I Must Be Full

It’s been a few years since we were together…all together at the same time.  I’ve been to David’s house and Mel’s…Mel and David spent a couple of holidays together at Dave’s gulf coast house.  The last time all three of us were together we took a genealogy trip to Kiowa county with Mom.  That was [...]

Sunday was the 50th Annual Luncheon for the Humboldt County Historical Society.  The featured speaker was Chris Peters, the President/CEO of the Seventh Generation Fund.  It was a very interesting talk about history from an indigenous peoples point of view, a perspective those of us non-natives seldom take into account.  While the talk was thought [...]

That may be a bit much…but just a bit. This morning we had breakfast in Trinidad (the town north of us, not the Caribbean) and then walked the head.  Donna will have a post up later…she took some videos with seals barking, surf crashing, bell buoys ringing…and on the way back home we decided to stop in [...]

I WANDER’D lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretch’d in never-ending [...]

We just can’t help ourselves…we’ve gotten into the habit of having breakfast each Saturday morning at perhaps the best and most consistent eatery in town — Los Bagels.    Durry is enamored with the jalapeno bagel with their egg salad and seems to be stuck in the egg salad rut.    I attempt to vary my Saturday [...]

The next few weeks promise to be quite exciting.  There are two trips in the offing that’ll give us the opportunity to test our traveling and posting skills. This weekend…tomorrow actually…I’ve got the Society’s annual luncheon.  That has nothing to do with any of this but starts the special-ness of this next month. Next weekend, [...]

This is our Great-great Grandfather.  Born 15 December, 1839, probably in Jessamine County, he was the ninth child of John and Susan…the youngest of their brood.  We’re fortunate that a brief, contemporary biography exists for James, printed in the 1887 edition of Kentucky’s history. James M…was reared on the home farm and educated in the [...]

You start looking at these ancestral families and, if you’re like me, you begin to wonder what things were like for them.  Whether John C. died or just disappeared, Susan was left with a mess of kids, living on the other side of the county from her family (the Sagesers) and a farm to run. [...]

Here’s a cool thing.  Roaming around on the net today, I ended up on the web site of the Jessamine County Historical Society.  It’s been redesigned and is much easier to navigate than before.  But the cool thing is under Blog List on the Nav Bar on the left.  Go ahead and click.  The first [...]

This past October we took a cross country train trip on Amtrak’s Empire Builder, Capitol Limited,  Acela,  Crescent and the City of New Orleans.  We stopped in  Chicago, Washington D.C., New York City, and New Orleans, before getting  back to Portland and our car.   When we got to New Orleans we rented a car for [...]