Tika Listens To A Lesson on Names

Was giving Tika two genealogy examples today in our lesson....... first was "proving" that so often in olden-times people were given names from the Bible. Charles Wilbur Gurney (1864-1923) m. (1) Sarepta Mae Bishop (1867-1892).  I wondered about that name....... and then found it in Luke 4:26. Sarepta was a city of Sidon. But guess her mother liked it as her name.  Sarepta had Leila Mae in 1889 and died in 1892...... I'd bet from complications of a second pregnancy. No, I've not studied that out because my ancestor is Charles Wilbur's second wife, Viola Belle Evans (1872-1962).  And because I did rather/kinda ignore Sarepta Mae Bishop I nearly missed out on some good photos. OF COURSE she had sent photos of her new husband to her family, and her wedding photos, and with her dying so young, of course they kept the photos........ and doing a search on the Bishop family online I located those pictures of a very young Charles Wilbur and his first bride.  Pays to be totally thorough in your research; that's what I was teaching to Tika in our lesson today.

Tika Reads Comics

Tika was snuggled by me in our chair as I read the morning paper recently. I laughed out loud at the Dennis the Menace cartoon and when I read it to Tika she.............. yawned. No matter. Dennis and his little friends were admiring a momma dog's new babies and the caption was, "WOW! She downloaded EIGHT PUPPIES!"""" "   While that cartoon was darn cute enough, it made me wonder how many computer and Internet references have crept into our everyday language?? I suspect that the list would be long. Surf does not involve ocean waves; mouses do not eat cheese; we keyboard and not type; and website does not mean that lovely big dew-spangled spider web in your flowers. Bet you could come up with many more.

While we're thinking, how many definitions for the word dog can you list? Dog as an adjective, dog as a verb, and dog as a noun. Interesting exercise.  And by the by, Tika says she is not a "dog," but a dachshund.

Tika Likes Webinars

Tika likes webinars.......... or rather I should say Tika likes it when I'm at my computer listening to a webinar. She sits at my feet but also where she can look out into the yard. She does not care if I'm listening to and learning from Geoff at Legacy, Thomas at High-Def Genealogy or dearMYRT expounding. She just knows I'm eager to learn and she's there to support me. (And get a doggy treat half way through.)

If you would like to know about upcoming (free) online genealogy webinars, click to www.geneawebinars.com
and mark your calendar to be sitting by your computer and ready to learn something new or great or wonderful or just plain fun.

If Tika and I both recommend webinars to you, well, what more do you need????

Tika & I are glad to be home.

The Colorado River water was 47-50o but the nice clean warm beach sand was a delight to walk on; Tika would have loved it! So did I do any genealogy? Looking at rocky ledges and walls that were MILLIONS of years old......... boggled the mind. They said a casual rule of thumb is 1 inch equals 5000 years and our human history in the last 10,000 years is .00008 of an inch. Boggles the mind. So I talked genealogy to my boat mates!

Tika Goes to Gramma Kay & We Go To The Grand Canyon

Tika gets to go visit Gramma Kay, her favorite dog sitter, and our house sitter will tend all our many plants, and we're off to float the Colorado River through the entire Grand Canyon. Cannot wait to get there!  Tika will be spoiled rotten when we fetch her home and not miss us at all!

Tika Dog Blog Speak

In one of his bird dog hunting magazines, Handy Man found this list of explanations................. to which Tika said "wwwhhhaaaatttttt?"  Here they are:

Hard Drive Back-up ..............  Dog in a brace
Search Engine ......................... Dog nose
Twitter .................................... Sound a bird makes
Tweet .....................................  More sounds a bird makes
Browser..................................  Going from smell to smell to smell
Megabytes............................    How a dog eats
Gigabytes................................  Dogs "singing" for their dinner
Linkedin .................................   Dog kennel fencing
Hyperlink...............................    Dog "prong" or "pinch" collar
Router ...................................   Dog flushing out/smelling out a bird or critter
Download ................................ Dog squatting and doing her business

This was just too cute not to share with you............. Tika gave her blessing to do so.