Thursday, The Day Before Friday

Had to mop my floors this morning. Out of all of the housework chores, I'd rather mop the floors than anything.
Ran my weekly/monthly scans on both computers, had lunch, watched my soap opera. Had thought about going for a hike, but it was 90 degrees and that's "snake weather", so decided to drive over to the community of Bridgeport and walk on their path around the man-made lake. Saw a lot of ducks and several turtles. It's a very peaceful place to walk. The best time to walk there is early morning. Mother Nature just seems to come alive at that time of day.
So has anyone else been watching "Harper's Island"? I'm hooked. It's on tonight. I just love mysteries and this is a good one.

Another Day Working On The Family Tree

Well at least I got a morning walk in today because the rest of the day I spent inside working on the Family Tree again.
I just finished putting everything together on my dad's side of the family. That's the Turner/Carpenter/Beatley,Mendenhall side. Now I'm starting to work on my mom's side which is the Monger/House/Harper/Weeks side.
I really should take another day away from it tomorrow and go hiking. The weather has been so nice lately that it's a shame to stay in. And I really need to get as much hiking in as possible before the HOT summer gets here because then I cannot hike at all, not when we are always in the 100's.

Swine Flu

Had heard some rumors that the Swine Flu was in our town, but then found out that they ruled it out and said the person they were checking out had a flu but it was not Swine.
Sometimes I think they scare us more than necessary when it comes to these kinds of things.

Overcast Day

Didn't get any walk in today. It was overcast all day, but that's not why I didn't go walking. I had to clean house today....THAT'S why I didn't go for my walk. I figured cleaning the house was enough exercise for the day.
After I had lunch and watched my soap opera, I worked more on my family tree information. I think I finally have my Turner side of the family finished. That's my dad's side.
While doing some research, I found out that my dad's brother, who was killed in the Korean War was given the Purple Heart and several other medals and citations. My uncle was a hospital corpsman. He was tending his wounded comrades when a sniper shot him.

Well It's Sunday Again

Went for my walk this morning. Did about 1.5 miles.
We had to go do a little shopping, so headed to Stater Brothers and then over to Sam's Club.
That's about it for today.
Pretty boring I guess.

Lazy Day

Ben had to work today. Instead of taking my morning walk on the walking/bike trail near our home, I drove over to the Southfork walking/bike trail about 6 miles away and walked there. It gets boring walking the same one every day so I like to go to different areas and see different scenery now and then.
After I got back home, I had breakfast. Then I decided to watch a couple of movies I had recorded on Lifetime Movie Network awhile back. They were showing some Nora Roberts stories, and I recorded 2 of them. Loved both of them, but then I am a Nora Roberts fan, and I love romance/mystery novels.
After lunch, I decided to go out and wash my car since the weather was nice.

Another Overcast Day

Once again we woke up to a marine layer so we are overcast here in SoCal. But this is sooooo much nicer than that awful heatwave we had at the beginning of the week. I really cannot take the heat anymore. I used to love it when I was a kid, but can't stand it as an old lady.
Went over to K-mart to buy my husband some new pants. He's worse than a woman when it comes to the brand of pants he'll wear. He'll only wear the "Visa" brand and the ONLY place that has them is K-mart. Plus his size is hard to find. Not so much the waist, but the length. He needs a 29" inseam. Most of them are 28" or 30", but now and then we are lucky enough to find his size and he actually found two pair today.

More Work On My Family Tree

Wow, I never really thought about how much time it would take to create my family tree. Now I'm wondering if I should have promised my brother and my cousins that I would do it and get copies the tree to them.

I'm trying to do both sides of our grandparents, which actually means doing four families. And once you get searching, you actually find more families beyond those four, but I'm trying to keep it down to just the four originals.

I've asked my cousins for information on their families....husbands/wives, children, grandchildren. And just that alone takes a lot of time adding to the tree because some of my cousins have really BIG families.

I must say though that I am enjoying working on the tree. It's just taking longer than I thought it would.

It was cooler here today. Got up to 79 degrees but was overcast due to a marine layer coming in off the Pacific Ocean.

HAPPY EARTH DAY

Weather

It's a lot cooler today than it has been the past few days. About 87 degrees right now instead of 102 like yesterday. The sky was really clear all morning but a little after lunchtime big thunder clouds started forming to the north and to the east. Now they are directly overhead and a breeze has come up so it seems a lot cooler.

I'm Getting Tired Of This Heat

Today we got up to 102 degrees. They keep saying it is going to start getting cooler tomorrow. Guess we will just have to wait and see.

Hotter

Well, we got up to 101 degrees here today.
This morning I cleaned our master bathroom, then went to WalMart and looked around. Came home and was planning to go for a walk but it was already in the 90's by then. So I made lunch and watched my soap.
After that, I started doing some more work on my family tree. I just keep finding more and more people and dates. Amazing.

Did I Mention That It's HOT???

So far here in SoCal today it has gotten up to 97 degrees. They are saying possibly over 100 degrees tomorrow.

Vacuum Bags

It's getting harder and harder to find vacuum bags these day.
I have a Eureka Mighty-Mite Canister Vac that we connect our Flowbee hair cutting system to so I can cut my husband's hair and my hair. I went to Target, Wal-Mart and K-Mart looking for the bags for this vacuum and no one had them. I had bought them at Target and Wal-Mart before. I guess because most vacuums now are bagless that no one wants to mess with selling bags.
Well, we decided to head to Sears because I remembered that they used to have them and HURRAY! they had them.
We were looking at the bags when a person with a very "tiny" voice came up behind us in a wheel chair to ask if we needed help. We turned around and there sat the cutest "little person" I've every seen and when I say "little person", I mean that he really was....a dwarf.
Anyway, I got my vacuum bags and then we decided to go for a drive and headed up to Lake Piru in Ventura Country.
Came home and saw that it was 94 degrees, so uncovered the air conditioner and turned it on. They say we are going to be in the 90's for about 7 days. YUCK!

Hot Weekend

They are saying that we are going to get into the 90's this weekend. Today it was 86 degrees here. I hope it is not going to start getting hot now and last though the summer. I hate summer weather!
Yesterday I forgot to make a post here. I ran my weekly scans on both computers, had lunch, watched my soap and then went for a 2 1/2 mile hike. Came home and went through the photographs I had taken on my hike and uploaded the to my Fotki.com site then made dinner, watched some TV and went to bed.

Got One Branch Done On Family Tree

Today I went for a morning walk. Was gone about 30 minutes or so. Came home and had breakfast then started working on the Family Tree. I wanted to get my father's father's branch done because I met a cousin several times removed online through an ancestry site and he wanted me to send him everything I had on my grandfather's side of the family as he has not been able to find anything on them.
We were not as close to my dad's family as we were to my mom's, so I really didn't have a lot of information at first, but once I started researching and found out what my great-grandparents names were, I was able to go back about 4 or 5 generations. All of my dad's relatives are gone now, except for some of my cousins, but I have no idea where any of them live.
I think I need to take a day away from the Family Tree tomorrow and get out for a hike. I'm hoping the weather is nice so I can do that.

TV and Computer

Did anyone watch that new show "Harper's Island" last Thursday night? I recorded it and didn't get to watch it until last night, but I really liked it. I love mysteries and this one looks like a good one.
Seems like all of a sudden there is so much I have been recording from the TV. On the Lifetime Channel, they've been showing a bunch of Nora Roberts stories, so I've recorded those and have to find time to watch them, I always record "CSI Miami" and "Cold Case". I watch "Desperate Housewives", "Bones", "CSI", "Ghost Whisperer" and "Flash Point". Plus there is my soap "The Young And The Restless".
If I'm not watching "live" TV or recorded shows, I'm on my computer here, or at my web community "Not Over The Hill" or researching my ancestors for a family tree project.
Seems like my time just goes by so fast. I always thought I'd have more time to do things after I retired.

Fun Day

Today I drove up to Lancaster, CA where my friend Judy lives. We used to work together at Lockheed for many years and we are both now retired. From her house, we drove out into the high-desert to check out the California Poppies. Weren't too many out there this year, but still a few were blooming. Then we went into the little town of Lake Hughes to have lunch at The Rock which is a "bikers" bar in a way, but still also family oriented. It's also an "old time" hotel. The food was great, the people friendly and the inside very interesting. Also took some photos by the lake. Above is a photo of me and Judy at the lake and another of The Rock.
Here is a link for The Rock:
http://www.historicrockinn.com/

Sunday Evening

Another weekend has come and gone.
Beautiful weather here in SoCal all day and HOT....we got up into the 80's today.
We headed up to Sam's Club this morning only to realize when we got there that they were closed for Easter. Oh well.....
I came home and worked on some of my family tree information. I found a great site where I was able to get some information that I had not been able to find before. I also found my grandfather's and grandmother's death certificates. They both died in Missouri and Missouri has online documents that you can print out. Most states want you to pay for these things.
Never did get a walk in today. I just was not in the mood to go out and do that. Wish I had someone to walk with. Then it's not so boring.

Happy Easter

Hope everyone has a good Easter tomorrow.
I spent most of my day working on gathering information for my family tree. I spent a few hours scanning old family photos and then organizing my information. Have had a couple of cousins send me some information and sent out some emails to some other family members to try to get some information