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Peter Hurd Mural - Artesia Library

Artesia, NM

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10 Years of the Peter Hurd Mural at Artesia Library - This is a stunning mural. The picture above is one I took.  The article from New Mexico Magazine - Putting the Art in Artesia This is a worthwhile read. 

New Mexico Man holds the record for largest Hibiscus flower - This is not too far from where I live, and I applaud him because it can't be easy to grow that kind of flower here.

 

Deep Thoughts

Last Sunday, I got to be part of a book club author zoom with Tara Westover the author of "Educated."  I was surprised how funny but also thoughtful she was.  Something she said was how she wrote this whole book trying to answer the question " Am I allowed to leave?" It sounds like she has done tremendous amount of therapy.  Here is my book review.  This was the 2nd time I read through the book. It is amazing that any of the Westover's survived their growing up. I did read the book differently as I knew I would be discussing it.

52 Ancestors - Newest Discovery Another Quaker Minister

 I have been participating in Amy Crow Johnson's 52 ancestors in 52 weeks.  I had intended to share this last week, but I had a different new discovery that I shared.

Part of my family tree seems littered with women Quaker ministers. I have unearthed another one - Abigail Overman Pike.  She is my 8th Great Grandmother.  Abigail's ministry is quite well documented. 

A charter member of the Cane Creek Meeting and a recorded Quaker minister, she lived her Christian faith as she practiced her Quaker beliefs. The Pike home stood about two miles west. She and Rachel Wright were part of a delegation that traveled on horseback to Perquimans County to request the Quarterly Meeting's permission to establish a Monthly Meetings at Cane Creek. She traveled extensively to promote the growth of other Quaker Meetings and to represent Can Creek at various meetings. Can Creek relied on her judgement in many areas of the Meeting. She and John Pike married in 1731 and had 8 children. After John's death in 1774, she moved from the area and joined New Garden Meeting. She is buried at Muddy Creek burial ground. This marker made possible by the efforts of Can Creek quaker Men and Friends.

One of the stories I read is that she preached from horseback to the soldiers at army camps and wasn't allowed to dismount. Also surprising was the number of miles she traveled to preach and go to meetings. 

references

Quaker Woman See themselves in N.C. History

Wiki tree

Wordy Wednesday

 

I feel this in my soul this week. 

Adult Arts and Crafts - Seascape

 

I was unable to resist doing this seascape from Andrea Nelson.  It was relaxing way to end my day. I use Crayola watercolors. It is what I have. I am not an artist and I just like being creative. I liked the project so much I gave it a go on watercolor paper.

Andrea does a good job of showing you on how to paint this. Her tutorials are fun. This is part of my summer bucket list series. 

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These are ethe raptors in your Albuquerque Neighborhood - I am newish to New Mexico so learning what kind of birds are here is cool.

A rare giraffe was born without spots. Nonna suggested naming the new giraffe "Brownie"  

Massive 21 Foot Tall Sculpture of Ancestral Goddess Unveiled in Colorado - I think I need to put this on my Colorado go to visit list.

RushTok - This sucked me right in. It is a trainwreck.  The link was found via Modern Mrs Darcy. 

Inappropriate Thoughts

August 19th was international geocaching day.  We found a geocache at our local cemetery.  Not sure why there is such a security fence around it. We have cut way back on our geocaching, but I still like the hunt. 

DEEP THOUGHTS

6 years ago my best friend and I hiked Cascade Pass. Mrs Epi texted that to me this week. I can't believe it was 6 years ago. It was by far one of the hardest hikes I have hiked. There are a lot of switchbacks something like 30 plus. I am a person of size who at the time was in fairly decent hiking shape, but it was challenging for me. There is a point on that very hike I thought I don't know if I can do this. 

Because I am pretty sure at switchback 16, I really wanted to turn around.  I think as we crossed the last rock field before the top I said to myself, "If the top isn't around the corner I am going to stop here and die." I am a bit dramatic. (blog post quote)

In large part, I completed that hike because of my best friend's encouragement. Hiking will teach you to handle the hills.  We all have hills or steep parts in our lives where we think I am not going to be able to do this thing/situation. This is too much.  Hiking has taught me that if I can get myself off that mountain, I can do this thing whatever that is.  Your friend can encourage you, but your legs are what are going to take you home. 

handling the hills

Cascade Pass Trail

52 Ancestors - Newest Discovery

I have been participating in Amy Johnson Crow's writing about 52 ancestors in 52 weeks.  The prompt was newest discovery.

Well, I had decided on something completely different to share then I intended. I went to a Genealogy program at the library, and we were playing around with the nearest relative feature in the Family Search app. I matched as a 10th cousin once removed with one of the people.  Our common relative was Zaccheus Gould. Zaccheus Gould is my 9th Great Grandfather. I don't know how accurate my family search tree is compared to my ancestry tree which doesn't go back as far.  It was a fun exercise. Below is a little summary of Zaccheus Gould.

Zaccheus Gould was born in 1589 in Hertfordshire England. He married Phebe Deacon in England April 1617. It is unclear exactly when Zaccheus arrived in British Colonial America.  He arrived in America with his wife and 5 children. It is speculated around 1638.  Zaccheus bought land from his brother in 1639. He never became a freeman of the colony because he wouldn't join the Puritan church. However, he did take the oath of fidelity in 1651. His son, John, also became a freeman in 1665. 

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Zaccheus Gould House

Zaccheus had some incidents regarding nonattendance at required Sunday worship and creating a disturbance at public worship. He was also fined 3 pounds for entertaining Quakers. Zaccheus was admonished and paid a fine. His nephew, Daniel Gould, was an admitted Quaker who was charged and convicted. He had to depart the colony after receiving 30 lashes.  Zaccheus died in 1688.  He is buried near the town meeting house. At the time of his death, he was one of the largest landholders in the area. He had 3000 acres in the area which was Rowley Village and later Boxford Massachusetts.

some research links

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Zaccheus Gould House Wiki

The Family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield - archive.org

Telling Stories -This blogger this is also her 9th great grandfather as well.

How does my Garden Grow Update

This year has been a learning experience as it was the first time, I have had a garden here in New Mexico. Our yard is very unfinished, and I have referred to it as tragic. I have started to add some structure to the yard. I planted some lavender, Texas sage and butterfly bush.  It is a very much a work in progress. Everything I have grown is in containers.

 I moved my container of dahlias, and they really took off. The area I moved them to has afternoon shade and our sprinklers hit them in the early mornings.  I wrote here about growing dahlias in high heat. Below is one of my favorite dahlia pictures.

My teddy bear sunflowers are doing well also.  I love how soft they look.

Below are my Floret Sahara Black Eye Susan's.  I wasn't able to order these seeds this time during Floret's seed sale, but I did order some other varieties. This is a keeper in this location. The vine in the picture is Thunbergia which is a Black-Eyed Susan Vine.  I did like this combo. It was a little wild.

I bought some Zinna starts early in the season for my porch and then sowed some Zinna seeds. They are really leggy. I would like to grow Zinnas again not for my front porch. They got extremely leggy.

I did like geraniums on my porch. Though they did seem to get a bit sunburned.  They were discount ones from Walmart.  I also bought a discount succulent basket. The bear was a thrift find.

I spent talking time talking to my best friend about future garden plans.  I got ideas.  I will grow some more dahlias and will grow them on this side of the shop.  Lots of lessons learned because of the high heat. When I close out the garden I plan on posting on some things I would like to grow next year.