When I made the decision to begin this blog I had no idea that I would go for many days without the use of the internet. I also intended to write in my journal each day so I could have a record of all the great and inspirational thoughts that came into my mind. Well...that just didn't happen. I did, however, by a little tape recorder and it has been so fun to listen to my comments. I'' get those written out sometime in the near future.
I cleaned out a large steamer trunk that had been in my Mom's attic for many, many years. Lloyd had moved it to his garage but had not gone through it. So I took on the challenge and seperating what was garbage from what would proof to be a great piece of history. I decided that saving my Aunt Dottie's school work from her high school years was one of those, "it was fun to look at, but something that would just sit in a pile and never be appreciated. So-out it went. We found so many wonderful family pictures that were taken prior to 1900 but the horrible truth was that no one had bothered to write the date or identify who was in the photo. My mother saved everything - and I do mean everything! This sorting was such a huge reinforcement to me in identifying and putting names and dates on all my photographs. We will probably never know who some of these people were, much less who they are related to. That's really very sad.
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