What's for Dinner v6.20: Oil, oil, oil everywhere....
It's that time of year ~~ to celebrate Hanukah with lots of greasy/oily food. In addition to lighting the menorah candles each of the eight nights of Hanukah, lots of oily foods are eaten in...
View ArticleGFHC open thread: Almost right....
Sometimes, the stories you heard as a child are g>almost right ;-) Follow me over the doodle-squiggly for case where I should have taken a family story with a larger grain of salt......and how I...
View ArticleWAYWO: presents for everyone
Just a quick Hanukah/Christmas edition of WAYWO (What Are You Working On, a community diary series for all things crafty, in a variety of mediums and techniques....) What did you make for others? What...
View ArticleWAYWO: Projects for the New Year
Welcome to the New Year's Day edition of WAYWO (What Are You Working On?, a weekly community diary series for all things crafty, in a variety of mediums and techniques....so welcome knitters, sewers,...
View ArticleWAYWO: More Shetland knitting
Welcome to the 'your-hostess-is-off-at-Vogue-Knitting-Live-(and-a-matinee)' edition of WAYWO (What Are You Working On?, a weekly community diary series for all things crafty, in a variety of mediums...
View ArticleSoapbox time: women's health PSA (public service announcement)
Today is one of a couple days a year that I get up on a great big huge soapbox about something very important -- a major women's health issue: ovarian cancer, a still frequently deadly form of cancer....
View ArticleDK Quilt Guild: I'm not a quilter :-(
I love quilts, although I don't consider myself a quilter. But I'm close ;-) Explanation over the squiggly doohickey.... (Note: I signed up for this week's diary while managing to forget that I'd be...
View ArticleGFHC open thread: get out there!
Several months ago, I wrote one of the GFHC Friday open threads about how not all records are on-line yet and that, to be thorough in genealogy work, one needs to go to libraries, courthouses, and the...
View ArticleWAYWO: tried and true patterns
Do you find yourself returning to the same pattern over and over again? I do, for several reasons. I know the pattern well enough to be able to knit it when distracted, or it fills a need well, or I...
View ArticleGFHC: Non-strangers in the night
Ah.... those random relatives who pop up unexpectedly in census returns because they happened to be around the night of the census (hence my non-strangers in the night title......) They can break down...
View ArticleWAYWO: summer doldrums
It's been hot up here in the foothills of the White Mountains (reached 90 degrees today....yes, that's hot for here; average for this time of year is closer to mid-70s), so the honest answer to what...
View ArticleDK Quilt Guild: Maine Quilt Show
On Friday, I went to the Maine Quilt Show in Augusta. Sensory overload.... many, many amazing quilts to see (and some fabric to buy.....). For the most part, I'm going to let the pictures speak for...
View ArticleGFHC open thread: Don't wear out your welcome
A long time ago (at least in blog years...), I wrote an open thread diary about getting out from behind a computer and researching in person at libraries, archives, and other places where real records...
View ArticleDK Quilt Guild: Show fun
Back in August, I went to a quilt show in Manchester, NH. For inspiration, I'd like to share photographs of some of the interesting quilts I saw....DK Quilt Guild: A place for quilters to gather, share...
View ArticleGFHC open thread: absolute mysteries
Any genealogist ends up with them ~ those ancestors that seem to appear from nowhere....Instead of my usual long-winded/detailed descriptions of one family, I'm going to summarize several cases of...
View ArticleGFHC: Tracking her down
Once friends and acquaintances find out that genealogy is my primary hobby, it's not unusual for them to ask for help, as they've "always wanted to know more about where the family came from." I email...
View ArticleGFHC: Not the big ones...
Fifteen years ago, the owner of the small ISP I used for creaky dial-up 'Net access opined to me that the development of the then toddler 'Net was being driven by genealogists and pornographers, as...
View ArticleGFHC open thread: DNA overlay?
Several years ago, when Y-DNA was pretty much all that was available to genealogists, my father agreed to be tested as my December holiday (a.k.a. Christmas for him, Hanukah for me) present to satisfy...
View ArticleDvar Torah: Ki Tavo
This week's parsha (Torah portion to be read in synagogue) is Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8).The parsha starts with directions for dedicating the first fruits of the harvest to HaShem via the temple...
View ArticleThursday pootie diary: Let's be logical
Welcome to the Thursday afternoon pootie diary, our daily friendly place to take a few minutes to relax, smile, and recharge before going out to battle the forces of evil in the big, bad real world....
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