whatalife

Okay, well I've been busy grabbing my gut in pain, it's not the way I like to spend any time! I have a Dr. appointment tomorrow, so hopefully we'll get some answers pretty soon. I realized about Friday, after I hadn't eaten for two days, that this has been a pattern for the past 6 months. Oh yeah, the Dr.'s assured me the gall bladder surgery would solve the problem, and, what a shock, it didn't!

Other than that, I've been researching the Haines family name, and I'm pretty excited that I found William T. Haines with his parents, James and Sarah Haines. They weren't in Texas they were in Georgia... So much for his memory of where the family lived! I found them on the 1870 and 1880 census in Morgan, Hall, Georgia, so it was a pretty solid find.

I've been thinking a lot about the majority of families that homesteaded this great country. Most of them left very little written records, maybe a family bible, handed down to the oldest child often. The rest of the kids were left without the records of their heritage, such a shame! Our solid, hardworking ancestors may have lived and worked in the same place for a several generations, and yet there are rarely newspaper articles, family letters, church or other records that they existed in that time and place. Then, I realized the same thing is happening today. How many of us have our names in the paper, or write a book, leave a mark on this earth for our descendants to find?? We live 50-80 years, have children, provide charitable works, hopefully, in our communities, attend church, join organizations, attend PTA, cub scouts, boy scouts, girl scouts, anything to help our children as they grow up. But, so much of our lives are left unrecorded, unless we decide to write our history, keep a journal, do something to leave a footprint for others to find. I guess I have to work harder to keep a journal...

It's been hotter than he__ here lately, and no rain in sight. I have some beautiful flowers, though, the sunflowers are turning to seed, and the Queen Ann's Lace is proudly reaching for the sky. Some of them are 3 feet high! The carrots, cucumbers and lettuce are coming along nicely. Me and the bees have argued about what time we can each putter in the garden, and I decided to be gracious and give them plenty of time out there without me. The Arizona pine tree we planted last year has grown about five feet! I thought they were slow growing, but it has really taken off. There are strawberry plants, no berries, sadly. I have snapdragons, calla lillies, onions,garlic and a few other treasures in the same bed, and they are pretty happy there.