A little catching up.....
Jul. 9th, 2009 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grnvixenHoliday weekend was pretty laid back. We had Ternon's memorial on friday. It was at the renfaire site and a lot of folks I had not seen for years were there. There were tears but it was good to see everyone and remember.
And I had found out the week before we had lost another old family friend, actually a contemporary of my folks. He and my dad had met while working at a Y camp in the summers and later banded together with some other former counselars to get the camp restarted in the 80's. He was in my folks wedding, and attended ours, writing about it later in his newspaper column. He was an MD but had always had an itch to write so in the 80's switched to teaching and writing. Had a very successful series of western novels and keep going to the end. He was at a writer's conference when he had a stroke and then passed the next week. I'm glad it was relatively quick, altho I know his family misses him.
We did not take advantage of the weather last weekend but pretty much lazed around the house on sat. and sun. It was nice to have Himself home without a lot to do on the schedule. I did run some errands and finished the alterations on niece/goddaughters wedding dress. She and her mom came over sunday for the final fitting and after one tweak, it was done, so they took it home with them. Wedding is this saturday. I'm taking an emergency sewing kit with me just-in-case :).
And news from my youngest sister: we are related to royalty! details behind cut... Youger sis' current obession is geneology. It started with scrapbooking and I must say, she has done a very good job of ferreting out our family history and then doing some nice layouts with the information. She was a journalism major and later worked for Hallmark so she has the research and writing skills for a pro. She had already tracked down the family tree that I was able to find the Mayflower passengers on, and also found information on the Norwegian branch, which had all just been a rumor. Her focus currently is our maternal grandfather's branch. We knew there were Quakers a generation or two back on this line (yes, Quakers :) ) and she found a source that took them back to Nantucket in the early 17th Century, then to England and back from there. Turned out an ancestor had been killed at the Battle of Tewkesbury (1471, major turning point in the War of the Roses). He had been on the loosing side, which meant the family fortunes went a little downhill after the battle. Before that they had been doing very well, since this ancestor was the 4X great grandson of Edward I! Yup, that one :). Turns out EI is my 20X great grandfather! Which also means the relative lost at Tewkesbury was on the Lancaster/Red rose side. Darn, I had always leaned toward the Yorkist, had a fondness for Richard III :). This family tree has been tons of fun for me, the history major, not to mention a bit of an anglophile, to poke around in. John Hawkins is also in there, but I think he is more correctly a 11X great uncle, sis needs to check on this part. Yup, ceplionhearth and I are related :).
Niece's wedding is this weekend, then need to get another sewing project done. After that I have a couple of embroidery projects I want to *finally* get drawn out and started. Forecast looks like summer is settling in so a good time to stay indoors with the A/C.
And I had found out the week before we had lost another old family friend, actually a contemporary of my folks. He and my dad had met while working at a Y camp in the summers and later banded together with some other former counselars to get the camp restarted in the 80's. He was in my folks wedding, and attended ours, writing about it later in his newspaper column. He was an MD but had always had an itch to write so in the 80's switched to teaching and writing. Had a very successful series of western novels and keep going to the end. He was at a writer's conference when he had a stroke and then passed the next week. I'm glad it was relatively quick, altho I know his family misses him.
We did not take advantage of the weather last weekend but pretty much lazed around the house on sat. and sun. It was nice to have Himself home without a lot to do on the schedule. I did run some errands and finished the alterations on niece/goddaughters wedding dress. She and her mom came over sunday for the final fitting and after one tweak, it was done, so they took it home with them. Wedding is this saturday. I'm taking an emergency sewing kit with me just-in-case :).
And news from my youngest sister: we are related to royalty! details behind cut... Youger sis' current obession is geneology. It started with scrapbooking and I must say, she has done a very good job of ferreting out our family history and then doing some nice layouts with the information. She was a journalism major and later worked for Hallmark so she has the research and writing skills for a pro. She had already tracked down the family tree that I was able to find the Mayflower passengers on, and also found information on the Norwegian branch, which had all just been a rumor. Her focus currently is our maternal grandfather's branch. We knew there were Quakers a generation or two back on this line (yes, Quakers :) ) and she found a source that took them back to Nantucket in the early 17th Century, then to England and back from there. Turned out an ancestor had been killed at the Battle of Tewkesbury (1471, major turning point in the War of the Roses). He had been on the loosing side, which meant the family fortunes went a little downhill after the battle. Before that they had been doing very well, since this ancestor was the 4X great grandson of Edward I! Yup, that one :). Turns out EI is my 20X great grandfather! Which also means the relative lost at Tewkesbury was on the Lancaster/Red rose side. Darn, I had always leaned toward the Yorkist, had a fondness for Richard III :). This family tree has been tons of fun for me, the history major, not to mention a bit of an anglophile, to poke around in. John Hawkins is also in there, but I think he is more correctly a 11X great uncle, sis needs to check on this part. Yup, ceplionhearth and I are related :).
Niece's wedding is this weekend, then need to get another sewing project done. After that I have a couple of embroidery projects I want to *finally* get drawn out and started. Forecast looks like summer is settling in so a good time to stay indoors with the A/C.
