Hi all. Summer is actually here which we welcomed with a picnic under the gazebo with the baby grape leaves hinting at full shade and the citronella candles lit for me to chase away the few bugs that are about. It was in the low 70s, a virtual heat wave here, after the 50s that we have been in lately.
I want to get your phone number, Kristen. Be sure to post it when you have one, if that is good.
And Anne, I have enjoyed reading your new postings and memories and plans for the Hill Country. My largest memories there, of course, which Kermit shares, I'm sure, are of Aunt Azalee's house and summer play with David and Donald, and the trip we went on to a relative's farm where bees were raised, where we overindulged in the honey and heat and fun, and needed to return to Austin with towels in our laps in case the honey flowed the wrong direction. And then a concert that I remember on the river there with blankets and snacks and the beautiful music and twilight sun.
Our news here is that Vonnie has a date for her knee replacement: July 5. So preparation with pre exercises and paperwork and all are moving along. Being mobile again will be a total boon.
I hope that the move for the Dunns and that the travel for the Robbins is going well and that all is enjoyed. Pretty soon, when we travel south, we will have places to stay galore as we trek around seeing everyone. Hint, hint.
I've been watching the news on the oil spill in the Gulf, and it brings up both memories of Galveston and Thibodaux and Grand Isle picnics and at the same time worry for the clean up and how long it might take. I want the Gulf to be as it is in my memory when I return. I've told Vonnie all about Gaido's Restaurant in Galveston, and now we have added your Italian place, the BuccodeBicca(I lose the name) to our list of places to go.
Ken, my favorite antique car is the Lamborghini, but I have only seen one in real life. Most I have seen only on paper. Seeing all the cars must have been a treat. Coming home from town yesterday afternoon, we passed about 20-30 older, spiffed up Thunderbirds, many of them convertables, that must have been on a drive on Chuckanut Drive and then through Fairhaven. We thought of you and the cars on your trip.
Well, rain and rust here today. Good summer. Llew and Vonnie
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Saturday, June 05, 2010
To NC and Back
Here it is Saturday night and we are in a NC motel with "iffy" wireless satellite. Mountain in NC are gorgeous. Wireless satellite in mountains is not so gorgeous. I have heard it is this way, but did not know how frustrating it could be to type a little, or reply to an email, or print a little, and then lose the connection. No telling how long I will be online tonight due to the sporadic connection.
Ken cousin Ruthie's husband enjoyed his 90th birthday party today at a friend's car renovation garage out in the country where they restore peoples high end cars and race three Mercedes: #1 and #2 (better than #1--Ha! Ha!) and a third Mercedes that is diesel. There are all other kinds of cars in there also: Lambroghini, Lotus, Porche, Ferrari, Mercedes truck that has a mower on the back. I'll share the photos on Picasa later if their is enough connection power this evening. There were about 20 people there for a lasagna dinner and birthday cake. Richard and Ruth's daughter Peggy, husband Ron, and Bear (giant pure bred German Shepherd were also there, driving from NW of Chicago.
We will begin our way home Sunday morning and head west on I-40 through Knoxville and head north some to go to Jacksboro, county seat of Campbell County, TN, where our Hollingsworth great-great grandfather James Daniel Hollingsworth and his family lived in the 1800s.
In Albany, Clinton County, KY on Friday, I found papers such as a will, land records, and guardianship papers for James Porter Hollingsworth's family who lived there in the late 1800s before moving to Fannin County, TX in the 1890s.
Ken is enjoying the end of the 6 hours of the Watkins Glen, NY Race. I'll try to print a little more so I will be prepared for the Campbell County, TN Courthouse. It is mostly important to have all the Hollingsworth surname ancestors, their children, their siblings, and their spouses' surnamed ancestors, their children, and their siblings, their birth dates, death dates, and any dates possible when they lived in the county being research before their family migrated to the next place. Sometimes it can be complicated, and sometimes it is hard to find what you would like to find.
Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend , and will have a safe week. Love, Linda
Ken cousin Ruthie's husband enjoyed his 90th birthday party today at a friend's car renovation garage out in the country where they restore peoples high end cars and race three Mercedes: #1 and #2 (better than #1--Ha! Ha!) and a third Mercedes that is diesel. There are all other kinds of cars in there also: Lambroghini, Lotus, Porche, Ferrari, Mercedes truck that has a mower on the back. I'll share the photos on Picasa later if their is enough connection power this evening. There were about 20 people there for a lasagna dinner and birthday cake. Richard and Ruth's daughter Peggy, husband Ron, and Bear (giant pure bred German Shepherd were also there, driving from NW of Chicago.
We will begin our way home Sunday morning and head west on I-40 through Knoxville and head north some to go to Jacksboro, county seat of Campbell County, TN, where our Hollingsworth great-great grandfather James Daniel Hollingsworth and his family lived in the 1800s.
In Albany, Clinton County, KY on Friday, I found papers such as a will, land records, and guardianship papers for James Porter Hollingsworth's family who lived there in the late 1800s before moving to Fannin County, TX in the 1890s.
Ken is enjoying the end of the 6 hours of the Watkins Glen, NY Race. I'll try to print a little more so I will be prepared for the Campbell County, TN Courthouse. It is mostly important to have all the Hollingsworth surname ancestors, their children, their siblings, and their spouses' surnamed ancestors, their children, and their siblings, their birth dates, death dates, and any dates possible when they lived in the county being research before their family migrated to the next place. Sometimes it can be complicated, and sometimes it is hard to find what you would like to find.
Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend , and will have a safe week. Love, Linda
Thursday, June 03, 2010
from CA
Well, now that I've FINALLY been able to get back on the blog (thanks to Llew), I don't really have that much to say. Nothing much is happening here in SoCAL; we went to see Robin Hood last weekend -- great advernture movie, not to mention Russell Crowe was just as hunky as he always is! I read Linda's posts (always so descriptive about who, what and where they're going or been). We also love The Closer and have been watching since the beginning. I do wish they'd rename the cat from "kitty" though! We also like Saving Grace, but this is its last season. Since we've gotten cable, it's like a whole new world -- Kermit is in 7th heaven with all the business and sports shows that are on and I'm now attached to the Disney and Hallmark channels. I spend most weekends catching us on the shows we've recorded during the week. Do you guys get Two and a Half Men with Charlie Sheen? It is hilarious! A little frisky for the kids, though. Hopefully, this weekend we can go see the Prince of Persia -- also another adventure (non-thinking) movie. A couple of my attorneys gave me AMC movie gift certificates for Christmas and birthday and we've done very well with them.
Now I only have two years left til retirement -- I wish I could find a retirement clock which was popular a few years ago; you just put in the date to retire and it wound down to that point. Maybe it's better I don't have one; it's bad enough for me to go online and look at the houses in Texas and their floor plans. Unless we win the lottery, I guess I'm stuck with the two years!
Sorry to rattle on like this; it just starts spewing out uncontrollably. Too bad I couldn't write novels!! Hope everyone is doing ok and hope to hear from anyone soon. Chow (couldn't remember how to spell it in Italian!
Love, Anne
Now I only have two years left til retirement -- I wish I could find a retirement clock which was popular a few years ago; you just put in the date to retire and it wound down to that point. Maybe it's better I don't have one; it's bad enough for me to go online and look at the houses in Texas and their floor plans. Unless we win the lottery, I guess I'm stuck with the two years!
Sorry to rattle on like this; it just starts spewing out uncontrollably. Too bad I couldn't write novels!! Hope everyone is doing ok and hope to hear from anyone soon. Chow (couldn't remember how to spell it in Italian!
Love, Anne
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