A Timely Fall (For All)

What could be more timely than a time-change -- this time, falling back one hour and it feels right. We have already been getting up a bit later each morning and so we will fit right into the new zone. So tonight we'll begin the task of resetting the clocks, our semi-annual chore. We'll adjust much easier than the spring change . . .

We even had some rain this week. Less than an inch, but it felt good to not have to water the lawn this week. The rain though is presenting some problems due to the debris left from the over 6000 homes that burnt to the ground recently.

Toxic materials from the charred remains are the object of filtration and keeping them from emptying into our water supplies -- if that is possible. There is more rain forecast for next week and most likely in larger amounts. Drinking bottled water is the desirable way these days.

One event that happened last week produced the picture to the right.

The Houston Astros won their first ever World Series Championship.

It happened to be one of the most exciting collections of seven games ever.

Houston deserved to win with their performance.
Congrats to that hurricane recovering city!

The unfortunate thing for us is to how to fill in the void of almost nightly baseball viewing. It won't be until almost the next time change (March 11, 2018) before we'll get to watch another baseball game. We'll make-do -- there is always MMA -- NOT!

The other event that happened this week was of course -- Halloween -- and what an event that was . . . In days past a couple to the left are shown celebrating the dress-up affair at SFUSD.

Thanks to Aura for sharing the remembrance of her and Gail as they put on one of their remarkable events.

I think we probably still have that bow-tie around here somewhere, Gail has maintained a cache of costumes, just-in-case . . .


And now, what to do with all those pumpkins . . . actually this year
we forgot did not display any pumpkins but that doesn't mean that we can't make some pumpkin soup . . .

This is now soup weather and that is such a good thing. We have all the ingredients to make several different kinds of soup and we'll start in a day or two probably with chicken soup and work our way to pumpkin or other heavier soups, all to be served with maybe cornbread or another muffin-type.

And of course, one of the most fun activities for me is communicating with -- COUSINS.

And there was a lot of communications with already known cousins and then some communications with newly found cousins.

A few years ago, in a post in this blog, I had written about a favorite cousin of my mother -- Charles Keith Bumgardner.

And recently some relatives of "Keith" wrote comments relative to that post. And I'm happy to say that we have shared some emails back and forth and I have learned some new facts and have met some new cousins.

In my post of a couple of years ago, I wrote about Keith and his second marriage which took place in Japan. I knew that he had been married earlier in the U.S. but I only knew the first name of his first wife.

Now I know the full name of his first wife -- Christine Sutherland, and I know more details of their child, Eunice June Bumgardner (1928-2006). Eunice eventually married and had four children. It is with two of those children that I communicated with last week.

It is amazing the power of the Internet which allows for this type of communications. In the "old" days, it would be highly unlikely that such random connections would have been made. I know that there are so many more cousins to meet . . .

And to add icing to the cake, so-to-speak, this week's Wednesday's webinar at Legacy was on "Taking Your German Brick Walls Down Piece by Piece".

So timely now that we are pretty sure that on our paternal branch, we came from Germany . . .

I might even have to try to brush up on my college German -- though that may be troublesome. I think that I'll have to rely on Google translations . . .

So, that is a bit of our week, see you all "in a few"!