Reflections of My Life

This morning, I was awakened by someone yelling outside. I got up and didn't hear anything so went to the bathroom and got back in bed. It was still dark and not six yet. Then I heard it again and it was my neighbor who lives across the hall and she was yelling her cousin's name who lives in the next apartment to me. She clearly said this time that she needs help and has fallen. So I got up and got dressed and went outside, a guy who I have seen before but don't know was standing next to her and she was the ground. The emergency squad was just getting out of their truck.

She told them she needed help getting up and back on her scooter. They did that and checked her over. Then they left and she and I went back inside and up to our floor. She said there was a patch of ice she did not see and that was why she fell, right on her butt. Of course, she forgot her phone which she never does. It figures the one time you forget it is when you need it. She had a one big bloody cut on the side of her knee but she said she'd clean it up. She is 95 and seems to be a pretty tough little lady. Always laughing, cooking, always on the go.

I have not been on fakebook for going on three days now. Proud of myself. Not easy to do since I have a lot of friends there. I am working on getting rid of other social media. Time wasters.

Today, Sonny might be taking me to the store. Not sure about that though.
 

Sliverfox said:
That's scary about your neighbor.

I can imagine how you felt being woken with hearing some one yelling.
My first thought as I started to read ,, was Fire!

When you have time,,could you go over to general discussions & read my post about "shaking the family tree"?
Need a bit more advice before I start back on family history.

Thank you in advance .

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I would be happy to do so. I love working on my family tree and love to help others on their own.
 
Silverfox started me thinking about my own family search and what it meant to me. Discovering who I am and how I got here is pretty meaningful to me. I started working on my family tree around 1982. I had to go to various county clerk offices and search through huge books of records. Sometimes there were other people there and you had to stand for hours going through the books. I took some night classes on how to do this. I started out talking to my grandmother’s sister who was the last one alive who knew anything.

When I finally got access to the internet and information became available I was on a site called Roots or something like that. Ancestry was there but I could not afford it and didn’t have unlimited internet at that time. I discovered census records and found some things there. But most of that I already knew. I did not know anything about my ancestors beyond my grandparents and the names of their parents on my mother’s side. My father’s family came from Poland and those ancestors still remain a mystery to me.

The first site that I actually found information on was Find A Grave. I started searching for my then husband’s family because his mother gave me some information on his ancestors. This directed me to Ancestry and found that you can work on it for free but your research is limited. I saw people online always complaining about Ancestry so I resisted paying for a subscription as long as I could. I am so glad I finally paid for the subscription! It is worth every penny. I switched to search my family and specifically my grandfather’s family. All of a sudden, I knew their names, their birth dates and where they lived. I found they lived in areas not far from parents’ home and we drove by these places almost daily. I put together their stories the best I could. These ancestors showed up in my dreams and still do.

Not a great picture of me, but this is when I first left my old homesteading life in 2018. I was excited to get my picture with my 5 times great grandmother, Sarah English Strickland. The funny thing is this cemetery is 30 miles from where I live now. I have driven by it many times. I have many ancestors in it.

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That is so neat katlupe!
My parents are buried in the same cemeterty as my father's father . I think there are a few more on that side of family.

Hopefully when Spring comes.. I'll have a car to drive there & walk about looking for the Howard side of family.
That is the family name that the cousin wanted information about.

When hubby & I go to put flowers on my grandfather & my parents graves,, we seem rushed.

We start out taking flowers to hubby's parents grave,, then on to leave flowers on my mother's parents grave.
 
Sliverfox said:
That is so neat katlupe!
My parents are buried in the same cemeterty as my father's father . I think there are a few more on that side of family.

Hopefully when Spring comes.. I'll have a car to drive there & walk about looking for the Howard side of family.
That is the family name that the cousin wanted information about.

When hubby & I go to put flowers on my grandfather & my parents graves,, we seem rushed.

We start out taking flowers to hubby's parents grave,, then on to leave flowers on my mother's parents grave.
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I found a map that is a landowners map from 1850 I think. So I found the road that many of my ancestors lived on and could see how neighbors married each other. Little communities that don't exist now. I am dying to go spend a day in Rhinebeck, NY, because my ancestors helped settle and establish that city. Even though I find the information online, sometimes I just want to stand by their graves or see their land.
 
Well Sonny did come today and took me to Walmart and Aldi's. Neither store was very busy. I love how I influence him! I started buying those frozen Rhodes dinner rolls. They are soft so I can eat them. I just thaw a few and bake them for that day depending on what I am cooking. When Sonny got here today, I gave him one to try. I bake them in my toaster oven. He was surprised how soft they were. If I buy rolls in a large package that are not frozen, they get hard after a day or two. Not fresh tasting or feeling. Today at the store he bought two packages too. They are pretty cheap too. Less than four bucks for 36 rolls.

I have to go finish putting groceries away. I put the food that does not go in the refrigerator and freezer away little by little. Can't stand too long now. I made us supper too, so standing in the kitchen cooking was a killer after going shopping. I felt like I should at least offer Sonny some sort of a meal. He has bought me food out and he drives all the way here to take me places and do stuff for me. I know he appreciate it. Whopper salads and sherbet for dessert.
 
MarciKS said:
I think it's a German food.
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There's usually bread dough wrapped around cooked hamburger with onion and cabbage and salt and pepper.

Some people put cheese in theirs. Some like beef gravy on them. I like them plain.
Pam's Bierocks Recipe | Allrecipes

They also have recipes for bierock casserole that are good too.
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That looks REALLY good! I am going to check those out. I don't have any cabbage right now but maybe something else would work. Thank you!!!!
 
Learn something every day ,,what a bierock is.

@katlupe,,have you used MyHeritage in your family tree search?
That site emailed me about using them. They did send me something about person from the 1880s.
I was looking for more recent information .


Also it now seems that you have to pay to use the findagrave site.
Yes,, you get so many times free but first they want credit card information.
Didn't think it was that way last time I used it.
 
Sliverfox said:
Learn something every day ,,what a bierock is.

@katlupe,,have you used MyHeritage in your family tree search?
That site emailed me about using them. They did send me something about person from the 1880s.
I was looking for more recent information .


Also it now seems that you have to pay to use the findagrave site.
Yes,, you get so many times free but first they want credit card information.
Didn't think it was that way last time I used it.
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Are you sure? I just went to it and don't see anywhere to pay.
 
I have 18 virtual cemeteries on there and even my pet cemetery where my dog is buried. Never had to pay except when I sponsored my parents and my grandmother so that ads did not pop up on them. That was five bucks each.
 
I am working on a new project today. So pretty busy day so far.

I am proud of myself as I have not been on fakebook for 3 days except to react to Sonny's good nights and good mornings and to check my son's message on messenger. Oh yeah, deleted one movie star looking guy who is single and sent me a friend request.

Deactivated Twitter. So I was not sidetracked from doing real stuff today. Editing photos too.

Now I am going to watch Andy Griffith, my new addiction while I color and hangout on my recliner near my little bunny boy.
 
My project is up and running! I used to have a few different self-hosted blogs before I moved here. But my husband took care of all the web work and I was sick of selling and promoting stuff. I quit eBay, Amazon and the websites. I took them down. I just kept the one I had on Blogger. It is not the same as having complete control of your site. Google is the boss and I am getting pretty tired of them. I will keep the one there but have my own site now. I worked on it all day yesterday and today. It looks pretty good for me doing it by myself.

It also gives me my own email so I do not have to get my mail through Google. I haven't changed my email address anywhere as of yet. That will take some time. I pay all my bills and do lots of other things online so don't want to rush it yet. I need to see that I can keep my site running and be organized.

It is ad free and no affiliate ads or reviews for products I am sent for a review. All reviews will be my own opinion and for products I have purchased myself. If they came from Amazon, there will be no affiliate link to it. I am sick of all the ads on every website or blog I go to. I have an ad blocker on my computer but still some get through. So not having that on mine. Mostly this site is just for my own satisfaction. I am not posting it to social media sites as I am trying to distance myself from those. This site and one other forum, a rabbit one, are the main two places I like to go.
 
I decided not to stay subscribed to Misfits Market. My first box was awesome and I used it all. The second box was horrible. I unsubscribed immediately. They gave me a refund. I took that money and spent it at Walmart and it was a better value. Okay so it was not all organic but at least it looked good. And most of the produce from Misfits is from Mexico and so is Walmart's. Not going to subscribe to boxes of stuff anymore. I always get some things I don't want. Here is a picture of the celery and a couple other things.

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Maybe I am too critical but I paid about $2.60 per item (figuring in the shipping fee too) and at Walmart it was $1.28 and I think their celery was organic too. At least it is in good shape.
 
Woke up at six this morning to the guy who does our snow clean up scraping the ramp. Now he is using the snowblower (very noisy!). I don't really mind because I like getting up around that time. So I am up and drinking coffee. Watching for first light.

Well, I finally did it. Made a doctor appointment for Tuesday. Sonny has an appointment at the same time so I asked for one at that same time and got it. I am not one for medical stuff but have some things that I want checked out. Making a list to take with me. I am scared of having one of those shots in my knee. That is another thing I am not big on......shots. Before my doctor left there (she was a resident and graduated so her time there was over.........grrrrr) she was considering doing that and I asked if she would be the one to do it. She said yes and I said okay that she was the only one I would let do it. Well now, I have to learn to trust another doctor.........

I have been watching Andy Griffith every day now. I think I would have liked living in Mayberry. I lived in small towns growing up and for the most part they were like that. The gossiping of the people when they got together was so true. In real life it was sometimes worse. I like the relationship that Andy and Opie had. Living in an apartment building can be almost like a small town itself. I try to be careful about the gossiping because that can be introduced into a conversation at any time. I might listen, but make a point of never adding to it or repeating what someone has said about anyone else. The thing is that I (or anyone else repeating it) do not know all the circumstances of whatever happened. So by speculating about it does not mean that is the truth. And people get hurt by it. A lot.

Yesterday Sonny cooked a beef heart in his Instant Pot. Then he did a beef tongue. He did not enjoy it. A friend gave them to him for his dogs. So he made them and submitted a picture of the heart in the Instant Pot community on fakebook and the admin asked him to submit the finished product because she was afraid he'd get a lot of negative comments. LOL He then processed them in his new food processor. His dogs (all 3) loved it! I have had tongue myelf. But in a Jewish deli in NY. My first husband was Jewish and from the Bronx so he ate that and I had it too. Just like sandwich meat. Sonny said he tasted it and it was tough. He skinned it for the dogs then processed it.
 

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