Rich in blessings!!!! Let’s pray my limited financial resources stretch far enough to buy the lot.

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I wanted to draw lines to show the approximate property lines but couldn’t…. The lot is “all those green trees” between the warehouse (gray roof, top) and house (with long cement driveway to garage, bottom). Thanks to Google Maps.

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Bird’s eye view of Escapees RV Club Rainbows End. Last picture is my current address location. Click the pictures to enlarge for better viewing.

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Yesterday, no “climbing the family tree.”  A teeny-tiny bit of time spent on a Google search that revealed a **surprise** valuable website with “free” archived books. I found books with Brethren history and Brethren genealogy. Another resource I can share with other researchers. “Pay it forward.” 

Less than twenty-four hours between mass murders (El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio). Less than twenty-four hours between my receipt of email messages with obituaries of extended family (“cousins”). I need to be four people to keep up with everything on my “to do” list.

A race against time.

A gift I’m giving myself.

Stay at home and take a vacation from computers?!

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In my humble opinion, some of my “inspiration” is born during the night when I’m wide awake. Early morning (today) my brain was saying “staycation.” As a person who has practiced health and nutrition half her lifetime, I recognize messages my body is sending.

Blog messages are the exception. It’s fun to look for clipart and compose a blog message. With Ancestry.com, I’m sitting at the edge of my chair, I’m leaning into the screen, my shoulders are stiff, my focus is intense. My “family tree” has to be perfect!! Intellectually (healthwise) I know that ten hours (or more) at the computer is excessive. (But it is so challenging!!)

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Went back to bed and didn’t awaken until 8:15.

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Turn off the TV?? Take a “staycation” from Sunday Face the Nation, This Week, and Meet The Press?? The news is bad enough without newsmen “stirring the pot.”

My “cousin” sent another obituary (via email).

Sadly Ron passed away: RIP: Former board member of the Fellowship of the Brethren Genealogists, Ron McAdams. Deep sympathy out to Alberta Denlinger McAdams and classmates: Read Ronald Lee McAdams’s Obituary & Leave Condolences.

We are losing all the “old-timers” concerned with preserving our Brethren heritage. My desire is to dash full-speed to my other computer and document his life and attach the details with his forebearers. I enjoyed many pleasant hours with Ron while volunteering at the Fellowship of Brethren Genealogist booth at Church of the Brethren Annual Conference(s). Below is my first display, in 1996, in Long Beach, California. Regrettably, I can’t make the picture larger because it is copied from another blog. (Regrettably, I don’t have access to a lot of my pictures from decades past.)

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Should I be concerned? At eighty-four-and-one-half will I be joining “cousins” in a little corner of Heaven where we greet one another–and the Brethren Pathfinders?? I’d like to think I have years ahead of me to meticulously document the forest of Christian men and women. The scriptures suggest “three score and ten“ and I’m long past seventy. You might sympathize with my urgency to document “family.”

Please see the Postscript to message titled “Spending spree” (published yesterday).

Went to bed (as usual) at ten but was still awake at three. Fell asleep sometime after four and awake at eight.

It’s a ritual: I wear my Philip Stein sleep bracelet. I use a healthy brand homeopathic “relaxer.” Melatonin should help me sleep because the label says “supports sound sleep.”  The “Sound Spa” is advertised as a “sleep solution.”  ~~ Question: Is my morning coffee the enemy? I LOVE MY GOURMET COFFEE!!

The old lady sounds like a broken record?! She writes about “climbing the family tree”  or boring references to the heat and humidity. Good Lord, who wants to read about sleep deprivation? Returning to the topic of “genealogy,” this blogger is trying to compose a message about the paper chain. When I was young, and my sons were young, we would cut colored construction paper into strips and then paste them in a chain.  A decoration for a festive event.

The old lady, the blogger, the arborist has been creating “a paper chain” with thousands of people in her family tree. Yesterday (seriously), I was working with these surnames: Aukerman, Bauman, Bowman, Cover, Denlinger, Eikenberry, Flory, Frantz, Gish, Grover, etc., The families are interwoven in northern Indiana, central Ohio, and Stanislaus County, California. I’m so blessed with an abundance (overabundance?) of information. Seriously, a flood of information regarding each individual.

Is it inappropriate (of me) to want to write a paragraph about a “paper chain” (paper trail) prepared by a woman abundantly blessed with a unique ancestry? My forebears were God-fearing Old German Baptist Brethren, Mennonite, and Quaker. Every week I receive an obituary regarding a “cousin” who shared their research with me. My day will come (and I’ll be pushing up daisies) but there isn’t anyone to write my obituary. I’d like to attach a paragraph to my “profile” on Ancestry. I’d like to tell the reader how much my family meant to me and how determined I was to leave a thoroughly documented chain of individuals.

The “paper chain” topic could morph into another story for Mennonite Family History. My mind never rests!!

Important to take a break from the computers and work on “donate and discard.”  Time to take the “Love Package“ to the Post Office. ~~ Important to buy glue to repair the A/C grill. The trip to Walmart was expensive!! ~~ Important (despite fatigue and heat) to get some exercise.

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Recently I commented about “glued to my chair”  (in front of the computers). Well, that was hyperbole. Tonight I have glue all over my fingertips!!

Six hours later and “the next day.” I decided it was better to get up and “do” rather than wide awake in bed.

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