I'M STILL HERE

 I haven't added to my blog in a year or more.  I've been active in teaching DNA webinars during COVID and teaching DNA classes before COVID, and playing with active grandkids for the last few years.  I'm still here.  I'll hopefully add something useful to my site.......  soon.

Debbie

I WAS there. Now I'm HERE!

Must be the time of year I think about restarting my blog.  I last entered a "place holder" one year and one day ago.  We've moved from Tennessee to Arkansas.  We added a new grandchild to the family the last week of February.  We now live four doors down from out daughter.  Our sons still live in St Louis.

Things I've learned:

• Moving gets harder the older you are.
• Downsizing is difficult.  Mother loved that "thing" but the kids don't or they don't have room for it either, so maybe someone else will like it if we give it away.
• There's not enough time to do the genealogy research I want to do.
• Our new house is more than 1000 square feet smaller than the previous house in which we lived for sixteen years.
• We lived in Collierville for 34 years.  That's the longest we ever lived in one town.
• There are a LOT of corn fields in Marion Arkansas
• Marion is like the small towns in which I grew up.  The furniture store owner, my new dentist, my realtor, my builder.....  all now know my life history.  They're interested in people and where you're from and how long did you live there and where did you go to school.....  Just like me.  Maybe it's a good move.  People who have never lived in a small town might now understand that.

From the grandchildren:

• Don't take your eyes off the Easter bunny.  Not ... for... one... minute.
• What's the secret a three year old whispers to her 6 week old baby brother?  "Run Away!!"  hmmmm.
• One of my grandchildren will be a senior in high school this fall.
• I picked up the three year old at daycare.  She wanted to go to the Shake Shack for strawberry ice cream.  We decided that she should finish the second half after her dinner.  That evening she asked her Mommy to take a picture of her eating the rest of the ice cream and to tell me she loved me. <3 li="">
• My daughter said "yestertime" when she was three.  Her three year old said "yestermorrow".
• The three year old was asked this question:  What do you want to be when you grow up?  Her answer:  "Sleeping beauty and a lawyer with a crown and pink heels.  And a pink dress with no shoes."

I've held a monthly genealogy/technology class at the Tennessee Genealogical Society since 2009.  It's time for some new ideas and some new "blood" for the group, so I'm going to hand it over to someone else.  I know I'll miss the group but I think it's time.

All the boxes are unpacked but the pictures are not all hung and everything may not be where it will eventually end up and I need a few area rugs and the grass is show to come up outside but the office is "done" so all is well with the world.

Good Night.

I'm still here

It's been two years since I've made an entry to this blog.  I should have more time after this school year is over.  If there is anyone looking for Lyon/Caldwell county KY genealogy connections, feel free to drop me a line.  Seven weeks and counting.... counting......  [smiley face..... smile face]

Cross-stitch takes a LONG time

I started a cross-stitched family tree for the new edition to the family who was born last November.  I started it during the school summer vacation last year.  I have quite a bit finished, but am anticipating being able to do more in a couple of weeks when school is out again this year.  It's taking SO long that I've asked a friend to finish it in the case of my early demise!  It's taking a LONG time. The friend laughed, but promised to carry through if I'm hit by a truck or something.  I hadn't done any needlework for DECADES.  I don't remember previous efforts taking this much time, but almost forty years probably makes me a wee bit slower too!

UPDATE:  It looks like I never posted a picture of the final results.  The following is a picture I found, taken in 2015.  Seems to me like it took..... can't remember if it was three months or three years....  seems like even longer, whichever it was!!!  It shows Ellie as the youngest child.  I had to add to it a few years later, when Jeffery Matthew Cook was born in 2017, giving Ellie a brother.  I cross stitched my name and the date into the margins of the cloth canvas, where it's not visible, but can be found by future generations, I hope.

If you want a copy of one of the miscellaneous records, let me know

It's a month and a half since I posted a page specific index of the miscellaneous records found at the end of the Lyon County Insanity Records microfilm.  I haven't had any comments or feedback, so I'm going to discontinue doing those.  The first post on those records gave an index of the contents of those records.  If anyone wants a specific page, I have them all scanned and will be happy to send the specific page to you.  I've enjoyed my summer off, but school starts July 29th for me.....  I'll post other things on my blog as I run across something interesting.  I've created a Pinterest page of genealogy links that is increasing daily:  http://pinterest.com/letsdiscussit  It was created for the group I lead, monthly, at the Tennessee Genealogical Society.  I'm working on a cross stitch family tree (which is taking a really, really long time).  It has been 40 years since I did a cross stitch project.  After I finish this one, it will be, at least, another 40 years!!  Wow, it's a tedious project.  I think I rip out more stitches than I put in!  You'd think a math major could count little squares more accurately!

Our newest grandchild is due in November.  The other 5 grand kids live in Missouri.  Have a great summer!