June 2008 archive

Rough Ride

The weather was wild for about a half hour last night. The power, blinked several times, then went out for less than a minute. A wall of rain swept through, the wind blew, and then the storm sirens went. We headed for the basement, but the storm was past us by then. A lot of …

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Not Enough Bluegrass??

I must not have mentioned the dreaded banjo often enough lately. I notice it’s totally gone from my tag cloud. I guess that’s how I know the darn cloud tag is working. So this is my banjo post of the day. Here is my favorite very local banjo player. You can hear him play a …

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Gray Day

Oh, I guess I’m back to Dad’s colors again.  It is gray today, and humid as can be.  We are promised rain, and we could use some.  the lawn is suffering a little.  I’m off the the grocery store, not one of my favorite jobs.  So, even if the weather didn’t make for a gray day, …

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Genealogical Breakthrough

I recently exchanged e-mail with a descendant of one of Papa’s dead-end ancestors. That person is a descendant of a sibling of Henry H. Fellows, I’ll call him JB. I had found little on JB previously. He was named in him mother’s pension claim file after his father died at during the Civil War. He …

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Company!

компютри втора употребаGS1 is home for a week from the Navy, and we are enjoying a nice visit. D1 cooked a nice dinner last night for family and some close friends. We enjoyed good food and good conversation. It seems great to have him here, in a very adult acting version. He’s going to be …

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