...my daughter and I declared the day as "unplug Thursday"...so no electronics!!
...our lawn service guy hadn't shown up to take care of the leaves, so I was frantically raking the leaves to the street for the LAST day of the city's leaf baler pick up. I raked like a mad woman for three hours finally getting at least the front yard and sides of the house done before my legs felt like jelly and my hands would no longer grip the rake. With snow predicted, I knew this was my last opportunity and pushed myself to the brink of a heart attack.
...the contractor we hired is finally getting around to our request for putting in an egress window. Unfortunately, I have been using the room in the basement where we want the egress window as my "letter transcription room." So....had to move my operation to the furnace room. Yes. You read that correctly...I'm relegated to the furnace room.
...and,
...I had signed up for an evening art class that I was looking forward to that I wasn't even sure I would be able to stay awake for after my day. It ended up being a good night, though, and I came away with a new Christmas decoration for the season.
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As you can imagine, every muscle I didn't know I had hurts today. It even hurts to breathe!
So, it was a perfect day to just sit and immerse myself in long ago...
Of the cousins Grandma went to visit in North Carolina in 1926, there was a family by the name of Seats. Today I transcribed a letter from cousin Sallie Lee Seats to Grandma after Grandma had returned to Iowa from her visit. I'm having a hard time keeping all the names and relationships straight. My mother tells me each one of those Carolina relatives had a nickname...
Alberta was "Tootsie"
_________ was "Dude"
Charlotte was "Baby"
Tom was "Bun"
Kate was "Sis"
Sallie was "Fat"
Fourteen years after Grandma visited her Carolina relatives, her cousin, "Bun," played for the Big Leagues! So not only am I getting a sense of the romance that was budding between my grandparents with the letters, but there are so many historical references that I'm finding incredibly interesting, and now to discover we have a baseball player in our lineage as well. I have never been overly interested in genealogy, but that may change after this revelation!
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| Thomas Edward Seats Pitcher Dodgers/Tigers 1940-1945 Final Game: September 28, 1945 |
TOTAL WORD COUNT = 29,213
What a fascinating set of characters! You could not make up a better cast!
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