Weekly Roll

Linky Love

Automated Starter Maker - this sounds very interesting. Why is it so hard to remember to feed your starter?

Gold and Greed on Netflix and the re-hiding of Fenn's Treasure.  I haven't watched but I definitely want to. Guess there are clues in the documentary.

California Jane Doe identity solved 60 years later with DNA

Inappropriate Thoughts

I really had a random week.  Started with a blood draw for my son and ended up with a blood draw for my dog.  One of our dogs is diabetic.  I visited a state vocational office and a neurologist. None of these appointments for me. I paid taxes the most we have ever owed. OUCH! The cherry on the top was no electricity on Saturday so our electrical box could be upgraded.

Trash Talk

Well the most interesting thing found was a decapitated barbie and my husband found 11 cents.  This was the last weekend of Spring Break, so the amount of trash was minimal. 

Wordy Wednesday

 

Weekly Roll - Basketball Adjacent

 

Former Blazers player and now retired from the NBA, Meyers Leonard has a country song - Good in Goodbye.

***This post was supposed to be for last week but never posted. However, it ties better into March Madness, right

Linky Love

Running Point - Watch this on Netflix.  I thoroughly enjoyed this series. 

There was a request for M&M cookies - Robbi's M&M cookies fit the bill

Inappropriate Thoughts

Well my son was contacted by the Pharmacy Experience Team. It made me laugh. The one medication is hard to obtain due to lack of supply. Insurance has been extremely unhelpful and challenging to obtain the proper medication. The thought that the insurance cares one wit about his customer experience is laughable.

Trash Talk

I won at the trash game last Sunday. I found panties. Thank the lord for tongs. My friend said my band name is "Park Panties".  Don't think about it too much.

Recycled Art Show - My Bird Era

 

Artesia Clean and Beautiful hosted an art show at the library. I of course contributed the bird art above called Priority Mail. I swear I have reached the end of my security envelope birds. Below are some of the art entries.

Throwback Thursday

 

My mom gave me this picture a couple years back. Yep, I was a Brownie.  I was in Girl Scouts until High School, and I earned the Gold Award similar to the Eagle for Boy Scouts. Scouting was a huge part of my elementary through high school years. I carried this picture in my purse for a good long while. Ever had anything get lost in your purse?

I talk about an adventure I had with the Girl Scouts on a long-ago throwback Thusday. I had to sell a ton of cookies and candy bars for that trip and probably calendars too.

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Wordy Wednesday

 

This is the title of Ina Garten's Memoir and also makes a great letterboard quote.

Booking it March

 I am linking up with Modern Mrs. Darcy's quick lit. Check out what everyone else has been reading.

 I have been working on a challenging read for me for book club, so I have been reading something completely different than that to balance out.  That book has been Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe

I thought it was well written, and I enjoyed the overview of all the famous Vanderbilts. I have read other books about them, but this one stands out. I especially liked reading about Alva Vanderbilt as it has tied into other things I have been reading. All the excess of the gilded age is discussed and the rise of the Vanderbilt's in society and the downfall of having too much money. Who better to tell these tales than Anderson Cooper who is related to the Vanderbilt's.

In the past I have Read - American Duchess about Consuelo Vanderbilt and her autobiography The Glitter and the Gold

52 Ancestors - Roots Tech Wrap Up

 Last weekend I spent a lot of time taking classes at Root Tech.  Roots Tech is a in person and online genealogy conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah. I think I took 12 classes online. This year they offered a BYU beginner track. I found those interesting and a good way to get back to good fundamentals of genealogy. BYU has an in-person Family History Degree.  There was a lot of discussion of the use of AI in genealogy research. It is interesting to see where all that is leading too.

My favorite class had two parts of Mining the Census.  There is so much, and so little information contained in them.  I also attended a few German Genealogy courses.  One of the ancestors I have come from Germany, and it is my brick wall aka dead end.   Above all I got a lot of good information and some new methods for breaking down my brick walls.  Things didn't consider doing or records I didn't know about. Have you ever heard of a German Gazetteer?

Based on these classes. I will be revisiting two brick walls/ancestors I have hit a dead end on.

Jane Marie Devault  (Maternal Line) I have some avenues I am going to research.   I am also going to revisit some of my research. I am going to make a good research plan. Part of my plan involves looking for a Best Known Match and I think I have found one, so I am going to try to use that to connect to my tree.

John Lendman - (Paternal Line) I took a number of German Genealogy classes, and I plan to use a German Gazetteer to help me identify where in German he may have come from.  I have a place name.

Sourdough Saga - Something went horribly wrong

 I have been making discard sourdough bread about once a month.  I make two batches that is a total of 4 loaves. Well, I thought to myself since I am starting my liquid diet day for my colonoscopy procedure. I would make bread to keep myself busy.  

Things went horribly wrong.  I want to blame the prep, but I honestly think it was my scale. I use the scale for weights instead of measurements.  I had trouble getting it to go to grams.  I ended up with a colossal ball of dry dough and the other batch I ran out of flour.  I couldn't use my kitchen aid mixer without dividing it. This was not how it usually turned out.  I tried to save it, but I ended up throwing out the whole thing. I had flour and starter everywhere.  My kitchen was a mess.  Sometimes you have disaster. I now have a new scale so hopefully I will attempt again. Stay tuned for redemption loaves and a new scale.

Throwback Thursday

 

March 10, 2013

This is of my oldest son. We found a geocache on this sculpture. The sculpture is located in Burlington/Mount Vernon, Washington area. I checked geocaching.com and this cache has been archived.

Wordy Wednesday

 

Weekly Roll- Spring Forward

Did You SPRING forward?

 Linky Love

Walking Yoga - this is intriguing

The Beautiful Pursuit - Floret 3-part documentary on Flower Farmers - I haven't watched yet, but it is on my to do list

Inappropriate Thoughts

I have been a little MIA this week.  I got to have a colonoscopy so that took up the beginning of this week.  Yes, I drank all the prep and did all the things. By the way, March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

Deep Thoughts

We had a number of dust storms. Evidently this is March in New Mexico.  I had to drive in one this past Monday. It wasn't fun and above all it wasn't all that smart. I don't like driving in a brown out any more than a white out. 

Surprise I made REAL Sourdough Bread

I rarely make real sourdough bread. I find it really time consuming to make.  I do make a lot of discard sourdough bread.  However, I thought what the heck and last week I made Venison for Dinner's Sourdough Sandwich Bread. Kate's straightforward approach and easily followed directions make this less complicated.

Venison for Dinner Sourdough Sandwich Bread- I made two loaves, so I made two separate batches. I had to scale up my sourdough starter a few days before. The bread is delicious. I am not a fan of a super dark crust. I think I would have baked for less time. I like to bake in loaves and the crumb was nice and tight perfect for sandwich making.

Throwback Thursday

Snow Writing says, "Didn't expect this did you".

I am not sure who wrote this message March 6, 2019. I expect it was my youngest son. This was on our back patio at our home in Ferndale Washington.

 I am in the process of digitizing my photos and cleaning up my camera roll. I thought I would start sharing a photo from the archives so to speak. It will be from the same date but in the past.

Weekly Roll

 

Nonna's Cat Annie Oakley

Linky Love

The Superbowl of Genealogy Conferences is happening next weekend - Rootstech. It is possible to attend online for many of the courses and free. Thursday through Saturday you will find me online here.

6 things to buy at JoAnn's before they close- Sad to see this place close but I no longer near one.

Rabbit Hole TV Viewing

    Curious Case - Doomsday Cat Cult started in Bellingham, WA. This use to be my old stomping grounds

    Big Family, Big City - Oh very Duggars and very Willis family

Deep Thoughts

Lately I have been having a lot of anticipatory anxiety. It is unreasonable but yet I do even when I know the outcome will be alright.