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postcard from the Netherlands I received this week

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Will Shuster's Lost Paintings of Carlsbad Caverns - The Carlsbad Museum is looking for the lost paintings in time for Carlsbad Caverns centennial in 2030.

Animal Lovers Race to Save Eagles Nesting Grounds 

Inappropriate Thoughts

I spent a lot of time this week working on my recycled art project for the upcoming recycled art show at the local library. 

I have been saving bread clips for about a year.  It makes me think of my friend Dawn who passed who had a bread clip collection she lined up on her window seal. My husband fashioned them into a fish. I did make a fish, but it isn't quite like the one above.  I also spent way too much time trying to figure out if my fish needed lips. That is the kind of person I am.

A quick pre Christmas Trip - San Antonio

I realized I hadn't posted much of a re-cap of visiting of San Antonio, Texas.

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My husband wanted to take me on a trip for my birthday.  Due to unforeseen circumstances, it was delayed. He had been to San Antonio before, and he thought I would enjoy the riverwalk at Christmas.

We spent a short weekend in San Antonio, and it didn't disappoint.

The River walk is all lit up.  Our hotel was right on the riverwalk.  It is busy on the weekends.  The path is narrow.  People do fall in.  We didn't see anyone fall in. Our trip was a lot of walking and stairs. 

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Of course we visited the ALAMO.  We also visited 2 other Missions. (San Antonio Missions) We also visited the Acequias and the original dam.

original dam

Acequias

There was also a historic tree, Kennedy Memorial Tree near the original dam.

We did make a walk to the Grotto. There is so much to see and do in San Antonio. We also visited the Briscoe Western Art Museum and what a gem.

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The river boats are decorated and lit up during Christmas, and we rode on the last day of our trip right as the lights came on the river walk.  There are also caroling boats as well.

Wordy Wednesday

 

I seem to have a JOY theme going on.

Weekly Roll

 

Cake, I made for Nonna's Birthday

Yummy and Easy

Recipe from Senior Center Newsletter

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Librarians 45 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time- Some that I have read - Everything is Tuberculosis and Boys in the Boat

Cece Moore and Genetic Genealogy and Nancy Guthrie Case (youtube.com)

Roots Tech 2026 - online and in person genealogy conference is coming up 

52 Ancestors - Clues in the Census

 52 Ancestors in 52 days prompt last week was Clues in the Census. 

I have been researching Joseph Wise Easterday and what intrigued me about him that his occupation in the census was "gardener " specifically in the 1900 Census. 

This piqued my interest. The majority of my family tree has tons of farmers.  I started thinking gilded age gardens etc. (The Blue Garden) This ultimately lead me down some gilded garden rabbit holes. However, when I looked at the 1910 census it says house farm and Joseph Easterday as a gardener. 

This led me to some more research into Gardens in Indianapolis. This led me to discover that Marion County had a large number of greenhouses that grew tomatoes and bib lettuce.  I think most likely Joseph had one of these truck farms. His farm had a green house so he was a gardener not a farmer.

Even his obituary has him employed as a gardener.

German Greenhouses and Truck Farms in Indianapolis

Indianapolis Greenhouse History

Wordy Wednesday

 

What I Read in February

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

Wards of the State by Claudia Rowe

Claudia Rowe does a great deep dive of foster care mainly through the lens of Washington State. Claudia discusses in depth why the correlation between foster care and future imprisonment.  That poverty is not neglect and why even with insufficient/neglectful/abusive fair far better staying with their parents. I think this a discussion about foster care that needs to be had. I think there is a prevailing view that children need to be removed but does the state do a good job. This is another broken government system. The statistics are startling.

107 Days by Kamala Harris

This was our book club book.  I probably wouldn't of have read this one on my own. I think what made the most impression on me was first. Kamala was just living her Vice President life when she got the call that she was running. She was getting up to make pancakes for her nieces.  Secondly, civil rights activist Claudette Colvin passed away recently and she gave up her seat on the bus before Rosa Parks. Claudette Colvin, a teenager at the time, did not know she was going to make history. There is nothing that Kamala did that wasn't going to make history. This book is the result that good, bad, indifferent Kamala was going to be making history. I think there is more pressure to get it right. I feel I have a much better idea who Kamala is than I did during the election. When you have only 107 days to run there is almost no time to run successfully. I am looking forward to the discussion and the author meet.