Genealogy
Yesterday, I spent a few hours at my son, Christopher's house, doing genealogy work with him and my two daughters. They are building a book, to contain family information divulged by my Aunt Ella when she was 77 years old. It would be a shame to lose this information, so it will be extracted and placed into a bound book which can also be downloaded.
Someone just stopped me to say that I was missed at our monthly Genealogy Club meeting. Apparently there was a question that they thought I would be able to answer. I felt bad about missing that session, but other priorities made it impossible.
In my attempt to clean up all of my boxes of "stuff" before I leave this planet, I am extracting genealogy material that I have collected throughout my life (yes, I never throw anything away). So far, I have filled 3 boxes of said material and I have a lot more "stuff" to go through.
Serendipity
While I was living a fast-paced life, I did not have the time to completely read and study information that came across my bow and interested me. But, I assumed that someday I would be an old dude and would have time to peruse this material while sitting in my rocking chair. So I kept this "stuff."
My assumption came true, except that I don't have time to sit in a rocking chair. But, I do have a little time each day to "go through" each of my boxes of "stuff" and extract, read, subtract, sort, cut, and scan things that still interest me. So, as I do so, I am encountering exciting (to me) articles and pictures and sayings and other neat junk that I can post to this blog. And... here goes:
Jokes from 2006:
Elephant Food
Four young boys were standing before the judge. The judge asks the first boy: "What did you do wrong?"
"My name is Bill, and I threw peanuts into the elephant cage."
The judge then asked the other boys what they had done.
The second boy said: "My name is Henry, and I threw peanuts into the elephant cage."
The third boy said: "My name is Joe, and I threw peanuts into the elephant cage."
The fourth boy said: "My name is Peanuts.:
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The Train Trip
On a cross country train, through a mix up, a man and a woman who had never met before, found themselves in the same sleeping carriage. After an embarrassing time, they both got to sleep.... the woman in the top bunk, the man in the lower bunk.
In the middle of the night, the woman leans over and says: "I'm very cold, could you pass me another blanket?"
The man leans out and says: "I've got a better idea, let's pretend we're married."
The woman giggles and says: "Why not?"
"Good," he replies, "Get your own Goddamn blanket!"
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(I didn't say they were going to be "good" jokes.)
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Wisdom from 1994:
Janice Davies, a fellow Toastmaster, had this to say one cold January day:
"No Winter lasts forever.
No Spring skips its turn."
Friends are those who ask how your are, and then wait to hear the answer."
"Instead of putting others in their place, put yourself in their place."
"The woods would be very silent if only the best birds sang."
(I wrote about this phrase in another blog and how it helped a friend of mine govern her life as a manager.)
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Pearls by Dr. Albert W. Morris
Of all the pearls of wisdom
This is the purest gem.
There are two ways to handle a woman;
No man knows either of them.
(Amen, brother!)
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Wisdom from Famous People
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To laugh often and much,
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children...
to leave the world a better place...
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded."
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Conan Doyle
Holmes' Remark to Watson in "A Study in Scarlet"
"From long habit the train of thought ran so swiftly through my mind that I arrived at the conclusion without being conscious of the intervening steps.... there were such steps, however."
(Was Sherlock the first Mensa member?)
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Wallace Fridy
"Real wisdom is more than knowledge. Knowing is the accumulation of facts: wisdom is the interpretation of facts. Knowledge is culled from textbooks; wisdom comes out of life."
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Kitchen Knowledge Passed On
When a newlywed served baked ham to her husband, he noticed that she had cut the ends off, and asked why. "That's the way Mother always did it," she replied with a shrug.
When his mother-in-law came to visit, he asked her the same question. "That's the way my mother did it, " she replied.
Finally, he asked his wife's grandmother, who answered, "That's the only way I could get it to fit into the pan."
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A "certified" nut case. Maybe I'll grow a beard and hide.
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