tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-265815862024-03-24T05:22:37.458+11:00PEAR TREE COTTAGE!Pear tree cottage!http://www.blogger.com/profile/10056634124523395270noreply@blogger.comBlogger268125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26581586.post-86193257677075587262019-03-02T22:10:00.002+11:002019-03-02T22:18:13.117+11:00Our moving forward<br />
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Being a blogger is something I have been for a very long time.</div>
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But doing a blog post is something I have not done for some time.</div>
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I am going to try and fill my week with a blog or two and this will please me so much.</div>
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Many things have happened over the past few years in our lives but both Rob and I are working towards changes and much happiness.</div>
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It’s very easy to get down and stay there and I do believe that putting a little positive effort into my day may help me so much.</div>
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The books in our home.</div>
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Fill our hearts with much joy,</div>
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They can teach us so much or even make us cry!</div>
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Yet we are happy to keep buying more</div>
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So we can read lots, and lots more.</div>
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It truly is a wonder that I have room to think!</div>
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There is always a new books to spend time with!</div>
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And just know today what that one is.</div>
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It's arriving by post at noon time I think.</div>
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If you have hunted a book for days even weeks</div>
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When you finally find it, let the fun begin!</div>
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It will be heading your way soon and the excitement is strong!</div>
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I know I will enjoy it this is a good one'</div>
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AND when it arrives the unwrapping begun!</div>
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I am excited to see it, Yes it's the one</div>
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Today it's an unusual book and I will learn a lot.</div>
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Cemeteries our heritage</div>
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I am very excited to start on page one!</div>
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The development of cemeteries......so the lesson begins!</div>
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A Geneologist's who are this amazing people?</div>
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What keeps them up at night?</div>
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Why do they start a family tree?</div>
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Just a few of hundreds of questions you could ask of a geneologist's and their families, they will honestly give you a full and passionate answer to your many questions. Yet to tell the truth, you get the feeling that they secretly wonder about why they started such an all consuming adventure as well.</div>
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So not being able so speak for others I can only say while many answers swish around in my head, it started the very moment I discovered a small throw away comment said to my mum by a friend of hers.</div>
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"And does you mothers still think she will find her birth mother at her age?"</div>
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I was shocked!</div>
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I don't know anything about this!</div>
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Was my great nanna not my great nanna?</div>
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Why did grans mum give her away?</div>
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And that is terrible!</div>
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Well it isn't really terrible at all I fact it is truly sad, but at the time terrible is a word I used a lot when I described my grans birth mother.</div>
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Then it started.....I will find records.....how do I do that?</div>
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Rob for his own reasons, had just started hunting down and finding I might add (way back when all this started) his families information, records that made our mouths from the shape of big O! More then once those first years.......the huge amount of times I would say to Rob my gosh, is that right? And he would say well there it is in the records. </div>
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So following his amuture way (at that time) about hunting down family from his past I decided to follow!</div>
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Three days nothing!</div>
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Five days mmmm! Maybe!</div>
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Two weeks past and still nothing....</div>
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Then it happened! The world of geneology came made its true presence in my life!</div>
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The face went a bright pink! The mouth made that huge O and I ran around the house and into the garden to find Rob.</div>
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Poor Husband, I dragged him and his spade which he hadn't let go of through the house to our very old and slow working computer to show him the most wonderful record (my very first!) and when I think back now it wasn't a very wonderful record it was about as sad as you can get.</div>
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There on our tiny screen was a newspaper advertisement in an Adelaide paper the year was 1910 and it read:</div>
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Baby healthy for adoption to be given away!</div>
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Child is a girl and born just 10 weeks ago to Clean white parents.</div>
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Please contact the woman's father via the papers</div>
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Urgent request to have the child removed.</div>
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Of course this is not exactly the wording but almost correct, and I have left out the child's family name and the mothers name but it was and is my beautiful grandmother being taken from her mother and given to the only great grandmother I have ever know.</div>
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She loved my gran so much and card for her as if she was her own!</div>
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I am greatful for her love and she and great grandpa could not be anywhere else but in our family tree, loved by all.</div>
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But there was another branch and another woman the birth mother of my gran and I had to know more...........yes the word hooked comes to mind.</div>
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So the dictionary we have here defines a geneology as:</div>
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A record or table of the descent of a person, family or group from an ancestor or ancestors; a family Tree.</div>
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That may be true but I feel it is so much more! It's the knowing, the caring and the loving! of family.</div>
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Today we went looking for a wonderful house we found in an old photo from Rob's small amount of family treasures....but let's start from the beginning.<br />
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When rob was 18 years old the last of his grandfathers generation was going into care and while he went to clean out the house in Belgrave he didn't know his uncle was going to burn everything in the back yard. The uncle and his wife has come down from Sydney and like many others before him they neither wanted the junk, or had time to give it away. So very few things were saved.<br />
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One photo album of very old photos were given to his mother and she kept them all these years. One photo was of a home in Malvern and so began the journey up to this day.<br />
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I will continue this story in a few days on our computer so that we can happily show both the photo from over 110 years ago to the ones we took today.<br />
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When my grandmother passed away it was never suggested that anything in her home would be sent to op-shops or trashed.</div>
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Every family member took pieces and before we knew it beds, cupboards, dishes....even her preserving jars that once were filled and stored in the cellar of her mothers home were taken and are now used by many in the family.</div>
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I like others got to see in cupboards gran would never let us see in before, it felt a little bit naughty, yet was very exciting.</div>
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One of these cupboards held lovely old dishes and a meat dish court my eye. It was very well used and it had Aqua around the edges now chipping off and the crazing was a testimony of it's many meals it had carried from the oven to the dining table and I loved it so!</div>
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I asked if I could have it and today after these many years I have taken it out of my cupboard to admire again.</div>
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But I don't remember the little piece of tape on the bottom with its hand written initials on it B L R it reads and that can only be one name in our family "Bertha Louisa Russell" nee Schliebs. How wonderful to see her initials recorded on this very dish.</div>
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Then I took a look at what else was on the bottom of this big platter and I find, I can see the makers mark pressed in the plate but only the letters are clear DRC....then there is the embossed mark on the bottom and the most interesting of all.</div>
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She must have bought this plate in a most wonderful store in Adelaide, or perhaps it was part of her glory box. Then again a wedding gift purchased in Adelaide and taken to Truro South Australia for a gift that was used time and time again.</div>
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This post will only be finished when I can work out why the photos will not download at this time.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">I looked forward to spending a very short time on my blog page today,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">As always we are rushing out the door to do one thing or another. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I am not sure why my whole life has been rush! rush! rush! but not a day goes by were I don't spend a moment thinking about my mother, family and friends.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">We are going to the OES tonight and while life is very different for us within the grand lodge of Victoria. We do enjoy the ladies association especially when I have little to do other then just enjoy the night. :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The other news in our lives is that our amazing vacation is fast approaching and my gosh it is filled with great things to see and do. we will be heading to England and then USA after a cruise. I am glad I will be having a few days off work before starting again when we get back.......but we will need the money so it will be hi ho! its back off to work I go.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">We also hope that when we get home we will be finishing our little home and selling (yes selling) but wont be going to far......into the paddock in fact to start another home / Residential accommodation. But that is another story for another time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Just want to mention two very special people here Gena and Ken! love you both to pieces and you are always in our conversations and we think of you both often.....we truly wish we could see you more often but the other side of Melbourne is sometimes is hard to get to. if I have a moment or two over the past years I have been a blog stalker! :) and love! love! your posts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">If anything should happen to us while we are away from our beautiful country please note we love you all dear friends we adore our family and will be with you always.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It may be a little dramatic.......but in this world "things happen"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">better to have said "I love you all" then to have not.</span></div>
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There is a time in your life when you start to look at things past! Today is one of those days for me as I sit here in a warm lounge room with iPad on my lap as it gets darker and darker with another hail storm forming above us........yes it's winter time! I know but it's also a time to get back to my roots!<br />
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Blogging was something I started many years ago....I loved it, I was not very good on the computer and I learnt such a lot, but then your life's path changes and you start to look for ways out of your busy day. Blogging was the first to go "so much easier to put two or three lines on a FB post instead of sitting a writing a blog post" But I was wrong, So I have decided to get back were I left off and start doing what I truly love blogging!!! So today I may just yes add two or three more lines to this post to tell you I am now the Grand Representative of Idaho here in Australia within the Order or the Eastern Star and am so! SO! Proud.<br />
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Lots of love to my old friends from my blogging days past and to many new friends as well.<br />
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A couple of weeks ago my husband and I went again to find some more family in the Cheltenham cemetery in Adelaide.</div>
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Grace Rutt was born in kempton surrey England to George and Ann Rutt on the 23rd Feb. 1823.<br />
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When she was 16 and worked as a milk maid she came to South Australia on the Hoogley with her family in 1839.</div>
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She lived all her life in the Port Adelaide area and she married first captain Edward Dowsett having 5 children then after his death she married George Bell and had 3 more children.</div>
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She died on the 19th December 1899 in Portland port Adelaide SA. </div>
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And was buried in the Cheltenham cemetery along with other members of her family.</div>
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She is my second grand Aunt.</div>
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That is the only nice part of this post, my husband and I arrived there on a dull grey day and it got worst as the moments went on.</div>
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The workers were digging and cutting up soil and we took little notice at first then I found the ever present notice on graves one after another after another, because I like to help people with photos of graves I got a little scared they would be cleared away I took so many photos of them but there were so many we had to stop and try to find our Grace Bell "nee Rutt" and we found her, well we found were she rests........but some of the other photos are horrible and will shock some and others will simply shake their heads in disbelief.</div>
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Myself I could scream out loud "what are you thinking" how can you simply throw away a head stone and how can you simply deface a grave of anyone let alone those who first stepped off the sibling ships in a country way from home! Our true pioneers! If you come up with a true reason why this is happening let me know!</div>
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Funny it's a little bit like when my husband and I lived in port Melbourne and houses were being ripped down one after another and when we wanted to try to restore our old pup! Council wanted it taken down.......it took us two years to get a permit and happily it still stands and is saved for forever!</div>
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Will we be wondering WHY! Did we do this! Years from now Nd we cannot turn back time gone! Is gone! For forever!</div>
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A very long time ago we bought a pub! In Port Melbourne for $27,000.00 yes I did say it was a very long time ago. </div>
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ANYWAY.....it was an amazing place and just today after all these years of keeping bits from there that we found in lots of interesting places, I took a look again... through the little case of treasures and you know it is wonderful how you can see things differently as the years go by.</div>
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Doing Genealogy I think does it to you! </div>
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These two pictures which were amongst many we found there tucked up the chimney, or behind old furniture, even out in the old outhouse!</div>
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The Arnotts biscuit factory was not far from our "old pub" and it was once called "Swallow & Ariell" biscuits. </div>
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Here are two very interesting parts of that history. </div>
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2nd donation of 500 cardigan jackets for our men in the 1st world war about 1914</div>
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It reads on the back wall.European War 1914 Swallow & Ariell Ltd patriotic working bee 2nd Donation 500 cardigan jackets cutters preparing garments for voluntary workers.</div>
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Love the sewing machines girls. Old singers. How special are they and how special are all the volunteers.
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and what do you give a husband who doesnt want anything but loves genealogy? well you give them a DNA Test kit.....he loved it!</div>
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<span style="color: black;">These two little words conger up all kinds of thoughts in your head but it is simply an wonderful original name for a Gold Rush town in Victoria Australia. And particular it is the Name of the Masonic Lodge that no longer meets.....but will never be forgotten.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The township of Beauford was originally Known as Fiery Creek and was first settled during the Gold Rush of the 1850's Following Gold discoveries in 1852 at the Yam Holes creek and a later rush to the main lead a short time after that. Fiery Creek saw over 60,000 people attracted to this "Rush" as the town was estableshing shops, and hotels and other esential needs of a large population.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The town was surveyed in 1857 and town allotments were sold from 1858. By 1860, Beaufort had become a small but strong agricultural, pastoral and timber district. Beaufort's Court House was built in 1864 and the fiery creek Post Office renamed as Beaufort the same year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">So the town was re-named Beauford and this name was either taken from Rear-Admiral Francis Beaufort or a Welsh village in Monmouthshire, either could be correct but information is not available as to which is right.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Fiery Creek prospered and when it laid new "goldfinds in 1856 it kept alive the hopes that "Fiery Creek" would prove to be a second Ballarat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Fiery Creek diggings supported four townships, Beaufort, Yam Holes Creek, View Point and Southern Cross, during the 1850s. The population on the fields reportedly reached approximately 100,000 people at its height in the late 1850s and produced 450,000 ounces of gold over a two-year period, 1855–1856.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Fiery Creek Lodge at Beauford was closed down a few short years ago as the population got older and new members were needed sadly the lodge had to hand in its warrent and close its doors....but it does not end there quite.....you see Our masonic lodge "Zetland Lodge no.25" which was established on the 21st of September 1859 was what we call Fiery Creeks Lodge no.157 established on the 15th Oct. 1890's Sister Lodge and Zetland helped to start the Fiery creek lodge and so always had a close affliation to the lovely small lodge in Beauford and friendship between the two lodges lasted until the very night it closed and continues in history forever.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">when the lodge closed some photos were given to Zetland lodge and will be hung in "The South" to remind all of Zetlands members the need to treasure friendship and botherhood of lodges that have now closed.</span></div>
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Well that would not stop me, It has taken me since the middle of Feb until today to get them both........We are so excited!!!!!!! Thank you Paul for telling us about your books they may not be new but they are wonderful! And now they are mine!!!!!!</div>
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With the winter season coming on here and a huge stack of fire wood we look forward to sitting by our open fire and read every word of these great books.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">Today is International Woman's day.....and being a genealogy buff!!! what better way to share an old photo of my family tree then on this wonderful day..........woman of the world both from the past and into the future are the life of any family, and here are mine.my grandfathers mother (my great gran) Auntie Grew my grand fathers sister, Bertha Russell my great gran on my grandmothers side, my Mum who is 80 this year in her arms, Audrey, Joan and Marjorie (cousins)......and the men as well but some of the ladies I love.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">There are Many, Many more woman in my family, like the milk maids that came to S.Aust in 1839, and their mother who brought herself along with her husband and 8 children only to see her husband and two of her children die before herself in 1840......leaving those to survive on their own, Or the Great gran I never knew who was forced to give my grandmother up to be taken in by a beautiful German family in Truro, they are all international woman of the world........like my sisters, and sisters in law, and my beautiful daughters and their daughters......this family tree will continue to grow and with it the strength of our woman in various rolls be they as in the past.....follow their husbands to a distant land, or work the fields as good as any man could, or struggling to keep their family safe while their men during the depression walk for days and days looking for work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Every woman in every part of this globe we call earth rejoice for we "ARE WOMAN OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">this is my day humbled by others - happy to know them all!</span></div>
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Enjoy a book all you snowed in friends in USA....I could tell you how hot it is here but I won't! :)</div>
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<span style="color: black;">Yes another wonderful day learning SO MUCH MORE!!! about tracing the family tree.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But there is so much to learn and to once again have the opportunity to hear Paul Milner speak was something Rob and I were not going to miss.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Our friend had booked in a week ago so off the three of us went....Now you all know we live in Central Victoria,a long trip to the city, but what we did not know was that the traffic and the road works would have us arrive at the venue at about 9.15am after leaving home at 6.45.....But so worth it for any geno buff!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Melbourne was the last stop on the Genealogy seminar tour for Paul so we simply had to be there. Not only to hear his terrific lectures again (4 of the best!) but also to show our support for this great man who came from America to give us all so much information to better our trees and to help find information in corners of the past we would never have looked before. Paul as you know, along with other fantastic speakers were on the cruise so this event today was a little icing on the cake for us. we were so pleased we went. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Even </em></strong>if our car was parked on the remains of over 9000 deceased persons who were buried there in the very early 1800's when it was the Old Melbourne Cemetery which was closed to become the biggest open air market in the southern hemisphere (who would do that??).......<em><strong>but that is another story for another day. </strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">So here we are about to listen to our last lecture before Paul returns to USA I am sure, and Alan starts puts together another fantastic genealogical cruise, </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">so it is simply not goodbye but even simpler "As my old Scottish gran would say - Until we meet again" </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But the last words today have to come from my darling Husband Rob!</span></div>
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<em><strong><span style="color: black;">"That was a few weeks darling we will take with us all the rest of our days! because it is going to take all the rest of our days to finish "our family trees" now we have so many leads to follow!!!</span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;">This was my Monday! TRULY hope yours was as much fun as mine!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>THE WHOLE EVENT!</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">FROM BEGINNING TO END!</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Just look at the food art! we found as we made our selections for lunch</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">This car was in the "main street" level 5 of the ship and it was like walking down a beautiful street paved with tiles and with lots of shops and places to sit and enjoy the passing views and a little people watching. Rob could have easily tried to pocket this car!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> Shauna Hicks! an amazing lady who has so much to share with others about finding your family and ways to do it that you would never think to do!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">We loved her talks and have taken from them so much information - it will be hard to know were to start putting it into our trees........but we will!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Paul Milner, another speaker from "far off places" - WAS AMAZING! he shared with us SO MUCH it was simply FNTASTIC!!! I think the light bulb came on in my head after his second lecture and I was filling up with ideas faster then I knew.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I would listen to Paul over and over again! a very special person who would be responsible for family trees all over the world that are filled with wonderful information that would otherwise stay locked away forever.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Looking forward to his lecture in Melbourne on March 4th......be there if you love your family tree.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">There were many others who gave talks and I will add them soon to my blog, they were all wonderful and filled the air with stories and so much information. I wanted to capture every moment and bottle it all for the future. (being a country girl who preserves lol lol)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">This is my Thursday! after an AMAZING week! on the high seas!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">As it says in "the Encyclopedia" "A pedicure is a way to improve the appearance of the feet" and that is so nice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">......BUT for me today it has made me feel taller, richer, happier,and my feet are beautiful!!! NOW I AM READY to step onto that huge ship one little red toe after another.........:) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">For those of you who do not know about "OUR TRIP" we are taking a genecruise on the</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">There will be many genealogy buffs like ourselves who are looking forward to hearing amazing speakers, and having someone other then each other to talk to to try and break down some brick walls.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I love to chase the ladies of the families and that is always not so easy when they change their names so lets hope I find some easy hints as to how to do that.</span></div>
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Life on the diggings was hard, especially for little children. Between 1852 & 1857, nearly 200 children were buried in shallow graves at Pennyweight Flat Cemetery. Reasons why so many children died includeD an inadequate water, poor diet, lack of sanitation, and the spread of diseases like typhoid and whooping cough and the constant dangers of living in close proximity to deep holes.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">And I just love the hills and trees in this huge country I call home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Poet Dorothea MacKellar was born in Sydney in 1883 and died in 1968.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">This cherished timeless poem speaks to the core of the Australian heart with its line "I love a sunburnt country". </span><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">The love of field and coppice</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Of green and shaded lanes,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Of ordered woods and gardens</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Strong love of grey-blue distance,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Brown streams and soft, dim skies</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">I know, but cannot share it,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">My love is otherwise.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">I love a sunburnt country,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">A land of sweeping plains,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Of ragged mountain ranges,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Of droughts and flooding rains.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">I love her far horizons,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">I love her jewel-sea,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Her beauty and her terror</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">The wide brown land for me!</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">The stark white ring-barked forests,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">All tragic to the moon,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">The sapphire-misted mountains,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">The hot gold hush of noon,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Green tangle of the brushes</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Where lithe lianas coil,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">And orchids deck the tree-tops,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">And ferns the warm dark soil.</span></em></strong><strong><br /><em><span style="color: black;"></span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Core of my heart, my country!</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Her pitiless blue sky,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">When, sick at heart, around us</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">We see the cattle die</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">But then the grey clouds gather,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">And we can bless again</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">The drumming of an army,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">The steady soaking rain.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Core of my heart, my country!</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Land of the rainbow gold,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">For flood and fire and famine</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">She pays us back threefold. </span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Over the thirsty paddocks,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Watch, after many days,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">The filmy veil of greenness</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">That thickens as we gaze ...</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">An opal-hearted country,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">A wilful, lavish land</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">All you who have not loved her,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">You will not understand</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">though Earth holds many splendours,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">Wherever I may die,</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">I know to what brown country</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: black;">My homing thoughts will fly.</span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;">This is my Tuesday with country in my heart!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Just what every girl who turns 60 years old needs.........an old ladies trolley to carry all the purchases.......they are very modern now and I love the black and white "spotty look" and SO! much better then lugging things around over your shoulder....But the best part is, you will never believe this as you walk around it is a bit like passing a caravan they say hi! or nod! and look at your trolley as they would your caravan...............gosh! I am in the trolley gang! now. :) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Bought it just today I am sure the shine will wear off and I will pop it away until I am old!!!! lol lol</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Last week my husband and I went to visit the grave of his family members in Nathalia</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">While we were there I took some photos for people I do not know and of their family I also do not know, but in this world there is not enough "Just because I can!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> So if these people are your people and if you want to add any of these photos to your family tree.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Please simply take them and then help someone else along the family tree way! when you can.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I do not like it when you find a photo of a grave you cannot visit and find it is yours for a fee!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">So here they are. From Nathalia Cemetery. Barwon in the river region of Victoria almost into NSW!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> Duncan McDonald and his wife Jane and two sons George Duncan McDonald and Peter Drummond McDonald and grand daughter Mary Ethel McVicor.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Abraham Motherwell Warner. This grave we hope to go back and clean up while it is not our family it is important to someone I am sure. It was saved from the river floods we had several months back and you can see the sand bagging left over from then.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> Elizabeth Heddell died 1882 and Andrew Gordon Heddell and family.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Agnes Collam died 1889 and Husband John Collam and family. Also other head stone also family; Anthony Thompson and family also in memory of Cpl Philip Thompson died in France 24th August 1918</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Ellen Hawker wife of Albert Hawker and family members.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">This is my Monday! full of hope for others!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">I am convinced it is spring!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">So what does one do? "Clean"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">As many of you know when the children leave home they leave behind them many items "they just may need someday!! Well we have boxes of old letters post cards and school reports etc. etc. etc. for each of our family.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">And you must understand that we have been empty Nester's for many years now but the boxes have been "placed in a safe place" at the back of our cupboards one for each of the children. now We also have items from our grandchildren (much more important if you ask me) tucked away as well.......SO!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Seeing as it is spring, Today I decided was a good day to clean out those boxes and give them to the owners! lol lol lol </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">(O! they are going to love it when we take them to their homes when we next visit)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Our Daughter Mandy did a photo shoot way back when!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">And wanted so much to use my wedding dress for the event.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">So here are the photos of her in that dress of mine I think I may just keep these......Well mothers can keep the best and send on the rest to the kids 'Right!" lol lol lol lol.</span></div>
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"Well we would say! ALL THE PADDOCKS ARE GOLDEN!"</div>
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My husband had to go to the coast to see about a building job so off we went on Sunday and stayed over night for a meeting at 9am on Monday morning.</div>
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Wonderful little break by the sea!!</div>
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The weather was ok! but not the summer we are looking forward to seeing soon, But the fields (paddocks) along the farm roads were "truly a summer golden"</div>
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But you know no trip for us would not be complete without a search in a cemetery for past relatives!</div>
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We found a couple and sadly we are glad we took the time to look they may not be around much longer their condition was very poor.</div>
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This is my Thursday! full of golden hues! and Family Tree!</div>
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This is the most wonderful time of the year for me.</div>
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My garden while soggy under foot from all the rain and even with us still having frost,</div>
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My daffodils never fail to come up and show me a beautiful display.</div>
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Some of the most simple things of life can bring the most pleasure to a day!</div>
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Here are some photos I took only about 10 minutes ago!</div>
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With sunshine on my face This is my day full of the wonders of spring.</div>
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Hugs to all.</div>
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<strong>Let the renovations begin!</strong></div>
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Except I should be loving this BUT!! Living in the same little house while the happenings go on around me is enought to make me ill!</div>
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For all those dear friends on blog whom I think off often Yes here I am to let you all know in the land of living but living means rushing to and from work! to and from doctors appointments! with my husband...who is doing ok! but now we are off next monday to see a brain specialist.</div>
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Love you all!! miss you all! but know I am here whenever I am needed for a chat.</div>
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