I don’t say we won’t have more warm weather, but it’s sure starting to look like fall.
I wanted to let the koi have the high-protein food to the bottom of the small bag (improves color) but it blew over and got rained on. This is a sign. They’re now on wheat, definitively. I found some in the freezer, but I’m going to get some new, because this is old, stale stuff.
Starting to feel better after the bout with crud.
And I’ve discovered something delightful: bamboo shoots are within our allowable-carb range. I can do stir-fry. Can’t do it with rice, but, hey, enough bamboo shoots, you don’t notice so much. A curry. I love curry. And coconut milk is NOT off our dietary list.
Talked to Lynn last night. She’s doing the DNA thing too. Will be interested. It’s interesting to know. British Isles, but I thought I was completely British Isles, too. Surprises can be had.
A “Weather Underground” online weather station about a mile North of me reports got 2.81″ of rain yesterday, Saturday, over 1″ as of 8:30 this morning. I heard this is the remnants of a typhoon.
p.s. Go get yerself a big bowl of Hot and Sour Soup! It’ll make you feel better. 🙂
Update: It was 2.51″ by the end of Sunday, for over 5 1/4″ for the weekend.
Someone mentioned the Battle of Flodden here recently. (I can’t find it right now, so since herself mentioned DNA…) Then a few days ago at my sister’s helping with the genealogy, I noticed a Marjory Stewart born in Scotland. Not hard to recognize a connection there! 😉 Her father in law Duncan Campbell died at the Battle of Flodden!
I think we’ve had an “easy time of it” because my father turned out to have 7 ancestors on the Mayflower (yes, including John & Priscilla) and earlier generations of that ilk were interested in recording and researching their genealogies.
You and Jane. I told Jane she’s related to everybody on the Mayflower but the ship’s cook. And they all had multiple marriages and dozens of kids.
She has Wrestling Brewster (I think that’s the Winthrop Fleet) Pardon Tabor, and Remember Morton.
I’ve got a Stewart line, but it starts in the US and ends upward with John Stewart in County Down, Ireland in 1723.
“Wrestling Brewster”? So he liked drinking, bar fights, and making more to drink? Or so his name suggests. Either very argumentative, very convivial, or both.
We’re from William Brewster III, and Love Brewster. 🙂
i’m also from the william brewster that came over on the mayflower tho’ i’m not sure if he’s the III….. i’ll have to dig out the printout…
Re bamboo shoots: is spaghetti squash allowable or is this one of those veggies that one or both of you can’t tolerate?
It’s a funny vegetable and I use it instead of pasta with stir-fry.
We were in the high 80’s for a couple of days, and now we’re going back up into the low 90’s. Nighttime temps have been dipping below 60. Fixing to be fall.
These random mentions of history get me going. When Dunbar was mentioned, I went out and found a connection: an 8G-grandfather was there, as a 16-year-old, and he was transported to Maine because of Cromwell. Now y’all have me hunting down Flodden.
If Jane has Warren and Hopkins in her, then she and I are cousins via Mayflower. Yet another hunt that started here…
And on the subject of Hot and Sour Soup: yummy! But probably off-limits to our esteemed host, given that it is thickened with corn starch.
Well it’s not like she’s gonna have a cold commonly. I think an exception is in order.
Warren, definitely.
Hi, cousin! 😉 We have Richard Warren. 🙂
Richard Warren of Enfield, in or near London, member of the Mayflower Compact in the 1620 sailing of the Mayflower, was Jane’s 8th-great grandfather. Her seventh great-grandmother is his daughter Sarah, who traveled from Leyden, Holland aboard the ship Anne, with many of the wives and children of the men who were on the Mayflower. The Anne sailed in 1623.
The Mayflower nearly came to grief: she was supposed to come into Virginia, likely at Isle of Wight, which was the main landing spot in VA, but weather drove the Mayflower to land up in Massachusetts, on a rocky shore. I suppose that, lacking cell phones, they must have sent the Mayflower back to Holland to tell the Anne not to go to Virginia!
Hi, cuz. 🙂
All right. Jane is from Sarah, and I’m from Elizabeth; I know someone who is from Anna. Paul, who is your ancestor? One of the above, or one of Mary, Abigail, Nathaniel, or Joseph? Any other takers? Can we make a full deck? 😉
Richard Warren is cited in some sources as the most prolific of the Mayflower passengers, having an estimated 8 – 15 MILLION descendants (depending on the method used to estimate the number.) Not bad for a man who took part in an expedition which killed half its members within the first year after landfall.
Mary! That’s three. 😉
That was me mentioning Flodden — it marks where my historical fantasy leaves official Scottish history (well, other than magic being “real”). My PhD thesis is on the Campbells, actually, but the many people I track via Argyllshire legal documents are Campbells (and a few others) from ~1680 to 1710.
Ruadhan, is your ancestor one of the Scots taken prisoner by Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar (another Scottish defeat to the English, but not half so devastating as Flodden)? After they were marched to Durham cathedral (dying in droves on the way and there) and then shipped to London, they (40 of them if I remember) were sold into indentured servitude to the Saugus Iron Works Corporation here near Boston and some of them were then sold further north to Dover, New Hampshire and I wouldn’t be surprised if a few of them were picked up as manual laborers/slaves across the Piscataqua River in Maine. I did a paper on them entitled “Servitude or Slavery?” at the Iron Works (it’s a national historic site) a number of years back when there was a big gathering at it of descendants of those Scots.
I and a friend also did 17th C. cooking demonstrations at one of the hearths in the Iron Works reconstructed foundry building. My spouse called it “creative culinary incineration” because any of the stuff we didn’t boil came out rather, um, charred. Hard (for me, a “campfire” beginner, at least) to control heat on bread or other baked goods in a dutch oven when using the hardwood, oak charcoal the Iron Works kept on hand for their forge demonstations.
Yes, my relative Micum McIntire (or MacIntyre, or…) was taken prisoner at Dunbar. I have notes saying that the McIntires were traditional pipers to Campbells, which makes me wonder if he was a piper himself, and that was what he was doing at Dunbar. This is pure speculation, though.
He was force-marched to Durham. There’s a tale about him being lined up with a bunch of other men and the English shooting every tenth man. Micum broke ranks and tried to run, but a cavalryman ran him down. Not sure whether that story is true or not.
Whatever else, he survived, and was sold into indentured servitude ‘for a period not less than seven years’ and was sent to Massachusetts, getting there aboard a ship named UNITY. This would be about 1651 – 1652. I’m not sure who he worked for or what he did, but he was out of indentured servitude by 1660.
He’s listed in the Dover, Maine, tax lists by 1659, and he’s credited (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntire_Garrison_House) with building the last remaining garrison house near York, Maine (it is now a private museum). There were originally five garrison houses, and his is the only one still standing — and it is still in the McIntire family, too, as far as I know. He clearly did well for himself, once he got to the New World.
I’ve never tried baking over a fire, unless you count pancakes, and I’m an expert at burning those!
Dover, Maine? I think that is Dover, New Hampshire. I grew up the next town over from Dover, NH and believe the records refer to that location… unless there is a Dover, Maine I’ve never heard of in the area (York is not so far away, I think I know the towns pretty well) and I simply assumed, when seeing a reference to “Dover” that it meant New Hampshire.
Maine, by the way, at that point in time for a century plus afterwards, was not a stand-alone state but part of Massachusetts. That’s why Maine gets Patriots Day (the April day the British Regulars marched on Concord + Lexington and got a bit, well, shot up by the damned locals) off as a holiday as we do here in Massachusetts. In 1773(?), it was still part of Massachusetts.
Then your thesis should have included my ancestors, Colin (son of Duncan, 1st Lord Campbell, grandson of Colin Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane) and & Marjory (daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, great grandson of Lancastrian John of Gaunt). Found them in the “Scots Peerage”, vol 3. Were they involved with anything historical, or a cadet branch of the Campbells of Argyll? It’s kinda hard to work out who’s who because every second Campbell is a Duncan or a Colin! 🙁
The Campbells of Breadalbane are one of the major, aristocratic in their own right, cadet branches of the the main lineage, the Earl (Later Duke) of Argyll. I don’t think I have any legal documents I analysed by them (they were a bit further north than the origin of most of my documents) but there certainly is a lot of surviving documentary material out of the “Breadalbane Muniments=”records” room” that was published in the 19th C.
What date is your Colin Campbell, grandson to the Earl of Breadalbane? I likely have snippets of already published in the 19th C. documents from them or can point you to them.
I think I’ve got them pretty well nailed down here:
http://www.archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun02pauluoft#page/180/mode/2up
We haven’t gone too much further into clan history. I find it a little confudging because it seems every third Campbell is a Duncan or a Colin! 🙁 They kept using those names over and over again to the point of absurdity. If you dont’t have the DOB–good luck!! 😉
In researching clan tartans (see below), I discovered that Breadalbane is one of the four recognized by the Campbel Clan Chieftan. So I guess it must be a pretty legitimate sept.
Oh, the Breadalbane Campbells are (or, at least, were) a major lineage within the clan. And yes, as a Campbell male, if you weren’t named Archibald (that’s the English equivalent of the actual Gaelic name of Gilleasbuig), then you were Colin (the patronymic founder of the clan) and Duncan, esp. for the Breadalbane Campbells, was also a favorite. Within the clan/family, it actually wasn’t difficult to identify who you were talking about. You didn’t use the clan surname in referencing a person, you used their “sloinneadh” or patronymic, so someone would be Gilleasbuig Rudh mac Chaillein mhic Dhonnachaidh mhic Ghilleasbuig, or Red Archie son of Colin son of Duncan son of Archibald.
By the way, although you certainly know this already, Paul, Campbell translates as “Crooked=”Cam” Mouth=”Beul.” Cameron is ‘Crooked Nose.” Fun names!
Shhh, don’t tell, but I ordered a woolen scarf in the Campbell/Breadalbane tartan for my sister’s Xmas present, from Scotland no less.
Have you tried quinoa instead of rice?
109 carbs per serving.
Rice is 45.
I think quinoa is right out. 😉 But thanks for suggestions!
Bamboo shoots, canned bean sprouts, and water chestnuts are ok, however.
I just made-our-own tv dinner with a spoonful of Pataki coconut curry (jar); half a can of bamboo shoots, 1/4 packet mixed steamed cauliflower/carrot/broccoli, and half a packet of chicken strips for 2.
Was pretty tasty with no rice.
*Totally off topic*, but I thought I’d let you know that Ann Leckie’s book “Ancillary Justice” with a release date this Tuesday, is shipping from Amazon. I’m doing the Snoopy dance now.
Ann is ‘one of us’ – Shejidan, Wavy Navy, all around nice person. More, I will not say. http://www.annleckie.com/novel/ancillary-justice/ for a sample and more info.
Elizabeth Bear gave it a nice review here: http://matociquala.livejournal.com/2202317.html
Yay! Everybody take note!
I noticed this when visiting Wikipedia tonight and had to pass it along.
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1882 – The Vulcan Street Plant, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went on line in Appleton, Wisconsin, US.
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5 3/4″ of rain Fri-Sat-Sun! Windy too. This was a full-up winter-type
storm, in September, when the trees still have leaves. Lost power last
evening. Went to a Chinese place for takeout, and to my sisters for
the evening.
Have I mentioned I got siding and windows replaced on south and west
sides? Can’t say it “got done just in time” because we did have some
rain when the south side was just in tar-paper, but it’s done now.
Mostly. It should have a second coat of paint, but next summer.
We still have two red doors, two red windows, and one white in back, and haven’t gotten to the others yet. Chinese red goes with our bridge and brickwork.
Why, we are cousins all around. I’m descended from John Alden and Williams Mullins and his daughter Priscilla from the Mayflower as well. 🙂 The English kept wonderful records. The Germans and Bohemians, not so much, though a cousin has found German baptismal records back to the 1500s.
It has been down below 50 in Kansas City this week, but daytime highs can still top 80. The sumac has changed color, but not much else. I am growing ginger root from one purchased from the grocery back in April. I will keep it going until frost threatens, and hope I get enough for Chinese and Indian dinners until next year.
Mom was from KC. Graduated from Paseo High. Born nearby in Harrisonville.
On the food front, I committed Vita-Mix at Costco a couple weeks ago, and I’m loving it! Aside from other goodies (pecan-chocolate chip “nutella”), I’m making an enormous fruit-veggie smoothie every morning that covers most of the day’s nutrition. Helps me get the phytonutrients my ataxia-challenged mitochondria need without all that chopping. Today’s is yoguurt, oj concentrate, grapes, banana, peach,spinach,cabbage, carrot juice, edamame, honey. Yum!
ms. fancher has a brewster from the mayflower in her line???? my mother’s side goes back to william brewster! i’ll have to look thru my printout for wrestling brewster but my dad only put in the direct line of descent…
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William BrewsterWilliam Brewster Sr was Jane’s 10th-great grandfather. 😉 Love Brewster and Wrestling Brewster were his sons.