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[Chicken Rustler]

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oh definitely mess with genealogy; I have most of my lines back to the immigrant ancestor, eleven to thirteen generations in some case

Well see when I was a kid I was always told that one of my ancestors was (supposedly) the first known white settler born out here. I still know the location I was told and know at least a partial name. But haven't been able to find any more. And that stuff is not really my bag but I would like to know about this one item.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I didn't know you were related to the Lords! I mostly knew members of that family who were my Grandmother's age, but that's true of a lot of my relationships in Yelm: I knew people who were in my year at school, those who were my Mom's friends, or my Grandmothers, and 4H and FFA people. For most of the time after I moved away in 1967, my closest relationships there were with women who were in Rebekahs with Mom.

Today was not a good day for me to get sociable- the lilacs would have been appreciated, but it had been a really stressful morning and I was not at my best. Which means some things for other people, but for me means a tendancy to motor-mouthing, and in that context you'd have gotten a story to go with everyone I knew who lies there now, from my great-grandmother who was sure right up until the end that she would be moving back to Prague to the boy who fell out of a tree into the power lines when he and my sister were fifth graders. And then I wouldn't be able to sleep for the rest of the week.

 

[Ogress]

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The first time I mixed it for my chickens, my cochins refused to drink it! It is such a week solution you can't even smell the bleach, but the cochins would have nothing to do with it! Harriet just stood at her coop door and cussed me out! She is doing the same now because I took away her eggs (she sat on them for a month and they were infertile). Now I soak the water dispensers weekly in a fairly strong bleach solution and then rinse them very well before filling.

 

[broodytood]

CR- The long awaited RIR B baby!

The other egg had done nothing. I've heard to wait till day 25 but I candled and sadly there is no movement. What causes them to quit late in the game? It's so sad to know they come almost to the end and then don't make it.

But this little one is cute! So CR, when is your breeding program gonna be up and runnng? I would love to buy RIR B eggs from you. This little cutie needs a friend, it is all alone in the world!

 

[Ogress]

I had a very nice visit with my friends today, and as an added bonus, her son was very well behaved - he and Alex had a blast burning up some of the scrap wood left from building the coop, and then they did target practice with the paintball gun out in the woods.

Diane and I made Pina Coladas (maybe a few too many of them) and pretended it was sunny and warm. If you put the empty cup up to your ear, you could even hear the waves; only we smell of woodsmoke, not ocean breeze, and were shivering in the drizzle.

 

[Ogress]

Where is everybody?

Night Night ... I'm going to try and get more than 4 hrs tonight!

 

[Kaneke]

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I didn't know you were related to the Lords! I mostly knew members of that family who were my Grandmother's age, but that's true of a lot of my relationships in Yelm: I knew people who were in my year at school, those who were my Mom's friends, or my Grandmothers, and 4H and FFA people. For most of the time after I moved away in 1967, my closest relationships there were with women who were in Rebekahs with Mom.

Today was not a good day for me to get sociable- the lilacs would have been appreciated, but it had been a really stressful morning and I was not at my best. Which means some things for other people, but for me means a tendancy to motor-mouthing, and in that context you'd have gotten a story to go with everyone I knew who lies there now, from my great-grandmother who was sure right up until the end that she would be moving back to Prague to the boy who fell out of a tree into the power lines when he and my sister were fifth graders. And then I wouldn't be able to sleep for the rest of the week.

I would have loved to listen .... but you DO need your sleep

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Thanks for understanding: I need to be really carefull or I get so overstimulated that nothing works very well, and sleep has always been what worked least well for me.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Well I'm not really sure. See I am still trying to get the coop/run finished, do normal stuff here, get a bunch of items made to take to the Lavender fest and do things over at Michelle's farm.

 

[Kaneke]

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oh definitely mess with genealogy; I have most of my lines back to the immigrant ancestor, eleven to thirteen generations in some case

Well see when I was a kid I was always told that one of my ancestors was (supposedly) the first known white settler born out here. I still know the location I was told and know at least a partial name. But haven't been able to find any more. And that stuff is not really my bag but I would like to know about this one item.

will have to see what I can find; there were a lot of things published when Olympia had its centennial, can get out of Timberland libraries; also I am pretty familiar with what is on the internet, genealogically speaking, and I have an Ancestry subscription too

late husband's folks moved out to the Chehalis/Centralia area about the turn of the century (1900); and I know where some of that local genealogy info is, too ... (the old railroad station, and they are on index cards)