Slow week for posting for me.

[George-CT]

Had a death in the family, and lots of relatives in the area. Funeral was yesterday so the worst of its out of the way. Down to
one brother left of my fathers, from 7 total and 2 cousins and myself of their off spring. The family farm has been sold and now
its mostly memories. Lot of picture exchanges yesterday from back in the 30's. I volunteered to scan them all and put them on a DVD for everyone else. Saw pictures of my father as a boy that I had never seen before. Todays another day. The sun came up like normal
and life moves forward. Nice to see all those old pictures. I sure hope that people of today have these pc pictures printed out somewhere. With the fast pace of tech in the pc world, what you can use today, will more than likely not be useable 10 years from now let alone 50 0r 60 years. Walmarts will do 100 prints for $15.00....cheap enough, and better than what my printer produces. Not sure how long the DVD will be useful. I've got stuff saved over the years, on 5and a quarter floppies, 3.1/4 floppies, Colorado tapes, zip drives, CD, DVD and now flash ram and now print outs of the ones you really don't want to loose.

Snow falling here today again. Only a couple of inches of new stuff on the ground, but relaxing to watch it fall. March should put the finishing touches on winter here. It can't come soon enough this year.

Don't mind me, just babbling here, beats sitting here with idle mind.

Geo-CT

 

[Royal]

n/t

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

Unfortunately, as we get older these things become more frequent...never easy to accept. You are doing the right thing by keeping busy, organizing the old photos and putting them on a DVD disk for sharing with others. You and your family will be in our thoughts and prayers. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Wayne in BC]

i am sure you celebrated his life and contribution. I sure prefer to look at it that way even though one is grieving.

Wayne

 

[Micheal_R]

At our age, we are seeing more and more of that....... and it is never easy..

May things go well for you from this point on

Calm seas, sunny skies, fair winds

Micheal

 

[WillyP]

Like Mike said, there's far too much of this as wee get older. Better days ahead.

 

[George-CT]

Not sure what I'm thinking. Good times, hard times it all runs together. Of all the kids to them, there were 9 kids, there are only 3 of us left. Doing the math, not hard to figure out where the next one will come from. Then again, you never know throughout ones life when things will happen like that. Can't live dwelling on that. I know I have and those on here, try and live life to the fullest and we all have pushed our luck at one time or another. I'm the only male left, the other 2 are women. As far as the family name, I had 2 boys, George III and Andy. George is working on keeping the make going as he has 2 sons Devin and Ethan. Andy has never married yet and still young so who knows, he may contribute to keeping the name going. Most of the girls have had kids, but they carry the husbands last name. Another strong branch of the tree for sure, just different last names. Using 2 programs to touch up the old photos as I scan them. Paint Shop Pro and PhotoShop. Both good programs and sure can hide a lot of scratches and aging on the old black and white photos. I also found today a very old tin photo. I'm not sure who it is at this point. Surprisingly its still in nice condition. I will see how it scans and post it at a later date. Even found the old will from back in 1932 where the family farm was left to his wife Agnes. Both parents died when my father was 15 years old. The older sister marred so she could raise them or they would have gone to the state and split them up. They remained on the farm and the older sister was there until it was sold. In a lot of the old pictures I found I see how it was, hard in hard times for sure, but the house is still there. The barns are gone now. I'm thinking I may stop in when I'm done with all the pictures and see if the people who live there now would like a copy of the pictures showing the farm back then. Probably sounds weird but just writing some of this relaxes me. Still snowing here in north eastern CT. But the sun is climbing a lot higher now, more pentration of that warmth from the sun, makes the snow melt faster. March is our turning point here. By the end of March its usually pretty decent by our standards of decent. Get a few cold ones from time to time but in general the worst is over. Good think, got about 2 more weeks of wood left stacked out back and then I would need to go get some of next years out in the back 40.

Thanks again for the nice words from all of you.

George-CT