A few years ago I tested a couple of pedometer apps on my phone. They all drained the battery, because they couldn’t work in the background. That seems to have changed. This one works quite well (it was within a few steps of my wristband tracker), and there isn’t any noticeable impact on battery life.
I think half those steps were at Kroger. The store is huge, and a wristband tracker doesn’t work well when you’re pushing a shopping cart. It’s nice to finally get official credit for those steps!
I’m almost done with my cat sitting job. I’ll miss the amazing views, but I’ll be glad to have one less thing on my plate.
Thomas got an early morning bath, after walking through a patch of poison ivy. Baths are not his favorite thing, but a little peanut butter makes them almost tolerable.
He could hardly wait for me to empty his new box, so he could take it out for a test drive.
The creek was low and lazy today, even though it rained this afternoon.
I went for a Sunday drive in the country.
Thomas and his ducky helped with laundry.
1870 U.S. census, population schedule, Wall Lake Township, Wright County, Iowa, p. 2, dwelling 14, family 14, Ezra Lord; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com/ : accessed 8 Jul 2017); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593, roll 427.
When you work with a census image, make sure you check the whole page thoroughly for collateral relatives. And if the page is this congested with people in your tree, check the pages preceding and after, too. As you can see from my notes on the index page, this single census page was a goldmine.
1880 U.S. census, population schedule, Wall Lake Township, Wright County, Iowa, enumeration district (ED) 254, p. 7-8, dwelling 61, family 63, John Lord; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com/ : accessed 8 Jul 2017); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 371. Rec. Date: 8 Oct 2016.
Second tip: When you encounter a page like the 1870 census page above, carefully check the surrounding pages in other years, too.
This was a ton of information to assimilate, enter, and source, and it took me half the day to do so.
A brief but impressive storm blew up. After it passed, I took the dog out for a walk and saw some fading mammatus clouds.
It’s only July! It’s too early for this nonsense.
A little digging indicates that this George Baskwell is actually George Baskerville, the son of Richard Baskerville and Sarah Sharp, born in Massachusetts about 1848. I suspect he’s one of those Tipperary Baskervilles that are–as far as I can tell–totally unconnected to my Mayo Basquills.
That Mamie, though. I think she’s a keeper.
Source The Daily Inter Mountain (Butte, Montana), 25 Sep 1900, page 10 column 5.
MAMIE SWIPED A BED.
Mamie Supernaut is one of those women belonging to the lower crust of society. Her new lover is a painter named George Baskwell. The man who last shared her companionship is another painter named W. G. Koebel. Koebel complained today that Mamie entered his cabin while he was away and packed off a bedstead, and he had reason to believe the same was in the cabin of Mamie’s new friend. Koebel was advised to see county attorney.
red paper boat 