…the “yarden”  beckons.

Several “Lookie Lou”  but nobody interested in my “big” items. ~~ We share the laundry room and neighbor was doing laundry. I rushed to wash more bottles. “Bottles” in bottom of planter to simulate grass or lawn.

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True story: I went from computer to the yard for the picture (below). Look, it was 1:48 PM.  Folks stopped by just then and we talked until 4:20. Two-and-one-half hours of really, really interesting conversation. Four dollars in my pocket and a dozen “free”  items went in the back of a pickup truck.

Remember that big ugly planter? Offered “free” (to a lady with a bad back)  and a welcome addition to the other items and her $4.00 purchase. I nearly killed myself lifting it over the top of the pickup truck tailgate. A “clay” planter, with soil, and very heavy.  I’m in pain!

This has afforded (me) the opportunity to talk about “Intentional Communities.”  Most… have never heard the name or concept. Maybe I’ve planted an idea, or two, with some of my visitors? Ancestry.com, and DNA testing, often enters the conversation. “You should be teaching the [Ancestry] class”  is a frequent comment.

Pollen on everything; debris on the ground. Important (to me) to “tidy the area.” Almost the entire day working in the yard. The ad comes out, tomorrow, in two newspapers.

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I didn’t want to get out of bed (but did)!! Freezing temperature in Conroe but my thermometer said thirty-seven. “Discouraged and depressed” because so much work preparing for the yard sale, so few customers, and “winter” weather.

For three days, I’ve been “trackin'” my “Traxler” relatives. Sunday (yesterday) was cold and miserable. Gratefully, no yard sale customers. However, seated at my computers, I can see people when they arrive.  Furthermore, no TV to hide the sound of the “motion detector” doorbell that alerts me of a visitor. “Multitasking?” Climbing the family tree while waiting for few-and-far-between customers.

“Happy” as a greeting to my readers. Not so happy old lady wearing a sweater in her furnace-warm, pleasantly warm, trailer home.

One-hundred things I should be doing. However, I really love to create blog messages, and, obviously, document my extended family. Four pictures, below; click each to enlarge for better viewing.

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8:00 PM: After all the explaining of my approach to inaccurate data, I did an about-face. I did what should have been done in the first place: Ellen Jane Traxler properly positioned with her parents. As a gift to all her descendants, and researchers, I spent the entire day documenting her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren. ~~ My angst: So many errors in individual trees while volumes of information is available if we take time to search/research. ~~ Tomorrow, Lord willing, I will ignore the computer and tackle the neglected projects.

Thirty-six individuals, with many source records, added…