Of course, this means it's #64 in the list which gets progressively larger in profile count the smaller the # goes. So next week it might be 62 or 66 (or some other #). Guess it changes on a regular basis.

Anyways - hope that's helpful, not that you want to constantly be updating counts on a table that you're hoping to eliminate and remote people from.

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Ha! It was the reverse for us, Greg. My wife was the one who robbed the cradle. Wonder why you have to wait so long for the second shot. I got my second in three weeks. My wife was four weeks with the Moderna.

Interesting, for the past couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking of buying an electric mower, if only to save on the gas money and help to help the environment. I’ve hesitated as I don’t know much about them.

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Scott, I haven't had the time to work through the unconnected notables and update their branch sizes. As a matter of fact, I was thinking of asking you if anybody from the Notables Project would be willing to help maintain that page. Up until this week, I hadn't touched it for months.

My understanding is that the tree number is in order by which each unconnected branch is created, so Hattie having such a low branch number means that she's been on WikiTree for a looooooong time, and still unconnected.

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As I understand it, Pfizer and Moderna recommend that the shot be given within three months, but governments in Canada are pushing it out to four months, because there are currently no facilities capable of producing these kinds of vaccines in Canada, so we are dependent upon other countries for our supplies. Every single supplier is way behind on the delivery dates specified in their contracts (in some cases because their governments are forbidding them to export any vaccines until all their citizens are vaccinated, in some cases because they're having trouble ramping up for production in the kind of volume the world needs, and in one case, because the company is apparently really incompetent and never should have been licensed to produce these vaccines), so we're way behind the U.S. even in terms of getting people their first shot, let alone the second. But Pfizer has been increasing their rate of deliveries, so the situation is getting a little better that way.

I got an electric mower for several reasons:

• electric mowers are cheaper (the cheapest electric mower at Canadian Tire is a little over half the price of the cheapest gas mower)
• I didn't have a car at the time, and I didn't want to have to trudge over 1.6 kilometres each way with a gas can every time I wanted to mow the lawn (not that I ever actually want to mow the lawn...)
• electric mowers are much quieter than gas mowers

Our mower isn't perfect. Flipping the cord around to keep from running over it with the mower takes extra time and effort, and the furthest corners of our yard are just barely within the length of two extension cords plugged together (which we're not supposed to do). If I had my druthers, I'd get one of those battery electric mowers, but they're expensive.

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There’s a battery powered one for sale at Lowe’s here that is supposed to last an hour, about the time it takes to mow the front (because of all the things in the way that need back-and-forth detail cutting). We’ve not had good luck with weed whackers… strings breaking all the time.

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Well, the tree # has to do with ranking in terms of most unconnected profiles in that cluster. So it changes periodically, but I'm guessing the closer you get to #1 on the list, the less likely you'll see rapid changes. I think it's been #64 for awhile now.

I'll see if I can get some interest in maintaining that list.

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Possibly, Pip, given the size of your yards, you might do well to rent or purchase a sheep (one)

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Greg you could try this lawnmower, we have one and it's great, good for smaller lawns, rechargeable available at Canadian Tire , Home Depot and other places. 

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We got a little rechargeable18 volt 16 inch mower, last year. It's very handy for trimming under bushes and around obstacles where the riding mower won't go.  My SO loves it because it's so lightweight, and she doesn't have to handle gas or pull on a starter.  Best of all, it's quiet, and doesn't need to stay running as you walk from spot to spot.

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Thanks, M, but I don't plan to go shopping for another mower until the one we have now ups and dies. I don't make enough money to keep the light of my life and the delight of my life in the manner she deserves, so the new rhododendron, cedars, seeds, mulch, and some other stuff is all that we can afford to spend on the yard this year. (Actually, we've already spent more than we should have.)

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We don't spend money unless necessary either, we got the one we have to replace a 20 year old push mower, the cordless one was bought reconditioned through Amazon it was about $100.

Most of our yard is garden,so it only takes about 10 minutes to mow the lawn, before we had the push mower we used a string trimmer for the lawn.

Answer 20

Greetings from beautiful Phoenix Arizona USA

My doctor who I have been seeing for about 19 years,  up and moved! I hate when that happens...he and I got along so well! Now I am going to have to break in a new one, but first I have to find a candidate. When you have several medical issues including a very rare disease (3:1,000,000), it’s hard to find a doctor who will listen to understand.  Oh well.

I’ve been working on the biographies of my family members. I’m so sad that I have no detailed knowledge of so many of my ancestors. The generation before me is all gone so there’s no one I can turn to for information. I was 66 when my last parent died, and I feel like a fish out of water.

I would love to pass on our family history to my sons, and grandchildren, but they don’t seem to be very interested. There’s a lot of great stuff in my Tree, and it would be nice if someone, just someone would take a little interest.

My Long Island, New York ancestors were quite colorful. I’ve got people who settled the Island, and Connecticut in the 1600s. My family founded Southampton, Long Island. The Hamptons toward the end of Long Island is an area well known for being a millionaires playground. Land there is worth a fortune now. Imagine if my ancestors had kept their farms. I could retire rich and famous! Haha No really, when I tell the kids about our family they just look at me with an “Easter Island” stare. Not interested.

Oh well, the beat goes on, and so do I.

Many blessings for a wonderful week!

And Pip, I am so sorry for your loss.

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Breaking in a new doctor!  My wife’s doctor retired and she felt the exact same way. 

My mom died a couple of years ago, and she was the last of her generation. A day doesn’t go by when I wish she was still around (for lots of good reasons) to ask question about family members. Dads last remaining sister is who I need to be talking to! My children don’t seem to be as interested. So, my duty is to get everything down that I remember so that eventually they won’t feel the same way. I’m urging my wife to do the same. I need to create a free space page for the stories my grandfather and mom told me.

If I had somehow inherited all the land my ancestors owned, I’d own such a huge portion of both sides of the Catawba River between Gaston and Mecklenburg counties in North Carolina! 

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My mother expressed an untoward amount of exasperation one day, and I ventured to inquire why and she vented that her doctor had died. Oh, I said.

 And then she said "That's the third d*maned doctor of mine that has died."

I'm glad your doc is still alive even if he left town, but I can sympathize with the situation this puts you in.

  I've got Kaiser and have lost track of how many GP I've had in the last dozen years .. they seem to wear out fairly rapidly ... I decided upon the advent of the 3rd one that they were interchangeable and otherwise anonymous