Time Travel

The Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery Knit Along shawl is off the blocking wires. I'm looking forward to the future, when I hope to wear it at the Crawl.

The binding is on Zachary's quilt. I'll try to get a photo of the whole quilt before I send it off.

The pups went to the groomer on Monday. They were happy to get home to play.

My DNA results came in. I was surprised to learn that your DNA ethnicity wouldn't necessarily be the same as your sibling's. It makes sense, of course, because only identical twins have identical DNA. My brother got Norwegian and I got Swedish. He got western Africa and I got Mali. This came from Ancestry.com.

One nice thing about Ancestry is that people who have photos of their ancestors often post them on that person's page. I found photos of my grandfathers. This was my father's father. He seems fairly young in this photo.

This was my mother's father.

I decided to delve into my ancestry because I have family trees, one put together by my father and one by my mother-in-law. A couple of years ago I scanned them in and put them on thumb drives for our children, along with a notebook of records started by my great-great-great grandfather and passed down in my father's family. His death was recorded in it, presumably by his son, my great-great grandfather.

It mostly contains names, birthdates, wedding dates and death dates of family members, but it also contains names (first only because they didn't give them last names) of slaves with birthdates and death dates. There was a page for horses and some notes about where certain things were planted. It's like visiting the past.

I've been using the family trees to fill in information on Ancestry, which is pretty time-consuming, because I have so much, and then an entry will ping me with a hint about possible relatives to the person I've just entered, so I have to go look. I finished entering my father's family tree and just started my mother-in-law's tree. She was one of six children, all born in Finland, so it is going to keep me busy for some time. I'm now in touch with a first cousin I knew about but had lost track of and a more distant cousin I didn't know about. I'm looking forward to learning more.

I was happy to come back to this century for some walks. Saturday was really nice, so we went to Good Dog Loop, the off-leash hiking trail system.

We only hiked for 2.26 miles, but it was a workout because parts of the trail had melting snow, ice and mud, which took a bit more effort to get through.

The pups probably put in 2-3 times the miles we did, because, being off-leash, they chased each other around and then had to run to catch up to us. Both were nicely tired when we got home. A tired puppy is a good puppy!

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What's on my needles: The Happier Days Shawl, the Mystery KAL for the Rose City Yarn Crawl 2024, is finished. The Everyday Play for Little Kidz Doll for my new character, Pam, is also finished. Just cast on another dress for Pam as part of a KAL in the Götz doll group on Ravelry.

What's on my loom: Still folded up.

What's on my sewing machine: Ready for more clothes for Zachary's doll Alex.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: In "Winning the Game," the dolls in the neighborhood come to The Writer's home to play a board game with the other dolls. We get updated on how things are going with Pam and the child she lives with, Maryanne.

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban. For my physical-book reading, I've just finished reading Die Letzten Magier by Andreas D. Hesse, also in German. I'm hoping to find something by the same author.

What's in my wine glass: Rick Boyer Pinot Noir 2021 from Santa Barbara County.

What's my tip of the week: We buy honey in a big bottle with a dispensing top. It doesn't take long for the honey to solidify, so when we first open the bottle, I pour it into a canning jar. We use a spoon to get it out. Even after it solidifies, it tends to stick to the spoon I'm using, but I've learned that if I wet the spoon under running water first, very little honey sticks to the spoon.

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with a few changes. 

Our Favorite Verses: Poems from The Doll's Storybook is available from the BookBabyBookshop and other booksellers worldwide. Poems included are Valentine's Day, Keeping Pets, Back to School, Victor the Vulture, The Week Before Christmas, Insomnia and Veronika's Vocabulary Verses.

The stories in Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are Little Green Greatcoat, The Boy Doll Who Cried Wolf and Lost in the Woods.

Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook and Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are also still available from booksellers. The link for Book Baby is here. The three stories in Emil are Best Buds, Getting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.

The three stories in Mariah are Being Little, Besties, and Distraction.

If you don't get free shipping from Amazon or B&N, buy from the BookBabyBookshop, because 50% of the price goes to St. Jude. Other booksellers pay much less. 

Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.

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