Keeping Silent

Even a fool is thought wise if he keep silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue. (Proverbs 17:28, in The Word On Life, Toni Sortor and Pamela McQuade, 11 July)
20/Jul/2010 12:12

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The yellow finch is visiting this morning. The pair only comes to our yard when they can eat the seeds of the coneflowers.

I swapped all six CDs in Melva's car this morning. One of them was a CD of Vincente Fernandez that I purchased a while back. I had to take it out of the shrink wrap.

One of my Library friends on Facebook suggested that I become friends with another co-worker. I noticed he lives in North Carolina.

I'm still busy working on my Conger GEDCOM edit project. I still can't tell how many more hours of work will be necessary. The idea is to made changes which will result in a much better looking product once the data is loaded into RootsMagic.

Mr. Dickie
20/Jul/2010 12:17

Canna Lily

Photo: Mr. Dickie (Canna Lily)

• Truth has a way of scrambling the brain - not the brain of the giver, the brain of the receiver! (Iyanla Vanzant, Faith in the Valley, p. 115)
• When I feel threatened by my anger, I will do my best to give myself time out to sort through my actions and their consequences. (Jonathon and Wendy Lazear, Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much, 12 May)

Yesterday I continued to work on the project to update the "Links" page on my genealogy website. I checked all of the URLs to dedtermine whether they were still working. Quite a few of them were broken. There were about a half dozen that I'll have to remove and about a half dozen that I can fix.

I discovered a new website with information about the Brierly/Brierley family. This family links to my Henthorn family of England. The Brierly branch came from Lancashire, England about 1845. They settled in Worcester county, Massachusetts. Until I found this website I'd never heard that this branch was also in the United States. It's been a long time since I've made a discovery this interesting.

The flower displayed with this entry is one Melva has blooming this year. Some of the plants are in the ground and some are growing in large pots. She digs up the roots each fall and brings them in the house for the winter.

Mr. Dickie

Day Lilies and Hydrangea

Photo: Mr. Dickie (Day Lilies and multi-colored Hydrangea)

• Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom and power. (Stephen R. Covey, Daily Reflections For Highly Effective People, 17 July)
• It is not always appropriate to reveal my every thought ... (Courage to Change, 25 July)
• Much unhappiness results from an inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. (W.N. Rieger in At My Best, 20 July)
• Self-righteousness is an affliction. (Iyanla Vanzant, Acts of Faith, 27 June)
• We cannot drop out of human involvement without endangering our spiritual health. (Once Day at a Time in Al-Anon, 13 July)
• Carry out God's guidance as best you can. (Alan L. Roeck, Look To This Day, 20 July)

Yesterday I did one of my infrequent checks of the URLs on the "Links" page of my genealogy website. Before long I'd found seven broken links. Using Google I was able to find new addresses for two of the seven. At that point I decided to procrastinate on the newly discovered project. A long time ago I learned that there's a price to pay for sharing links to the websites of others. It's fun to share, when they work, and not much fun when they don't.

The flowers in today's photograph are in our backyard. This year because of frequent rain and because Melva did lots of transplanting in the last year the garden show has been the best we've had in all the years we have lived in his house.

Mr. Dickie

Melva's Garden

Photo: Mr. Dickie (Melva's Garden)

• I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. (Stephen R. Covey, Daily Reflections For Highly Effective People, 8 July)
• You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves. (Iyanla Vanzant, Faith in the Valley, p. 156)
• I will try to apply Easy Does It to every incident that might increase the tension and cause an explosion. I will try to realize that an exchange of hostile words will not help me to find the serenity I want. (One Day at a Time in Al-Anon, 7 July)
• I will find ways to make my life more interesting, take a fresh view of the pleasant things that happen each day. (One Day at a Time in Al-Anon, 9 July)

Today on my Henthorn Website News I featured Catherine Hester (Foreaker) Fedorchak. For many years she wrote a column about genealogy research for the Monroe County Ohio Beacon. Several of the families she wrote about in her columns were of interest to me. My posting has HotLinks to pages on my website. There's a copy of her obituary and copies of articles about the following families: Atkinson, Baker, Foggin, Henthorn, Hickman, Kyger, Yockey and two about Yoho.

The photo collage today is shots I took of Melva's Garden. I used the Google Picasa program to create the collage. I like using this method to show more than one photo with the daily blog entry. The large white and red flowers are hibiscus. Each bloom lasts only one day. The white flowers in the upper right photograph are coneflowers. The yellow flowers with the black centers are black-eyed Susans (the Maryland state flower).

Mr. Dickie

Corel Print House Photos

We live in a small house. There isn't enough storage space. When I try to clean up some of the clutter things often get worse. After the clean up something will be out of sight and out of mind.

This afternoon I was in the basement looking in a box where I stored about twenty CDs that pertain to computers. One of the CDs I found in the box was for the Corel program Print House. When I read the back of the CD I was surprised to see that the CD has at least 1,000 photos in the JPeg format. I brought the CD upstairs and spent about an hour looking at the photos with the HP PhotoSmart Essential program. I'm very impressed with the professional quality of the shots I found on the CD.

Now that I've located this set of photographs and the set of 200 I looked at the other day on the Corel WordPerfect Suite8 CD I'm wondering what projects I can do that would make use of some of these shots.

Here's one of the photographs from the Flowers folder.

Mr. Dickie