♪ Everything is Bluetiful . . . ♫

Of course in its own way . . . but this is definitely the start of fall. While today is the second day of fall, it is the first day that we actually put the heater on early in the morning. We will just take "the chill off" and then probably convert to the a/c because it is slated to be in the mid-80s starting today and coming next week again is the mid-90s . . .

The above collage is somewhat how things looked this morning out back. There are still some blooms to be enjoyed but they are getting sparse.

Why "Bluetiful"?

This is newsworthy, right?  Crayola finally named their new crayon for the "new blue" and it is Bluetiful.

I happen to really like this new color and enjoy seeing it in all its forms.

If only they had discovered this color years ago -- what a difference we would be seeing all around nowadays.

The fun news for us this week started on Wednesday, mid-morning when "out of the blue" we received a call from Gail's sister, Laurii and her husband Gary.

They wanted to know if we were open to a visit from them the next day, Thursday.

Of course, we were open to a visit and were excited to see them after several years -- the last time was in Stanley, Idaho.

Another fun thing was that Dino too was treated to a visitor as well -- their dog, Shadow. Shadow is an 11-year-old black lab and the very same dog that visited us in our previous home and played so well with our then dog, Auggie.

Even though the visit lasted less than 24 hours, we managed to have a very nice time. We had two meals together and Shadow even demonstrated to Dino that swimming in the pool could be fun.

But Laurii & Gary don't stay put for very long. So they continued their road trip hoping to go through parts of Oregon and other Northwest locales before returning to the snowy Stanley, Idaho home.


It had already been snowing in Stanley when they left on this trip. According to a check with "Alexa" the next day the temperature in Stanley was in the mid-30s while we here in Healdsburg were in the mid-70s.

I still managed to do some work on the family tree. This time I happened to focus on my 4th G Grandfather, John.

John married a woman named Mary Kenady. And we believe had the three children shown in the upper right.

Mary had been married before John to a man named Timothy Kelsey and they had the five children shown on the lower right. Timothy died in battle during the big war of the time.

So my attention this week was on the Kelsey descendants and the following are a couple of charts illustrating just some of them that I'm beginning to find:

As usually happens when I go climbing through a different branch of the family tree, I find amazing people and stories that encourage me to keep looking. Because Mary Kenady was married to Timothy those descendants are all "half" relatives to me. In other words, half Uncles and Aunts and half cousins and so on -- but never-the-less -- wholly interesting.


There was a brief intermission from visiting and researching to watch at least some of the TNF game between the 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams . . .


Football may not have the "deflategate" situation this year, but football so far for us in the San Francisco Bay Area is somewhat "deflated".

There have been three games and three losses. Winning isn't everything, but it would be nice to see a win at some point.



For me, it doesn't really matter what season that it is -- because any season is a good season to work on family history.

However, Fall does have so many features that are inspiring like just seeing the leaves collecting on the ground -- preferably on the neighbor's lawns . . . but even when we used to have to deal with "all those oaks" it was fine.

We'll spend some time on the benches in the downtown plaza and enjoy leaf fall, but we will also look forward to getting back to the "search".

We've got work to do . . .

That is a bit of our week. See you all "in a few"!