Throwback Thursday

 

July, 30 2020

Sunset near Cascadia Elementary School

Ferndale WA

Weekly Roll

my neighbor's sunflowers peeking over the fence

Chaos Gardening - interesting concept and I feel like I kinda do that. However, I didn't intend it to be chaotic. I am pretty sure my neighbor has perfected this. The sunflowers are hers.

Vote for the Stamp You Want Brought Back - USPS is going to bring back a retired stamp. 

Inappropriate Thoughts

fuzzy wuzzy dahlia

I asked my husband if he would be my dahlia daddy.  I am on a short trip, and I need someone to keep them alive. Pray for him!

Wordy Wednesday

 

I reviewed the book "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone" back in 2019.  I thought it was a great read.

Weekly Roll

Inappropriate Thoughts

I am SO EXCITED that Dame Lillard is going to be back in Portland.  I can't believe how happy this makes me in a very irrational way.  I don't have to follow the Bucks  I don't have to be part of the herd. I can just watch Blazer Games.  Damien Lillard's Rare Form of Loyalty

 Deep Thoughts

The Vanished podcast about Jonathan Huang really hit close to home. I have an autistic adult who loves his routines.  I used to live in Washington State, and I know this area - Arlington, WA.  Missing since March and may have been spotted on a ring doorbell recently - People Part 2 of the podcast should be out on Monday.

Linky Love

Elk in Estes Park Gift Shop

Club 1890 -Ancestry's new membership explained by Amy Crow Johnson. Guess it is invitation only and very pricey.  

Throwback Thursday

 

Bellingham WA

Marina

July 17, 2020

This is one of my favorite pictures I have taken of the Marina.

Wordy Wednesday

 

What I Read July

 I am linking up with Modern Mrs Darcy's Quick Lit. Check out what everyone is reading this summer.

I chose something different for my summer read.  Do you ever try to change up your summer reading?

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

This book got a lot of buzz last summer. I really enjoyed the book. It is about a Native American girl from Nova Scotia who is 4 years old that goes missing from picking blue berries in Maine.  It also about Norma from an affluent family Maine. Norma feels different in her family and thinks her parents are holding a secret about her.  The book has all elements - family secret, love, trauma.

Postcrossing Anniversary

Today Postcrossing is celebrating 20 years.  I just started postcrossing so I thought I would share the postcards I have received so far. I have received postcards from Japan, India, and Czechoslovakia. The majority however from the US.

Photo Challenge Postcrossing

Weekly Roll

 

Linky Love

The Vanished - David Shier , Episodes 489, 490, 491. This missing case has a lot of twist and turns including illegal burials.  It is a good listen.

Cinnamon Cheerios Protein are pretty good.

Inappropriate Thoughts

We are having some wacky weather here in New Mexico.  This has been a pretty wet which is unusual. My rain barrel is currently full to overflowing and I am not a fan of high heat and high humidity. I have decided I am a dry heat person or no heat person. There have been severe thunderstorm warnings and flash flood warnings.  It was wet enough Saturday morning for my son to pull out his wet weather fishery clothes.

52 Ancestors - 4th Cousin

I have been participating in Amy Johnson Crow's 52 ancestors in 52 weeks.  The prompt for this coming week is cousin. I had talked about in family drama -Roy Cecil Liston's extended family.  Roy is most likely one of my 4th cousins on my maternal side.

I am having trouble telling the story of Roy Cecil Liston. He appears in the historical record but there are questions about his paternity.  The records available don't gives us definitive answers. Below is a little about Roy and his life. 

Roy Cecil Liston was Iowa born and bred.  Roy was born Oct 13. 1893/94 most likely in Cumberland, Iowa. Based on very circumstantial evidence his mother is most likely Mary Margaret "Maggie' Liston. Roy lived his childhood in the fields of Cass County Iowa mainly found in his grandmother, Rachel Liston's household. Roy attended local schools until about the 8th grade. 

He had traveled a few places before being drafted in the Army, Ray worked for a threshing company, and they were called to Colorado one year (1917) to thresh because of the opening of sugar beet factories for the winter there were no adults available to thresh. Roy and partner brought home a 100 lbs. of soup beans sold to them for 10 cents a pound.

Roy stood about 5 foot tall and 4 inches on a good day. He was described as short and stout in his draft registration card with dark brown hair and blue gray eyes.  He would be called up by his local draft board to go to Ames Iowa to train as a mechanic.  He and the others that had been called up were given a dinner send off by the women of the Congregational church.  In Ames Iowa at Iowa State College, he would receive mechanic training for two months and during that time the trainees would live under the bleachers. Ray was 25 years old when he was called up for World War 1.  

Page 1, Atlantic News Telegraph, 

Thursday, July 25, 1918

The record doesn't show exactly where he served in the Army, but it is known that he was discharged from Camp Jackson, SC. Roy Liston would make the rank of Sergeant First Class, SFC.  

Roy would come back after the war and work as a local mechanic. His Uncle Harry (Jacob Harrison Liston) would take him, his mother, and grandmother to visit his ranch in Yuma, Colorado. 

Page 6, Atlantic News Telegraph

Friday July 7th, 1922

Eventually they all moved to Colorado. Ray would find a job at the Rowland garage in Akron Colorado. In January of 1924, the garage boys were almost asphyxiated one January morning when they closed the garage door to keep warm. They were so overcome that they left work for the day and slept.

Ray would meet and marry Elizabeth Sells. They were married in Fort Morgan Colorado on March 15, 1924.They had one daughter, Marjorie Caroline Liston born December 23, 1927. Marjorie was an early Christmas present to her parents. Later on, Roy would divorce Elizabeth sometime before 1945.  Elizabeth and daughter would move to Missouri.

Ray did return to Cass County Iowa. He returned with the body of his grandmother, Rachel in 1929 and also accompanied the body of Mary Margaret "Maggie" Liston back to Iowa.  Both Rachel and Maggie are buried in Newlon Grove Cemetary Cumberland, Iowa.

Roy would continue to work as a mechanic.  There is not much of a record after 1950.  Roy's Uncle Harry would pass away in 1962. Roy would pass away in 1983 in Akron, Colorado and be buried in Akron Cemetary in Akron, Washington County, Colorado.

Find A Grave

Community Garden - Side Quest

 Gardens make me happy. Nonna wanted to check out the community garden called Carol's Corner in Artesia, NM. This is only a couple blocks from her house.

There are many individual plots and a community rose garden.

I really like these red orange petite roses.  There were also zinnias and plenty of sunflowers. This garden was featured in our local Focus Magazine. The Magazine calls it Artesia's Not So Secret Garden. It was inspired by a community garden in Seattle that a City Council member visited,

Throwback Thursday

 

July 10, 2018

Ferndale WA

I am a sunset junkie.  I will always take a picture of a sunset.  

Wordy Wednesday

 

Weekly Roll

 

Postcard I received through Postcrossing

Inappropriate Thoughts

The other day I was telling my husband we should take photos of all the different weeds in our yard. I swear we have all the kinds in New Mexico.  So, Monday, I did just that.  Turns out we have like 10 different types of weeds. I was asking my friends if they thought this was a midlife crisis.  I was told only if I scrapbook it.  LOL

Yes, I did!  I know very weird and not what I was supposed to be doing.

Wordy Wednesday

 

This is a postcard I received through postcrossing.