“As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.”  Have you heard that expression?

This blog, and the note, is a “postscript” to the blog message about my search for information about Donald Brubaker. Lo, those many years ago, I was commenting about dedication to documentation. I found the note while searching an eighty-eight-page printout of Brubaker information (from a Brubaker). There was a possibility I had details at my fingertips?! I went to (my) Digitized Library of Family History and reviewed all the Brubaker information (couple-hundred pages). No success.  😦

This mystery has my full attention. Dozens of searches on Ancestry and Family Search. Also a search of Frantz Families–Kith & Kin.

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Mennonite Family History is gracious about publishing my stories. My brain is spinning with ideas for a brief story about Donald Brubaker. Frankly, how can a man live to be 100 years old and there is so little information available about him?? (See my earlier blog message titled Challenged by a Centenarian.)

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TV meteorologist says the “feels like”  temperature will soar to one-hundred-thirteen degrees.

This morning, on NBC Today Show, Al Roker recognized men and women celebrating their one-hundred birthday. Because I have “Brubaker” in my family tree, I felt compelled to search for Donald Brubaker, born Aug 1919. Quite possibly I could identify our “cousin” relationship. Well, “an exercise in futility”  because more questions than answers.

Why do I do it? Why spend hours gathering information on an individual–or a family? (1) The challenge; (2) the sense of satisfaction when details are documented that another person didn’t find or didn’t document; (3) a direct relative (of the individual) might be grateful for the information. Speaking of “challenge”: Capturing these pictures was labor-intensive. I hoped for a distinct image of the old gentleman.

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The indoor temperature of 78 degrees and 80 degrees is deceiving because “indoors” feels like a sauna.

“Yes,”  I’ve refrained from climbing the family tree. No Ancestry on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Granted, I’ve had other topics on my mind. ~~ Extremely hot weather and the thermometer is predicted to register triple-digit. Then add eight, nine or ten degrees for “feels like”  temperature.

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ANCESTRY  is trying to draw me back!! Will I have the strength (will power) to stay with my “staycation”??

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So much to think about!! To move or not to move, that is the question. ~~ I rarely leave my home and my yard. I was unaware of the property for sale in our Rainbow’s End RV community. A friend knocked on my door on Sunday evening and wanted to take me for a short ride because she had something she wanted me to see. “To do or not to do?” ~~ Yesterday, I visited my Bank (in Livingston) and learned I am qualified for a loan (well qualified). ~~ I hate to consider a move but “What will I do?”  if my nasty landlady doesn’t renew my lease?? There are details about landlady, and current residence property, that I won’t write about today. Suffice to say, my long-term residency (here) has been questionable. ~~ At my age, I question the wisdom of the purchase of real estate. ~~ OMG, all the things to consider before and after a move. Certainly not a “vacation” and I’d be forced to “stay” off the computer and Ancestry.com.  I’d be off my derriere getting a lot of exercise!!