Wordless Wednesday

Butterballs

Hard to see in the photograph because I had to take it through the screen door in the sun room and the turkeys moved fast. In the picture there are two hens. Can  you see all the little dots around them? Those are all the poults or babies. There were close to two dozen little butterballs.

Another Year as a Bridesmaid

I didn't win this year's Graceful Envelope contest, but you can see the amazing envelopes of the winners and honorable mentions. This year's theme was Communication.

What's That, Lassie?

The well and pump dudes arrived. I crossed my fingers that whatever was causing the no water pressure problem was inside the utility room. Anything done inside the well like pulling up the pump and replacing pipe is charged by the foot. Our well is a deep one at 440 feet. Turns out, the pump inside the well had breathed its last after 30 years of service, and the well tank decided to go along for the ride.

What's that Lassie? How do you appease a water sprite or selkie? You throw money down the well? Aye, will do, but not gonna like it.

The Friday Five Good Things

Five good things that happened this week.

1. The Young One's Friend, Ohio, arrived safe and sound after a long drive.

2. We celebrated the marriage of The Nephew and his Bride. They were married aboard the Beaufort Princess and then we were treated to a cruise around Gloucester Harbor. It was a lovely evening for a cruise. A beautiful Bride and a handsome Groom.

3. Our local Chinese take-out was closed so we ordered food from a place the next town over. I think we found a new take-out place as the food tasted so much fresher.

4. We had trouble getting the pre-filter on the water system open. The Culligan Man came to our rescue on the holiday!

5. Talk around town this month has been the sighting of a coyote or coywolf. I was working in the sun room and caught a flash of grey out of the corner of my eye. I turned to see the coywolf run through the backyard up into the woods. He was moving too fast to get a picture. He was big maybe the size of a German Shepherd. His fur was silver grey with a big, bushy tail.

How was your week?

Throwback Thursday

Passenger and Crew List S.S.Romanic sailing from Naples, 18. May 1906 arriving at the port of Boston 31. May 1906

List 47
Line 6
Name: Todisco, Achille (my grandfather)
Age: listed as 15, but he would have been 17 years old
Occupation: Tailor
Last Residence: Torre Le Nocelle
Destination: Brother-in-law, Emanuele de Cristofaro (great-uncle Manny, the stone cutter) at 68 Prince St. Boston, Massachusetts
Previous Travel: No

While working on my genealogy, I decided to vist the blog, The Genealogy of Torre le Nocelle  Torre is the town in Italy where my father's family comes from.  I stumbled onto the blogpost about the ship manifest, the Canopic, and saw my grandfather listed.

I went to my family tree on Ancestry.com to see if I could find the record. Instead, I found the same information, but the ship is listed as the Romanic.

What struck me the most was the date. I found the blog post and the Ancestry.com record on 1. June 2016. 110 years and one day since my grandfather came to his new country.

Wordless Wednesday