Feeling
hot and sultry already. Been busy in the garden planting up my two
front window boxes plus two hanging baskets. Just letting them rest
before putting them out. Hope to get my tomatillo's planted as well
and maybe move on the peppers.
Hubby
has been busy weeding the paths around the back garden. We are both
sitting inside having a cup of tea and a small cake as a reward!
We've
re-started tracing our family trees again after quite a break. It is
amazing how much you forget where you had got to previously. Also,
having just upgraded our Family Tree programme, we have got one free
month on Ancestry – not that we can access everything we need
though but it does give us access to other people's family trees –
predominantly bad I have to say.
People
seem to put all kinds of rubbish in their trees without verifying
things. On the bright side, we did get good details from an unknown
cousin (which we double checked) and her information was correct and
filled in some blanks. Also have obtained one or two photographs of
people, especially my g.g. grandmother, so that was nice.
We
hadn't put ours on there but gave a partial copy to the husband of a
cousin. They uploaded it and so... much of it is incorrect – don't
know how they managed it as it was perfect when we gave it to them.
They have the details for one g. grandmother attached to the details
of a 'married in g. grandfather'!! That will send people off in the
wrong direction completely. Ah well, generally it seems, some people
think they can spend an afternoon on the computer and find all their
relatives in an afternoon. Wrong!
We
have being doing it since we first married many years ago and still
have gaps which we can't yet verify. Thoroughly enjoy the hunt
though. Received a certificate this morning for what we though was
the death of a g.g.g. grandfather – nope – a 5 week old infant –
ahh.
Anyway,
enough of that, took another couple of photographs through the front window this
morning:
Oriental poppies looking good and the peonies should be out very soon.