Farmer Ann Cestry Dot Com

Well, I finally bit the bullet and subscribed to Ancestry.com.  They had a 6 month introductory rate, and I had come to a dead end on one branch of my family.  So I have spent the last couple of days searching and re-searching.  I made one key connection and ran up against another one.  I have lost a generation, I think, but when you are talking about the early 1700's, the records get blurry and contradictory.

So I started playing around with my family tree from my end using the ancestry software.  I am still learning how to populate within their site.  It's a bit cumbersome at times, but it keeps me indoors.

Our heat wave is back.  108 degree heat indexes and no rain in sight, again.  It never gets cool at night, so we start out hot at dawn.  I did manage to put up some more pickled okra and some spiced bread and butter pickles.  Sometime I am going to have to force myself out, vertigo and all, and finish harvesting my soy to freeze (fresh) and to bag (dried).  Also, the weeds are taking over again.  Sigh.  And the harvest of Japanese beetles is getting thin, so to tide Minion and baybays over, til I can let them out to forrage, I ordered some mealworms.

I do so much online shopping that I have started tipping my UPS guy with food.  Yesterday, he got a 1/2 dozen eggs for delivering my foodsaver bags.  Apparently, food is better than money.  With so much crop failure due to drought or flooding (pick a part of the nation), any produce is going to be at a premium.  Who knew?  Rockin the barter system in the country.

A few days ago, we did walkies in the early morning and I got more bug art!

put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Initials Jb, maybe the bug artist?

not sure about this one.

Lastly, no chick flick this time, but a duet.  I caught this bird on walkies and we spoke.  The picture quality is poor, since I had my camera zoomed, but the bird is on the dead branch in the middle of the frame.

bak bak