February 6. 7

 Cloudy but temps are in the high 30s so the light snow that fell overnight probably won't stay long. I spent the morning with a bit of crochet and a couple of housekeeping chores. Then I continued my genealogical explorations. This all began when Mom wondered what ever happened to her father who disappeared from her life when she was very young. I did find he had died in the late 1980s in California but he has proven to be a hard person to track. But he wasn't the focus of this morning's untangling process. I found an entry which listed a second wife and about a dozen children for an ancestor four or five generations back (early 1800s to late 1800s). It took awhile for me to straighten the entry out. I think I found the source of the problem: a summary of a census report. I checked out all of the census reports available for him and found only one wife mentioned and about six children. I found another census report for one of his sons and found that the man and his wife lived on one parcel of land adjacent to parcels on which the son and his family and a daughter and her husband lived. Someone had mashed all the people together. It took me the morning to get everything amended. By then it was dinner time so I will pick it up tomorrow.

I saw a snippet of a news report last night which showed the start--attempted start--of a wrestling. I think the announcer was introducing the fighters one of whom looked stunned as the audience started chanting "F%%k ICE". It was os unexpected I don't think anyone knew what to do. CROOKS&LIARS has a good account of the incident.

07*********************************************

After a cloudy morning the sun has come out brightly. I hope the remnants of the snow on the sidewalks. The weather people are saying we are going to have a warm up. Hope they are right. We caught the early Chicago news which covered the Olympics and Super Bowl without much else. That suits me because it gives me a break from the chaos.

Then I spent the rest of the morning washing dishes and working on my time lines for the genealogy. That helps me see discrepancies and keep the people straight. I sometimes get lost when working on the computer for a long time.

08***********************************************

Bright sun but cold today. We had a dusting of fresh flakes overnight.