Posted on 04/21/2006 7:12:52 AM PDT by Billie
Well, there you are. I was just on the verge of sending out the St Bernard to rescue you. I had a feeling you were not up to par. I'm glad you had a good visit with children and grandchildren. Pray that all will go well for her in Memphis.
Pansys make me smile too. I have two beds of them and they are growing gangbusters. Yellow and burgundy.
Don't know if you read the whole thread yet or not. Check out post #66 and also note that hubby and I celebrated our 40th anniversary yesterday.
Good news M'Lady that you are feeling better and your visit went well.
Had a suprise at Church this morning, I make the announcements every 4 weeks for 2 weeks at a time. I try to make everyone smile and always say something off the cuff to get everyones attention..
This AM Greg, the guy that usually leads everyone in song came up to me and said his voice was not in great shape and he wanted me to do it.... I have never done it before so I told him yes as long as he was there to lead me.. It worked and all went really well.
Now he wants to share it with me.. I guess I should have sung a different tune.. : )
Now this is a different role for me in the church..
Well, just goes to show you - cream rises to the top, in time. ;-)
((((((((((cuzzin))))))))))))
LOL!!!
We are going to visit my Gram July 4th weekend..
I'll tell Ashland you all say hello..
Oh, yes, please do! Have a wonderful visit with your special Gram. Take pictures! :-)
O so lovely & soothing...
Thanks for pinging me
to this golden sun!
I will for sure.. she is 99 and will be 100 Thanksgiving this year.
Special hugs for our special (((((((((Kitty Mittens)))))))))!
Re: your # 166...Neat news!:)
My forebear through my maternal grandfather, was Thomas Smith, who went to Charles Town in The Colonies, and was rewarded by the King with a number of *landgraves* - each one 42,000 acres of Carolina land.
[It was not divided into North and South Carolina until 1729, and he later became a governor of the vast territory, from 1693-1694.]
He was a very successful shipping merchant, planter, the town surgeon and mayor of Charles Town.
As was common at that time, when his wife died giving birth, he married quickly to provide a mother to the child and his older ones.
His choice was the widow of the Dutchman who created Medway Plantation west of town. Most of the bricks used in building Charles Town came from there.
With a large family and his shipping business, they lived opposite that in his house right across the street from the river.
In the Spring Plantation Tour of 1968, my sister Anne and I did the all day, 3-county circuit of famous plantations, and Medway was the last stop.
Not being snobbish, and a tad irreverent, we took photos of one another by "Papa Tom's" gravesite..:))
At the time, I lived just 6 miles from it, but it is open to the public only once a year.
By the way, On February 5, 1778 South Carolina became the first state to ratify the first constitution of the United States, the Articles of Confederation.
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I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that, Eleanor, having only a genealogy chart my sister copied from my grandfather's handwritten notes recorded in his Bible.
It showed only dates of birth and death, spouses, children...
"...I must leave now,..."
Day omit! :)
Coooooommmme Baaaaaack!
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