dragonfly

2007-03-30T20:00:00.000-07:00

Justine and Dez talkcast,

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2007-03-30T19:01:00.000-07:00

All these websites and I can't find one that is easy to maintain, they have you going around in circles and half the time you can't find where you've been. I need to make my own website.

I have tons of info on this mac and more on the old imac, so I can't clean it out, or I have no more info stored. I know where most everything is stored, I am not perfect, but what I am, it works for me. I am folder happy, but I know where the folders are and their contents.

It is really tough and expensive to maintain hard copies, and they take up so much space.

Now to do some searches at the archives in Pgh.

seawall sighing out. ahhhhhhhhhhhh

2007-03-30T18:57:00.000-07:00

Just use your brains if you want to master your computer, remember, you are more intelligent than your machine. You did teach it all you know.

seawall

2006-12-29T18:17:00.000-08:00

Tonight, in an hour or so Saddam will be hanged with two of his henchman. What is next in all this craziness?

Will take the tree down in a day or so, just let it sit for a while, it does leave a glow in the house, which is not bad. Now to get on with New Year Resolutions.
1. ah!
2. hmmm!
3. eat better
4. more excerize
5. keep in touch
6. answer mail

That is enough! I have to clean off my desk, too much debris.

Seawall........

2006-11-20T14:48:00.001-08:00

Judie is here for a few days, and really enjoying her company. I love my sisters so. Judie, don't go home.

Grayce in Pa
Dragonfly

2006-11-20T14:48:00.000-08:00

Judie is here for a few days, and really enjoying her company. I love my sisters so. Judie, don't go home.

Grayce in Pa
Dragonfly

2006-06-20T11:58:00.000-07:00

My problem with this website is that entering username and password always get an error message.

seawall

2006-06-20T10:38:00.000-07:00

2006-06-11T02:58:00.000-07:00

Whew, what a day, and it is only 2:58.

It is cool today, and it is the middle of June, but that is okay, we have no picnic scheduled.

My dilemma is, or should I say, brickwall is the parents of Margaret Mariah Bauder, her father was, re the death cert., William Bauder, but others have claimed her as the daughter of Peter and Eliza.

My arguments go on and on, so I have to settle this one way or another. I do know that she was close to the "siblings" in the Peter/Elza Bauder family. She was in Illinois when and where her supposed, Eliza, mother was dying. When a child is taken in or adopted by another family, she, in my mind, is their child, and they are her parents. So we are safe either way. She did have a 'sibling,' William who was born early enough to have had a daughter that age, though he did go to Ohio early on and start a family. He was close to 34 when he wed. He may have had Margaret when he was age 20, and she being adopted by Peter or they would have been her grandparents. There were no children named Peter in the following family. Her brother James, was born in 1821, and claimed his father was born in Germany as well as Allen E., born 1830, making the same claim, mother born in New York.

Ramble on and I still have the same dilemma.

Seawall

2006-05-17T16:31:00.000-07:00

Today I have added 512 Ram, Yippee!!!!

Seawall

2006-05-15T15:28:00.000-07:00

Was taken for a tour of the "Hill District" in beloved Pittsburgh, PA, what a difference from what I recall as a kid. I was fascinated by the Granada Theatre, amazed that it was still there. What a place to go, back in the 1940s, the place rocked..........walk in...........popcorn flying past your head, in your hair and kids climbing on and over the seats, loud talk, and chatter......where were the ushers with the flashlights? I will tell you that if all this activity did not take place, I, most likely would not have remembered it all. Stevo knows his way around the Burgh.

The Hill District is today a different experience. One side of the street is a line of modern, newly built homes, with manicured lawns and sidewalks without one crack. No grass growing in this sidewalk. In the contrast, on the other side of the street is cracked cement walks, trash in the gutters, peeling paint, cardboard on the windows, buildings that are not fit to live in. This must be Pittsburgh.

It was a great day though, we had a delightful dinner at the Cafe Allegro on the Southside. Good company and good food.
We attended the Opera production on Cosi Fan Tutte at the Benedum, just missed the rain, after a nice breakfast at the Liberty Diner.

Seawall

2006-04-28T15:58:00.000-07:00

Matches

In the year 1669, phosphorous was discovered, and soon after matches were invented. In theyear 1680, Robert Boyle created a fire with sulfur and phosphorous, not really a match though.

John Walker improvised a method to strike a stick, causing friction in 1827 and the first sale was 1827. It progressed until the Diamond Match Co., hired Joshua Pusey and purchased his patent for the matchbook for $4,000.

President William H. Taft asked that the patent be released for the free use of the public, Congress thereafter taxed the matches.

Seawall

2006-04-28T15:25:00.000-07:00

Pirates of Pennsylvania 2006

I look forward to watching the Pirates play, but 7 straight losses is a bit much to take. I will stick with it though, as they are my team.

Anyone can comment on my comments, just click comments.

Seawall

2006-04-28T15:17:00.000-07:00

Do I need this? Do I want this? No!

Cleaning the garage is so tramatic, keep it, pitch it. Whatever is a person to do?

I say Pitch it and gain a clean uncluttered garage. Yes!

Seawall

2006-04-28T10:50:00.000-07:00

Historical Atrocities

In pursuit of a day that is better than the last, I open my mind to any adventure.

History of the area during the 1700s seems to be a time for exploiting the next guy, to get all you can from him and set oneself up in a lifestyle that is not within one's reach normally. If one does not know any better lifestyle, how can one set
a goal for that? The early settlers (some) stole the land from native families and used their weapons to grab that which they wanted. How can we hold them in esteem? Would we do the same? I don't believe so, I know I would commit such acts, but then, my survival is not at stake.

The landgrabbers should take the blame as many settlers purchased land from them, or rented the land which they cleared and worked, only to have their rent raised. The purpose was to have the land cleared for resale, not to help the settlers.

The winters in the Northern part of USA are brutal, can one imagine how families could exist is freezing weather. Their homes were so rugged that how could not the indoors be nearly the same temperature as the outdoors. Not only the cold being a factor, but how did they start their fires? Did every family have a store of matches? Did they rub wood to start a flame? Where would they get dry wood for kindling in the winter, did they spend the summer collecting wood and trying to keep it dry until winter? If so, they would need a rainproof barn, which would probably be better constructed than their living quarters, or perhaps they used the same building. I am thinking that a good hatchet would be a mainstay of any family.

The fact that they had many children could explain why so many did survive.

Off to research matches.

Seawall

2006-04-27T16:30:00.000-07:00

Surviving

Perhaps, in these times, we can step back and see what have been our major accomplishments, if none, then at least we survived this long and that is a major accomplishment.

I have finally finished my book, "Tale", not really the title, but just a way to name the file. I usually use 'Poop", but I don't want to use fowl language on my first post. I really want to make 'Tale" longer, and to add some excitement to it, as it is rather dull. It is like some old fiction that I have read over the past years. When you consider that life is not all that exciting, I mean the day to day happenings. We do what we do, but I always like to add more to each day than that.

Seawall

2006-04-27T13:57:00.000-07:00

Time to breathe.

All work is caught up, so now to be creative and follow through.

I am googled out, so time for a break, back later to survey the overseas websites.

Tat has sent me some great links for Croatia, so I may return there tonight.

I haven't heard from her for some time, so I am sure she is busy.

Later,
Seawall