Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

good morning all
24 degrees and some nice sunny weather today
1.65 inches of rain in last storm; my drainage ditch is now almost frozen over with ice

going to be a quiet day, have neighbors coming over after lunch to look at pics from my Florida trip.
Which means I have to tidy up the office.

Don, I love the Seen On Tv label. You would think they would have worn that out by now and frankly for me
it gives the reverse reaction. Most stuff so labeled is inexpensive foreign junk backed up by a lot of marketing.

and I have a small electric heater on my feet all the time in the office. Why heat the house, just where you are.

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 10 now, very sunny, low 20’s later. Supposed to be above freezing tomorrow.

Not sure what I will get into today. But have to do something that I am sad about. Have an appointment to take Callie to the vets for the final time. She has cancer and her quality of life is not good. She has been an awesome little cat. Going to miss her waking us up in the morning.

Everyone stay safe out there!

 

[RoyJackson]

But have to do something that I am sad about. Have an appointment to take Callie to the vets for the final time. She has cancer and her quality of life is not good. She has been an awesome little cat. Going to miss her waking us up in the morning.

My sympathies...stay with her until the end (I know that's really tough, and I weep when I do it)

 

[daugen]

Rich, sorry about your cat. I'm sure she will go to sleep feeling your love.

 

[daugen]

Tire Chain Alternatives to Get Your Car Unstuck

Tire chains can be a pain to put on your wheels—here are some easier (and less expensive) options.

www.autoweek.com

any of your Northerners ever try one of these chain alternatives? Strap on studs should help. Probably would have to go pretty slow
with these on, but as long as you are going...

Lou, you are our chain expert. Think they would work?
I want the ones that install with a push of the dash button.

visions of an Outback or Audi or others with really good full time awd, and then add a set of these.
As long as you had ground clearance, very secure feeling.
We had studded snow tires here in the 50's and 60's; they were outlawed at some point.

local roads a wreck after last rain. Potholes everywhere, driving at night hazardous to your rims.
During day folks swerving all over the place. At least if you see it you know why.
All these low profile tires common today, must make for job security for rim shops.
Simply love the 60 series tires on my truck. Wish they were 65s...more sidewall the better.
45 series on car are borne to blow.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sorry about Callie.

Dads power estimated to be on by 7pm tomorrow. The state road just opened last night after being closed due to multiple trees down. I figure trees down on the road to his house. For years before he retired from the county, Dad was the one who got the call for trees down across roads. I went and helped cut many with him.

I hope he fired up the wood stove.

Temp still dropping, 24° and windy. Outdoor work will have to wait.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good afternoon all. The telephone engineer was here for a few hours this morning to locate and fix a fault on our broadband. Eventually he found a couple of poor connections, once close by and another in their service box down the road by the cemetery. Uploads are still chronically slow and with 80% packet failures, but at least the service is good enough to download pics and has been nicely tested just now with Kyle's Kohler.

Rich, sorry to hear about Callie.

We had a lovely glimpse of the rising new moon for a few minutes before cloud came over. Wonder if Ron is still taking moon pics, he may not be posting at the moment but I still think of him each time I see the moon in the night sky.

Ken, in the relatively short time (17 years) since we started planting trees here, 3 of the native species I selected (ash, oak and alder) have since come under great threat of dying out from newly introduced diseases. The world is becoming an ever more dangerous place for trees, but at least the demise of your ash has occurred while you are young enough to see a good amount of growth on whatever you choose to replant with. Pick plenty of different species, then you have a better choice of spreading any future disappointment

 

[kenmbz]

Good morning , 21 and sunny- does not look too bad after a few inches of warm rain - freeze seems to have come after the rain dissipated a bit.

I got an email from a family cousin last night. he wrote a book on his family, which documented my family tree quite a bit.
He included pictures of my GM GF and GF brothers/sisters (most were deceased when I was still a toddler.)
Even had pictures of my GGF, who I am named after, all the way back to Eastern europe in 1874.
Seeing my dad and uncle as little kids was fun. Many pictures I had not seen before.
My Great-Great Grandfather was even in one picture with my Great grandparents.

He had so much detail on their travels from Europe to NY and his family all the way to California.
With early Vegas and Santa Monica and their his parents house in Van Nuys.

With almost 300 pages and lots of side families, and mixed from Eastern Europe and his line with Italian marriages. Will be reading again.

While not as exiting as some of the family histories I have read here, this is my family history, so really amazing for me and my brother.

JD Z735M - Cereal and ice cream-my son would be so happy!

Sorry about Callie Rich - Still miss our cats

Stay safe and be well,

Standing is my Great Grandfather who I am named after.
Seated is my great great grandfather and mother back in the 1890's

 

[Buppies]

Rich sorry about the kitty, Roy has good advice

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good morning , 21 and sunny- does not look too bad after a few inches of warm rain - freeze seems to have come after the rain dissipated a bit.

I got an email from a family cousin last night. he wrote a book on his family, which documented my family tree quite a bit.
He included pictures of my GM GF and GF brothers/sisters (most were deceased when I was still a toddler.)
Even had pictures of my GGF, who I am named after, all the way back to Eastern europe in 1874.
Seeing my dad and uncle as little kids was fun. Many pictures I had not seen before.
My Great-Great Grandfather was even in one picture with my Great grandparents.

He had so much detail on their travels from Europe to NY and his family all the way to California.
With early Vegas and Santa Monica and their his parents house in Van Nuys.

With almost 300 pages and lots of side families, and mixed from Eastern Europe and his line with Italian marriages. Will be reading again.

While not as exiting as some of the family histories I have read here, this is my family history, so really amazing for me and my brother.

JD Z735M - Cereal and ice cream-my son would be so happy!

Sorry about Callie Rich - Still miss our cats

Stay safe and be well,

Standing is my Great Grandfather who I am named after.
Seated is my great great grandfather and mother back in the 1890's
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That’s cool they made the book. That’s something I have thought of doing.

 

[kenmbz]

BEF , you should. Your family history is amazing and would make a great book.
Great way to integrate pictures with the history and our cousin include family tree diagrams.
Just doing it for the family makes sure the past is in their hands and can be a living document like they used to do with family bibles.

 

[riptides]

31 outside and quite breezy this AM. Just came in from the morning chores. It's a mud/ice bog out in the fields.

Rich, sorry about the cat. Always tough with pets.

Hope all have a great weekend. Need to do something different these next few days.

Always interested in those family ties. If you have a chance in your life to trace back your family tree you should take it. Not only for yourself, but for others that come around in the later generations. So much is lost from one generation to the next.

I myself, sadly can only go back to my father. All history and most/if not all of his side was killed during WWII. He managed to get to the United States right before the US entered the war. As an orphan. Or so he thought.

Family history is important.

Be safe today. Take it easy working outside.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF , you should. Your family history is amazing and would make a great book.
Great way to integrate pictures with the history and our cousin include family tree diagrams.
Just doing it for the family makes sure the past is in their hands and can be a living document like they used to do with family bibles.

I track genealogy for my family in a giant spreadsheet. I have a TBN thread Life on the farm, where I’ve been putting some of the stories.
I haven’t decided the format yet.
We have a family FB page where I share some of it.

My wife’s family tree is already in a book, the Lincoln’s of Virginia.

Life on the farm
Life on the farm

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! The low was 6°, 21° at 0900, maybe reach a high of 36°. Sunny, clear skies, no wind.... what more could anyone ask for?... oh yeah---- 74° and the beach....

Rich, sorry to hear about the kitty.... always hard to say goodbye.

Ken, always interesting to find about past family. I can only trace back to my great grandparents..... beyond that is a true mystery. We spent years trying to find / make a family tree.

Hope you guys down in Tx were unscathed during the cold. I didn't think Tx was supposed to get cold. But, David has snow in Hawaii......(high up, but it's still there).

There was another thread this morning about an English farmer that pushed a trespasser's car off his property with a tractor.....Eric, I instantly thought of you.....
At least there is some justice out there....

Farmer who flipped car cleared of criminal damage because ‘Englishman’s home is his castle’

A farmer who wrecked a car parked on his land with a tractor has been cleared of criminal damage after he successfully used the 400-year-old legal principle that “an Englishman’s home is his castle”.

www.yahoo.com

I'm gonna have to do some research on old laws from the old west..... there's a few things I would like to do......

Today's agenda will be trouble shooting the power out to the shop. Yesterday evening, the power was off... every breaker was good in the sub panel... the main disconnect breaker at the meterbase was tripped (60 amp 220v). It won't reset, instantly trips. Not going to be easy to find the fault. The wire has been in the ground for 28 years... not that it should be worn out, but maybe moisture now found a way in? It's not in any conduit, so could have been damaged?

Everyone have a great day and weekend!

 

[sodamo]

66°F and .54 inches rain.

The grilled Porterhouse and air fryer potatoes were excellent.

Slow progress continues in caretaker. Decided to rerun electrical for exterior light to take advantage of a sensor light. The kitchen faucet finally arrived.

Guys won at H&F.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[kenmbz]

BEF,
Just take the snippets from the thread and get them into a word doc for now.
Then create a timeline and outline and order them.
This will show you the blank areas to be filled in since you already have so much documented.

The Wayland book? $$$$

Meet the ‘Keeper’ of Virginia Lincolns | The Harrisonburg Citizen

Phillip Stone has preserved historical papers and artifacts related to Abraham Lincoln and the Lincoln Homestead near Harrisonburg.

hburgcitizen.com

I think a more up to date book on your family is called for. So much history intertwined with the USA through the ages. I hope you get the time to create this.

 

[daugen]

All history and most/if not all of his side was killed during WWII.

Me too. I traced father's side back, pretty grim. At least ten members of family went into Belzec gas chamber
in 1942 and sure didn't come out. Wiped out the whole family.
Mother's side goes back to Miles Standish.

I found out my far off relatives were packed into the same train cars my grandfather loaded cattle in to 45 years before as a child.
He came over in 1901 or maybe I wouldn't be here.
it was less than a full day ride to Belzec, I've plotted the train tracks. There were no overnight accommodations at Belzec.
I just can't imagine and don't want to.

My grandfather loved pictures and we have lots of old ones in the family.

 

[sodamo]

Rich, such an emotional decision. Fortunate though we can choose what is best for them.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF,
Just take the snippets from the thread and get them into a word doc for now.
Then create a timeline and outline and order them.
This will show you the blank areas to be filled in since you already have so much documented.

The Wayland book? $$$$

Meet the ‘Keeper’ of Virginia Lincolns | The Harrisonburg Citizen

Phillip Stone has preserved historical papers and artifacts related to Abraham Lincoln and the Lincoln Homestead near Harrisonburg.

hburgcitizen.com

I think a more up to date book on your family is called for. So much history intertwined with the USA through the ages. I hope you get the time to create this.

Thanks for the link. My FIL is buried in the cemetery above where the Lincoln Inn once stood, and that is where we are to be buried. Those are my wife’s relatives talked about. My wife thinks she went to school with this guy’s son (Stone).

This is the Lincoln homestead talked about in the article, built by Jacob Lincoln around 1800.

. It was willed to Bridgewater college, now I see the connection. My wife’s 5G grandfather. The Lincoln cemetery shown in the article is behind this house. VA John Lincoln, his father lived in the property to the north. Jacobs son David (4G GF) owned the Lincoln Inn in Lacey springs which is close also.
David’s son Jacob (3G GF) owned a mill in Lacey springs, now a house. We have furniture from Jacobs son Harvey Lincoln’s (GG GF)house that was near the mill. My FIL owned that house until about 10 yrs ago.

The article said there was one remaining Lincoln in the area, would probably have been my FIL, but I think there are still some other relatives around.

And I do have the thread info in a word document. 37 pages worth.

Edit, I was a bit behind, now 60 pages. Lol

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Mostly, prayers for your extended family.

Rich sorry about your kitty. I'm sure she had a good life.

Bef, hope dad's power comes back soon.

Prayers for Buppies and Topps.