A violent storm last evening. Hard rain, seemingly unending lightning flashes!! Two strikes in our immediate area but (so far, 9:00 AM) no reported damage. Counting our blessings!! ~~ I went to bed early but was awaken by (restored power) the 10:00 PM TV news. ~~ This morning, I picked up a lot of fallen tree limbs. Approximately three-quarters inch of rain during the two-hour storm.
“Your’s truly” is up to her ear lobes–in Ancestry.com–with the Frantz and Brubaker surnames. Strangely, in the 1850 Census, three young “Ginovan” children are listed in the home of one of my ancestors. So I’ve spent a couple of hours trying to trace these children. The thought crossed my mind they might have been from The Orphan Train. So I did a Google search and read a number of web sites… but that program didn’t start until 1854. That wasn’t the answer and I am still curious. (I may keep searching.)
(Much later.) I checked neighbor’s names (next page of 1850 Census on copy of original record) and another Ginovan is nineteen years old and listed as a laborer. Kept looking! Another page and I found John Ginovan, age forty-five, also listed as a “laborer” (for a farmer).
After decades familiarity with the Frantz surname, and numerous collateral lines, I “knew” this was NOT a twig on my tree. That’s why I was so curious about the name–and the family. I’ll never know the details but I believe my ancestor(s) opened their home(s) as Good Samaritans.
Counting my many blessings!!A year ago, I purchased a new air-conditioner and it is working admirably!! Several residents are suffering because their A/C isn’t adequate.
Residents talk about their health problems and their doctor appointments. My only complaint: Fatigue and lack of strength for some maintenance projects.
Today is the seventh day of the seventh month. Forty years ago, my husband and I mailed about two-hundred newsletters with the postmark 7/7/77 and indicated it was a “perfect” time to advise friends of our recent marriage. “Seven” is reported to be “God’s perfect number” so a line-up of sevens should be even better?! (Just a little bit of trivia.)
A trip into Livingston to pick up the Dollar Tree Internet order red vases. More vases than I “need” but enough for additional “patriotic” bottle trees. Naturally, while in town, I checked the thrift shops for other colored bottles and/or vases. (I still need more white vases.)
Worked in my “yarden” this morning. The heat and humidity sap life out of the garden as quickly as out of the gardener!! I’m only “maintaining”; no new plants and (frankly) no tender loving care. It’s ninety degrees outdoors according to the thermometer (at one o’clock) but “feels like” triple digits.
On a positive note: It looks like the Plumerias plant is almost ready to bloom. Two months ago, the leaves were just beginning to push out of the bare branch. It was an experiment: An acquaintance gave me two branches and said “stick them in the ground and they will grow.”
Correction: That was “a new plant” in March.
Indoor/outdoor thermometer does not factor the “feels like” temperature.
Gratefully, I had enough red vases to complete the patriotic theme on the bottle trees. (More red vases on order from Dollar Tree.) I also need more “milk glass” white vases (eventually, one-by-one, I’ll find them at the thrift shops). These… are in a neighbor’s yard–along the busy street.
Yes, I have “an indoor project” that keeps me busy but it is so upsetting (to “yours truly”) to see what the heat is doing to my plants. Even in the early morning, it is very hot and humid and disheartening to even think of working in my “yarden,”
They say the smoke from wild fires–in Colorado–forced them from their “dream” summer retreat. OMG, trading a Rocky Mountain summer for the sauna in southeast Texas!! (Truthfully, the images [below] are a gross exaggeration because we don’t have a smile on our face!!)
Three Quarters & Counting 