Petering out of Thanksgiving
Still feel like Thanksgiving even though we've past through "Black Friday," "Cyber Monday" and "Giving Tuesday": all meaningless days to me! We still do not have Christmas stuff up and won't until this weekend.
My measure of Thanksgiving is: do we still have Thanksgiving food?
Well, it is dwindling, but yes!
We are down to the last layer of sweet potato muffins...maybe six left. I have one for breakfast and one for lunch...and Marisa also partakes.
Marisa finished off the Cool Whip and the last big of the two pies yesterday and the cranberry relish.
I still have the potato skins I want to somehow use to create snacks or something.
I imagine this weekend will be the very end of Thanksgiving and the beginning of the Christmas holidays.
Friends at work did visit with family but took proper virus protections--two weeks of isolation, testing and all that.
Work has been productive. I have the checkers tested and working fine with all code reviewed and ready for additional processes. I also have a relatively new utility running. Just discovered a missing piece to-day but should get that inserted and tested to-morrow.
Lost a half-hour of sleep to-day: some neighbor parks a big truck right in front of our house and lets it run for 10 minutes before driving off. This was at 6 a.m. and I still needed another half-hour to get my 7 hours and 23 minutes of full rest. The truck has this low rumble that is amplified by all of our windows.
You would think a half-hour of sleep could easily be missed, but I have been "off" all day. So I will take a nap.
Yesterday after a similar nap I felt energetic enough to make the 3-layer casserole.
This morning I had a really nice dream, for once. It was weird, of course, but I felt good afterwards.
Lost, as expected, a few items on Ebay: an unusual Howard Clinton Tibbitts yard-long photo and a bunch of Portland Oregon glass negatives. You never know. I found a bunch of Camerama U.S.A. 8mm films for sale at a reasonable price, so I got those (also came with 2 Mr. Magoo films and one film similar to Camerama).
My research on the Lakeview Girls continues. Didn't do anything to-day, but expect to pick up again. Need to see if I can find out anything more about Louella/Luella Dowell McKee...parents names, more about her school years. If I can track down her father's grave or obituary, I might be lucky and get a link to her gravesite. I expect after the failure of her marriage to Samuel Jackson McKee that she moved back home, then onto other things and most likely changed her name through a 2nd marriage. Also need to find out more connections between Reverend Wire and Lakeview. I believe he was a Methodist preacher for a few years there which allowed him to cultivate friendships with people in Lakeview and with one in particular...the woman he married in 1914.
I did manage to locate pictures of Cuba Oral Amick, later Cuba Paine, from 1911-1914 annuals from Oregon Agricultural College. OSU has digitized annuals! This allowed me to figure out which of the four young women she was from four cards depicting tennis players. The cards were directed to Cuba, but no mention of whether she was one of the players and, if so, which one. I had theorized she was one of the players: just needed to identify which one! This allowed me to pick her out in another picture.
By searching for Dexter Amick, I found a documented picture of him from 1905 and believe I can match him up with another card, yet to be purchased. Not only that, but the online picture (I think on Facebook) had comments from modern relatives which established the Odessa Gibbins/Cuba Oral Amick connection (Odessa is the younger sister of Dexter which makes her Cuba's aunt, even though Odessa is only 3 years older than Cuba). Louella McKee took trips and horserides with Odessa and often wrote Cuba, so while Louella was not family, she was definitely close.
My measure of Thanksgiving is: do we still have Thanksgiving food?
Well, it is dwindling, but yes!
We are down to the last layer of sweet potato muffins...maybe six left. I have one for breakfast and one for lunch...and Marisa also partakes.
Marisa finished off the Cool Whip and the last big of the two pies yesterday and the cranberry relish.
I still have the potato skins I want to somehow use to create snacks or something.
I imagine this weekend will be the very end of Thanksgiving and the beginning of the Christmas holidays.
Friends at work did visit with family but took proper virus protections--two weeks of isolation, testing and all that.
Work has been productive. I have the checkers tested and working fine with all code reviewed and ready for additional processes. I also have a relatively new utility running. Just discovered a missing piece to-day but should get that inserted and tested to-morrow.
Lost a half-hour of sleep to-day: some neighbor parks a big truck right in front of our house and lets it run for 10 minutes before driving off. This was at 6 a.m. and I still needed another half-hour to get my 7 hours and 23 minutes of full rest. The truck has this low rumble that is amplified by all of our windows.
You would think a half-hour of sleep could easily be missed, but I have been "off" all day. So I will take a nap.
Yesterday after a similar nap I felt energetic enough to make the 3-layer casserole.
This morning I had a really nice dream, for once. It was weird, of course, but I felt good afterwards.
Lost, as expected, a few items on Ebay: an unusual Howard Clinton Tibbitts yard-long photo and a bunch of Portland Oregon glass negatives. You never know. I found a bunch of Camerama U.S.A. 8mm films for sale at a reasonable price, so I got those (also came with 2 Mr. Magoo films and one film similar to Camerama).
My research on the Lakeview Girls continues. Didn't do anything to-day, but expect to pick up again. Need to see if I can find out anything more about Louella/Luella Dowell McKee...parents names, more about her school years. If I can track down her father's grave or obituary, I might be lucky and get a link to her gravesite. I expect after the failure of her marriage to Samuel Jackson McKee that she moved back home, then onto other things and most likely changed her name through a 2nd marriage. Also need to find out more connections between Reverend Wire and Lakeview. I believe he was a Methodist preacher for a few years there which allowed him to cultivate friendships with people in Lakeview and with one in particular...the woman he married in 1914.
I did manage to locate pictures of Cuba Oral Amick, later Cuba Paine, from 1911-1914 annuals from Oregon Agricultural College. OSU has digitized annuals! This allowed me to figure out which of the four young women she was from four cards depicting tennis players. The cards were directed to Cuba, but no mention of whether she was one of the players and, if so, which one. I had theorized she was one of the players: just needed to identify which one! This allowed me to pick her out in another picture.
By searching for Dexter Amick, I found a documented picture of him from 1905 and believe I can match him up with another card, yet to be purchased. Not only that, but the online picture (I think on Facebook) had comments from modern relatives which established the Odessa Gibbins/Cuba Oral Amick connection (Odessa is the younger sister of Dexter which makes her Cuba's aunt, even though Odessa is only 3 years older than Cuba). Louella McKee took trips and horserides with Odessa and often wrote Cuba, so while Louella was not family, she was definitely close.