Good luck on the formula KFDancer.
Hope the FIL is okay jfkimberly
Good luck on the continued job hunt Nan
Happy Friday!
1.) Paint never made it up the A9 in time for the weekend last weekend. But two tins in our house now, so.............. Purple guinea pigs, he were come!
2.) It's not a lot of fun being a boss when you have to give a candid, but necessary, and hopefully constructive, employee year end appraisal.
3.) Spending way too much money on seeds to sow
4.) Craving really thick and chunky chocolate chip cookies. I have got some marg, and some dairy free chocolate chips. Just need to buy some caster sugar. I'm guessing this needs plain flour and not self rising? No idea. I hate baking, so why am I attempting this? Oh, I know why. I could just buy some for myself, but then I get puppy dog looks from the hubby because he can't eat them. So I relent. He's worth it though.
5.) So a bit of a long one: I watched a 'House Through Time' and found it fascinating.
We built our house, so we know who lived in ours, lol. However, hubby has a great deal of detail on the land our house was built on because the surveys and things required on it before building. (He works in architecture).
Apparently, the land was too boggy for settlement before the 19th Century. We can attest that it's sandy, rocky soil that doesn't drain.
And nothing of interest found from the derelict house that was there. Nothing of architectural, historical, or cultural merit found in the house or surrounding grounds either.
However, apparently, it was a pretty grand house before it was derelict. (Looks built around 1860 and demolished in 2007). The census shows there were servants and farm hands. The house was built and named after the man who lived there and who was the local school master. His first wife died and he married his second wife who was 20 years younger. She was born in Jamaica, so most likely some dark histories there, given that it was Victorian times.
So meanwhile, I'm doing this and one of my sister's come across a map from my hometown from 1877 and we can clearly see our house that we grew up in on it. I found another one from 1892 and it's confirmed that it's our house, because of the added architectural features that clearly identify it as our house.
So, we know there was a family that lived there from the 1920s-1980 and our family took it over. But we don't know the history before hand. A newspaper was found in the walls from the 1860s? (around this time period) at one point.
I'm trying to look through the Massachusetts census records, but these ones you have to pay for and request, so it's so annoying. I want to go and pull out the microfiche in the local library from my hometown and see what I can find on the house now.
