Happy Birthday Julia!

Hope your day is wonderful!

Amusing Ewing Children, Part 99

I am transcribing a letter written by Laura Smith when Grandpa was very young and his father was still alive (but in poor health and the children were staying with Laura and Lee).

Thursday Charles asked the blessing and this is what he said, "Mr. thank you for this food and I like it and it's good - for Christ's sake, Amen."

Grandpa always did have a way with words, didn't he?

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone! I hope your Christmas and New Year were good. We had a nice long break at the river and are now back at work.

I have been scanning and entering data into the Family Tree software and am probably most excited about the organization. Mmmmmm organization. Andy will tell you that I am all about sorting stuff into binders and the labels, ahhhh the labels. I even ordered some spiffy photo storage stuff to organize the negatives and slides that I'll also get around to storing. Right now I'm looking for good software for digital scrapbooking to share this stuff with y'all.

I think everyone heard that we finally sold our extra house! That was a Christmas present that came just in time. We went to closing on December 21st and had cash in hand the very next day. We are rejoicing at having only two mortgages instead of four.

Also in December, I got roped into writing a Congressional Report which took just about every waking minute of the month. Thankfully, yesterday our client took the report up to the Secretary's office so we should be at the finish line.

I am yearning to adopt another dog, but Andy thinks that is crazy talk. We'll see.