tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267296850244884919.post273413267126811925..comments2024-03-21T05:29:14.303-04:00Comments on Onward and Upward--Ever Forward: It Was A Good Day!I Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03399435237919718544noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267296850244884919.post-89055960176500864642016-08-02T12:06:47.594-04:002016-08-02T12:06:47.594-04:00I'm glad the larder is full! There is no expla...I'm glad the larder is full! There is no explaining cancer. It breaks hearts wherever it pleases, and needs no reason. xoxoJennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03944766018173436353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267296850244884919.post-64462515390628395552016-07-31T16:22:48.404-04:002016-07-31T16:22:48.404-04:00Don't even go there - that maybe you jinxed yo...Don't even go there - that maybe you jinxed your family. Environmental toxins of the sort we have now weren't around a century ago, though others were we have little of now. Who knows? Life is terminal in any case.<br /><br />I guess all we can hope for is that we feel healthy until closer to 'the end'. I often wonder if it's better to be ignorant and feel healthy or know the instant something in your own body breaks down, when you can't always do something about it. <br /><br />Nice to look inside your refrigerator now. Bon Appetit!GowitheFlohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01842273685414939160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267296850244884919.post-69166096102534435462016-07-30T11:10:28.497-04:002016-07-30T11:10:28.497-04:00My family really loved it, but I had to wait to as...My family really loved it, but I had to wait to ask, AFTER they had read through it. I can remember being so excited when I told my Dad I got my first children's book published. His reply, "Are you gonna make any money off it?" I gave them all a copy for Christmas and they "thought it was cute." My Mother, who started the whole genealogy thing back in 1968 and died in 1970, and I took it up from there on, and who also loved to write, would have been over the moon! She would be so proud and thrilled to see what I had found and how I put the book together. Sigh.Judyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03399435237919718544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267296850244884919.post-11030238407220724112016-07-30T11:03:05.277-04:002016-07-30T11:03:05.277-04:00Mother would clamped that meat grinder on the edge...Mother would clamped that meat grinder on the edge of the wooden kitchen table and put a bucket on the floor under it to catch the drippings and I'd crank away. Big chunks of bologna, dill pickles, a bit of onion. Mark mainly fished the small lakes in this area, he liked Blue Gills and Perch. I think his problem? He had a doctor who just kept prescribing his BP medicine, year after year, without having Mark come in for a yearly check-up. Of course Mark, being a man and like the rest of my family--we rarely go to the doc for check-ups, by the time the doc told him he had to come in to get his prescription renewed and gave him a check-up, it was too late. He had no symptoms, but IT was there.Judyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03399435237919718544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267296850244884919.post-17686014124347211912016-07-30T08:53:48.637-04:002016-07-30T08:53:48.637-04:00My mom used to make that bologna spread, too. I ca...My mom used to make that bologna spread, too. I can remember using the grinder. You've made me hungry for it again. It was a staple for us growing up.<br /><br />People in past centuries who died from cancer would not necessarily have that documented on their death certificates because they simply didn't know the cause of many deaths. Consumption, for example, was often listed and now they have more precise language that covers a host of diseases that consumption used to be called. But environmental factors in our food chain is driving it up. (And Republicans lawmakers want to require less labeling info on our food like country of origin which makes me so mad.) As I understand it, many of us have the dormant cancer gene but something comes along and triggers it to turn on. Where did Mark do his fishing, small inland lakes or on one of our big lakes? For a lot of years they told people to limit their Lake Michigan fish consumption. Manufacturing places were dumping stuff in the water routinely.Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267296850244884919.post-11936858933317416932016-07-29T23:43:37.354-04:002016-07-29T23:43:37.354-04:00Mmmm, sounds very delicious! I've never had b...Mmmm, sounds very delicious! I've never had bologna spread but I love bologna so I know I would like it. <br /><br />I am so glad you blogged about doing your genealogy (despite your family not being very excited) because I am so grateful you did mine. Since you obviously love being a Detective, I hope you get many more clients.The Awkward Widowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03729456066739275695noreply@blogger.com