{"id":1703,"date":"2014-10-08T23:22:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T12:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2014-10-08T23:22:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T12:22:34","slug":"1703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Dog<\/p>\n

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I saw the surgeon last week and can now drive.\u00a0 Have only been out once but have a busy day coming up.\u00a0 Have been occupied trying to clean up the back garden.\u00a0 Now that the lawn\u2019s been cut I can tell the difference between lawn and weeds and have spent days trying to pull them out. Today I decided that pulling was no longer possible.\u00a0 Some were as thick as a pencil and all were squashed between the mower strip and the metal garden guard.\u00a0 They got cut as short as possible and then Zeroed. \u00a0\u00a0It took forever to do and I retreated to my heated chair during frequent breaks.\u00a0 It\u2019s good to start feeling something approaching normal.\u00a0 The more I look around the garden the more I see requiring attention.\u00a0 Walking is still a variable exercise.<\/p>\n

The family history research continues.\u00a0 Last night I was looking up the husband of a second cousin.\u00a0 He had the benefit of an unusual surname and two Christian names, the first being somewhat unusual.\u00a0 He shouldn’t have been confusing at all as I had indexes to his birth, marriage and death and didn’t find anyone else with the same name. \u00a0However, I found a 1911 census record for a boy of his name and age along with several siblings in an orphanage.\u00a0 There was a probate record for a man who might have been his father who had died a couple of years before but it mentioned a widow who I was unable to find in the records.\u00a0 Examining records for some of the siblings didn’t clarify anything and allow me to feel confident that he was \u00a0the one in the orphanage either.\u00a0 The second cousin, a stenographer sailed to Argentina in 1924 as an unmarried young woman.\u00a0 Eight years later they were both recorded as first class passengers on a boat from China.\u00a0 The husband\u2019s occupation was recorded as \u201cshipping\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 No other shipping records were found for them.\u00a0 One of the siblings died in the 1960s and probate was granted to a man with the same name as the cousin\u2019s husband.\u00a0 He was recorded as a publican.\u00a0 By the time I\u2019d got that far my brain was fried from too many otherwise unconnected facts and it was time for bed.\u00a0 Suspect his parentage and early life will remain a mystery.<\/p>\n

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Indie, the new "dog"<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday I got up from my chair for a moment and returned to find it occupied by Indie.\u00a0 There was no other covered chair so I put her on Phantom\u2019s unoccupied double decker bed.\u00a0 He was busy monitoring the street.\u00a0 I didn’t expect her to remain and poor Phantom was left without a bed long after the streetscape had lost its appeal. \u00a0Today she\u2019d really decided she was a dog by taking over his favourite outside bed. Phantom was busy keeping a close eye on me so didn’t miss his bed.<\/p>\n

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The New Dog   I saw the surgeon last week and can now drive.\u00a0 Have only been out once but have a busy day coming up.\u00a0 Have been occupied trying to clean up the back garden.\u00a0 Now that the lawn\u2019s been cut I can tell the difference between lawn and weeds and have spent days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,98,86],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals-2","category-australia","category-family-history","tag-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}