Thanx for hosting, Pip, always a pleasure to be here with you
Yes, 32 kiddies listed on the profile to Charlie McKinney by whatever surname spelling ... getting that sourced and neat and tidy looks daunting ...
We just now got our Friday AM delivery of meals, 4 boxes, meaning Sig O will have to pump up his mojo to get the 20 TV dinners into the freezer ... our delivery person will be on personal business next Friday, which is why we got the double load delivery today ... has a wife and 2 or 3 kids and is much involved in parenting (fortunately for the kids)
Sig O announces that while two of the boxes, holding 5 meals each, were all omelets, the OTHER two boxes held 7 meals each and had regular entrees ... so he had to stuff into the freezer 24 meal trays ... man's got a lot of mojo going for him
Today Sig O heated up a "seafood gumbo with rice" (also has okra I noted, when we had it last week) and a side of corn (off the cob, hehe) ... recipe is using sticky rice
Sig O is now disconcerted, since TWO of the boxes (5 meals in each) are ALL omelets. Varied recipe, somewhat, but nevertheless, all of them are omelets ... true, some people don't object to eating an omelet every day, five days in a row ... what is passed off as an omelet does make a decent sandwich with that whole grain bread -- a dab of mayo and slap the "omelet" between two slices and ...
Hunger is the best sauce, and no doubt this is a truth -- but necessity tops hunger every time and it is necessary to consume food and so it overcomes any reluctance on my part given what the company "cooks" are capable of (or incapable of, hehe)
Weather is mild, 14+ mph breeze, some bits of clouds but mostly so far a lot of sky, some of it is even blueeeee ... destined we are told (lol) to a high 70's air temp much later today
At the moment I've racked up 1,670+ contributions and FEEL very very tired of paperchaining (and sourcing) the descendants of Elizabeth (Huffman) Padon - WikiTree Profile (there's 68 so far, and scads yet to go) ... what weirds me out is that all 68 are under my management ... eek but we (royal we, hehe) are still within the realm of 1st through 5th cousin so I will continue to plod along I guess
DID find a few "oh, dear" ones ... there's one where the prior PM set up an in-law, Henry Jacob Miller-69231 and his two wives, Rachel Davidson and Christiana Landers ... a son of Henry, Joseph L. Miller, married a cousin of mine as his 1st wife, Mary Jane Nowlin-860. So far, so good, I thought, so I attached Mary Jane to Joseph L. Joseph was born to Rachel while Henry was married to Christiana. More research on this did not clarify WAS daddy Henry was horsing around with his 1st wife while married to the 2nd wife ... or was daddy Henry a conflation of TWO Henry Miller, one of whom married in 1828 Ms. Rachel and was not living with her in 1850; and the 2nd Henry the one who married Christiana in 1844.
This is the situation left intact by this PM ... she created Joseph, the son, and Henry the father and the two women Rachel and Christiana and made the connections ... fortunately, the whole package is nought but in-laws and not on my watchlist
Birds out front are chirping madly which makes me wonder about nests and eggs and fledglings but what little I know about the avian population is limited ... IF it chirps and hops (not walks) and flies away on wings, it's a bird, a bird, a bird. If it holds still long enough and I can discern the colors, I do recognized blue jay, red robin, brown sparrow, black crow or maybe a raven, ... and if it's yellow or rainbow colored, someone's lost their canary or budgie ... and then there's the dove gray, and the seagull scuz ...
We attempted to remove the kittens from my closet to the garage last week and the mama cat brought one back into my room (from the garage) and was heading out to bring the other two back in ... we gave up and relocated the other two and mama cat was nervy for the rest of the day ...
Cinco de Mayo is the Red Letter Date, due to have a cage delivered so we can pack mama cat off to be sterilized ... she'll be returned 24 hrs later ... kittens have to be at least 2 pounds in wt before we can send them off to be sterilized ... we have a "talking wt scale" so it will be utilized to find out the wt of the kits ... me weighed without a kit, me with a kit ...
I really didn't want a household with 7 cats ... three cats was more than enough, but Sig O decided to adopt this sweet lil cat and ... we know how all that worked out ...
Well, got to eat me seafood gumbo ...