Good Day "61"

Good morning..things are kind of looking better weatherwise...damp though. I spent most the night in Northcumberland with the "Strothers" family...my neighbors up the hill a moound couple houses away...they married into the Lewis family and George Washington's neice..he adopted the kids after thier father died. How they got mixedup with Native American "Red Bird"... I guess comes from one of them being an British officer to Virginia in the 1600's. They are only 3/4 Native American.The  strothers were able to hold their  English property for abut 300 years before Thomas Percy took it, and then the National trust. So far I can't find any pictures of the Manor houses, most likely torn down through the ages. These are some of the so called "vikings" that landed on English soil, called "Willinge" from the Danish are they came from...went into the name of Wellington "boot" fella association and over here with Wallins Creek, Ky in Harlan Co., Ky....I leave them in Missouri before coming to Oregon.  The original "Strothers" was an high sheriff of Norththumberland 1356 ad. Joan an Strothers and he was named Harlan Cornett. She's the only one left of the original  two Cornett brothers owned most this area where our houses stand ..they today...they have houses side by side on our little mound hill..two houses up from me..and still own considerable acreage. Harlan's was up for an MIllion dollars after he passed on, but the real estate market then had tanked out so other relatives took on the household. I can bet their property taxes are huge unless they have an way to compensate for them business wise.Joan had the  yard sale of all yard sales here an while back after her hubby passed on...World War I military uniforms and gear...non-electric flat irons for pressiing clothes, m Ham Radio equiptment of Sidney's...it was like selling an "museum" not an  just an garage sale. I go for now...have some errands to attend to today.   

Beware the car money pit James. Our last car started with just a few minor things which we put right, then a front spring went when we were in Cornwall, you have to buy two so that came to around £300. Over ther following months more things started to go wrong, electrics, this, that, the other. Over a period of about 18 months we paid out over £2000. Three days after we paid out £600 for a major electrical rewiring job the gear box went. The car was 10 years old, 150000 plus miles on the clock, a new gear box would have cost nearly £3000, so we had to cut our losses and get rid - £300 for scrap.

We've vowed now we are never going to keep a car longer than 3 years, or 5 years old. It just works out to expensive.

Good luck with yours. 

Good Morning to all who are around--have a nice day

Yes Ruth they do work out expensive as they get older --so waiting for a call now to start the 2 hour journey to pick up.