C’Mon Spring

Well, it turns out it’s the same as last year and the moment my sweetie leaves the property anytime in February then the snow hits!

And same as last year, it was looking like Spring already – stuff was melting like crazy, we could actually see the snow shrinking, it was awesome!

But then it started again (when Damian went away of course), and then I also popped away for a couple of days, three in total actually, and when we both got home we were amazed – at least a foot of snow had arrived in those three days!  Man!

So now I have a “tunnel” of sorts when I head up to the chicken house, the door to the chicken yard is getting stuck yet again and I have to squeeze past because it won’t open all the way, or close very easily for that matter.  Sheesh!  Springtime, where are you?

At least our doggie Sandor likes the snow, he loves leaning into the banks and pushing himself along, it’s so cute – here he is just a few weeks ago on March 1st…

Ancestors Are On My Mind

I seem to have missed posting here for the entire month of February, but I have a honest excuse.

My sweetie’s Grama passed away last month – she had wanted to come to our beautiful home to die and so we brought her here and the family gathered round and gave her a beautiful sendoff.

Just last year Grama, along with my sweetie Damian, him mom, his auntie, and his uncle, all took a trip to Germany/Austria/Hungary to visit the land of their ancestors.  It sounded like a marvelous trip and everyone feels so lucky that they were able to do the trip when they did with Grama.

And so as life begins to flow normally again, as much as it can when someone passes away, I find myself wanting to know more about my own ancestors.  I’ve decided to continue the hunt that my Dad started a while back, and thank you Daddy for supplying some of the info I’ll need to get started.  He’s already gotten as far as who came to Canada and when, so now I’ll have to cross the waters to Scotland and carry on!

If anyone has any tips or suggestions on anything that would assist me in my search I’d love to hear them…