Weaversville

Well, I was under the house during Tuesday’s windy rainy storm barely 40-45 degrees, finishing off the generator circuit trying to get ahead of the rainy season so we wouldn’t have 100′ extension cords strung all over the house, when mom decided to run the dishwasher at which time I heard a terrible splashing sound not far from where I lay..

I looked up and the entire drain was spewing water all over underneath the house.

It had totally separated above an elbow of the pipe under the flooring underneath the kitchen sink..

I looked over a section of the foundation and there was a small lake under the house of smelly drain water.

I guess mom used some caustic drain cleaner to clear the clogged pipes and it melted the PVC drain pipes underneath the kitchen floor under the house.

I stop working on the generator wiring and begin tearing into the plumbing job which required quite a bit of going back and forth under the house to build a bridge over the troubled waters so I could remove the old pipes and replace them.

Now running back and forth to the store to get the proper plumbing supplies, and hours later after squeezing through a small openning under the house.

I finished that job and then I begin thinking about finishing the generator circuit and as I’m grabbing some wire to pull through I barely had time to even think about it, the cloths washer drain backs up.

This time I had a hunch that our neighbor who is in the pool and spa business has a plumbers snake, so I ask for and he has a small drain snake which was perfect for what I thought the problem to be, (a sock in the works.)

I try using the small plumbers snake to retrieve what I thought was a sock but no joy, it was something more sinister and I could not budge it.

Now I’m calling a plumber at $82.00 to show, (they got the tools to clean the mess and I’m not cutting anymore drain pipes if you know what I mean.)

In the mean time we have a second more powerful mega storm than the one yesterday, (which by the way has crippled Chico and the north valley,) and as I’m just finishing the first 20 amp circuit, the power flickers and soon, at noon it goes out for the next 5 hours or so. .

Well the plumber guys haven’t appeared yet, we need some groceries, we also need to get gas for the truck and generator, drop some mail off at the P.O..

We haven’t heard from the rooter guys yet but we assume that they assume that since the power is out they won’t have any hookup for their equipment so we go ahead and make our rounds.

Just as we get back from our rounds they show up on the off chance that we had a generator, and as it turns out I did have 20 amps for their equipment.

After some effort on their part to clear the pipes well enought for the washer to drain without overflowing on the laundry room floor they have no success.

Finally they cleaned out the drains from the roof in the pouring rain and high winds, after several attempts to clean it from the laundry room discharge pipe.

Well, they got it so the washing machine could drain without overflowing but this is about 2 hours later and everything else we have to do in the house is on hold.

With no power from the grid, the guys finish up and before even taking a check from us have another emergency call so they hustle off to their next job.

I need a break so now it’s time to check up on Grandma Weaver who it turns out needed help lighting her propane lantern so she could read, (highly unsafe but candle power just wasn’t cutting it.)

I go ahead and light it for her and make sure she’s O.K., invite her to a Chili feed with lights and a cozy house but she stubbornly declines so I head home to finish some lose ends.

Just as I get back to the house about 5 minutes later the power comes back on after 5 hours of outages.

Would you believe it this is my holiday. At least we didn’t have to deliver the mail in this mess but we will have to clean up what the subs couldn’t deliver when we get back to work on Friday when it’s suppose to snow. down to 2000 feet.

The Chico area had massive power line problems after the snapped power poles across hwy 99, on forest avenue, Walmart park lot and various and sundry other places through out the area.

CHP, City Police, PG&E, Comcast and ATT had their plates full.This is the worst I’ve ever seen Chico hit by that kind of wind that I can remember. .

While I was gassing up the truck and filling gas cans, a guy told of story about his house, he has a huge oak tree that was about a foot and a half away from his house, but now it’s 6 inches and cracked in the yoke, so he wrapped a chain around it to a nearby tree and left for a Motel for fear of being crushed.

We’re in better shape than many in this part of the country and count our blessings.

They came, they conquered, and the left.  We had a wonderful time while eating out at the Olive Garden, visiting, going to the snow and snow boarding.  Spending time with Livi in her time of need while Mom and Dad took care of some business.  We got some pictures and spent quality time with our Grand daughter.  That’s what it’s all about isn’t it?  Yes it is!  That’s what being Grandparents is all about too.  500 miles across the great divide and down into the pit of traffic jams, bad air, angry drivers, and fast cars.  Who needs it.   Oh well.

It’s been fun this year, got to discover some very interesting family background, Facebook became a new fashion, we lost Lily Rose, (not fun,) Uncle Bill went to Scotland, Cousin Kurt got thrown from a heart attack horse and is recovering from a broken pelvis, (ouch for sure,) the economy is, well, slowly rising from the ashes, and speaking of ashes, we have a ton of family history in the Ashe County North Caroline and now Georgia and Alabama areas of  Appalachia.  Discovered we are direct descendants of the Brus Family of France and England, also that our Weaver family name came from Wales and was originally spelled Wever.  We are cousins to Frank and Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, (Robert L. Parker,) Doc Holiday, Johnny Ringo, Woodrow Wilson, J.F.K, LBJ, Judy Garland, Clyde Barrow, Pretty Boy Floyd, John Wesley Harding, Bill Clinton and Hilary Clinton, Tom Landry, John Adams, Winchester and Browning, Hubble, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, and well, the list goes on.  Check into ancestry.com under our family tree and you can get the info on all this from there.  Cousin Queen Elizabeth II is also on that list.  Happy New Year to you all.George

Well, I’ve been home 3 days with chest congestion and soreness, sinus congestion, aches and weakness.  I’m progressing now but wish it were over with.  This is the worst stuff I can remember for a long time.  I’m told it takes a good 5 to 7 days to recover and it’s on track so far.   Sam, Pam, Tyler and Autumn were here for Thanksgiving and entertained us thoroughly.  Got some great pics and great fun.  It was just after they left that the flu took hold and down I went for the count.  Went to Blackbear for breakfast and had a crowd for dinner.  whewee!

There may be some changes and limited access today.  I’ve upgraded the account to more features.  Not sure just what I will have but am hoping for some features I have been accustomed to on OLM.   We’ll see.

I can’t begin to fathom how our families have come together using “The Cloud” AKA the Internet, you know that thing Big Al Gore invented ha ha.

I started some time last year, or was it the year before I can’t quite remember now, creating a photo blog on weavervisions.com , then I found a script for one, then I found a better one on my host, then I found http://sharedweaverandfamilyphotos.ning.com/ then I created http://thebataandeathmarch.ning.com/ and a few others that have kept me busy this year.

Then I got busy on Father’s Day after Scott and Sarah purchased time on Scott Weaver’s Family Tree so I could spend countless hours chasing our family lineage which you are all welcome to visit and add your family lines to.

My goals have been aimed that way where I don’t get stuck with all the dirty work and get help from you all, (famous last words.)

We are a very big family with Persian Roshan and Eteshamsadah, African American Booker T. Washington, Polish Ingenfritz, German-Deutsch Ottinger and Welty, French relatives De Brus, Spanish relatives Valasquez, Mexican relatives Haro and I know I’ve just touched on the tip of the iceberg and we are all related through Adam and Eve, but these are more current and interesting connections I’ve enjoyed discovering.

(I noticed it seems to be off-putting to some people when I bring up our relations but our kids deserve to know the lines they came from and I know it has grounded me in world history and our own Canadian, Mexican, Texican, American relatives.)

I’m sure we have family on both sides of the Spanish-American war, the War of Independence, the Civil War, WWI and WWII. I was disappointed when I discovered we are related to the Ottingers who lived in the area I was stationed in in Germany near Bitburg AFB because I could have done some research there and maybe made contact with them.

My sons are related to Sir Walter Scott, George Bush, John F. Kennedy, Linden Baines Johnson, Johnny Ringo, Clyde Barrow (sp?), Frank and Jessie James, Butch Cassidy, John Wesley Harding, Booker T. Washington, Winchester and Browning,William Randolf Hurst, Howard Hughs, Robert Bruce my 10th great grandfather, and Robert Brus, Diego Valasquez. Robert Parker, Judy Garland.

The Quiesenburies are from Kentucky, Weavers go back to the Virginia Colonies to what is now the Raleigh North Carolina area. (It’s really hard to think in terms of “Virginia Colonies”.)

The Rutherfords came over to the Madrid area of New York, I think the Radfords came from England to Chester Iowa, a very small farming community where Lorena Radford and John Thomas Rutherford met and married.Then there is the Sanford side of the family who settled in the Horsehead, Broome County Upstate New York area, the Shearer family who are Pennsylvania Dutch, (Weakly’s on the Weaver side are also Pennsylvania Dutch,) Weaver’s migrated from NC, through the Ozarks, Tennessee, Missouri, Texas Panhandle, Demming NM, Nevada, and finally California.

Robertsons migrated from Hamilton Scotland, to Nova Scotia, Toronto Ontario, Dunchurch Ontario, Perry Sound, Selma (Robertson Dear Lake or Wawashkesh,) then Piosche Nevada, the Redlands California, Stanislaus California, (Patterson then Modesto,) then to Richmond, Berkley California.

My ancestors fought for and against Kind Edward Longshanks, for and against the Invading Roman Armies in the Borders area of Britain, and most recently against the Japanese in the Philippines and lived to tell about it after 42 months of torture, experimentation, exploitation against the Geneva Accords and every kind of tropical disease.

I do plan on updating this article as I get time and more information or think of more information so please keep coming back and check it out.

Disclaimer: I hereby relieve myself of all responsibility for misspellings of family or place names listed in this article. If you can correct them please contact me either by phone or email. If you are related you know how to reach me.

George Weaver

November 25th, 2009

We had fun this year with Autumn and Tyler coming up to visit us to see and play in the snow up near Inskip California.  I didn’t realize that Sam’s Tahoe didn’t have 4 wheel drive so we ventured quite a way past where we probably should have but found a nice snowy playground on that last Powelltown rd exit.  (We had room to back uphill a bit and ease our way back downhill through the treacherous icy roads.)  Tyler was unmerciful as usual throwing hard snow snowballs at Grandpa, (me), and I did my best to duck but he hit home on more than one occasion.  I got even with Ty by grabbing a bunch of snow and stuffing it down his back.  Autumn protested, Grandpa…. why are you being mean to Tyler.  I said, because there is so little time to spend with you guys and I want to have as much fun as I can while you are here.  She must have said that 5-10 times before we were safely back in our warm Truck and SUV.  Just before they arrived Tinker,  (our Jack Russell that Sam put in our care was brutally mauled by a German Shepperd Chow Mix dog.)  We asked them to pay the vet bills, and everything seemed to be going along fine when while Sam, Tyler and Autumn were still visiting we received a bomb threat because Nicki, (the owner of the dog told here live-in boy friend that the aggressive dog had to return to her parents house,)  and he retaliated by making a bomb threat.  Long story short, we called the police, filed a report, called Animal Control, to seal the deal.  Next morning we were all playing Frisbee and throwing Tylers new sponge football around, (Grandma took them to the Dollar saver and let them pick what they wanted to bring home arms full and happy.)  He loved to overthrow the football and then hit me with little rocks he would pick up while I had my back turned.  I told him to remember the snow trip when I stuffed snowballs down his back, and that I had a refrigerator full of ice if he kept up nailing me with rocks.  This was all happening while Sam was loading the Tahoe for the return trip to La Mirada.  So we hugged each other and bid our farewells until we meet again and off they went through the concrete jungles to reach their home in Southern California.

Just now found out from Linda that Keri is pregnant with twins.  Don’t remember the due date, you’ll have to check with Linda or Dawn or Douglas or Keri herself if any of them read this.

George

Born October 6th 2008 at 6:32 A.M. at 6 pounds and 10 ounces 19 inches long to Dan and Brenna Haro.

We discovered a some new members on the Sanford side of the family. Nicole Writes

{ “I actually have two children.  Here are more photos of them.   Thanks for your email.  Ashlynn is kinder at my school.  Quinton is two and goes to Montessori very near us.  We live on a large piece of land and enjoy our garden and pond.”}

George