Summer time and the living is easy! Record the family history.

My mother loved that song about summertime.  Was that seventy five

years ago?  What has happened to me  lately, thewho loves to write so much?  Not sure.  I have been

trying to write a letter to a friend who wanted to know how I was doing since

Pat has been gone and the spooky thing is I wrote a long letter twice, hit

send and two times it disappeared. I know because I sent a copy to me.

Is Pat somewhere fiddling with this?  I sat down and wrote it all by hand and

I will type it and send it snail mail and see what happens. Very interesting.

I am excited because my great nephew just called yesterday saying he

would send me the papers from my fathers life so I can get going on his bio.

I have his mothers bio.  She was born in 1840   and he was born in 1878.  I know his life was

amazing and want to record it for my family.  I think we all should do this.  Now most of

the people who knew him are gone and only a few younger ones remain.  I met

a 96 year old relative who remembers so much and I want to talk with her so I

can have more to tell others.

So this morning I was sitting in bed, recording what I remembered from birth and

also what I had been told, and therefore appear to remember. It is such fun

and one thing leads to another.  I have my book Hairdresser to the Stars which

records forty years of my life, but in between were stories from the Happy Hills Farm

and also from Snowvillage Inn that need to be told. I have written them down some-

where so will be able to find what I cannot remember.  This project will be memories

and tales told to me and therefore not perfect non fiction, but close to it.  I need info

about my father going on a cattle drive to Medicine Hat, taking his brother Roscoe

so as to teach him to eat anything, he had been picky up to that point. I am sure

Roscoe came back a changed person.  I know Daddy could add a column of figures

in his head, even though he only went to the third grade.  I didn’t know his brother

Herbert was a mathematical geinus and wrote some books on math subjects.   So

much to learn in doing this. I look forward to it and hope anyone that knows

anything interesting will contact me from the Zuckermans and the Schwartz and

the Weyls.