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No more orange
During lunch break today I was distracted by my own blog - I went back and read some random posts from September, 2004, when I started it. I realize that I am a huge geek - sometimes in that geeky cutesy way and sometimes in that geeky- irritating way. I'm glad I did it though - so many things happened and I wouldn't be able to remember them otherwise, especially travel stories and my closed-minded opinions from days gone by..
A few weekends ago, I traveled to L.A. (Lethbridge, Alberta - no joke people there call it that) My brother, Daniel, who normally goes out of his way not to hang out with me and recently returned from a long journey to Oz and New Zealand (wait a minute,old Zealand anybody?)invited me and he has a car and I wanted to visit my grandparents who live there and it just seemed like the perfect combination. The last time I went there was in June, and it was a big family event: 100 year anniversary of the family farm. It was a bit rushed and also a bit busy but it was still really interesting hearing the story of my great-grandfather who came to Canada from England in 1906 and built a homestead. I never really thought about the story before - I knew that somebody at some point had moved here from Europe and then had kids who had kids and their kids are.. me. But the logistics of all the history details seemed too overwhelming for me.
After this anniversary party I had a somewhat different perspective. So I did some research.
My great-grandfather left Bourn, in Cambridgeshire, north of London apparantly, where is dad owned this very mill. a It's a flour mill and date back to sometime between the 13th century and the 17th century (apparantly there weren't alot of changes made to Mill's between that time so they don't know how old it is). My great great (maybe one more great) was also the owner of "The Fox" which is a public house. I'm pretty sure that means a pub, but I'm just guessing. Or maybe just a place where people hung out to chat about current events.
I contacted the historical society in the area and they will send me information of some sort about the Fox and the Mill and my family.
As you can see, alot has changed since September 2004. I'm no longer a geek!
A few weekends ago, I traveled to L.A. (Lethbridge, Alberta - no joke people there call it that) My brother, Daniel, who normally goes out of his way not to hang out with me and recently returned from a long journey to Oz and New Zealand (wait a minute,old Zealand anybody?)invited me and he has a car and I wanted to visit my grandparents who live there and it just seemed like the perfect combination. The last time I went there was in June, and it was a big family event: 100 year anniversary of the family farm. It was a bit rushed and also a bit busy but it was still really interesting hearing the story of my great-grandfather who came to Canada from England in 1906 and built a homestead. I never really thought about the story before - I knew that somebody at some point had moved here from Europe and then had kids who had kids and their kids are.. me. But the logistics of all the history details seemed too overwhelming for me.
After this anniversary party I had a somewhat different perspective. So I did some research.
My great-grandfather left Bourn, in Cambridgeshire, north of London apparantly, where is dad owned this very mill. a It's a flour mill and date back to sometime between the 13th century and the 17th century (apparantly there weren't alot of changes made to Mill's between that time so they don't know how old it is). My great great (maybe one more great) was also the owner of "The Fox" which is a public house. I'm pretty sure that means a pub, but I'm just guessing. Or maybe just a place where people hung out to chat about current events.
I contacted the historical society in the area and they will send me information of some sort about the Fox and the Mill and my family.
As you can see, alot has changed since September 2004. I'm no longer a geek!
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