{"id":1657,"date":"2014-09-09T18:02:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T08:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2014-09-09T18:05:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T08:05:28","slug":"the-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1657","title":{"rendered":"The Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Update<\/p>\n

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Last week a Community Nurse arrived and removed the staples in my suture line.\u00a0 She was very happy with healing and then festooned the suture line with steri strips, sticky strips of medical paper, and advised me to rub the suture line with oil when the strips fall off. \u00a0About half have fallen off now and I\u2019ve been rubbing the suture line with emu oil.\u00a0 She was less than impressed with the changed designed of the disposal staple remover but nevertheless managed to remove all staples with a minimum of fuss.\u00a0 Oddly enough the remover had been manufactured in the Dominican Republic, an odd location I\u2019d have thought but guess it makes a change from the usual source of all things manufactured.<\/p>\n

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My “post hospital” cleaner arrived last week. \u00a0She was organised, focused and got on with the job with minimal need for instruction or supervision. \u00a0 The house was significantly \u00a0cleaner when she left. \u00a0Pity she’s not here this week but have to wait for fortnightly visits.<\/p>\n

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Had a bit of a restless night last night with restless critters and me not settling into a deep sleep.\u00a0 Have become rather fond of the long deep sleeps I\u2019ve been having and not sure why I didn\u2019t last night especially as I\u2019d consumed my last long acting analgesic with the expectation of a good sleep. \u00a0I thought I\u2019d reasoned out the cat\u2019s behavior and beaten it but was disproved last night.\u00a0 I\u2019d allowed the dogs back inside overnight a few nights before and all has gone well apart from last night; not a major problem but unwelcome.\u00a0 At some stage I threw the dogs out and returned to sleep for a late arousal.<\/p>\n

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I renewed my membership to a genealogical website and have been fiddling around the edges of ancestry research over the last week or so.\u00a0 Yesterday I found family trees seemingly containing the ancestors of one of the ancestors who came to Australia. \u00a0Previously I\u2019d been unable to make any headway with that section of the family so was pretty happy to find the tree especially as it came with a \u201ccast of thousands\u201d involving siblings ++ and multiple older generations.\u00a0 I started look for indexes to the original records and by the time I reached the second sibling the penny had dropped and I realized I had a problem.\u00a0 The parents had produced and baptized at least three kids, including my relative, before marrying.\u00a0 In those days the parish records recorded if a baby was born illegitimate and there was no sense of that.\u00a0 I wrote to the owner of the tree to see if he had an explanation.\u00a0 About a dozen other people had also included that marriage and kids as part of their trees.\u00a0 About another half dozen had recorded the kids and parents but without the marriage and only naming the mother as \u201cMary\u201d without a surname.\u00a0 I have a copy of the original parish records for my ancestor\u2019s birth so will need to return to it and see if I can make headway without the benefit of other people\u2019s trees.<\/p>\n

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Camellia bushes at front of house<\/p><\/div>\n

This afternoon I received a phone call from Big Brother who offered to fund my genealogical research.\u00a0 That generous offer will allow me to pay for the current database, chase up some needed certificates, access other required pay data bases and should keep me occupied for a long time.\u00a0 So THANK YOU, KIND PATRON.<\/p>\n

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Pruned rose bushes and spring flowers in back garden<\/p><\/div>\n

This afternoon I walked out to the letter box without any aids.\u00a0 I then returned inside for my long handled picker upper and collected the fallen camellia blossoms.\u00a0 I then took a couple of photos and proceeded, still unaided, down the back stairs to the back lawn where I can now walk since Son Number 3 mowed the lawn on Sunday.\u00a0 \u00a0Some of the flowers are pretty and the rose bushes are thriving and growing new buds since a Kind Friend pruned them ten days ago. \u00a0After feeding Floyd and taking a few photos it was time to return inside.\u00a0 It had been drizzling so was not a good time to walk the street.\u00a0 Yesterday I saw a beautiful bush in blossom down in a small section of public land.\u00a0\u00a0 It needs a photo in the right climatic and light conditions and today is not the day.<\/p>\n

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More spring flowers and "ornamental" soccer ball<\/p><\/div>\n

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Some 'happy" flowers<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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