Bob , my daughter and I went off for our second covid booster this morning. We hadn't any bad reactions before but today's vaccine was the pits. Temps..aches and pains and a general feeling of being not right. We did manage an early evening nap and feel a bit better.
Home tomorrow will be an improvement...
All of us are organizing ourselves for a get away on Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks. We have rented a "lakehouse" which is right on the water and big enough ( hopefully) for all 9 of us!! Each group is responsible for dinner one night... !
Each family is arranging for their animals. A cat sitter is coming here today to learn the ins and out for our older cats! It's the medicine etc. which requires her... no just leaving food out and friends checking on them. Our grand dogs will be boarded.
Our #1 daughter has arranged for us to receive our 2nd covid shot on Wednesday. She gets one too because of her job. Everyone else is too young for the second booster.... Hopefully the booster will be a "no ill effects" one.
Schools will be closing for the summer next week... though daughter #2 will be teaching an enrichment class in her district's summer school.
When we get back home... I think we will collapse
Today I received an email from Ancestry.com....Interesting... They have found a way to take one's DNA and determine how much comes from each parent. Heaven knows how they do that... but this is my result
Detailed comparisonSame data, more detail. This chart shows the percentages of each ethnicity you inherited from your parents. Added together, the percents from each parent for a region equals your percent for that region.
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| Looking at the data I decided that Parent1 is my Father...Parent 2 my Mother. I know my Mother's background so that seems logical. I know nothing about my Father other than his name, parents' names and that he was born in Berlin so his percentages are fascinating. One other thing I did know was that he had no Jewish heritage. When my parents were married in Germany in 1940 they were checked all the way back to the 1400's... odd little factoid wouldn't you say?? | |
A friend's son is a stainless steel welder... a skill he learned in high school His whole family is artistic and so when I wanted a Ukrainian sunflower he made me one!!
I picked it up today... It is about 5 feet tall and very heavy. The leaves even have veining!! When I decide where it should go, Bob will make sure it is well anchored with concrete!!
...addendum... Our younger daughter ( the teacher) graduates again tomorrow. When I think of how much schooling she has accomplished I am amazed. She has two Bachelor of Arts ( English and Teaching) , a Master of Arts in Gifted Education and tomorrow's degree - an Ed Specialist degree in Gifted Education. She already looking for more classes...!!
This school year ends the end of May... but she will be teaching summer school .
My daughter bought Bob a Paul Hollywood bread cookbook for his birthday.... today he made his first loaf.
Next loaf will be Irish Soda bread... buttermilk in the fridge waiting for him!!
If we didn't live on a high spot I think we would be floating away!! We have had so much rain that Nature has formed a swimming hole in our back yard!! When the rain is heavy we get rivers from the cul de sac down the lot lines!!
Bob wants to mow but the ground is so saturated that he can't!!
