Hi from southern Ontario, Chez moi/at home: what's happening here?
The weather has certainly felt like fall for the past few days. except for Tuesday when it felt like monsoon season, we had 4 inches of rain, between about 6.30 pm Tuesday and 6 am Wednesday.
Newfoundland will get hit by hurricane Larry tonight with winds up to 160 kph, the provincial capital St John's will be in the direct path of Larry and very likely storm surge along their south coast.
Even though the weather is cooler, I'm picking vegetables and blackberries, we have 2 squashes growing now, but they may not enough left of the growing season to get to a decent size. My leeks are okay not as big as they should be probably because they didn't get as much rain early on as they should have.
The kids are all back at school in person, French language schools started last week, Catholic public schools on Tuesday and everyone else yesterday. My special needs granddaughter was thrilled to see the people in her class for the first time since December 2020.
I'm late today because I was at a meeting at the church where the horticultural society holds its meetings. We are trying to figure out how to hold an in-person meeting in October. We usually have a big bulb sale in October, if we don't, we will be left with a lot of leftovers.
Alton Cemetery, One Place Study, family history, I'm still up to my eyeballs in the Hunter family, I finally figured that 4 of the 5 local Hunter families are related, they are all descendants of David and Mary Hunter who arrived in 1836 from County Tyrone, Ireland. They had sons Robert, David, Joseph and John who came with their wives, and had at least 15 children between them all born in East Garafraxa Township, Ontario. The Museum of Dufferin has newspaper announcements from the mid 1860s to quite recently and has been an absolute gold mine for obituaries, marriages and social announcements.
I actually found some of the later Hunter descendants already on WT, and orphaned so I have adopted them even if it is only temporary. I asked for advice on G2G about profiles for one branch's 3 unnamed infants, and got some very good answers. Thanks Pip.
Some of the headstones at Alton have only 1 name on them, like James Hunter (no spouse listed, no kids listed) and so far, I haven't been able to find any definitive information that connects them to other people in the Alton area. So, they are unconnected on WT which I don't like.
I spent far too much time fixing the Wright family on FS, they are my mother's ancestors, and someone had decided that there was only 1 John Wright alive in the English midlands in 1839, and that meant that all my mother's 8 great uncles and aunts were not born where they were born, and were not the children of her GGF.
I think that Ethelbert Leopold Horatio Wright her youngest great uncle is a distinctive enough name that it shouldn't get mixed up with other people.
Reading: I'm rereading A Creed for the Third Millennium by Colleen McCullough published 1985 (author of The Thornbirds and the Master of Rome series) it's about a new Ice Age in the 2050s maybe earlier and what happened in the US. I probably only read it once way back then and wasn't thrilled but perhaps now i have a different viewpoint.
And that's all Folks, Virtual vacation will be coming up next!