Picasa (online) Album — Cathy’s String Creations
A collection of my creations, some are newer, others are earlier woven pieces. I will be adding more of my sashes, as time allows.
– Cathy
A brief summary by Joe Scraper Jr.
Scraper Mountain straddles the Alabama – Georgia border. Extending from Cherokee County, Alabama northeast into Chattooga and Floyd Counties in Georgia. Recent maps may show the name being Bogan Mountain and Bogan Peak instead of Scraper Mountain. After the Cherokee were driven out by the white invasion, a man named George Washington Bogan came to live there. The highest peak on Scraper Mountain is easily less than 2000 feet, so don’t expect snow-capped peaks or ski resorts. Some have questioned why mounts of this size like Scraper Mountain in Alabama or Walkingstick Mountain in Oklahoma are called mountains at all. Pike’s Peak they are not, but if you live at such a place and walk, or ride a horse or wagon regularly up and down the grades, you soon come to call it a mountain. An old worn down mountain perhaps, but a mountain just the same.
via A brief summary by Joe Scraper Jr..
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Brief excerpt from a great history article!
– Cathy
Snow Days and Family Trees?
It has been a snow/ice day in Alabama today.
How does that related to family trees?
Well, since I am indoors from the weather, and have the flu-bug to boot, it means when I have had the brief burst(s) of energy — I have added a bit more to several ancestral branches.
No huge breakthroughs, but have made several connection I did not expect.
Last couple I stopped at was William N. Collins and Permelia Mary “Melia” Smith — don’t ask how I ended up with this couple.
They were somehow connect to the various families that I was tracing, from the Yancey County (Bald Mountain region) of North Carolina.
No family tree is SIMPLE…anyone who tells you that, has not done much research.
Somehow, the folks I have added to my main family tree file most likely are related to my Aunt Betty Jean Davis (Abernathy).
Her ancestral line is where I began today’s research project…
Okay, I am not getting much more done on this blog or the research…guess I need to get something to drink and get back to doing ‘something’ while the dryer is get the clothes done.
Another update will be in the works as soon as I find something news-worthy.
- CATHY
Hot day
7 July 2010
One very hot day.
Dave and I delivered groceries to Mom; then headed back home.
Stopped at a few thrift/antique stores along the way.
Since getting in the AC, and starting to cool off, have been reading messages, and adding/correcting more items on my websites (someone set in havoc by my previous computer dying); as well as blogs, and misc. stuff.
Need to get things sorted out with this new laptop, get it behaving the way I want it; so I will be able to create a backup set of RECOVERY disks — then get Dave to set it for dual-boot (Windows 7 and Linux).
My head is pounding, so I won’t do much more for now.
How has your week been?
Would love to hear from my readers.
– Cathy
Death of a computer…a new beginning
(Take two…)
Attempted this post just but a few minutes ago — stepped away from the keyboard — came back the automatic Windows 7 update had re-started my computer. [growl!]
I lost all the text I had written (now have settings a bit different, to prevent this problem from occurring again) — I hate having to re-write things when software/OS updates cause me to lose them.
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Now, where was I?
Ahhh, heck — I think I’ll do something else and come back to this post. There are things needing to be added, set-up; and yet to be test-driven on this computer.
I promise to return – soon.
“And to continue…”
– Cathy
