I don't think I've ever taken this long to post a new blog entry. (Except maybe for the time when my computer quit working.) I just haven't felt like writing. I don't really feel like writing now either, so I'm going to keep this brief. I'll try to write in more detail at a later date. Hopefully in the next week or two.
My car: Charlie is still working on it. Slowly. :-/ The major stuff is done, but he keeps re-sanding and repainting parts of it. And he still needs to add some trim pieces.
I've bought some clothes since my last entry. I'll probably write about that later. I'm currently trying to find something for Easter.
I got a jury summons, I think for some time in October. I told them that I couldn't because I watch my granddaughter Lydia, but instead of getting out of it, they postponed it to December. (19th, I think.) I didn't know if they'd give me a hard time about it if I told them I still had to watch Lydia, so I didn't try to get out of it again. Thankfully, when I called the night before, they said I wasn't needed. Yay! I despise jury duty.
Hurricane Helene hit the NC mountains (as well as SC, TN, VA) in late September after slamming into Florida. The devastation is unbelievable. All these months later and there's still so much destruction up there. :-(
A few weeks before Helene, there was a lot of flooding in and around Southport.
Ancestry had a DNA update in October.
My results:
England & Northwestern Europe 58%
Wales 12%
Cornwall 6%
Denmark 6%
Scotland 6%
Germanic Europe 5%
Ireland 2%
Finland 1%
Charlie:
England & Northwestern Europe 68%
Scotland 13%
Germanic Europe 11%
Cornwall 2%
Wales 2%
Benin & Togo 1%
Norway 1%
Eastern European Roma 1%
Sardinia 1%
Mom:
Scotland, Scottish Highlands & Northern Isles 44%
England & Northwestern Europe 36%
Wales, northern & western 11%
France 3%
Germanic Europe 3%
Ireland 2%
Finland 1%
An update on my aunt Wanda's DNA results. When I'd checked her results last March (because her DNA is the only one that shows where our African ancestors came from), it said 2% Cameroon, Congo, and Western Bantu Peoples. Now it says 1% Nigeria. The rest of her DNA is England & Northwestern Europe 61%, Wales 15%, Scotland 14%, Ireland 5%, Cornwall 3%, and Iceland 1%.
Milo had a vet appointment on January 9th. We had to have Milo put to sleep on January 16th. That was very hard. I'll post more about that in a post just for him.
We had a few snow days this winter. More than we'd had in awhile.
Friday, December 13th, my car died on my way home. I had just been to the DMV/license plate agency to pay my vehicle tax and my car was sounding awful on the way home, so I pulled into a gas station on the corner of Holden and Vandalia. It was then I noticed it smoking from the front. I turned it off and called Charlie. It wouldn't start anymore after that. It was big ordeal that ended up with Charlie having to run jumper cables from my car battery to another battery in the back floorboard of my car. I think Charlie said it was the alternator or something, which he ordered a new one of and replaced.
Charlie got a raise in December, plus extra money (each month?) to keep his truck maintained since he drives it for work.
Lydia started crawling on December 26th. She started standing some time after that. She's not walking yet.
January 5th was communion at church and Lydia's dedication.
My aunt Kathy died suddenly Sunday morning, March 2nd. She was one of my dad's sisters. Her funeral was this past Saturday, but I was too sick to go.
And, of course, our 30th anniversary on December 17th, Christmas, New Year's, my birthday, Kelly's birthday, and Charlie's birthday. Lydia's first birthday was yesterday.
Again, I'll try to give more details later.
