Month: June 2023

Art, Doodles, Paintings

Checkerboard Pear

Shelly
Pear
Posca pen on recycled cardboard

Today in pear news, it’s all about checkerboards.

I had the weirdest dream last night. All I remember is a steep driveway totally inlaid with thousands of half-buried, polished stones of various sizes and colors. It looked jewel encrusted. Very pretty! But when I woke up, all I could think was that it would be a nightmare to go up in the rain or snow.

I’m guessing spending the last few days making zillions of circles and dots is what caused it.

Art, Doodles, Drawings

Pear

Shelly
Pear
acrylic, gouache, and Posca pen on recycled cardboard

I made an accordion book out of recycled cardboard. Why? Why not? I can’t credit the person I got the idea from. I think I saw it on Instagram. You can soak corrugated cardboard in hot water (tap water is fine), then peel apart the layers.

I’m a sucker for Kraft paper and have made several books out of paper grocery bags, so this looked fun. it was a little messy but not at all difficult. After the cardboard was delaminated, I laid it on the patio to dry, then tore it down, folded and taped the pieces into a long accordion, and glued on a set of recycled book covers.

I guess I’m using this book for pear doodles.

Crankypantsing, Genealogy

Not Today, Shirley

Shelly

I got these Findagrave edit suggestions today. The death location did need to be changed, so I approved it, but the other three? Why? Why would you remove a bio? Why would you make the birth location less specific? And the birth date is just plain wrong.

The information in the suggested edits came from the death certificate, which Shirley has helpfully added an image of to the Findagrave memorial. She has some salty words for people who don’t like that, in her Findagrave profile.

DeathCert_MaryAgnesGlynn1960

You can see the parents’ first names are not included, and the birth date is incorrect. The birth location is also not specific. Just Ireland.

BirthRegister_MaryAgnesBasquill_1882

Mary Agnes was the daughter of Patrick Basquil and Bridget Hynes (also spelled Hines and Hinds). She was born 20 Dec 1882 in Lackaun, a townland in Aughagower Civil Parish, County Mayo.

Findagrave does not play well with Irish place names, so the most specific you can get for this location is Aughagower, County Mayo, Ireland. That’s it. But I added the full birth location, the baptismal information, and the parents’ names in the bio. Which Shirley wanted me to remove.

BaptismalRegister_MaryAgnesBasquill_1882

The baptismal register image is dark and difficult to read, but it backs up the birth information. She was born in Lukane (or Likane? a variant spelling for Lackaun) and baptized 29 Dec 1882 in Aughagower Catholic Parish. The parents were listed as Patt Baskwell (or possibly Baskuell, which would be a new one for my collection) and Bridget Hynes. I’m pretty confident of my paper trail, and I’m pretty confident I have my facts straight and correct.

WHY? I really don’t understand. The edits she requested amount to vandalism, and they make absolutely no logical sense to me. I can understand using the information in the death certificate if you don’t have better, more reliable information available. That’s how it goes sometimes. But we have a very nice paper trail for Mary Agnes. We don’t need to rely on incomplete or incorrect information from a death record.