I am having a new floor installed in my 24-foot stock trailer that is 6-feet wide.?ÿ Finding a source of oak planking became quite a problem.?ÿ Finally, discovered a saw mill in an Amish community about 50 miles away.?ÿ As there are no phones, you must appear at the site to learn what they have and related details.?ÿ Made that journey yesterday with Mrs. Cow.?ÿ We noted that only 200-300 feet from the saw mill was their community school.?ÿ The youngsters were arriving in their buggies or on horseback and tethering the horses in the school yard.
Today, I went back with a different trailer to load up the oak planking.?ÿ Just before leaving I asked Simon, my primary contact, "How many kids do you have in your school over there", as I pointed towards it.?ÿ His reply was that there were 40-some most days.
While driving home I phoned Mrs. Cow for various reasons.?ÿ I told of his response to my question.?ÿ She said without thinking, "Are they all his?
Well.........I guess that was the question I asked.
Do you hear "Twilight Zone" music in your head when you think of something one day and the next the "advertising gods" are attempting to sell you whatever that was at every new view on your computer??ÿ Yesterday, my wife was doing a better than average job of tidying up the bathroom and decided she probably should get a new toilet bowl brush.?ÿ A bit later, she was using her laptop and up popped an ad for toilet brushes.?ÿ Whoo doo whoo doo....................
I told above about making a stop in an Amish community yesterday to do business.?ÿ Sometime this morning while I was away from home, an Amish fellow from a different community about 35 miles to the southwest stopped at my house and left a note in the door explaining that he would like to purchase my windmill.?ÿ Whoo doo whoo doo.......................
I'm certain he was riding in a van driven by one of several local fellows from that area who make good money transporting workers from that Amish community to construction projects all over this corner of the state.?ÿ But, still, the very next day??????
Do you hear "Twilight Zone" music in your head when you think of something one day and the next the "advertising gods" are attempting to sell you whatever that was at every new view on your computer??ÿ
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Do you hear "Twilight Zone" music in your head when you think of something one day and the next the "advertising gods" are attempting to sell you whatever that was at every new view on your computer?
No Twilight Zone......just Dark Side of the Moon... ?????ÿ
If you enter that thought into Google, Facebook, twitter, or email, or say the words in the presence of Siri or Alexa, then it is obvious why you get the ads.
I don't suppose HC uses those, so we may have to chalk it up to noticing the coincidences and forgetting the hundreds of thoughts and words that did not match the next day's ads.
Intentionally observing coincidences is a little joy I get in life.
An example from last week.?ÿ My wife and I were traveling together.?ÿ At our breakfast stop we saw Joe and talked about his brother, David.?ÿ Our next stop, 15 miles away, was at a gas station.?ÿ There we saw Skeet and talked about his brother, David.?ÿ About 30 minutes later received a text that necessitated stopping by at John's office.?ÿ While at John's office, where David had worked, it struck me that I had seen three brothers and talked about the fourth within a two hour span.?ÿ This was not in my home county.
Many years ago I stopped by the high school to pickup my daughter from volleyball practice.?ÿ They were still practicing so I sat my the mother of another player to wait.?ÿ While we were chatting I mentioned to here how four of the twelve that were scrimmaging at the moment were related to her.?ÿ She looked out on the floor where her daughter was part of one team.?ÿ Turned back and said, "Four?".?ÿ Suggested she look again.?ÿ It took a few minutes before she looked back and named all four.?ÿ That's what can happen when big families beget a second generation of big families and a third.?ÿ BTW, one of our regular contributors here is a distant relative of them all.
That's small town USA, especially when we were young.?ÿ Today there is a lot more moving around and I doubt that that is as common as it used to be. Out of my grade school school class of about 45 (before some school consolidations), I can trace to a common ancestor with at least 4 (no first cousins) and my sister and brother had several others in their classes. That's just on my father's side, as my mother was from a different county.
In a nearby community with roughly 90 percent attending the same church the odds of dating someone with a common ancestor is very likely.?ÿ Big families with the oldest child being born over 20 years earlier than the last child further confuses the connections as the two dating may be cousins but they may be second cousins twice removed as opposed to simply being second cousins.
My high school class had two girls with the surname Beard.?ÿ At least five other class members with varying surnames were their cousins (at some level).?ÿ That connection was never mentioned by the others that I recall.?ÿ I have learned that information due to my studies in local history and genealogy of several of the early families in that community.
One fellow who settled about four miles from my boyhood home (His first name was Green) was married three times and sired 21 children.?ÿ One of his descendants is married to a descendant of his neighbor (First name Joel) who had eight sons.?ÿ This young couple has two children, so far.?ÿ Those kids had better find their future mates a long way from where they grow up.?ÿ Even then, there is a possibility of marrying a relative.
