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Welcome, my fellow WikiChatterboxes, to another Weekend Chat! And greetings from Cathey’s Creek here in the mountains of North Carolina. We have had at least one shower or thunderstorm each day since last weekend. It’s helped to keep things cooler. Temps have been in the high 70sF with a couple of days in the low 80s. Now that we don’t have a creek to worry about since moving here, my wife, who feared even a drizzle at our previous home, is now demanding, “Come on, rain!”

On the Home Front: We have a pair of cardinals, the female of which we call the “vulture cardinal” for her lack of head feathers, and who nearly got taken out by a hawk. I actually thought she was a goner, but she showed up a couple of days later. These two cardinals are sunflower seed hogs, and our titmice do NOT like it. I put seeds out on a stairway banister off of our back deck, and when the cardinals show up, the titmice just sit on the far end waiting for them to get through.

I’m guessing these titmice cannot see us through the deck screen, because as soon as I put the seeds out, here they come! They also let us know when they are hungry and there are no seeds out for them. As soon as I lay out the seeds, they swarm the banister, and carry off the seeds to peck them open on nearby branches. This is what our entertainment has devolved to. Still, they are a joy to watch. We call them “our children.”

The HVAC system in DONE!!! A fella showed up on Monday to complete the installation, and immediately we could tell the difference in the house. Using our new dehumidifier helps, too. I just have to empty it three times a day!

I finished Antony Beevor’s Berlin, his history of the last six months of the Soviet drive to take that city. The account is horrifying (and some things that happened then are being repeated in the Ukraine.) War is such a waste. And acts that occur during war are outside the bounds of decent human behaviour. We pray for an end to “wars and rumors of war.”

Our youngest and her husband are coming up to have an early celebration of her birthday. This is our traveling pair. Planned trips include Argentina, Canada, and Scandinavia. They’ve got the bug for seeing the world! Can’t wait to see them.

On the Genealogy Front: I have spent most of my time recently working on profiles in Transylvania County, North Carolina. I am doing this via the Appalachia Project. Most of the profiles I am “stickering” are mine, but others are managed by other WikiTreers, including my cousin Donnie Blackstone. I clean up and source as I go along, and have also added a few new profiles to the bunch. My CC7 has only gone up a little bit, now at 4459.

When I click on the Connections button on the South-Central Appalachian category, it produces page after page of relationships and connections. Not surprisingly, I am related to every member of the South-Central team, all eleven of them. All told, over 3000 profiles have now been stickered by project members!

What with climate change driving severe droughts and fires around the world, I hope all of you are coping. Remember that IT (COVID) is still out there. Do what you need to to stay safe!

Enjoy the Chat!

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Ahh, backyard warfare between the titmice and the cardinals.

That is pretty epic. Not as epic as seeing a blue jay dive bomb a squirrel outside your bedroom window. It was like watching a Pokémon battle.

Blue Jay used brave bird!

Squirrel fainted!

Nothing like backyard warfare, right? Those battles were inspired by real life! Only without the flamethrowers and all that....

Good luck with the Appalachia project! I don't know how but I was added to the discord. Weird.

I hope you have a great visit! Would definitely love to see those places, too.

Thanks for hosting, man. Have a great weekend!

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We are so lucky to have you in the Appalachian Project! I guess we are related because I'm in your region and I am the team leader in the Central Appalachian Region. Along with trying to sticker my family I am looking for Duplicates to merge, Working on the Hatfields and McCoys and my favorite mini project right now is my "Blue People of Kentucky Space page" It has something for everyone from science and DNA to people overcoming prejudices and isolation.

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Hi Pipster! Speaking of cardinals, I was in my meditation garden last week and heard the most interesting bird call! I couldn't figure out which bird! I know the chitters of humming birds very well, and our mourning doves. I kept following the locations of  the sound and low and behold...the most magnificent male cardinal! Glorious red! In a treetop! I asked him to hold my tea while I dashed for my camera, but nope. He was gone. Haven't seen him since. 

I re-read Bertolt Brecht's play Galileo this past week (see my paragraph on procrastinating). I purchased this play and Mother Courage for my Bavarian friends, Gerd and Lori, as a bit of a thank you gift for allowing us to stay with them and tourist around Rain am Lech in June. We did a side trip to Augsburg. I was surprised to learn that this was Brecht's hometown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht). I was surprised to learn that no one had ever heard of him or his work...even the Bavarians! So I purchased these plays and will 'gift' them when I see them next month. They are flying in to attend my niece and her partner's wedding. 

PIP! Speaking of Brecht and your love of books of all kinds...I told the group about my introduction to Brecht when I took a class in college titled Images of God, Woman and Man in Contemporary Theater. It was taught by a brilliant Jesuit, John J. Walsh, S.J. that the nuns flew in every Friday morning from St Louis University just to teach this class! Fr. Walsh directed the Marquette Players ca. from around 1951 to the late 1970's at Marquette U's. Teatro Maria. I cannot begin to tell you how fun and intellectually stimulating and philosophically challenging that class was. One didn't have to even be Catholic to love Fr. Walsh. He was an intellectually brilliant man who could bring concepts and deep thought down to our level. As proud an Irishman as you are Scots. And that is where I was introduced to Brecht, among others. The course included films (e.g. the film The Ruling Class adapted from Peter Barnes' play with Peter O'Toole...who I thought was absolutely drool-worthy), film directors, playwrights,  philosophers, psychologists, artists, musicians, and more. And here is a sample of two midterm exam questions (that I can recall given that it was 1982): 

1. If there is no God, then I am God...Explain

2. Our nada, who aren't in nada, hallowed be thy nada...Explain

This went on for 15 more questions of this sort, and some of them named playwrights and philosophers so one had to have done the homework (lots of reading and watching movies like Fellini's 8 1/2 (my homage to Chris Ferraiolo today...ciao)

Pip, you would have loved this class. And every time you mention what you are reading it blesses me with the recall of this outstanding personal learning experience that was brought to us by Fr. Walsh. 

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Pam, we ARE related... though my Appalachian Daltons and Metcalfs.

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Carol, you are right. I would have LOVED that class. I enjoy being pushed intellectually. Keeps the brain from going stale.

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Keep me apprised as to October visit. I'll be in Phoenix Oct 12-15 for a certified clinical trauma conference, but otherwise totally available for you. We need to return to San Xavier now that it's fully open and then DeGrazias gallery!

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I have now joined the Appalachian project - Pip, you are a bad influence, making it sound so interesting - and some(sneaky)one put the channel on my Discord display, so I just had to check it out - and they were all so nice and persuasive - and so many cousins - and Hart County, Kentucky was actually listed as an Appalachian county!  How could I resist!  And I now have yet another excuse for my Logsdon addiction ... oh, dear.

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I will have to do a search now as I am not familiar with cardinals or titmice. We probably have something similar here.

Another heatwave this weekend and drought declared in some parts in England.

Thunderstorms forecasted next week.

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We have cardinals here in AZ as well.  My favorite bird.  In addition to the adorable Gambrel Quail which are plentiful.\

I see from Carol's post that you'll be coming here in Oct.  I'm around all month and hope to see you again.

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We are glad you found us! I must not see if Hart county needs spruced up for ya. Yeah something fun to do to day!

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hey pip the rock star, thanks again for the chat and thanks again for the words of encouragement/caution on the dalton family. i have spent most of the week organizing profile info for sam /mary ann dalton's kids and grandkids. i have spent the rest reading comments made in g2g forum. i see where you have made merge recommendation up to two years ago and no action was taken. Being a novice i question my qualifications to merge or even recommend merges if yours are ignored. i appreciate you and liz for your efforts in assisting me thus far. overall, the g2g forum reminds me of monthly staff meetings i attended for thirty years where much was said and little achieved. everyone is motivated by something. usually being number 1- no one shoots for second best. some focus on being competent foremost while others question in order to discredit their competition while yet others find loopholes to use to inflate their achievements. after all it's not what you know, it's what you can prove in court. the dalton genealogy has so many duplicate profiles either generated by inexperience, people using loopholes, auto generated profiles or conflicting source information. i question a lot of it due to number of marriages, number of children and human nature. i see a potential for " her baby, his maybe" in many families past and present. being the devil's advocate (sorry grandma) i question the true accuracy of the science of genealogy period.one indiscretion every 100, 200,300 years pretty much changes everything does it not? thanks kevin

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Thank you for the kind words, Kevin. Always glad to help whenever you need it!

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Thank You for hosting the Chat Pip.

Musings from The North Coast.

Weather, Actually quite nice. We have the windows open because the temps are only going up to the 70's. Next chance of rain is Saturday night. No AC needed this weekend!

On the home front,

Monday, shampooed the carpet in the middle bedroom and after that dried a bit moved the furniture back in. We got called out to take the youngest granddaughter to soccer practice, she is not old enough to drive. In the evening I was working on my radios trying to connect to a net but bad storms delayed the net and caused problems with our internet so I gave that idea up.

Tuesday, Laundry and organizing things in the office.

Wednesday, We got the new camera and monitor for the middle bedroom, AKA kids room. I installed that and got everything set up because the great granddaughters are going to be over Saturday.

Thursday, Some yard work in the morning and not much else the rest of the day.

Genealogy, Not much, no time.

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Dale, you are turning into the new First to Comment in the Chat!

Do you have a schedule, or do you do stuff on the whim? I'm kind of a whim guy, but my wife usually won't let me get away with that. We're off to run some errands before the kids get here tonight. Grocery store, birthday cake, etc.

Hope you have a fruitful weekend getting stuff done!

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Do you have a schedule, or do you do stuff on the whim? Both! Some stuff is just when I feel like it but other things are planned. Example today we planned on doing laundry but we went to the store right after I posted the above instead and will do the laundry this afternoon.

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Good morning Pip and the weekend chatters!

Weather:

• Currently, it's 75ºF and partly cloudy with a wind 6 mph out of the northeast.

WikiTree BEE update:

• The browser extension now has a clipboard and a notepad.

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These additions to BEE are AWESOME!!

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Good morning, Tommy. Great to see you checking in, as usual. Hope all is well with you and yours!

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The extension is amazing, Tommy!!

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So glad you have AC Pip! Enjoy the visit and happy birthday to your little traveler.

I think we are FINALLY getting a bit of a break in the heat so that is something to look forward to. Maybe I can actually get out for a walk this week, my toddler (and I!) can't handle the triple digit heat index so we've been inside for what feels like forever.

Have been working on gathering my Appalachian ancestors to get them all categorized and stickered and also extending some families for the USBH connection challenge. Have also had some luck with my Appalachian Project team members finding lost family members and introducing me to "new" relatives! My heart has been hurting for a newly discovered great grand uncle in the 1890's who was lost at age 2 to whooping cough. My daughter is that age so it hits especially hard. So grateful for advances in medicine but sad for those who came before.

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The wonderful discoveries of our Ancestors sometimes also brings the sad stories.  Having his story touch you in the way it did also helps recognize that he was here, once, and he is remembered by us all, today.  

A shout out to the Appalachia Project team that jumped in to help you break down those brick walls to discover many more ancestors .... all the way back to Ireland.  I love how the members helps each other and support each other (inside and outside of WT).

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Erin, my Grandpa was ninth of ten children. The tenth, little Bracken Underwood, died when Grandpa was five years old. He remembered details about the event 80 years later and shared them with me. It was only one of two times I saw my Grandpa cry. So, I know how your heart hurts. Mine does, too, for little Bracken.

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Hails and horns, Wikipeeps!

I hope everyone is doing well. On the genealogy front, I posted a blog about my first adventure at the Haverhill public library: https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2022/08/52-ancestors-week-32-at-library.html

It was kind of a bust. But, I'll go back some other time.

In other news, my mom's cousin Nancy registered on WikiTree last year and I didn't know it. So, I had to merge several profiles of hers. We talked via e-mail and got things sorted. We still have some merges to make, though. At least she's here? Will she contribute? We shall see.

On the non genealogy front, I just got word that a family friend passed away. She was one of the ones who encouraged me with my writing and when I went to make a comic, she encouraged that, too. I'll probably dedicate the next comic to her. It's all I can really do, ya know. 

It's been one roller coaster of a year! I hope it slows down some, soon! Need to catch my breath! And so do all of us!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

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Hi Chris, just want to express my condolences at the death of your family friend. Keep in mind that she lives on through you in your writing, making comics, and even the blogs that you writing. This doesn't lessen the loss, it enhances the memories and person gains that cannot be purchased with $$$.

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You're not kidding, Chris. It HAS been a whirlwind of a year so far. And, I haven't the foggiest when it's going to slow down.

So sorry to hear about your friend. It is never easy. A nice honor for you to dedicate your next comic to her.

Great story about your local library. I remember visits to the library (before genealogy) with my mom, the reading teacher. She was going to make sure I had books all summer long.

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@ Pip. I will say this. At least the Kelley Library in Salem has a hefty supply of comic books and a dedicated section for comics and manga. I didn't have time to see if the Haverhill Public Library had a similar section. Chances are they do.

@ Pip and Carol: Thanks for your condolences. I will be working on my comic this weekend and I'll be sure to post it here when I am finished. I'll probably write a bit more too.

Thanks, guys. =D

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We  love you, Chris! Hugs

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Chris, sorry to hear about your friend. It is always good to reminisce about those people that encouraged us.

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Thanks! I really appreciate it. I really wish I had the chance to talk more genealogy with her. Marina's parents were Greek, I believe. As you can imagine growing up I got all the Greek food I could eat. =D

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And here's my comic dedicated to her. Check it out: https://starbolts.blogspot.com/2022/08/starbolts-594-spacecops.html

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Hello Fellow Wiki Tree People, Weather here in Sparta, White county, TN is bit better been kinda rainy, so Temp has dropped some, my oldest grandson, lost his other grandmother, this week so keep his father's family in your thoughts , on the upside one of his brothers graduates from Basic Training today in the Army 

I am also part of the Appalachia Project , I was working on my first husband's father's family, Clarence Donald Pinegar Sr earlier this week, still more to do but I decide to go back and work on my OPS on Everett Rowland Sawmill, Quebeck, White County, Tennessee United States on Thomas Everett Rowland family and ancestors , the original owner was John Goldston , please go check out what I have so far, you will find it interesting story as I go along, adding Appalachia stickers, cleaning profiles, including some of my own, that needed some sprucing up , Hope everyone will have a good weekend , please check out our new project , you will be suprised what states and counties of those states are included as part of the Appalachia Region 

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Janine, you've been busy as a bee! We have a Quebec near where I live. It's pronounced QWEE' bec here! 

Great job on the OPS! I enjoyed reading all about the sawmill.

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Greetings from Colorado. The heat is on but then it seems like most of the country is as well.  I’ve been out riding the bike a bunch and just guzzling the water. But at least I can say that I have more. Miles on this week than any week so far this year.  Good for the weight control. It is also peach harvest. We pulled a couple hundred peaches off two trees so far.  I have a third tree but it runs much later so it won’t be ready for another month. So how do I recover from bike rides.  Peach daiquiris!!! And peach pie!!!!!

On genealogy, I am still working the CC7 but I am only half as far as Pip.  I am mostly working second marriage lines right now so but continued to be surprised by how often it turns into a real cousin.

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Peach pie! If you run out of room to store them all.... 

Gurney, I often work on families that I think are totally unrelated to me only to find a connection of one kind or another to mine. It truly is a small world.

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Thanks for hosting the Chat, Pip!

It's been hot here:  101ºF for two days running and expected to be at least that today ... and humid.  Nothing at all like your humidity, Pip, but it can be pretty miserable for those of us not used to it.  I just close up and go on AC as soon as the morning coolth wears off.  So far, our "monsoon weather" hasn't given those of us near Los Angeles any rain, although I'm still seeing reports of flooding out to the east, in the desert.

I seem to be mired in my extended family of Hart County, Kentucky Logsdons:  stuck for weeks, this time around.  It's like an addiction.  I keep thinking, "OK, this will be the last one. Then I'll go take care of business in New England."  Then:  "Oh, I recognize that name on this census! He's the husband I've been looking for for that Logsdon cousin!" and, "Oh, so he served in Company B, 9th Kentucky Cavalry with the other Logsdon cousins (including his wife's brother) - and, lookee here: There's his son on the company's roster!" Gotta work on him, too, don't I?!?  Then, I find that not only did the son marry another Logsdon cousin (the sister of yet another soldier in Company B), but that son was the missing father of the woman still another Logsdon cousin married ... in Kansas.  I get confused, just trying to think of it.  Thank heavens WikiTree doesn't depend on a tree diagram for setting up relationships!

All of this is doing nothing for my CC7 count:  too far removed from my immediate family.  But I did (finally) break 780 just yesterday, when I finally found a gg aunt's family on the 1910 census.  Whee!

So, this weekend, my goal is to fight my Kentucky Logsdon addiction and make it up to New England ... computerly speaking.

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Hello, Susan, I answered your pm , did you ge my reply? 

if you happen to run across and find/figure out who James Calvin Logsdon grandfather is , would be great,  hope it cools down where you at,  

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Hi, Janine.  Was that about Margaret Huntley Hobbs?  I got your message that you were going to work on her some more. I thought I'd sent you a thank-you.  Apparently not, so ... Thanks for letting me know you'd received my previous message that I'd done what I could for her.  I was somewhat intrigued by the peep I got into the bottom end of the cloth industry at that time - not enough to break my Hart County Logsdon addiction, unfortunately, but ...

I'll keep an eye out for James Calvin's Logsdon grandfather - I haven't run into many Philips among the Hart County Logsdons, so far, but I also haven't pushed much at that generation born in Kentucky around 1800-1820. There's a published genealogy I could check (I thought I'd done that already, with no luck, but maybe not), as soon as I gird my loins for the perils of consulting a book on CD.  I'll let you know.

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101° and humid. Oh, Susan, I'd definitely be staying inside for that kind of weather. The sweat would be just pouring!

Had to laugh about your finds while working on one family. This happens to me repeatedly. On and on it goes. 

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¡Buenos días a todos from the Old Pueblo! It is 7:30am and 79F (26.1C) with and expected high of 97F (36.1C) and sunny skies in Tucson. Our monsoons have persisted this past week with vengeance! On Wednesday, I was leaving for a medical appointment and found that the high winds and pounding rain were so strong that they tore a large saguaro from its roots! The saguaro had to be over 70 years old given that it had two large arms and had to be a good 12 feet high. For those of you who are not southwest desert dwellers, a saguaro does not develop its first arm until it is at least 70 years old.

 

My daughter, Jennifer, hubby Curtis and grandson Luke are keeping me apprised of their vacation in Hawaii via FaceBook. They were less than thrilled with Honolulu and shortened their stay by a day so that they would have an extra day on Maui. They have been posting photos of waves splashing along the shores, swimming with turtles, a whale watch and just plain beautiful scenery. They will be returning today because Jennifer returns to teaching 8^th grade language arts next week and my grandson will be starting at their local community college to work on a degree in cyber security.

 

I am giving new meaning to the word ‘procrastinate’ working on our night shift nursing and sleep outcomes paper. I do a little editing, and then water the plants, and then do a little editing, then read for about three hours, then make dinner, edit for about 15 minutes and, oh, it’s midnight. Another hard day at it...NOT! I do not know what is up with me. I was to have a good rough draft to Chris three days ago and it is nowhere near ready. I did come across some evidence papers, though, that strengthen arguments for improving night shift work, particularly for nurses. I was gob smacked by a paper that I found by serendipity, which likely would not have happened without my procrastinating. A 2022 National Health Care and RN Staffing Report showed that RN turnover in hospitals rose from 18.7% to 27.1% between 2021 and 2022. It is not just the fall out and emotional depletion from Covid, either. The shift, organizational and patient demands and higher patient to nurse ratios are taking their toll. I am editing to work this information into the paper given its aim toward nurse managers and health care organizations.

 

I saw my second favorite doctor on Wednesday, the pain specialist. My favorite doctor is the neurologist. He is very holistic. My torn right hamstring has been less troublesome; however, it is likely because the severe lumbar stenosis is causing more pain. The increased humidity during our monsoons contributes to the discomfort. He gave me two injections, one on each side of the lumbar region and I have been more comfortable since last night. Following the pain specialist visit, I stopped by my favorite Walgreens to get my last Covid ‘booster.’ Generally, people have gotten the first two one month apart, then a follow up booster a year later. For those of us with immune issues, we get those three and in addition, a half dose six months after the booster, then another half dose six months after that. For now, I am caught up with Covid shots. Next on the list is the annual flu shot. I heard a news report two nights ago that there is a polio outbreak in the U.S.! We have not seen the likes of polio here for some 30 years! In addition to Covid and Monkey Pox, we now have to be mindful of polio. What this country needs is some good, strong, required education in public health from small communities to large cities!

 

My work on the Baldwin family on WikiTree has continued this past week. I found several GEDCOM junk profile uploads from 2011. There were no biographies or sourcing. Several of them still have PMs listed. I do not mean to be a scold...well, maybe I do. Perhaps we should have a team that contacts these PMs to ask if they want to develop sourced biographies or let someone else take them on. I would not mind becoming a PM for several of the Baldwin profiles. I would be with family who do not talk back or get on my case over my OCD and other idiosyncrasies because they are dead!

Oh, darn! I whipped through my chat so that I could rush to Natural Grocers to get my dozen free-range eggs for only 99 cents! It is not until next Friday, the 19^th! Oh, well. Maybe I will walk to Starcrack (that is what I call Starbucks because my kid sister is addicted) and get a tall decaf café mocha, light ice, extra whipped cream, which I call a ‘geezer chino.’ It is for old people like me instead of the whipped cream in a cup topped with a mini-milk bone for dogs.

 

Thanks Pip for wrangling the Chatters. Wishing everyone a fun second weekend of August 2022.

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Great chat here! Thanks for hosting pip! Lovely to get an insight into what americans get up to. I love hearing about the cardinals and any other birdlife! I have been on walks with my mom and remembering what we used to do with our fur babies and how they would lighten up our days by getting that bit of energy when we opened the gate to our garden and they would "sprint" through it with a burst of new found energy. Still hard that they are now gone but thankful for the memories.

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Oh, those beautiful saguaros! Mike has several around his house, not as old as 70 yet. He was a cactus guy even before he moved to Tucson. We've been talking about trying to plan a trip out there if it fits into my younger brother's schedule. Well, I gotta tell you, Carol, I'm coming out in October whether Tim can make it or not. I've been hankering for a trip since the spring, but couldn't make it due to the move and the settling in the new home. I've got saguaro fever!

I need a new booster, but am afraid to get it so close to having had Covid. Still in the recovery mode, but I have to tell you, I am feeling much better... finally.

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Carol, you brought to mind a dear, dear memory of a time when my daughters were young and their dad had been transferred to Arizona,  "Watch out for those cactus with arms, daddy!" they would say.

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Interesting facts about your paper. My daughter is a nurse. She no longer takes care of patients. She has a job at home on the computer, something to do with insurance certifications. She went into nursing to care for people but she is glad that she could be home during COVID. She starts back in an office two days a week, in September. She managed to work from home since March 2020. During that time she moved and had a baby who will be one years old about the time she starts back in the office.

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Hi Candyce, I have lived in Arizona for nearly 40 years now and still enjoy waking up to these beautiful saguaros. They only grow in parts of the Sonoran desert and when I need to 'get away from it all' I just take a drive to Gates Pass in the Saguaro National Park and take in the wonderment of them all! And, yes, we do have to watch out for their arms. They are not for traditional hugging, but hugging in spirit.

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Hi Nancy, I have had growing concerns about the diaspora of nurses from the field. Back in February of this year, my primary care provider had a triple bypass. They were going to move him from the cardiac step down unit to a medical surgical unit, but couldn't because...there weren't enough nurses!

I am so glad that your daughter was able to work from home and avoid Covid. I wish her well as she returns to work and congratulations to you as a new grandmother!

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Here in Everett, Washington, the weather remains comfortably warm. Thunder Wednesday, but we got no rain. Huckleberries are ripe.

The dog who adores me, Billy, is going back on pain medication as his right rear leg has just not improved. He didn't want to walk all  the way down the block this morning. I am getting a refill for him this morning and will make another appointment.

Husband Chris gave a live talk to the Mukilteo Kiwanis Wednesday night. He gave a shortened version to the Historical Society last night via Zoom. The talk to the live audience was so much more satisfying and he thinks it went much better. On Zoom you have faces that look distracted and maybe you can focus on one who's laughing at your jokes and give the talk just to him.

I am writing a piece for the Mukilteo Monthly about the radioactive Fiesta ware we have in our collection. Pre-World War II, the Homer Laughlin Company made dinner ware with a uranium glaze. It sold well and there are still many pieces out there today. It is a "hot" item on Ebay. The Historical Society has about a dozen pieces of this bright orange ware, stored in cardboard boxes with hazmat stickers.

Genealogy: I want to thank Sandy and all those who started up the Appalachia Project. I am presently a member of the North Central group but could belong to all of them. Every couple of days I am notified that a sticker has been placed (by someone else) on one of my ancestors from Tennessee, for instance. I enjoyed reading about the Blue Fugates of Kentucky, especially after discovering that a spouse of someone I was connecting was a Fugate.

Azure called for Oregon Project volunteers, and I bit the bullet and volunteered to be the Team Leader for Linn County, Oregon. It was VERY satisfying to write a history and a timeline for the page.

CC7 has gone beyond 5,000; it increases slowly every few days, often not by my doing. I worked on cousins from the Wisconsin German side yesterday and a PM was very nice in helping out a merge.

Tomorrow I return a box of old photos to the archive, the same place with the radioactive dishes. Husband has finished scanning everything in the box. I identified some in the photos and worked up profiles for them and connected them.

Football season is almost upon us. I'm not ready. Baseball is still and ever with us.  You all stay cool.

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Hi Margaret! First, would you please send me a jar of huckleberry jam? Or, better yet, a huckelberry pie? I haven't had huckleberries since I lived in Montana over 25 years ago!

You mentioned German relatives from Wisconsin. I am originally from Wisconsin and have German relatives. Are any of them from the Milwaukee area (the beer-making capital of the early 19th century). The Schlitz Brown Bottle guest hall after a brewery tour was quite the place. Ike Uihlein Sr's. son, Ike Jr. was a personal friend when I was young. My German relatives weren't beer barons, though. Everyday, hardworking, getting through the depression and WWI and Korea type people.

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Hi, Carol. Mostly my Mom's relatives are from the Appleton area in Outagamie County. Some lived briefly in Milwaukee when they first got there. They had a talent for engineering farm equipment.

Huckleberries appear in decaying stumps. The round red berries are a treat. Here in Everett we can get huckleberry lemonade vodka cocktails.

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Margaret, I think I have distant cousins in Linn County. I'll have to go and check. These were part of the migration of loggers from western North Carolina. Some of them ended up in Longview, Washington, a few in Idaho, and some in Oregon,,, depending on where the work was at the time.

Radioactive Fiesta ware.... well, I never! This is the first I've ever heard of it.

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Greetings from Vancouver, Washington, Margaret! I used to living in Everett (I lived there for a year back in the early 90's). I also have been getting ready to sign up for the Oregon Project. I have a lot of Oregon ancestors. Happy Weekend! - Oh, and we're 12th cousins, 1x removed through David Drummond. 

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I received yesterday an email from the daughter of an adoptee, who has discovered the birth identity of her father. She is not on WT. We'll dig into the Ancestry DNA matches to find out more, but it looks like we're 5th cousins with roots in Linn County.

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Howdy folks! Greetings from, not quite as hot as it has been, Central Oklahoma! I hope this finds everyone doing as well as possible. 

I'm glad you got your AC working, Pip. I can't imagine life without air conditioning. 

While it has been a bit cooler recently, we will still be touching 100F on some days as we slowly wind summer down. We did get an inch of rain this week, so the grass is less brown and not as crunchy when you walk on it. Guess I'll be mowing in a few days, something I haven't had to do in a month. Summertime in OK......

Back when the heat was crazy, the garage door opener in the barn quit working, but it was too hot to work on it. I finally got to open it up to find the main gear had split in two. A new opener is $150-250, but a gear replacement kit on Amazon is $18. No brainer. Got it all put back together, and figured out the RPM sensor was bad. Another $18 on Amazon. Replaced that and it still wouldn't go up and down right. Finally found relevant YouTube videos, a bit more cussing, and finally it's working like new. If anyone needs their opener worked on, give me a shout. 

We spent last weekend at Grand Lake o' the Cherokee hanging out at our friends house. A few days floating around their dock and consuming adult beverages was just the ticket. It's nice to have a place like that to go and it's only 3 hrs from the house. 

Not much happening on the genealogy front this week other than some tinkering around on my PIP profile and a few others. We'll see what next week brings. 

Not much else to talk about so I guess I'll close. Thanks Pip for being the host with the most, and I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Until next time....

John

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Garage door openers... John our remotes are all broken or dead (new batts will not work in them). I called the company that made our motor and they don't have that version any more. We're going to need a new motor. That's upstairs. The downstairs basement door doesn't work either. We'll have to replace both at the same time.

I need a weekend like yours. Just floating and drinking something fine.

Edit: You're kin to me through my Appalachian families in east Tennessee.

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Pip, you can get universal remotes at Home Depot. There should be a "Learn" button on the back of your opener. You can push that and the open button on the remote and it should start working. The new remote will have instructions since some work differently than others.

It's always awesome to meet family!!!

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I'll check that out, John. Thanks!

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Just a short note from me. We're having a little break from the oppressively hot and humid weather here, and I've been enjoying my morning out in the garden.

I've been working on my Quander ONS this week. [[Quander-7|Nellie Quander]] was chosen by the USBH to be one of their project's notables. I'm super excited by that but only see the shortfalls in her profile. There was so much more to her. She got chosen to do an evaluation of a troubled school system and I need to document that properly so there's more about her life after college.

I'm also working on the line of a distant (so distant that the branches aren't connected and may never be!) cousin of hers and hope to post his profile soon. The Commandant of West Point will be another Notable member of the ONS.

For my own relatives and in-laws, there's been a flurry of work to add Appalachia stickers and hit my head on a brick wall some more. I had no idea how much of my mother's family lived in Appalachia. I thought I'd be joining for my husband's family. So interesting!

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Anne, we are very distantly related , but it is through my Dad's Appalachian families. 

You might get a surprise working on the Quander family. Ones I worked on I thought there'd never be a connection to mine. As often happens, a connection of some kind will show up. You've got a really nice start to Nellie's profile!

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Unfortunately, the connection that would be the ultimate would be the brothers who were supposed to have been the progenitors to the two branches of the family in Maryland and Virginia. I'm sure that I'll find a marriage between members of the two branches eventually, but there's apparently a family story passed down since the 1600s in both branches about having been started by brothers who were transported together, then sold apart on arrival in America.

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Anne, you might want to see if there are some records from the Old Bailey in London. That was the court that ordered one of my ancestors to American. And it was in one of those court records (there were two) that gave the names of the parents of my immigrant ancestor. It was the discovery of a lifetime!

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Greetings from south Texas!  We're finally getting some days where we don't quite hit 100F, but still no rain to speak of.   The drought map is enough to make you weep.

On the genealogy front, however -- I've been handed a breakthrough on a decades-old brick wall!  Still don't know for sure where g/grandpa wandered off to when he left the family, but we now have his parents, siblings, and confirmation of a long-standing hunch that his mother was the sister of one of his adoptive parents.  (If any of you heard a faint scream off in the distance on Monday afternoon, that was probably me.)

On WikiTree, as PC for Tennessee, I'm spending a good deal of time with the Appalachia Project.  What a great group!  And if you, like me a few weeks ago, don't think you have ancestors from Appalachia, you should check the list of states & counties.  You might be surprised.

Thanks for hosting, Pip!

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I've seen that drought map, Nan, and you are exactly right.

You know, I think I DID hear that scream!  And, I also have families in Tennessee, I just haven't gotten around to them. Old Jesse Kerr and his progeny. I really have got to get working on his family. Hundreds of descendants need to be entered. I haven't even stickered him yet.

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It is lovely to know, Pip, that you and your wife no longer fear the swelling of the rivers and streams due to the rain.  Higher ground is safer ground.

I join you in admiring the antics of our feathered friends around the birdfeeders and porch railings.  When he arrives in the spring, I have at least one hummingbird who will hover just outside our picture window to attract my attention, letting me know that it's time to put out the feeder.  Silly bird!

Isn't this weather just delightful?

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Candyce one thing we miss about our previous home is the hummingbirds. We put out two feeders for them, and all summer long we were entertained by their territorial behaviour. We just didn't have the time to find places for our feeders, but you can bet we'll be ready next year.

Loving this weather! Rainy days are just fine, just as much as the sunny days. The screened in back deck is one of our favorite places!

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Good Morning All (still morning on the west coast!)

The past two weeks have moved along still with packing up things to take home from the boat plus the never-ending cleaning the nooks and crannies and, of course, the major projects that are ongoing. Things are shaping up slowly and the For Sale sign goes on display today.

When I take breaks from all the above, I have continued working on the Butters Cemetery project and I have entered almost all the people with the Butter surname - created quite a few profiles for them and just categorized others. Now, I am expanding into other surnames that are connected to the Butter clan. Meanwhile, I have been able to sort of figure out a mystery of how a baby daughter was born three months after the mother's death which has been on my suggestion list for ages. Now, I have to actually figure out which date is wrong on the tombstones and I am leaning towards the mother's death date being incorrect.

We were quite surprised a few days ago to hear thunder here in Oak Harbor, WA. Unusual for this time of year and a really hard rain followed but just for a few minutes. Wish we could have sent some of that back home to Texas!

Have a great weekend and will hope to "see" everyone next week!

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I've got a few of those very same suggestions, Ginny, and for most of them I cannot find which date is the wrong date. Often, I just leave it, come back to it later. Sometimes that helps.... not often though.

The boat sale makes me kinda sad. 

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Hi from southern Ontario, 

Chez moi/at home: what's happening here? No rain, we have been home for 37 days and a total of about 5mm of rain, watering the veg bed is done at least twice a week, everything else has to make do with once a week. Weather is much better than last weekend when we had temps in the mid-30s C, 90F and up. 

And then there is Curly Top Disease; don’t worry it isn’t catching! If you’re not a tomato, a potato, a beet, cucumber, squash or connected to them you will be okay. 

Caused some people say to a phosphorus deficiency in the soil, or perhaps more likely contracted from the beet leafhopper, whose spit is apparently deposited into the plant while the beastie is feeding on the plant. What happens, the top leaves curl over into a roll, they go yellow with purple veins and edges and then dry up and die. The critters like hot and dry weather so we have the perfect conditions this year. And the critters are only 3mm long, so seeing them is not likely. 

Genealogy: Recently someone edited a profile I created less than 6 hours after it had been created and obviously had not followed the online sources listed, because the information that was changed was validated in the sources on the profile. 

More updating of profiles, I’m just about done with my side of the family, I think the Robbie’s side will have to wait for winter. I really need to do some serious house tidying and rearranging, perhaps even put the boxes of Xmas decorations in the storage closet in the basement, they didn’t get put away because I was planning to sort and tidy the storage closet. They are still on the floor by the closet door where I left them in January. 

What else: I’m reading Susanna Moodie’s excellent book ‘Roughing it in the Bush’, published in 1852, it is considered one of the earliest Canadian classics and is the story of her experiences as a new settler in Ontario in 1832. I doubt it could get published today, without some serious editing, some highly inappropriate terms-in today’s view- are used to describe people’s ethnicity and appearance. 

It is fascinating both the story and the writing style. And she does have a WT profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Strickland-1933

Have a great weekend everyone

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Curly Top Disease... I think some of our rhubarb has this. Symptoms were the same, M.

Roughing it in the Bush would definitely now be republished here in the US, and if found on public school library shelves would also come under attack, This is what happened to Mark Twain's stories. Sad people cannot read things in context.

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Actually she was equally critical about peoples appearance, behaviour, ethnicity or speech whether they were of European background or not.

Some of the comments attributed to other characters in the memoir are far more improper by today's standards.

It is difficult when people are unable to see the historical context of a book, or play, no one bans books about the reigns and behaviour of many European monarchs who certainly were not egalitarian.

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Hi M! I've never heard of curly top disease. I just always thought that Curly Top was an old Shirley Temple movie. Thank you for the link to Moodie's profile...very interesting.

As to inappropriate verbiage, we do need to consider the times they were written (like them or not). I have some original copy genealogy books that go back to the 19th century and the way that the 'hardy colonists' were described that raised them up, but others not, is painful to read. We do need to consider context and still not like it. The important thing is to dissuade this type of thinking in current times.

I'm going to scout for a virtual vacay, then stop procrastinating and get that paper in order!

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Hello from not-too-hot Wichita, Kansas! It is a sunny, August day, but won't get too hot this afternoon.  Wish it would rain for many trees and bushes are starting to turn brown. (I don't know if they will survive.)  I have been watering the three small trees I have in my yard, so they are looking okay for now.

I have a small rabbit living in my front flower bed and love to spy where he is hiding. I think I need to name him Waldo, for I am always searching for his new hidey-hole. He was hiding under the now-brown leaves of the iris near the walkway yesterday, and he scared us both when he took off running across the yard for the dry leaves sounded like a snake's rattle!

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Ahh, Wichita, how well I remember sleeping at one of your rest areas on a cross country trip. Michelle, the next time I go through, I'm going to take my time. It's beautiful out there!

I guess I'd better name our rabbit, too. The one who likes our Asiatic lilies!

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So far my rabbit has left my lilies alone, but last winter one ate the tips off all of my yucca plants.  I think they would be hard up to eat those!  Last summer, one ate my freshly-planted 'chocolate chip ajuga' plant, which I thought was funny since I am sure it did not taste like chocolate chips.

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All our lilies in the area where they were planted are gone. I have no idea what our rabbit is eating now! 

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Greetings from the Essex Sunshine Coast and Brightlingsea.

Yes - it  has been the Essex Sunshine coast for the past week and can't remember when it last rained....  Though we may have some early next week.(I hope). The tide is coming round to afternoon tides - so will be busy on the beach this weekend. My sister and her friends were at the beach hut today for a swim,  as tide was around 1pm. They had a good afternoon....

Last weekend saw the Brightlingsea Free Music Festival - held on Hurst Green , in the town. A very well supported event. Did go along on the Sunday, again it was very warm.  See photo above. 

have got back to family history and have been following up on my Goodyear connections - Finally find my great grandmothers sister married twice- Maria Goodyear became Maria Hignell in 1881 and then Maria Cook.in 1907. Will hopefully do some more on the "Hignell" family over the coming days...

Have a good weekend everyone.....

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Chris, you folks are sure having a dry spell where you are, if I can trust the drought map I saw of England the other day.

Look at all those umbrellas! That's one way to beat the heat at a festival.

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Greetings from Flagstaff, Arizona!  I fled north this morning to get away from the heat for a few days.  There's a rain-fed pond beneath my balcony where some kind of heron is picking tasty treats out of the mud.  I'm having a cookout with some old friends out at Mormon Lake, then poking around Grand Canyon, so I probably won't be spending much time on Wikitree next week!  

Monday I volunteered at a county monkeypox vaccination clinic for at-risk adults, getting really good at saying "Next group, please!" and handing out flyers.  The county really has their system down; the clinic opened with a line around the block and three hours and 2000+ customers later finally cleared the line.

Otherwise it's been pretty quiet on the home front.  Wild Birds Unlimited told me the best way to get rid of all the pigeons in my back yard is to stop putting out seed for two weeks, so that's what I'm doing.  Nothing but the finch feeder and hummingbird feeders right now.

On the Genealogy front, I finally put my Great White Whale to rest: I found my grandfather Robert Inglis' marriage, and his parents' marriage, in the Scottish registries!  It really is worth spending the "credits" in scotlandspeople.gov.uk to view the actual record, because there's so much more to it than given in the search results, i.e. address, occupation and maiden name of both sets of parents.   So now I have a toehold on the other side of the Atlantic, even if that line still doesn't connect to the overall tree.  They come from farm laborers in the Fife area, so I probably have my future work cut out for me.

I filled in my parents' bios - between my Mom's memoirs and my own memories it's hard to know when to stop - and started on my aunts & uncles, cleaning up the sources and adding bios.  Where I don't have much information, I'll try to at least write a brief summary of the dates.  I've been trying to entice my cousin Anne onto Wikitree as she's the other amateur genealogist in my generation and I'm working from papers in her collection.  We'll see!

Hope all are well.

-Nancy

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Yes, it really is worth buying the credits, Nancy. Congrats to you on your great find. I hope this will open some doors for you across the Pond. Keep us posted!!!

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I have not been here for so long.

Usually I dont have anything new to report in the genealogy front so I dont bother. I do read the weekend chat threads though..

But I would like to report that as of right now before I post this comment - I am barely 700 points away from hitting 1 million points in G2G so I am getting excited about that!!

I think I might be closer to 600 points away after this gets posted.

I have been here at Wikitree now for 5 and a half years and it has been so much fun!!

And I am about to reach a major milestone and I want to celebrate!! 

Oh and the heatwave over Toronto also seems to be easing off as well. Temps are now back below 30 Deg C.

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Robynne, I cannot believe that you are not over 1 mil already! I see you there all over the place. I have to admit that I got most of my points when G2G was more chatty. And once I got down to business, being more serious about the profiles I manage and extending the family, I spend a lot less time on G2G. Kudos to you. I see you there being one of the most helpful members. I'll celebrate with you!!

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Hopefully, my up vote helps! Congratulations!  -- Yes, it did.  It now rounds you up!

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Holy cow, I now have just 200 points to go!!

Could happen this weekend!! 

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I just upvoted you and now it says

 answered 10 hours ago by Robynne Lozier G2G6 Pilot (1,000k points) edited 10 hours ago by Robynne Lozier

Congrats!

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You over by a bunch, Robynne!! Congratulations!!!!!

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Yes I seem to have accumulated 700 points while  I slept!! LOL

Now I am an astronaut!! Yaaaaay Me!!

OK, Back to business now!!

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On this day:

1687: The Austrians beat the Osmans at the Battle of Mohács

1955: The Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann dies

1990: In South Dakota, the first Tyrannosaurus is found

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I used to want to be an archaeologist, but that was long ago, so skipping the Tyrannosaurus. Read some of Thomas Mann, hard reads, so I'll skip that one, too. Ah, there's the Battle of Mohács! I'll take that one. And... I'm on time for class! Thanks, Professor. I always find at least one of your entries that interests me.

BTW: I finished Beevor's Berlin: the Downfall, 1945. Fascinating, but horrific.

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Ooo, look at all those links!

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That was a great read. Followed links all the way to Transylvania University in Kentucky!

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Hi Jelena, unlike Pip, I am late for class! I will go with the two Pip didn't take, Thomas Mann and my grandson's favorite dinosaur Tyrannosaurus Rex!