Wordless Wednesday - Bahama Winds



Bahama Winds

 Just a lovely picture to share with you, taken by Cousin Carl, makes me want to get out there after the long hot days we've been having here in Arizona (110-115F).

Mary Post Warren

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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and History - Songs

Our challenge for this week:  Songs - What was the #1 song during the week of your birth? Enter your birth date at This Day in Music (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/birthdayno1) and find out. I'm too old to make this list - it only goes back to 1945.  So I choose another suggestion from the website and decided on the date we were married.

April 25, 1964 - "Can't Buy Me Love" by the Beatles was at the top of the charts both in the U.S and in Australia.  Our favorite song at that time was another popular song of the time (we must have heard it a dozen times as we drove from California to Las Vegas to get married) "Going to the Chapel" - by The Dixie-Cups.

Can't Buy Me Love lyricsSongwriters: McCartney, Paul; Lennon, John;
Can't buy me love, love
Can't buy me love

I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend
If it makes you feel all right
I'll get you anything my friend
If it makes you feel all right
'Cause I don't care too much for money
For money can't buy me love

I'll give you all I've got to give
If you say you love me too
I may not have a lot to give
But what I've got I'll give to you
I don't care too much for money
For money can't buy me love

Can't buy me love
Everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love
No no no, no

Say you don't need no diamond rings
And I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of things
That money just can't buy
I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love

Can't buy me love
Everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love
No no no, no

Say you don't need no diamond rings
And I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of things
That money just can't buy
I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love

Can't buy me love, love
Can't buy me love, oh



Mary Post Warren

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Family Recipe Friday - Mom's Home Cookin'



Recipe from the collection of Margaret Troyer Post



Mom's Home Cookin'

Carl Stanislaus

O, it sets my heart-a-clickin'

Like the tickin' of a clock

when the first frost is on the pumpkin

and the fodder's in the shock

James Whitcomb Riley

Nothin' sets my mouth-a-waterin',

like the smell of mom's home-cookin'

and nothing satisfies my hunger

like a piece of her punk'in pie!

You're not goin' to find much better

than her fresh bread from the oven,

and if there's one thing close to heaven,

it's her stuffin' made from scratch.

When it comes time for dinner,

with all the kinfolks roun' the table,

we ask God for all His blessin',

and thank Mom for all her grace.

Oh, the years come and go,

relatives are born, and passing,

but when the frost is on the pumpkin,

we'll head home for Mom's home cookin'.

(Poem written by hubs'

cousin, used with permission)

This is perfect for making this casserole in, and it looks pretty on the table also!



Mary Post Warren

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Frustration with Blogger Issues

Is anyone else getting frustrated with the blogger format?  I've had nothing but trouble with it for several months and am giving some serious thought to moving to another format.  I hate doing this because last time I had to make a major change I lost half my followers (probably people who didn't keep up with me anyway).

Anyway first I lost all my pictures in my blog...this was going back a year and a half...I have them uploaded in Picasa (which is suppose to be blogger compatible) and the pictures were all still in Picasa but it took me several weeks to re-upload them to each individual post.  Now, and for the last several weeks, I cannot post comments using my google account.  I keep typing into blogger my google account id and password but it keeps flipping back to the log-in screen - funny it works with e-mail ok. I can post comments if I use my name and url but that gets to be a pain in the tush.

I'm also trying to connect Amazon Associates to my blog and have been unable to do it.  This one may be my problem but maybe not....who knows.

All this has gone on since the blogger outage a couple months ago - I'm so FRUSTRATED...thus I've not been blogging or replying to others posts as much as I would like. 

Has anyone else encountered these problems?  What blogging format do you suggest?

Mary Post Warren

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Summer vs. Spring

The first full day of Summer, I love it! Being California born and raised and having lived there (for 50 years), and raising our family there, I had really come to appreciate the summers....easy days, kids were home from school, a lot of running them around to dance lessons, soccer practice, baseball games, trips to the beach, camping...days long gone, but still with me in my heart. California had almost perfect weather - if you'd leave out the earthquakes and the high prices I'd say it's one of the most perfect places to live.

After retirement we moved to Arizona, in the early '90s where youngest son was in college, then we moved again in the late '90s for a stint in Las Vegas, and now we're back in Arizona. Life is good - we are fairly close to 2 of the kids, and within driving distance of son #1.  Our 'adopted' son lives in Wisconsin and thus we seldom see him but do keep in touch.

Summer in Arizona brings beautiful sunsets, awesome desert landscape, and wild and crazy heat and rain.  The heat can be brutal and mix that with the monsoons you've got a double whammy.  It was 109 today, tomorrow is 113.....fortunately the 'dew point' is down at only 21% (it needs to be at 55% to bring on the monsoons), so it's a dry heat for the time being. 

Spring brings flowers, home grown vegetables, and 80 degree weather.  Summer brings HOT (over 100+), dead plants, and lots of time on my hands. 

Summer is GREAT but I think I like Spring best in these autumn days of my life.

Mary Post Warren

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Margaret Troyer Post

June 16, 1909 - September 17, 1987

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM

Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wedneday



Geese On The Green



Mary Post Warren

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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and History - Clothes

Our challenge for this week:  Clothes - What types of clothes did you wear as a child? What was “in fashion” and did your style compare?

I went to private schools...so there were no if, ands, or buts about what we wore...it was all picked out for us.  Everyone wore the same thing, bought from the same place.  Boys wore dark blue corduroy pants with a white shirt and leather-type shoes, girls wore the same uniform that all the other girls wore - sometimes it differed year by year.  I can remember wearing all matching uniforms with saddle shoes, and then there's this picture of me in a jumper style uniform.  I use to hate all being clones - but I bet it made it a lot easier on the moms not to have their kids arguing with them every morning about what to wear and not wear.

In high school we wore dark skirts and white blouses....stitch down pleated, pleated, fuller skirts but not straight....and lace up shoes but NO patent leather shoes...anyone want to guess why? (don't any family give it away).  My mom made my skirts and blouses.

When we went to church on Sunday we dressed up.  A covering on our head was required by our church so hats were everywhere...I remember wearing gloves too.  Don't remember what we wore to play in....probably something easy like pedal pushers and a blouse.  I don't remember ever wearing jeans...maybe we did though, but they'd have been hard for mom to make so I doubt it.

Mary Post Warren

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Family Recipe Friday: Margaret's Barbeque Sauce

My mother's recipe for barbeque sauce

with some ideas of what to do with the sauce. 

Mom was a great cook.

Mary Post Warren

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Treasure Thursday Twins

1935 Hubs and his sister

Aren't they beautiful!

Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wednesday - Made In America (Part 2)

Made

 in USA

Make

Your Own Bear

Part 1of 2

Tours Available

Click here for Stuffington Bear Factory Website

Mary Post Warren

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This is the Face of Genealogy

This is the real face of Genealogy - a family (as yet unidentified), probably from the 1800's, probably an uncle, aunt, brother, sister, of someone I've written about on this blog, probably a member of the Schrock or Troyer family from Indiana and Pennsylvania.  This is what genealogy is all about - tracking down our ancestors....or someone else's...people who really lived in another time, in another place.

Mary Post Warren

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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and History

52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History by Amy Coffin is a series of weekly blogging prompts (one for each week of 2011) that invite genealogists and others to record memories and insights about their own lives for future descendants. You do not have to be a blogger to participate. If you do not have a genealogy blog, write down your memories on your computer, or simply record them on paper and keep them with your files.

Week 23: Books - What was your favorite book, or who was your favorite author from your childhood? What do you like to read now? Books or other formats?

I LOVE reading...anything and everything....well almost, I'm not a lover of the tabloids and trashy stuff but if you put anything else into my hands and it's readable I'll read it.

When I was young I loved to read the Bobbsey Twins, the Hardy Boys, the Nancy Drew Mystery series. As children a weekly trip to the library was very common.  As I got older the books changed and I've read many from Jane Austen, The Bronte Sitsters, and Mark Twain to Danielle Steele and Mary Higgins Clark and a lot in between.  I'm also currently enjoying reading many of the Amish books that are available....giving me some insight into how my ancestors lived.  I'm trying to make my way through the older, classic books.  I've read many of them before but when it's been 50 years since I've read them it's nice to read them again.  

My children bought me a Kindle for Christmas last year and I have to say it's one of the greatest pieces of technology ever made!  I pack that puppy in my purse and have it for breaks at works, while standing in line in the bank, or just wait time in the car.  There are tons of free books on it as well as many you have to pay for.  I've read 25 books just since Christmas.  I love that they have kids books on the Kindle, what a great way to get children to read.

Mary Post Warren

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Super Sister Sunday: The Engel Sisters

Helen, Kathryn, Alice, and Myrtle Engel

Christian Engel and Edith Gibson Engel had 5 children. - 4 girls and 1 baby brother.  These 4 girls and the little brother Johnny, although born in Ness Kansas, grew up in the early part of the 20th century in Long Beach California....each went on to marry and have between 2 and 3 children. Johnny, the baby brother, maried but he and his Mary did not have any children.  He was the ultimate Uncle Johnny to all the nieces and nephews.  We honor this great family who stayed close until the end. I've always felt so proud to be a part of this extended family.  What a loving family they are. 

Mary Post Warren

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Treasure Chest Thursday: Johnny and Mary Engel



1920ish Johnny Engel



1920ish Mary Engel

 Johnny was the only boy of the five children born to Christian and Edith (Burgess) Engel.  Mary, his wife, was born in 1913 and is 98 years old.  I do not have full information on them....as in birth dates, wedding date, Johnny's death date.  I do know they lived their married life in Long Beach CA.  Johnny was the brother of my mother-in-law, Myrtle Engel Warren.  The poem below fits the time-frame of the pictures posted.  it was written by my hub's cousin, whose mother was also Johnny and Myrtle's sister.

One of my fondest memories of Uncle Johnny was how he called me everyday towards the end of my pregnancies asking "are you still around?".....I laugh at that now but I probably didn't think so much of it when I was pregnant and just wanting to get it over.



Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wednesday: Made in America

 



 Pick a design or come up with your own



Stuffing Machine - stuff your bear



Finish stuffing and sewing up back



6. Putting on eyes, ears, mouth

7. Cleaning Mr. Bear up

A sampling of the finished project

This is obviously the build your own bear/stuffed animal area.  There is also a store where you can buy your stuffed animals clothes for every day of the week.....all made in America.  Next week we'll take a tour of the factory where they make bears in large quanities for selling in stores, special promotions, etc.  Tours are held for large and small groups and are FREE.

Visit their website by clicking on this link:

Stuffington Bear Factory

Mary Post Warren

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