Happy 60th! I joined the 60 club last November.
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I am going to hit the pool until about 2:00 then head over to the beach. We may have a little activity in the Gulf the next few days so I want to take a look.
This time last year I was wondering if I would ever walk again. Life is good and God is great
Same for me BBUK.
60 was a good year for me. Heck all of them are good if you are on the green side of the grass.
Being persnicety with growing grass is an, "old man" thing........I started using a weed product called "Tenacity".......seems to work very well........Happy July 5th to all. Still a holiday for many, and that's OK.
Happy B'day @BBUK . I've known some people who get really down around their birthday. Me, for some reason I never have. Have always been surprised (especially the last 10-15 years) at how old I am getting, but time marches on and you/I can't do anything about it....so.
My nephew who bought the house on Anna Maria Island is down there. Hasn't closed yet. He's got a friend that has a place down there somewhere, so they went down on his private jet last week (nice way to travel). So, if they stay the week, he might have his first taste of a Florida hurricane. Not too late to NOT sign those closing papers 😊
Like Bert...some chores. Got out early and weed sprayed some of the yard...front and about half the back.
Where did our/mine obsession come with having yards with green, green grass with NO weeds?
I've never had them but my brother swears by these.....
Got a call an hour or so ago. My nephew and his family are 'wheels up' with their friend (and his family) getting out of the Sarasota area. Decided to get the heck out of Dodge before the hurricane hits.
Think you mentioned that back in the Spring. I looked it up and man...that's is some pricey stuff.
Take it you mix it up in a 1 or 2 gallon sprayer and just spray the weeds only.
Edit...Amazon has it at about $64 for 8 oz.
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I am lost trying to link the dates and information with the FindAGrave information and my Ancestry info.
Bert, The Find-A- Grave story for Polly Hooker Rich does not match the Cumberland folklore. Mom was convinced about the Cherokee ancestry. My knowledge is presently based based on John Rich family folklore. The same folklore coming out of Clay Co. Tenn. supports this but the tombstones of the Old Macedonia Cemetery were removed and used for as the base for a moonshine still. The Rich/Strong families of Jackson County suggest that Polly Hooker was actually hidden in the nearby Cherokee reservation during the "Trail of Tears" Cherokee nation removal to Oklahoma. Plausible but not evidenced. My son and myself will be getting our DNA testing soon. We should have this native American blood too. Maybe cultural-biogeography will give us the evidence. It's hard to argue against thousands of descendants. Our genealogist cousin, Bill Vincent, PhD believes the DNA should be another analysis tool to help determine the truth.
I am not making changes in my Ancestry based on the FindAGrave stuff.
Happy Birthday BBUK! Have a great day bud.....I hope you have a day befitting a great guy like yourself......
Funny thing, 23&me says that I have a higher percentage of Neanderthal than 89% of the worlds population. My wife says that explains a lot.I see your channeling your inner Neanderthal.
I regularly update the Ancestry stuff to help with their algorithms. Go figure? I'm also thinking of joining FindAGrave to communicate with this Donald Rich guy. He reminds me of my Uncle Walter Samuel Rich.
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My wife took this picture as she is the QC for the railhead and other areas at Fort Sill.
I did the 23&Me thing a few years back Warrior and also had a pretty high mix of Neanderthal DNA, relatively speaking. Can’t remember the exact number. But what a fascinating world DNA science is opening up. It wasn’t long ago leading anthropologists were sharply divided over whether humans COULD mate with Neanderthals. Now we can say almost all European ancestry humans have that DNA, and in what percentage.
Last year my 80 year old cousin did 23&me and ended up with a sister. A sister he did not know existed. She was born in South Carolina about 6 months after their father moved the family to Atlanta, GA. I wonder if he even knew he had another daughter She contacted my cousin and broke the news. Their father had died in 1988 and of course she was not aware of that having never seen him.
I am not sure they are going to get together but it would be interesting. She is still in South Carolina and my cousin lives in Tennessee. She is now 78 years old and her mother never told her she was illegitimate. South Carolina in 1943 was busy with Navy boys which shows you never can tell. A lot of action during WWII did not occur on the battlefield or high seas. .
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Interesting story. I’ll bet you could run the world’s most fascinating podcast interviewing people who have gotten shocking surprises in the era of ancestry.com and 23&Me. I’ll bet a lot of families have been ripped apart when dad got a nasty surprise.
When my biological father who left us when I was 7 died last October he was 84 and I had never seen him since he left but, my brothers and sister did and went to the funeral and found out we had another brother and sister. Apparently according to my brothers and sister the other brother (half really) and I look a lot alike and they sent a picture of him to my wife and she was freaked out about how much we looked alike albeit he is about 12 years younger. I have yet to meet him and probably will not because he has spent some time in prison and has been in and out of jail since then. Apparently he can't stay out of trouble.
Just thought i’d post this. for no reason.
I hope you all had a real good day. Been busy for an old(er) man. Thanks again for letting me rant. I am thankful for you. Have a restful night and enjoy your day's tomorrow. God Bless you all...
Ole WC states:Yeah well, I told my wife she was lucky I did not club her the first day we met.
Happy Birthday BBUK:
Thanks Brother...
Thank you Brother Rooster Sir...
Thank you Sir!
Thank you Brudder...
Rental car acting up. Makes a loud ticking sound on left-rear axle while driving. Bet a bolt came off rear brake caliper. I'll drive over to Middlesboro tomorrow for a swap. Hope I receive a good replacement vehicle.
Happy Big 60th Birthday. As Time Goes By. 60 was not a bad year for me. The Lord is with you
Thank you Brother Sir!
Happy 60th. Wishing you many many more.
You drove the tires off that thing. I know you did. Jerry and Burt had back up cars. I guess you will need one too. Glad you are safe though!
Thanks my Brudder from a nudder Mudder!
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You'll like this. These early Maryland colonial missionaries rejected the enslavement of local Algonquin speaking Potabaco and Piscataway Indians and abhorred the agricultural reality of slavery economics of the tobacco trade and associated enslavement of negro persons. Father Andrew White and Ignatius church parishioners today receive little credit for their to efforts to treat slaves as indentured granting freeman status to similar to the 7 year service for indentured servitude that paid immigration costs from Europe. Times were very tough and the horrific cannibalism of nearby settlement of Jamestown fresh on the minds of these Catholic immigrants and the plight of settlers on their own in the savage frontier as their generosities were abused then lost as the guest Puritans given sanctuary in Maryland from religious persecution conspired with the English then rebelled to seize power and outlawed Catholicism, corrupting its practices prior to the revolution.
What is it I'm liking about this? Been a long day of work and fellowship and I'm not comprehending what you're sharing.
The history of men is rife with abuse, corruption, and profiteering at the expense of others. The written history of that actual history is often written for the benefit of those who rule. I don't take it at face value, but measure it against all accounts where they can be gathered.
There are and were always good people that tried to do right by their fellow men, seeing in others the light and life endowed by their Creator. Every religion has had them. I do appreciate you showing me this, and I hope it is true.
I have never understood the ease or lightheartedness with which people can speak of the death of other peoples, nor why people would claim it as their own victory. It goes against my principles is all. My father and many others gave their lives to the ideal that all men are created equal, but that is hard to reconcile with our history.
Persecution was felt by every sect at one time or another in this country and the ones they left to come here, yet somehow they passed it on instead of making the persecution stop with them. I'm very disappointed in mankind right now and need to take a break for a few weeks, because as much as I love the people He created, what they've done with themselves in this country and others is repulsive. I know what comes next and need to renew some empathy before that happens.
Btw, I don't think indentured servitude is a horrible thing, unless freedom is never granted. I don't see it as slavery any more than a 5 year car loan would be. The principle is the same. If there is abuse of the position of power, that is something else entirely.
Happy birthday!
Thank you Sir.
When people don't have the evidence they just make stuff up and then you hear real stupid BS like "whose truth" or worse.
Good stuff. Might consider delegating/updating/including recent history into Joseph Hedges-3 descendant profiles. About 3/4 of Kentucky settlers came via Boone's "Wilderness Road. The remaining 1/4 (Yours and mine) came down the Monongahela , through Pittsburgh then the Ohio.
Warrior,
How deep the Kentucky roots? You hanker to know?
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Rooster - thanks for that link. I’m looking forward to studying what’s there. I’ve relied pretty exclusively on what my cousin researched and posted online for family history. At a glance, this looks like it fits into that narrative pretty well, with some differences.
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