Ivy gets bling!  She got braces on her teeth today.  She likes it.  Very proud of it.  Weird.  

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Good lord, nearly 7 years later, it is finally done.  Jose Francisco came into our household one night in 2015 when suffering in some pain that he did not understand.  After listening to his symptoms, I thought, “That sure sounds like kidney stones…” which is something I’ve suffered with for decades, but I wasn’t for […]

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We lost our sweet little chihuahua, Potrillo, today.  He was overcome by his respiratory problems through the night, so I took him to this this afternoon.  But the doctor said he would probably not recover.  Poor guy could barely breath.  He was suffering very much.   So I made the decision to euthanize.  I knew this […]

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For Christmas in 2011, Holly bought me a membership to Ancestry.com I ended up with so much information that it was a bit overwhelming, mind-boggling, and seemingly never-ending (I never quite finished it). But at the very least, I did write a few blogs posts about what I had found. I’m just creating this blog […]

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Benny was so chill.  He was a really good ferret.  Always ready and willing to be picked up and petted or explore whatever you’re holding.  He escaped his cage sometimes in the night or this morning, exited the house via the doggy door,… and made it about 2 blocks away before being struck by a […]

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My cousin Pam Jones attended a LDS conference on-line about Ancestry, and they generated these nifty charts for her.  This ancestry stuff is getting easier and easier every year.  They even have a special option of “See which famous people you are related to” and it automatically finds notable people.  These are three that she […]

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Meatloaf died this week.  🙁  January 20, 2022 I’ve been a Meatloaf (Michael Lee Aday) fan for as long as I can remember. My older brother had his “Bat Out of Hell Album” in 1977, and then in I bought the “Bat Out of Hell 2”  album in 1993.  Every song good, imho!   Meatloaf always […]

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Anne Boleyn is back in the spotlight.  She is the subject of a new series on AMC, only this time with a twist… the actress playing Anne Boleyn is black.  I don’t know why they chose a black actress to portray a historical (very) white woman, but that is the case for this series.  As […]

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Jane and Holly worked pretty much all day on a Thanksgiving dinner.  It was great!  Jane even has these nifty buffet-style warmers for items like mac-n-cheese and gravy and steamed veggies.  We all agreed to do chicken instead of turkey… turkey is just soooo much work, and frankly not that great (in my opinion).  So […]

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It seems Ancestry.com has been adding some more records, so I decided to do some more digging.  Sure enough, an interesting new character appeared in my family tree!  This time it was the friend of King Edward the 2nd.  His name is Piers Gaveston.  Turns out, there is quite a bit of information published on […]

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