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Reuning in nice weather.
Nov. 6th, 2010 04:27 pmI think this weekend I'm taking a writing break. If I get a chance I'll add some words, but mostly I'm letting some ideas simmer. Which is good, since there are other things going on. Firstly, it's 65 degrees again!! Tomorrow night a storm system is coming in. Snow in the mountains, rain down here, and by the time it's all gone on Monday, we should have snow down here in the valley as well. These 30+ changes in one day are always a shock! But we've enjoyed being outside (um, well those of us who went outside...some people love the down time of never getting dressed or doing much of anything on the weekend).
Secondly, you may remember my previous post about my remarkable 94-year-old grandmother-in-law who raised ten kids in a log cabin up in the mountains, who's fantastically well read, and who only quit teaching piano a couple years ago? Well, her family had a family reunion today (so, the descendants of my husband's great-grandparents). It was in our town, so we went. There are quite a lot of these second cousins who live in the area and it was interesting to meet them. Apparently these great-grandparents were just as remarkable. I don't know as much about the great-grandfather, but the great-grandmother grew up bilingual ASL and English because her mother was deaf, moved up to Idaho and met her first husband and had a very short marriage and then he died of rheumatic fever complications, leaving her a very young widow with a small child. Not too much later she met her second husband (who had also been previously married), and together they had something like eight kids. Only, when she was pregnant with the last one, her husband died of pneumonia. So there she is in the wilds of Idaho with all these kids, and she's been widowed twice. And my grandmother-in-law still managed to grow up with a piano in her house and be the educated person that she is. I mean, these people have superhuman intellect and determination! So it was fun to meet all of these distant cousins. (Turns out one branch lives in South Carolina, somewhere between Charleston and Columbia. Too bad we didn't know when we lived there.)
Secondly, you may remember my previous post about my remarkable 94-year-old grandmother-in-law who raised ten kids in a log cabin up in the mountains, who's fantastically well read, and who only quit teaching piano a couple years ago? Well, her family had a family reunion today (so, the descendants of my husband's great-grandparents). It was in our town, so we went. There are quite a lot of these second cousins who live in the area and it was interesting to meet them. Apparently these great-grandparents were just as remarkable. I don't know as much about the great-grandfather, but the great-grandmother grew up bilingual ASL and English because her mother was deaf, moved up to Idaho and met her first husband and had a very short marriage and then he died of rheumatic fever complications, leaving her a very young widow with a small child. Not too much later she met her second husband (who had also been previously married), and together they had something like eight kids. Only, when she was pregnant with the last one, her husband died of pneumonia. So there she is in the wilds of Idaho with all these kids, and she's been widowed twice. And my grandmother-in-law still managed to grow up with a piano in her house and be the educated person that she is. I mean, these people have superhuman intellect and determination! So it was fun to meet all of these distant cousins. (Turns out one branch lives in South Carolina, somewhere between Charleston and Columbia. Too bad we didn't know when we lived there.)
