What I am Reading

I often see the above item listed in the newspaper in bios of people that other people like to read about. Seldom if ever do I find that anyone is reading a book that I have ever read, or have any interest in reading. These are two books I read this week and one I am reading. You will never find any of them listed in any reading list of people that other people read about.

Shaking the Nickel Bush by Ralph Moody: I thought I had read all of Mr. Moody's books, but found this one at the Berryville library last week and decided I had not read it. It is about a cowboy (real cow cowboy) at the turn of the century. I really enjoyed the book. In the list of Moody's other books I see The Dry Divide that I don't think I have read either. Maybe I can find it somewhere, or talk Betty into buying it online. I could trade a couple of baby turkeys for the book.

The Captured by Scott Aesch: A book about white children abducted by Indian's on the Texas frontier. It was a really, really good book full of things I did not know about. The man who wrote it actually started the research for the book as a way of finding out about one of his ancestor's that was abducted by Indians.

Bushworld by Maureen Dowd. I bought this book for $6 at Wmart. Ms. Dowd is a newspaper columnist and not a fan of GW. I have read about 1/4 of the book and I am really enjoying it.

Few people anywhere would even bother looking at these books. You will never see even one of them on any list other than this one.

And while we are talking about thieving relatives

Has anyone seen this woman and my baby?

That worthless daughter of mine took my babies all the way up in that God forsaken SD and won't even send me a picture. She says she has lost the card reader that transfers her pics to her pc. Then she couldn't send a pic from her cell phone cause she had forgotten my email address. The next thing you know, she will be forgetting the kids names.

Chickens, Dead People and Books

Three of the sisters have several interests in common. But, this sister is not much interested in the details of raising chickens. I actually am more interested in dead chicken fried in a skillet than in raising live chickens. But, then, I also have an inordinate interest in my dead relatives, and sometimes would just as soon my living relatives would leave me alone, or drop dead, in which case I would find them of greater interest. I even get engrossed in the relatives of my relatives, as in Patsy's inlaws.

Just a few weeks ago, I found that Patsy's kids great-great grandfather rode with Quantrill's raiders during a late uprising. I searched online and found that their names appeared in a book titled Quantrills's Thieves. Betty found the book online and bought it. She said it was very interesting. I talked her into bringing the book to us when she came for sister's chickens, then I slipped away from work, met her at Chicken Ridge and snatched the book from Patsy before she had a chance to even look at it. Not that Patsy was much interested in the book anyway.

As she was making her get away with Sister Patsy's chickens, Betty also took several books I had loaned to Patsy. I don't think Patsy much liked any of the books I had loaned her, but, tonight, Sister Betty is devoring my books. She has finished two and started on a third. So far, her thoughts on these books are much the same as mine and she is greatly enjoying the read.

Alas, I have not found the Quantrill book of much interest. The parts about Patsy's in-laws has not added to what I already knew of them, and the part about Quantrill and his exploits is thin reading. I like a little more historical detail in my historical reading.

So, Sister Betty would be right at home in her book of Quantrill's Thieves she brought to us. She has escaped down the ridge into the lowlands with the best of Patsy's chickens, the best of my books and left us with one sorry excuse for a history book. I am never trading with her again. Clayton better go lock up his turkeys cause she will probably be back after them next week and bring one of those worthless yepping fiests to trade.

Arkansas Beach

Foxfire is a dud

I downloaded Foxfire browser and have tried it a little. I can't see that it does anything better and it is a loooooootttttttttssssssss slower than IE. Probably all that stuff that is trying to protect me from myself in the background.

Anyway, I am able to auto login with IE now just by going to the blogger sign in page in IE. That is pretty simple. I am glad now that Helen put me on to trying to fix the stay logged in thingy, but for a while I did not think I was going to figure it out. I think she should pay me like Betty is paying for Pat's chickens. I know I spent 5 or 6 hours working on the loggin thing.

Helen, How to Stay Logged in to Blogger

Sister asked me to try to find a way for us to stay logged in to blogger and not have to re-log in so often. So, I went looking with little success at first. I tried several of the suggestions last night but none of them worked. So, I posted a comment on the Blogger group help forum, here:

http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-loginissues/browse_thread/thread/ebed307e7075cc7e/c7f3a74c93cf5fa9#c7f3a74c93cf5fa9

They say the best solution is to download the Foxfire browser. I am not a fan of alternet browsers and I have tried several. I am also not fan of add on toolbars. But, I may try Foxfire just to see. I now use IE 6.0. Maybe if we upgraded to IE 7.0 it would work with remember me, cause one of the techeys says it is a IE 6.0 remember me problem.

Anyway, someone answered my question with this link:
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/2006/09/remember-me-login-option-will-not-work.html

which says:
The “Remember Me” login option will not work correctly in Internet Explorer 6.0. The best workaround is to simply use Firefox. However, if you prefer IE, you can add google.com to the list of allowed sites under Internet Options > Privacy.

Tried that and it did not work either. Someone else has posted the same question I did again today and got an answer to add blogger.com to the trusted sites, so this is what I did that sorta worked.

Instructions:
Click on
Ø Tools
Ø Internet Options
Ø Click on Privicy Tab
Ø Click on Sites button
Ø In Address of web site type http://www.google.com
Ø Click Allow
Ø In address of web site type http://www.blogger.com
Ø Click Allow
Ø Click OK
Ø Click Ok

Now, after all this, go to blogger dashboard and login being sure to click the remember me button. After I did this, I could close out my browser and then open it again and go to blogger dashboard and the screen would refresh and IE would auto log me in. Then, I can go to any of the blogs or my own blog and I stayed logged in. But, if I go to a blog first, I will not be logged in. Still, opening the dashboard and having it auto log me in is faster for me than logging in at the comments form on a blog. And, I do not have to type in my id or password.

You can download Foxfire here
http://www.firefox2008.com/us/
It says it is free.

Enjoy...

My big kids

stayed with me while Mom and Dad celebrated. I made Emmy a new dress. She really liked it. We had a good time.

Married 12 years

But, I never can remember if it is June 2nd, 3rd or 4th. They were married on the first Saturday in June, 1995. I have it as June 3rd in my family tree program, but I was not sure if that was correct. So, here http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html
is a little calculator that tells me that June 3, 1995 was Saturday. But, by next year I will have forgetten again. They went on a a dinner cruse on the Branson Bell. They had a good time.

Cousins

Three of the sisters share a hobby of looking for dead people. I sub to several mailing lists where the topic of discussion is dead people. Some messages to these lists are good for a few laughs. At least once a month someone posts to the list trying to proove there grandmother was a Cherokee Indian Princess. It is invaribly Cherokee, not Okanioqan or Kiowa or Souix. Never Indian Prince or Indian Chief, always Princess. There idea has to come from Hollywood. Indian Societies, even the Cherokee, did not have Indian Princesses in their hierachy. The majority of Indian Societies were warrior societies. Women do not usually rise to leadership in warrior societies. It takes a hugh lack of intelligents to want to be a great warrior. Women do not qualify.

Anyway, a few days ago someone named Adams posted to the list that they thought they might be related to Pressident Adams. They said "I have found a possible ancestor of the President John Adams and his Son. So I went researching and I've heard that most presidents are related by cousin relationship." Being a helpful person, I answered that as with everyone, Presidents were someone's cousin, maybe not my cousin and maybe not your cousin, but someone's cousin.

If you want to know if you might be related to a famous person, you can go here:
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/index.html

and type you surname in the search box. Try Powell, and you get many hits. Try Aday, Gaddy or Maples and you get none. Maybe Patsy is related to George Bush.