Remember my resolve (?): ‘New tune in June.” I was planning to “donate and discard.” Due to the heat and humidity, I have accomplished very little this month. It is just “too miserable” to be outdoors!! Yesterday afternoon, we had about three dozen drops of rain so it added to the humidity rather than cooling the air. I desperately need groceries but don’t want to go out in the heat. 

I can’t sleep–and my mind is active–so I’m back on the computer.

The other day, I went to the website for A Place for Mom.  I was required to leave my phone number and email address if I wanted access to their site. As I browsed… I quickly observed the costs were beyond my means. “They” called… and graciously offered to put me in touch with the location of my choice. The cost of “$2,000.00 and up”  was mentioned (per month) and I said, “whoa, go no further.”

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Cool enough to have the door open. I started out the door and believe it or not decided I needed a sweater. My purse was over my shoulder, I was ready to go grocery shopping. “No, I’ll work on projects at home.”

Still raining.

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The weather was delightfully pleasant. I didn’t need the sweater. Today, a lot of “impulse” buying. I don’t “need” three more vases… but they will look nice on a “bottle tree.” I don’t “need” some of the items from CVS but they were “on sale.”  I don’t “need” Gaterade (from the market) but it was in the “markdowns” (deeply discounted). I rushed home to put perishables into the refrigerator and freezer.

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Then I rushed across the street to the Escapees RV Club Headquarters to pick up mail for a friend. (“Friend” can’t get there before 4:00 PM). I stopped to visit with a friend with her law office in the Headquarters building. 

Amazing how much I can accomplish when the weather is less humid.

It is such a pleasure to receive an affirmation for my work on Ancestry. The following is one of three messages sent to another researcher.

Joanna, I hope this link connects you to information I received from Beverly Cayford. I went to my website titled Digitized Library of Family History and found the correspondence. Here’s the link: https://frantzdigitizedlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/from-beverly-cayford-dated-21-feb-1995.pdf

I know you already have all the information but I thought you might like to see how we did genealogy “in the old days.”

Best wishes from Lorraine

In return, I received the following:

Dear Lorraine, I actually am Beverly Cayford; I have gone by Joanna for a long time, but it’s not my legal name. I am glad to know that you remember me with approval. I have the highest regard for your work and refer other Neher or Frantz researchers to it. Not only your research but your ability to organize the incredibly complex relationships into intelligible trees is most impressive. Thank you for all your work, and keep it up!

Life is good!!

and Lorraine has been working at two computers all day!! Yes, I was “climbing trees” on both computers at the same time. There is never a stopping point. Two days on one family. Here are two “comments” I attached to Beverly’s grand-aunt.

…according to the calendar. However, here in Southeast Texas, we have experienced “summer” for two months.