Millie Houston was my great grandmother, married to Harve Houston, who appeared in this blog a while back. She was born in Galesburg, Illinois just after the Civil War, and as a young child moved with her parents to Chautauqua County, Kansas. I’ve always wondered how these sweet-looking young ladies ended up married to the […]
Since I’ve been spending so much time on my genealogy project, I thought I’d insert some of my musings into the blog. I have the beginnings of a more organized genealogy on one of my other web pages, http://genealogy.mcirillo.com/, but I’ve been concentrating on research and haven’t updated it lately.
This is a photo of my […]
One of the nice things about working on transcriptions at these older Collin County cemeteries as the peace and quiet. These 3 black angus bulls were quietly observing me for most of my stay the first time I worked on Warden Cemetery. I “mooed” a bit and that really got their attention. Last time I […]
ok, I haven’t posted in a while. I had to dig into the old iPhoto archives to come up with something. Here’s part of the mural from the “coffee’n’cream” establishment in ye olde downtowne McKinney celebrating the discovery of coffee beans by an observant goat herd who noticed the goats were particularly frisky after consuming […]
Last Friday I explored a bit of Collin County. In Dallas County the City of Dallas sprawls across most of the geographic area, with a few large suburban cities joined to it shoulder to shoulder. In Collin County there are dozens of small towns, not yet suburbs but not quite rural. I’ve been shooting water […]
I appreciate everybody stopping by for Studio Friday. I’ll be returning the favor soon, just can’t get it together this morning.
I don’t know why I’m so flighty today. It’s Monday and I can’t decide what I need to do first, so I’m following Brian Clark’s advice to just
write
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thanks to Hanna for the link!
I’m obsessing about […]