In order to be nice to That Publisher Woman, who is working hard to finalize and actualize the Needlin' Fools EGA Seminar at the end of the month, I'm having a vacation from blackwork designing (though not from laying Cunning Plans...). I have to - anything I design I immediately want to stitch, and anything I get charted and stitched I want to get published, and this just doesn't help put the seminar on!
So in its place - gotta do something with those Idle Hands! - I'm poking my nose into my ancestors' bidness with some genealogical research. I made a tiny little start at it in the late 90s, before the last time my computer was struck by lightning - there's a reason this area is called "Thunder Basin" and "Lightning Flats"! - those were also the days of nuthin-but-dialup, when 24K was "lightning speed". You'd enter a page, then go cook dinner or whatever while it (maybe) loaded....
Anyhow, now Auntie Liadain has DSL, and a faster computer, and genealogy software, and mercy on us there are SO many more resources out there! I "met" a cousin I didn't know I had last night, and found my first ancestor so far who was pre-Revolutionary War (don't tell any of my hillbilly kin he lived in NEW JERSEY!!!!). I'll try not to bore folks too much with that stuff, just letting my buds know where I've gone!
Hope spring is springing for everyone!