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Hi all

we're back in Vancouver!

It's raining hard today, and it is soooooo cold ...... we turned the central heating on first thing this morning.

The week went well ...... the weather wasn't too good, we lit the wood stove every day and kept it going all day, it rained most days, and it got cold at night! The fire kept the cabin lovely and cozy! But it was lovely and peaceful.

OH to do quite a few repair jobs to do that we hadn't expected, which means that he didn't manage to get done all that he had planned to do.

A pack rat (officially called a bushy tailed wood rat) had managed to find a spot where he could chew a hole in a wall, and had got into the store room where we keep tools and such like ...... that meant repairing the hole in the wall, cleaning up the mess, pulling everything off all the shelves and checking it all, washing everything down with disinfectant, re-laying some lino, etc etc.

The neighbourhood bear had taken a swipe at one corner of the mosquito netting in one window of the sun porch and ripped it down .......... that meant new screening.

Finally, OH went to retrieve the large wheeled garbage can that we use to collect rainwater from the roof and which had been blown to the bottom of the grassy slope ............ or so we thought!

Nope ............... bear had used it as a plaything. You wouldn't believe the number of holes in that can from his claws!!


We had a good drive back home ........... the sockeye salmon (my favourite salmon) run was huge this year, some reports say it could be the best in almost 100 years. The First Nations are allowed to catch all the salmon they need for their own food and ceremonies, and are also allowed to sell some of what they catch. So yesterday we stopped by one of the reserves where they had set up a Fish Shop, and bought ourselves a lovely 4 lb sockeye salmon caught on Friday. It was already dressed (head and tail off, and guts removed) ............... and cost $15 (or about £7). There was a huge spring salmon ........ must have been about 10 or 12 lbs. They only wanted $25 for that one!

But as I say, sockeye is my favourite!

OH has cut some steaks off it, left a large piece whole, and it's all in the freezer now.

Talked to duaghter earlier, and finally got to hear about their "hurricane" last weekend.

It was actually downgraded to a Tropical Storm by the time it hit Halifax and Dartmouth. She said they got a lot of high winds, but little rain. They had little damage to their house, although they hadn't yet really checked their roof. The power was out for about 22 hours, but they didn't lose any food. The freezers stayed cold. She did throw out a couple of items from the fridge part which were close to their time limit anyway (eg, yoghurt that was a day over time).

There were a lot of limbs broken off trees in the city limits, and a few trees blown over. She said one neighbour up the street was really lucky. They had a big old tree in their front yard, it was blown over but fell very neatly sideways ..... across their lawn and the neighbour's, and missed both houses!



and there is my story!



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Will do JC

As long as she does'nt change her board name easy to spot...uses three christian names

ja...x

JC
you are probably right about my message being from a hot match but it was still rude.
Jax
that was also rude of them.
You must be steamin.
Maybe next time they put up a thread give some more help and then edit it because you would be a fool to leave your help there.

I hardly ever look at hot matches these days as too many of them.

I randomly check trees and don't rely on the "HM" . Just find them a pain in the area of your tests.

Robert

jax, I thought that deleting someone from Contacts also deleted all their PMs and all yours from their inbox. I wanted to rid myself of someone that way, hoping that by deleting I could ensure she no longer had my contact info, by depriving her of my PMs. It didn't work. She's out of my contact list, but the PMs are all still there.

Will you watch out for that person in future and alert us?

Sounds like someone who enjoy a lovely slice of what FBG so delightfully calls my culinary specialty, tongue pie. ;)

Or listen, why not do what I've been doing? Go to TTF and filter by surname Dennard to get an idea -- you've seen an example I think. I've done it several times now, and it's cathartic.

Robert -- it doesn't work for me either! GR has *no* filtering system for birthplace. Which isn't unreasonable, given that some people put any old thing in their tree, just as their ancestors did on the censuses.

What I meant was that if someone at least puts "Staffordshire", and I know my Mary Hill was born in Jersey (although someone might think it was Cornwall) and lived in Lancashire and died in Cheshire, which she was and did, I can delete the Staffordshire one from my hot matches w/o concern.

If the hot match just says Mary Hill, 1843, and gives no place of birth whatsoever, I have to think: gosh, there is a remote possibiilty it could be my Mary Hill, better send a PM just in case that's a cousin! ;)

And then I get back curt replies saying My Mary Hill was born in Staffordshire, no match. Ta. That's all I wanted to know ...

Oh, and as I understand it, the system just randomly selects hot matches for you every two weeks. There's no assurance that you have the complete list to date. There could be one sitting there for months or years that the system just hasn't got around to telling you about yet. So tree searches are always the best approach!

J.C doesn't work for me I have in my tree specific town, county and N. Ireland for my ancestors and I keep getting, especially the Hill's in my tree, on "Hot matches" with the surname and forename along with diverse places of birth in Scotland, England, Australia and USA showing up. I guess GR has a poor filtering system to arrive at hot matches. In another case I found a cousin, in 2007, who was looking for blood relatives, that I didn't know existed. She has not been on GR since, however in my "Hot matches" 2 months ago lo and behold her "match" now appears. Great database management!!!!!

Robert

After asking someone why they deleted their thread with all the info I had given them, I then recieved access to her tree followed by request to view mine. I then explained I was just helping and we are not related and I cannot repost the info because the thread has gone. This is the reply I got
Jax,

I don't like the tone of your email nor do I appreciate you implying that I am a liar!!!!!!!

I am not computer literate and being new to such websites as Genes Reunited, I am never sure whether I am deleting messages/emails or not.

If you did a lot of work on my behalf - more fool you. Why did you not wait until there is a connection? I have no interest in viewing your Family Tree nor am I remotely interested in the work that you have done. You know where you put it!

You have also been deleted from my Contacts.



ja...x

When I used to run a pub we had an old lady turn up one day saying she was born there.
The pub was made up of two buildings joined together one half was thatched built in the 1600s the other half built in the 1700s. She could'nt remember the thatched part and decided it must be a new addition ummmm.
The inside of the pub was also used in a well known british film of the late 60s.

ja...x

LK - Florence Smith - must have got a hot match and decided it was you pestering them maybe?

Yeesh. "The system matched mine with yours, but they don't match so go away and stop bothering me ..."

I just went through mine. Discarded all the ones with Mary Hill born 1843 in Australia and Staffordshire etc etc (to my Mary Hill born 1843 in Jersey) ......... The ones that irritate me are the ones who don't put even an approximate place of birth for their person. Sometimes I contact them, just in case, no stone unturned. I say where mine was born, who the parents were, whatever. I get back a PM saying we don't match because theirs was born in X place. So I generally PM back and say what a good idea it would be to PUT THAT IN THEIR **** TREE (in nice small letters and without the *s), and then other poor descendants of James Hill c1790 or whatever will know they don't match and click on by.


Pub ancestors! My mum and I visted her mum's uncle's pub in Worksop, known in his time as the Gas Tavern. Can you imagine?? We got a free drink from the new landlord and landlady (it's part of a chain now) and wrote an intro to the history of the pub in their guestbook. And hung out with all the luvverly narrow boat guys spending the afternoon there. The luvverliest gave us a tour of his boat. I very much regretted having brought my mother along ... When we got home, my mum sent them a framed copy of a WWI photo of all the local lads lined up in uniform in front of the pub. Never heard back, though.

Huh...I love you too....Not.

When you gonna go away and give us a break then????????

Well it WILL be flippin' quiet if you're away!!


Hopefully Sylvs will be back to bring some sanity to this thread.


Beauty sleep much needed.........zzzzzzzzzzzzz

But its OK Cyn...
I goes on my Olidays on Tues with Bezzie to Zumerzet til at least friday or sat.

A working hols true,but we will no doubt get time off for good paintwork on No 2 sons and D.I.Ls house..

Staying in B&b so we can get away from noisy brats in the evening.
Above a pub and oh woe is me.
She cant drink as shes a recovering alkie and I suddenly went off drink after years of being an evening wino...

Hope they make good tea and coffee.

But 2 sons work there so we should get good service..:))

Now have to decide.....brass band and Fans shouting or...............people returning from holidays.......must think on that!

STOMP STOMP.
SCREEEEAAAMMMM SHOUT YELL

BANG DRUMS,CLAP CYMBALS.

Noisy enough for you now Cyn?

Oh Robert......you make it worthwhile getting up in the morning! Decaff, bacon and the fried egg please. Just to start with of course!



Gone quiet here hasn't it??

Here again menu for week .... lots of leftovers from Sunday


Breakfast menu for next week

All breakfasts/brunch served with fresh squeezed juices, Robert’s tea, fresh brewed coffee (decaf available) or hot chocolate, hash browns, toast and a selection of homemade jams

Sunday brunch
Mimosa
Champagne
Fresh fruit salad
Deviled eggs
Quiche Lorraine
Fried bananas
Sausage
Ham
Eggs (fried, boiled, scrambled, poached omelette, benedict)
Baked apples
Croissants

Monday
Breakfast tacos (with scrambled eggs and cheese) served with salsa
Eggs (any style)
Peameal bacon

Tuesday
Ulster fry
Fruit salad
Pancakes with maple syrup


Wednesday
French toast/maple syrup
Quiche
Sausages

Thursday
Breakfast casserole (eggs, bread, cheese and a vegetable and broccoli)
Streaky bacon
Blueberry pancakes/maple syrup

Friday
Huevos rancheros
Breakfast tacos (with scrambled eggs and cheese) served with salsa
Ham

Robert

just had one of those weird messages

Subject: Florence Smith

Unless Florence had a middle name of Gertrude we are not connected. Regards

I have not contacted him before and I have 4 Florence Smiths.


Glad the cream tea is going down well.

Full to bustin now and SOOOOtired - nite nit all Xxx

Dea Xxx

All washed and hanging now.

I just had all my holiday stuff.

Back to work tomorrow.