it is time to either do something with this blog or shut it down. What is the question.
After getting screamed at for what I said somewhere, and then the silent treatment, I just do not care anymore.
Facts, Pictures, Factoids, Fiction, and storey telling of my ancestors. Some fact and a leaky small carbon based memory.
Saturday, July 23, 2016
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Question
Was William McLean any relation of Wilmer McLean (
https://secure.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=135435745
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5824
Not likely, Wilmer McLean belongs to the McClean clan.
Wilmer McLean (1814 - 1882)
of civil war fame or one in the same?https://secure.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=135435745
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5824
Not likely, Wilmer McLean belongs to the McClean clan.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Saturday, January 31, 2015
William A Schnelle 1922? - Jan 2015
At 94 years William A. was returned.
William A Schnelle,
94, of Pollack, Missouri, passed away Saturday, Jan. 24 at the
NorthCare Hospice House in North Kansas City, Missouri.
Funeral services
will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 2 at Playle and Jones Family
Funeral Home in Unionville, Missouri. Visitation will be one hour prior
to the service. Cremation will follow at a later date and a private
interment will be held later.
Memorials may be
made to Plainview Cemetery and sent to the Playle and Jones Family
Funeral Home, 709 S. 27th Street, Unionville, MO 63565.
Monday, December 22, 2014
Round Robin
It is time for me to do another round robin Schnelle letter. For those of you who do not know what that is about, it is letter package that has been circulating for some 50 some years. It was started by Reuel, Emma, Ray, Ira generation. I recall hearing about it when Emma was still on the farm, AKA before 1963. I think it had been going on some time at that point. It is a... read the other letters, take out your old letter, add new letter and send it on to the next on the list operation. I inherited the duty after mother was returned.
I am not a natural letter writer, as my mother was. I had a difficult time with her grammar, and my difficulties with my own. My issue is I don't care about grammar, and cannot remember literal strings, aka words that are not not spelled as they sound. Also, I like to write in stream of consciousness, not in classic paragraphs, with a start, middle and end.
It was nice getting caught up with you all again. Time is having its way with we all.
Life has been kind of uneventful since the family gathering last August at Albert and Mary's for their 50 wedding adversity. Winter came and went finally. Summer was hot, fall dry, and winter is back. A whole year has come and gone, with the typical trips to see Sue's family in BC and Saskatchewan. Sue had a second cousin come from France, so we took him on a Banff - Jasper trip. Two of Sue's brothers from BC met us in Jasper. After we returned, Sue and her cousin went to Sask, from where he left to return to France.
I did renew my personal engineering permit in the spring, but have not done much, mainly phone consulting with my old clients, but now that winter has set in, I am retired. The permit runs out in the spring, and will not be renewed. Well, it is not my intent at this time... fate willing.
Thanksgiving we had the whole of Sue's generation of family here from both BC and Sask. That was an experience which will likely not happen again. Age and illness is creeping up on several of those.
The garden was ok, and this was the ideal year for beets. Some of them were massive, volleyball sized things, not quite basketball sized. Most were 6 to 7 inch diameters, and a few as small as 4 inches. Detroit Reds.
I have become even more reclusive and eccentric in the year. This has resulted in me reading the ancients Greeks and Roman Stoics and adopting parts of there philosophy. It has been liberating and clarifying. I now understand effects on me of growing up in a household where my father had resentments toward his family of origin and many others. This, combined with the passive approach to parenting resulted in me, such as I am. Oh well, I now understand and have made steps to correct the most severe issues, but who cares. It was all the standards of the various times, and is all history, as told by the survivors.
As some of you know, I started this blog, which has not resulted in the lively discussion I had hoped for. Oh well, I am just going through life for the first time, so it is all a learning experience anyway. Also blogging is fairly new and unexplored. It only appeals to a few and is a great study in human agendas, communications, or the lack thereof. Also it will just appeal to a computer comfortable subset of humanity, but not to those who are Facebook comfortable or unaware their data mining activities. Oh well, I am just doing life without parole, but the end is coming nearer.
Anyways, the round robin is on it's way soon. If anyone would like to join in, please advise.
I am not a natural letter writer, as my mother was. I had a difficult time with her grammar, and my difficulties with my own. My issue is I don't care about grammar, and cannot remember literal strings, aka words that are not not spelled as they sound. Also, I like to write in stream of consciousness, not in classic paragraphs, with a start, middle and end.
It was nice getting caught up with you all again. Time is having its way with we all.
Life has been kind of uneventful since the family gathering last August at Albert and Mary's for their 50 wedding adversity. Winter came and went finally. Summer was hot, fall dry, and winter is back. A whole year has come and gone, with the typical trips to see Sue's family in BC and Saskatchewan. Sue had a second cousin come from France, so we took him on a Banff - Jasper trip. Two of Sue's brothers from BC met us in Jasper. After we returned, Sue and her cousin went to Sask, from where he left to return to France.
I did renew my personal engineering permit in the spring, but have not done much, mainly phone consulting with my old clients, but now that winter has set in, I am retired. The permit runs out in the spring, and will not be renewed. Well, it is not my intent at this time... fate willing.
Thanksgiving we had the whole of Sue's generation of family here from both BC and Sask. That was an experience which will likely not happen again. Age and illness is creeping up on several of those.
The garden was ok, and this was the ideal year for beets. Some of them were massive, volleyball sized things, not quite basketball sized. Most were 6 to 7 inch diameters, and a few as small as 4 inches. Detroit Reds.
I have become even more reclusive and eccentric in the year. This has resulted in me reading the ancients Greeks and Roman Stoics and adopting parts of there philosophy. It has been liberating and clarifying. I now understand effects on me of growing up in a household where my father had resentments toward his family of origin and many others. This, combined with the passive approach to parenting resulted in me, such as I am. Oh well, I now understand and have made steps to correct the most severe issues, but who cares. It was all the standards of the various times, and is all history, as told by the survivors.
As some of you know, I started this blog, which has not resulted in the lively discussion I had hoped for. Oh well, I am just going through life for the first time, so it is all a learning experience anyway. Also blogging is fairly new and unexplored. It only appeals to a few and is a great study in human agendas, communications, or the lack thereof. Also it will just appeal to a computer comfortable subset of humanity, but not to those who are Facebook comfortable or unaware their data mining activities. Oh well, I am just doing life without parole, but the end is coming nearer.
Anyways, the round robin is on it's way soon. If anyone would like to join in, please advise.
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Merry Christmas
Just to wish you all ...
Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukkah
Joyous Solstices
what ever may be appropriate.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Fed Up is in the movies
Fed Up is in the cinemas. It is a good effort for 1.5 hours. Too much to be said, too little time.
Ban sugar, acellular carbohydrates, lactose, eat fats, saturated and omega 3, mono if you like. Ban trans fats.
Ban sugar, acellular carbohydrates, lactose, eat fats, saturated and omega 3, mono if you like. Ban trans fats.
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