What nations does America import the most oil from?

[imintrouble]

LOL Alberta - no doubt our ancestors crossed paths then - I have one old gal I think I take after on my dad's side - who smoked a pipe (always burning her apron when hiding it away if company came by - when the tobacco was still hot)...She produced thirteen children - mostly sons who have gone on to produce the backbone of my family.

Another gal embarrassed her sons when she got up on the makeshift stage to sing at a barn dance and had two different colored shoes on...which could be seen when she was on the podium...

Apparently they had a lot of mail order brides - French girls I think from Quebec, and some immigrants from the old country willing to try their strength in the "wild west".

I wonder if they were able to "return to sender" any of the ones they didn't like haha.

I love those old family stories - I like to think I inherited some of that "in your face" kind of take on life.

My admiration goes out to them all for having such courage and fortitude towards contributing to the building Canada when survival must have mean huge sacrifice. What a heritage.

Also contrary to what I read these days, they traded and even intermarried with the native peoples. I don't know if they were all "close friends", but their lives were intertwined in mutual benefit and the native peoples taught them much about getting through those first winters.

I can't even imagine it when I grumble about frozen fingers!

[albertabound]

Good post, Caught my old grandad tarring the roof of his house, he had hoisted up a 45 gallon drum of tar all by himself, he was in his eighties. he was buried with his boots on.

[imintrouble]

That was a hoot! I can see "grandad" hoising up the tar barrel. Now that took strength!

When some poor soul in my family decided to do our famiiy history it took him a year to get some of the stories straight and even then people were still fighting over "what the truth was" when the family geneological account finally went to press.

I would love to see a collection of some "old timer" stories about the early days of pioneering in the west especially as people had to rely on their own initiative or die.

The stories would make a fine book or ongoing series of books if anyone had the patience to "separate" the feuds which would inevitably erupt among family members hahaha!

Don't you just love those early settlers? When a handshake meant all?

My apologies for veering way off topic...but I couldn't help myself !

[imintrouble]

That was a hoot! I can see "grandad" hoisting up the tar barrel. Now that took strength!

When some poor soul in my family decided to do our famiiy history it took him a year to get some of the stories straight and even then people were still fighting over "what the truth was" when the family geneological account finally went to press.

I would love to see a collection of some "old timer" stories about the early days of pioneering in the west especially as people had to rely on their own initiative or die.

The stories would make a fine book or ongoing series of books if anyone had the patience to "separate" the feuds which would inevitably erupt among family members hahaha!

Don't you just love those early settlers? When a handshake meant all?

My apologies for veering way off topic...but I couldn't help myself !