Granny Pam D1 called home Friday afternoon, asking GS2 to check the mail. He walked out to the mail box, phone in his ear. It contained what we’d all hoped it would, a thin number 10 envelope. D1 arrived here some years ago with two small sons and a divorce. She had worked, studied and struggled. Several … Read more
I’m not. Not keeping up, I guess. The reason, too much real e-mail. Another researcher of the Fellows family has appeared, as if by magic. I’ve got a ton of things to go through and enter in the computer. I need to clean the house, finish yesterdays wash and do a little sewing. Oh well. … Read more
I’ve had more problems than usual with my vegetable garden this year. We had to replant the lettuce and the carrots. The beets came up pretty spotty. A few of our tomatoes suffered frost damage, and some tomatoes just died, don’t know why. To top it all off, a few days ago, 12+ broke off … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
It may rain today, or tonight or tomorrow. It’s interesting how inexact science can be. We need rain, the lawn is beginning to turn yellow. I watered by veggies and flowers, but I refuse to water the lawn, preferring to allow nature to take it’s course. I ‘m going to plant some more veggies today, … Read more
Papa and I had a nice Memorial Day holiday, We spend a few days with Papa’s mother, as we do each year. We visited the cemeteries where our departed family members are buried, and brought plants and flowers. We drove around our old stomping grounds and looked for changes and improvements. We stopped at every … Read more