MORE ANCESTURAL JOURNEY!!

Below is a picture of my parents.

Yes, this is becoming a journey of ancestry, history, and geography. The further back I go, the more of a journey it becomes!!! Since my last posting, I have found out that on my father's side I can trace my lineage back to King Altoy of Turkey, born 25 AD (Mesopotamia at that time)!!! Another branch of my father's side can be traced back to the Plantagenet's (King Henry II, Richard The Lion Heart, & King Henry VIII of England)!!!

Along the way, I have found out not to be afraid to talk about what you have discovered to date, and occasionally "Google" what you need to look for. Twice, I have talked with a close friend about my prior research!! This lead me to places I would not have thought to go. She told me, that her nephew and my Great Grand Mother are burried in the same cemetery!!! WOW!! The second conversation, was centered around my Mother's maiden name (Sheldon). I mentioned to her that there was a branch of Sheldon's who lived in Northampton MA. Also, that there is a connection to the Deerfield MA Museum. The next part of the story can only be called amazing, until 7.5 yrs. ago I lived in Greenfield MA (only 11 miles north of Deerfield MA) - never knew until I started tracing my ancestry that there were Sheldon's in Deerfield MA!! So now, I google "Sheldon's of Deerfield MA", a whole 3 - 5 pages come up WOW!!!
And now the end, I will be taking an actual, physical ancestry journey back in time, in October of this year. This journey will include: Deerfield MA; Gardner MA; Westminster MA; Fitchburg MA; Falmouth MA; Westerly RI; New London CT, & Gettysburg PA, as well as Orange County VA!!

VALENTINE'S KIDS PLACEMAT

This craft is real easy to make!!! Even, a child with the help of an adult can do it relatively easily!!
MATERIALS:
8.5" X 11" paper
stickers and/or stamps
maybe even crayons/markers
self-adhesive laminate sheet 9" x 12"
scissors
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Place stickers on on paper and or color, and/or stamp paper.
2. Peel a little of the adhesive back on the laminate sheet.
3. Attach laminate sheet to the paper.
4. Smoothly, and gently peel the remainder of the laminate sheet
back, so that the rest of the paper is covered.
5. When you have it all covered, there will be left over laminate on the edges
of the paper. Trim it off with the scissors, and you are done!
The picture I have here is one I made with Valentine's Day in mind. I have seen this used as a placemat for animals or for other special occasions!!

FUNKY FLORIDA GARDENING

AND not to mention - funky FLorida weather!!! 73 one day, 35 the next!!! What the heck!!!

I have tried so hard to start a garden here in Florida!!! If is isn't lack of water, it is poor, sandy soil!!! What to do??? Started from seed (3 times) no go!!! My front mail box garden, it is doing very well - of course it has mostly succulents in it! A variety of cactus, and one lonely Rosemary!! These all did very well, even with the frost last night!! I covered them up!!

I gave up on the seed tray idea! Went to putting potting soil in half of a pot, then special seed soil in the top half. This pot was planted with Cosmos from seed. You can see for yourself they are doing very well. Maybe a little frost bitten - hope they will revive with Floida warmth & sunshine!!! Will keep you updated on my garden's progress!!!

THE "BIGGER" PICTURE

You may ask, "what does a picture of an afagahn have to do with the "bigger" picute"? It all starts with my "intention" in making the afagahn. This particular one, I made with lots of intention. I wanted to replicate one I had as a child, which was made for my Dad. I had cherished it - it was very old!! It was also, becoming extremely thread bear - beyond repair!! Hence, I think, it was thrown away!! Any way, there was intention, and also, love, positive energy, and I feel that it is alive!!

Now, you may ask, "how can an inanimate object be alive"? It is alive, because all of the ebove emotions are emitted from it!!!

Next, wrap your heads around this thought!! A rock or stone is not really inanimate. Why? It has molecules inside it that are moving around!!

The "BIGGER" picture is so small and yet so much bigger than us mear humans!!

Just something more to be in awe of this Christmas!!!!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL!!

ANCESTRAL PERSONAL NOTES

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! For me it was a day, of really being thankful that I am here in this wonderful country!!!!

The reasoning behind my prior statement is, a part of my ancestry comes from the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims. I watched the documentary of the Pilgrims journey to this country from England. There wasn't any Hollywood embellishment in this. They had such a difficult journey, if not, alsmost impossible. It also took them a whole year at Plymouth MA to get established. During that year they lost approximately half of the original 102 Pilgrims!! It is truly amazing that almost half survived!! I almost cried for them - what they endurred - what they established in the name of FREEDOM IS REMARKABLE!!! What it is more remarkable, is that this testament to FREEDOM still stands today - 391 years later!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ONE AND ALL

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