It’s been a very interesting year for me. I’ve been battling a case of the reoccurring flu that has been, in one form or another, keeping me down for at least 6 weeks now. It’s virulent and wide-spread in the community.
That said, I have made some great progress on building a host web of sites, all contributing to one goal with Photo albums, genealogy resources, reconnecting broken family links. Strained family relations can really be a pain in the you-know-what and interfere with the best of intentions. I can’t help peoples choices though I often think circumstances help their decision making processes. Dad always said to watch out the skeletons in the closet. I hate walking on egg shells but it’s been necessary.
It’s sure a different world now, and maybe that’s all for the best, but there are things I’m not comfortable with. It’s complicated isn’t it. Like some mathematical puzzle filled with twists and turns the family makeup is quite a maze. Coming to grips with the reality is not easy. Right and wrong are not easy concepts in todays world. The Bible has been tossed for all intensive purposes.
Government is trying to permanently bury religion of any kind and probably because of the tax status of Churches and the idea that we should all be following the Golden Rule. Government needs taxes. Churches don’t pay any. Churches encourage responsibility, Churches gotta go. Can’t fund science and public education on thin air can you.
Well Happy Fathers Day to all you fathers. Didn’t take much to be a Father, but to keep it going right it sure takes a lot. We all must have done something right along the way.
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.
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
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
Melissa Marie Weaver married Andrew, (*ANDY*) Council at the TJ Farms in the outskirts of Chico California at 3600 Chico Ave. TJ Farms is a rustic southern style Ranch a few miles out of town off of Chico River Rd. David and Mary Moss hosted the wedding.