Weekly Roll - End of Summer

It is starting to feel like fall here. Our public schools don't start until this coming week. We are always the last to start.  This is my first year with no public school kids.  Both my kids will be attending the local technical college which starts in the middle of  September and pretty much everything is online this quarter. 

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12 Simple and Cheap Fall Decor

Inappropriate Thoughts

Yep that is me at basic training. I have a lot of feels about this Afghanistan pull out. SO many feels. I enlisted during Desert Storm.  I was never in combat. I think about those service members who gave their life in Kabul this week. Thank you! I think it is important to know their names - militarytimes

Sgt Nicole L Gee, 23

Staff Sg Darin T Hoover, 31

Cpl Hunter Lopez, 22

Cpl Daegan W Page, 23

Cpl Humberto A Sanchez, 22

Lance Cpl David Espinoza, 20

Lance Cpl Jared M Schmitz, 20

Lance Cpl Rylee J McCollum, 20

Lance Cpl Dylan R Merola, 20

Lance Cpl Kareem m Nikoui, 20

navy Corpsman Maxton W Soviak, 22

Staff Sgt Ryan C Knauss, 23

Sgt Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25

I worry about the human cost of Afghanistan and how many people not just service members who will and have lost their lives. 

Experimental Cooking

Mongolian Beef - this was excellent  I am obviously not a food blogger. 

I want to make Venison for Dinner's Phad Thai

52 Ancestors - Tragedy

 

I am joining Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors Writing Challenge. The past week topic was tragedy.

I found a post it note to myself with ancestors labeled with "fatal mistakes".  (Doesn't everyone have a fatal mistake post it list) So this is not only a tale of tragedy but a fatal mistake. 

This tale of fatal mistakes comes from George Virgin (1797-1855) my mother's second great grand uncle. This tale was documented in "The History of Mason County (Ill)"  

It seems George kept his colic medicine on the mantle with other bottles, one of which was Poison for vermin. Getting up in the dark he took the wrong bottle and died a week later.

George died when he was 58. George grew up in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. George was born to Kinsey and Rachel Virgin. When George was about 15, the family moved to Sciotio, Ohio.  Kinsey Virgin, George's father died when George was just 17. He was married to Alcy Sikes. She would out live him dying at age  70. I haven't been able to prove if any children were born to this union.

I have a lot of questions

What was George's profession - farmer?

Did everyone store their vermin poison next to colic medicine?

This was so tragic it made the History of Mason County History book. I mean it was a tragedy. Is the only remarkable thing about George is how he died?

Wordy Wednesday

 

This was submitted by husband. I like it. He suggested I needed this sign for my desk.

weekly roll

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Thousands of specially bred honeybees went mysteriously missing

The Great Fish Escape

The First Murder Hornet Nest of 2021 found - Yikes I don't believe this is too far from my house.

Inappropriate Thoughts

I am confused. I don't know what naturally essenced means. Did they just wave an orange in the product? I HAVE QUESTIONS. Evidently I am not sophisticated enough to drink La Croix.  I am drinking these lately trying to break my soda habit. 

Funko Headquarters

We made a special trip to Funko Headquarters in Everett, Washington in honor of my son's birthday. This is a place he has wanted to visit. We visited early on a Sunday morning. They open at 10 and the drive is about an hour and 15 minutes from our house. There was already a line forming when we got there.  However as soon as the store opened we got right in.

Visiting Funko Headquarters  - Everett, WA

Wordy Wednesday

 

The quote was found via Pinterest and credited to Elizabeth Elliot. 

What I Read August

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

 Well the library holds have become a trickle. I got some popular reads on my hold list. I guess it is to be expected. But then BAM everything seems to arrive at once. You can't win at the library hold game I guess.

Books are better with garden bouquets, right.

Revival Season by Monica West

I haven't ever been to a revival but this book is about a preacher's kid, Miriam,  and how they are traveling the revival circuit. She is told only men have the power to heal.  There is a lot to drill down into this book - domestic abuse, faith, healing, patriarch. There is an interesting story here. 

Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First

This book really left me wanting to get out a notebook and really journal. I think this is a book that will stick with me for a while. She covers a wide variety of questions to dive deeper with yourself and friends - Who are you?, Who was there?, What are you afraid of?, When did you belong? , What broke you? etc.

The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

When I first picked this up and thumbed through this. I wasn't overly impressed. Then I was going through some personal stuff and I picked this up. It was comforting to read these little stories and quotes. I felt uplifted. I think this would be a good book to give as a gift.  There were a couple that really resonated with me - Doors and Negative Capability. I liked this quote - "Curiosity and passion are the enemies of anxiety."  and the quote by Joy Harjo - " There is no poetry where there are no mistakes."

The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

This book was one of Reese Witherspoon book picks. It is a YA book. The book is set in Atlanta in 1890 and Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid during the day and works at night as the Agony Column author Miss Sweetie. It was a decent read.