Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Fri Aug 31, 2018 8:21 am
Good morning. I'm posting today to have a record of my state of mind in case this starts to turn into a concussion.
Not a good sleep. It was lovely and cool but dh got up and shut the window because he was cold and the wind was coming straight in. When I got up later for a bathroom and ibuprofen break, he let me know and I opened it again because I was hot. I also rearranged the pillows so I could sleep reclined which meant I could sleep on my back. When I was lying flat on my back, that put the bump against the bed and I was to uncomfortable to sleep.
I'm waiting for 8:30 when I can take another pill.
Head is still woolly, neck is quite sore, the rest of my body isn't too bad. Will do as many stretches as I can today per paramedic's recommendation.
Example of me being slow thinking as well as slow moving - it took over twice as long as usual to empty the dishwasher because I was going slow and had to think about where things went. No 'automatic' mode for me today.
We did get the spare bed made last night (dh helped me with the physically hard stuff) and I pulled out two boxes of our family history stuff. We had a phone message from a distant relative looking for the names of what I think are first cousins twice removed. I don't have a geneology chart that spreads out, only direct up. I do have an obit for dh's great grandfather (the common point on for both him and these people) but it only names the cousins' mother, then says "also surviving are 18 grandchildren, many great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren" which, come to think of it, wouldn't include numbers for any who had died. Looking at the date of the obit, I realize dh's great-grandfather was alive until dh was 19. (His grandparents all died before that.)
Anyway, I still have to make up the family history books for dh's side (my side is done) so I've left the boxes out and will go over what I have so far in more detail when my head clears. Dh's aunt in Winnipeg is still living (she was a decade or more younger than dh's dad) and she was the one who took us to meet the mother (Dot) of these boys back when dd was a toddler, so we called her for an answer but she'd already been asked and has discovered she has lost all her family tree information. So it is up to me to see what I can find. I know I made notes when I met Dot because she told me the family history. They are hand written and for decades resided in a family history folder (where I stuffed everything) until I started the family history project.
The file isn't in the filing cabinet but it makes sense I pulled it out when I started on the project, therefore the file must be in one of the 9 boxes still under the spare bed. They contain all the source material I have, but are about 80% my family stuff - I just have dh's grandfather's war diary (and some of his medals and other items since ds is his namesake) and some photos and obits from dh's side.
Complicating a straight google search is the boy's surname would be Inch and their grandmother's surname was Carpenter! Both common words! (I did find the great-grandfather's obit on Ancestry.com so I'm impressed with that.)