Photo sent by Beverly - doesn't look like it's going to go any bigger by clicking on it. (Mike was my first husband, my kids dad. There actually is no picture of him in the photo. The little girl - Mary - was my mother in law, and I knew her mother.)From left to right:
Emma Girdlestone (Ridges - Smith) my kids great-great-great grandma
Emma G. Smith (Perry) my kids great-great grandma
Emma Perry (Parry - Collins - Nyman) my kids great-grandma
Mary Lovenia Parry (Mellor - Hahn - Shelton) aka LaVee (my kids grandma, about age 6 or 7)
My kids Dad - Michael Parry Hahn (youngest son), born 8/22/38
We had a very near disaster in Sublette County yesterday while a group of ladies were playing bridge at one's home. I believe about eight ladies were involved. Click on Gina's horseback41 blog up on the top right sidebar and read her report. I am so thankful and grateful that all are apparently o.k. now. Very scary for sure.
It seems like its been a really busy day. I tried to get the blog started first thing this morning, lost some of what had been written, then just stayed busy with other things until about 9 p.m. Other people's blogs are yet to be read, which I usually do with my breakfast.
Joe had to call the dentist back and get pain and antibiotic meds for his tooth. Of course the dentist was out of town until Monday on a conference meeting somewhere. They finally got him and got Joe some prescriptions. He's feeling better already after a few of the pills.
We asked James to come to dinner tonight. (Salad, Meatloaf, onion roasted potatoes, steamed asparagus, and some of Melita's leftover Swiss onion pie, bran muffins (probably the best tasting thing that was served.) and then vanilla ice cream with raspberry kaluha sauce. I got most of the things prepared after lunch, since time was going to be tight later in the afternoon.
To the clinic as usual with an added doctor appointment to see if something can be done about my nose - that turned out to be informative and perhaps it will be better in about a week, grocery store, waiting for prescriptions and I got about half the things needed for the sinus treatment cure. Will get a humidifier and the rest of it tomorrow in Jackson. Went home and popped the food for dinner into the oven. Really enjoyed James coming over this evening. He's been working on sending the bills for the furnace repair and frozen pipes to the builder (nearly $1000 for the furnace repair and fixing the pipes so they don't freeze) and then we've been getting a comprehensive list typed up of things in the house that need to be fixed by the builder. We appreciate James' help very much.
Beverly has been working on our genealogy off and on for a while. After the family get- together this weekend in Vegas with my sister, who brought a box of family stuff, Beverly was looking around for the gr.gr.gr.gr. grandparents info online and found a cousin who had written a book about them on the ancestors.com site. They died in the Willie Handcart disaster, but their two daughters were rescued. We both wrote to Lisa, and Bev has already sent her info and some pictures. She lives in Burley Idaho which isn't too far from here. Surely we will get together with her one of these days.
From our new cousin Lisa, whohas an interesting journal from the grgrgrgr grandfather: "Always a pleasure to hear from a long lost cousin and yes you are related to Emma through your kids. This is all very cool. I would kill to see those vases brought over from England. I'm guessing they were brought over (in the handcart) by our Emma. I can't believe they survived. I have a picture of myself holding an handkerchief that Emma brought over. It belonged to my late cousin Pearl smith Russell (Emma was her grandmother but she never knew her; Pearl was Joseph Girdlestone Smith's second to youngest child and born about four years after Emma died.) You can find a picture of me holding the handkerchief - it survived a voyage across the ocean, the trek across the praire and a housefire, if you can believe it. You can see it at http://www.webspawner.com/users/westenskow/handkerchiefonc.html "
http: //www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/feb/04/fire-destroys-mormon-church-logandale/
If you like jigsaw puzzles this place is fun. You have to poke around on the National Geographic site a little to find it after you click on here, but it will be something like "photo puzzles" or search it if you need to, then you can add it to favorites or desktop if you like it enough to save it. It usually takes me between six-plus minutes to twelve or fourteen minutes to get one solved.
http://books.nationalgeographic.com/photo-contest/places-puzzles
