Something Great! A new Great grand son today!
10 years ago
I just got the news our oldest grandson and his wife had our third great grand baby today. A big boy at 9lbs 11 oz and 21 inches long. His name is Wade. It was a bit scary because he was not breathing at birth it took some time to get him breathing but they say he is fine. It was a c section birth. Both are doing well now. He doesn't look very happy at the moment...
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Comments (16)"Grandma might have been thinking this way." (Digit) Digit, I think that you may have hit on something here. We grow vegetables primarily for leisure. The vegetables we produce are not essential to our survival, so we place undue emphasis on aesthetic qualities such as appearance... and we grow fewer of them. Our ancestors, on the other hand, had a much closer relationship with the vegetables that they grew... no vegetables = no food. With survival at stake, they would have learned many techniques to grow and preserve their vegetables... and to save seed successfully. Their plantings were large scale, with greater emphasis on productivity - the precursor to modern agriculture. However, they may not have segregated their varieties to the extent that we do today. After all, they were less concerned about the shape & color (and even flavor) of what they grew, than they were of the other traits - earliness, drought hardiness, yield, resistance to disease, and storage life / ease of preservation. They might have only grown one "tried and true" variety of many vegetables, or they might have grown a mixture (with or without segregation). A great deal of amateur breeding took place, gradually incorporating desired traits into family lines... hence, heirlooms. As experienced farmers, they would have selected for seed the plants that possessed the traits they desired; so they were keen observers, who knew what to watch for. That knowledge would have been passed down, along with other survival lore such as hunting & trapping, animal husbandry, tanning, drying meat, etc. Sadly, with the dawning of the industrial age, that unbroken line of knowledge was severed. We may have a world of information at our collective fingertips... but for the population at large, much of the knowledge of self-sufficiency is now beyond reach, forgotten. We are the weaker for it, were our technology to ever fail us....See MoreA great opportunity today!
Comments (13)Thank you for saving everything you could, and a big virtual thank you to the developer for being a just plain decent person. Try to put the word out about the trees as quickly as you can, maybe some of them can be saved too. Graywings took the words right out of my mouth. Sad but true. I've seen it happen too many times. Now I'll be honest, I live in a circa 1900 version of a "subdivision" - one of many neighborhoods of similar little houses built for the factory workers during the town's manufacturing heyday. But I live on the corner of [tree name] Street and there are about twenty surviving trees of that species on a street that's perhaps an eighth of a mile long, trees that were old when the houses were built; old photographs show the houses fitted in amongst the trees. We are blessed to have one of them on our tiny lot - we call it our Grandfather Tree and it is over four feet in diameter. An even larger one is on the unbuildable lot (ravine + wetlands + small river) that borders us on one side, and a fallen giant nearly six feet thick still serves the very daring as a bridge down into the ravine behind our house. THAT is truly [tree name] Street. When we moved into our house, it had been a rental for decades and the "landscaping" completely neglected. We had arborists out and after much discussion it was decided that almost nothing could be salvaged without a great deal of money and far more skill than either of us had - we had really hoped to save a few lilacs planted during WWII but even a lilac specialist we weaseled into looking at them said that it was a project he wouldn't particularly like to tackle and that we were better off starting over (which we are, slowly, but budgetarily landscaping has not been a terribly high priority). We put the word out and several trees and shrubs were taken off to new homes before the tree company started in on the general removal, and at our last house we Freecycled the huge rhododendrons I loathed - "you dig it up, it's yours!" (It took three men, a truck and a winch to get those monsters out.)...See MoreAm I a Great, or a Grand?
Comments (11)Darn it! Meant to say "congratulations" to both stoneybaloney and pplantlady. And this insert from the link... Granduncle/grandaunt and grandnephew/grandniece are equivalent to great-uncle/great-aunt and great-nephew/great-niece. Both great-uncle and granduncle refer to an uncle of one's father or mother. Neither form is definitively more correct than the other....See Moresaw something new today..
Comments (24)Love the salamander. Just watched a salamander talk from Dawes Arboretum where they migrate every year into their vernal pools. Also did the salamander hike through the local creeks a few years ago. Used to collect them (and newts) when I was growing up. Not that I had a collection, just anything wild we could catch became ours for a little while. We actually found little salamanders around our home in California but none here in Ohio....See More- 10 years ago
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I promised another picture with hair visible! Here's Wade and he does have hair!
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Our first great grandson Wyatt holding his baby brother Wade. I am prejudiced but I think Wyatt is a doll.
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