19 April ‘23
The week started below freezing … 27 degrees.
Today I slept in. It is now 0614 and 30 degrees.
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Another death added to my list. The woman who was the first to greet me when I moved into Victorian Village died late last week.
Although she and I didn’t visit too much lately, since we both had become mobility challenged.
I will remember that greeting.
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I am in the process of renewing my membership in the DAR, this time as a member-at-large, in order to access their list of pedigrees of Revolutionary War veterans. I hope they will have information to help me fill in some of the blanks in my brick wall, Cuthbert Sims.
I have complete information of his service time and some birth information due to his pension records but little about the time between his discharge from the Continental Army and his request for a pension in 1835. The time between is scarce.
I hope research through data in DAR records research finds there may help since records for Warren in Somerset County, New Jersey during the missing time is scarce other than tax roles.
Mayhap the game will be afoot.
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Every so often, while watching the tv, I am subjected to snippets of some “game” shows and become advised that, with the exception of my chosen sister’s daughter, those auditioning are screamers, wavers of arms, screamers, and jumpers up and downers.
I once tried out for one of those shows and was told I was smarter than the others but I wasn’t active enough to make the show interesting.
My niece was smart and she had an interesting backstory. Both she and her mother were teachers who taught the same grade in the same classroom just a few years apart.
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Back to the subject of genealogy, I recently found photos of my mother and her cousin Roberta with whom I share a birth date.
Roberta had an interesting life. She was a beauty and was a showgirl with the Fanchon and Marco entrepreneurs on the west coast as was Zigfeld and his Follies on Broadway in New York.
I correspond with one of Aunt Roberta’s granddaughters and am sending her the photos and a pedigree Doug, one of Aunt Roberta’ s sons, researched.
It is always exciting when I can provide something to add to the research being done by a relative.
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John was here last saturday to do some planting … rhubarb and asparagus … and check on the roses. All the roses, including the miniature one, seem to be beginning to leaf out as is the lilac.
And he was back today (wednesday the 19th) to add a lot of lovely blue and purple with one black Hollyhock.
While he was here last week, he helped me choose a recliner which will allow me to have my feet up. The only other recliner, was part of the big sofa which belongs to Mark but which was kept here until he had a house and so is now in his new house.
My new chair has a lot of features which will be great, more like the seating in movie theaters.
They will be taking the big oblong dining set and the round table which has been holding the tv in the living room (and which had been my Nuna’s) will be my dining table. It is a good switch since their table will now seat six while mine will be good for four.
I have always been the kind of person who chooses places to put furniture and leaves it there. My sister was the opposite. She rearranged all her furniture at least once a month.
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Do you think lemonade is simple? After all, children make and sell it once the weather gets right.
Think again. It really has an extensive history.
… This story ncludes recipes.
Let me know if you try any of them.
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Every so often, while watching the tv, I am subjected to snippets of some “game” shows and become advised that, with the exception of my chosen sister’s daughter, those auditioning are screamers, wavers of arms, screamers, and jumpers up and downers.
I once tried out for one of those shows and was told I was smarter than the others but I wasn’t active enough to make the show interesting.
My niece was smart and she had an interesting backstory. Both she and her mother were teachers who taught the same grade in the same classroom just several years apart.
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To close out the week …
I’ve seen a better day, but I’ve also seen worse. I don’t have everything that I want, but I do have all I need. I woke up with some aches and pains, but I woke up. My life may not be perfect, but I am blessed.
‘Til next week …