Good Day "39"

I guess that means we can look forward to some great photos Ruth, glad you had such a nice day!

Our weather has turned horrible, really cold and windy - the clouds looked almost as though they could be holding snow!!  The crazy the weather is behaving, who knows?  I really hope not - it isn't even supposed to be winter yet! 

I would suppose to but if I get a chance I'll go see the movie coming out with Johhn Depp in it..called "The Lone Ranger and Tonto" and my favorite as an kid...though I must admmit I have gotten use to Johnny Depp as an pirate...and wasn' t that abou tthe time that our Diana left us..while she was saying she adord him. Oh, yes, weren't we going to leave her on an island to be saved by Johnny Depp?

I am taking an break right now...have total chaos going on at the minute around here. Hubby and grandson got the Scout job of buing all the food for their participation in "Scout Camporee" this weekend, but the grandson has an "concert" tonight at school we all got to show up for, so if hubby can get it all rounded up...he goes to the concert..if not...he goes sets up camporee for the troop and my son takes my grandson there early tomarrow morning...my grand-daughter I pick up after the concert to stay with me this weekend.

OK...as you know I'm taking down glass itmes to store them until the end of May is over with...just to be on the safe side..besides...the bookcase is in desparate need to be cleaned and dusted throughly.I have some "silver" trinkets to take to my daughter in-law and herbookcase...so she has something more then just family pictures. She's in need of more adult type treasures. Her livingroom is blue and touches of cream and grey and gold.So she needs the silver to off set the gray in her room..mostly an huge clock on the wall. But...

 history lesson# ?......her father's name was "Bolton"she knows very little about him, as he left the family when he was little...BUT..she's always know her "Grandmother Bolton" use to own consdier  property off Sandy Blvd...south of Blue Lake. I know as an kid she spent some time being raised back in Nebraska/Missouri are also.

I found an history book one time...an autobiography of an man named "Bolton"...he was an chief of the Osage Indians in Missouri.

This book starts with an young Bolton man being born to an lady

who had been told that her mother had committed sucide and more or less written off as "one of those things amoug the Native Americans"...when the author of the book starts researching the family....it is believed that the grandfather "chief" may of gotten hisname from association with the "Bolton" family some how. Atany rate, I won't take you through this whole book. It ends up that his

daughter had huge money's suppose to been paid to her by our

Govt. from her father's Native American ancestory. Her own mother

had married and when she was an child...she was taken away from her as they did to the Native American's back then and riased in an boarding school in New York..she went went on to become highly educated and an Broadway "opera" singer in her day. Her mother isthe one said to have committed sucide...but when facts were reasearch what turned up is that the step-father was taking this little girls inheirtance as she gre up through the help of the Inidian agent in thier area and living to high hilt. When the daughter turned of ageto marry...thinking she had all this money in the bank waiting for her..she finds out non of it was there...she confronts the step-father and not to much later is found dead as an supposed suicide. Her daughter is then raised as an little girl by other relatives, growing up being told her mother was an bit metally "off"...when in actuality she was most likely murdered. My Sarah knows very little about her father also. He could of been the only son of the autobioaugrapher...and wouldn't you know she felt someone some day would come along an help her. (Ahem)...and her son. I also do not know if Boughton at sometime in England was Bolton either. But I'm always shopping you know...esp at the thrift shops...adn one of the things I do, is when people throw away old family bibles, buy then and give them to historical socities. The Osage Indians have ties with the southern Indians in years past. I came across this silver pitcher, and indeed it's very differently made. Most silver is "etched"for and design...this one looks like ti was "pressed" with an sttencil or mold of some kind...it had inials on the side of it...I find out later was the company...not an family initial. Most "indian captives" have an reputation for having grown up in the Alabama area before going to Missiouri later on. Oh, yes, the Middleton/Larkins are from this area also...whcih takes me back to the Read/Reed and Millington family so well know and buried in Bruton Parish Church and from England perhaps. I found on these intials and this company this information...."The Barker Ellis Silver Co., Ltd. est in 1801, is one of the oldest firms of silversmiths and electroplates now trading in Birmingham. (Alabama)...It still posses the original Boutlon and Watt dies aquired during it's early days of manufacturing. In the 1960's the firm merged with another old established company...Ellis and Company LTD. in Burmingham...the business returned to private ownership in 1984. So it is this silver item may have an reputation that makes it 212 years old this year. I like the idea that the imprinting makes is an deeper pattern in the silver then does just etching, which silversmith's have told me that much of today's items with the etching gets lost if the item ever need silver dipping again.It's getting hard to find people that can do it with the increased prices of silver and the lack of the younger generation to want to clean thier silver to keep it polished properly. Anyway, I'm giving my daughter in-law today this item...as it has an "feel" to me of somehow maybe related to her in the past with the Boulton family.I am glad her mother and grandmother stayed in touch after her son left...no one has ever really said "why"...I assume an divorceor else...he's Native American Indian...where the mother's raise thier daughters...in an matriaral clan situation. In which case the males never really "live" with their wives...as warriors they keep on traveling pretty much making thier own lives and at 16 or so take their son's with them also...if they aren't like today's new generation of "family"and keep in touch. So much for today's history lesson...Imust go, have much to do before the concert tonight. Right now I'mgetting ready to get my hair fixed somewhat..... Run, run, run... as they say.I was amazed at all the things I have collected over the years also. If only I had the time to sit down and write something about each thing that I have collected and what made it important to me to purchase it in the first place...in hopes others would see the value in keeping it someday. One such mudane object was an ginger jar I bought in California at "Bullocks" near Newport...when I was visting with my grreat Aunt Katherine O'Cana....and gave it to my mother, whom had it for years before she passed away, I got it back again...so it is it's been through 3 generations of buying and giving in it's association.  I still remember the great long bells at the Shopping Mall enterance back then. Wished we could of gone to the World Market she mentioned back then. I go for now.

Yeah, I know....isn't this post just "something"...reading it backwards it makes me feel my ties to Ronald Regean...laughs*....instead of dementia.."dumb-mentioning-Ya" in the history article. Things will be "OK"..hubby just left, with me exhausted and unhappy with him having to leave tonight. Sounds like my grandson will be the only one not with them all. So I go have some more Pizza and hope to feel better... before I leave myself. Thsi cheif in this book I mentioned says he took tribal money and invested it in oil...after he made the treaty with our Govt...but the one or the people I've found tagged with this story and this book are different named I think. Maybe another one of those wikipedia information sheets?

Wasn't "American Idol" top notched last night though...very good final show for the season and next comes "DWTS"..Monday night.

This remote viewer on this PNW earthquake...said it would happen during an protest...he saw people outside of an domed capital...so he took that to be Washington State...they are going to protest May20th over something up there...but nation-wide there is an call to protest the Govt. May 25th also. That's why he said to give things until June 1 st to call the all clear signal. We have one out of four separate groups calling for some such going as far as June 23rd. May 24 or 25 is another eclipse also. Kind of like an full moon,  people act werid. Pizza time!

Can you imagine meeting Shirley on the street and saying hello, you'd never get home! LOL

Great read Shirley, like James says keep them coming.

Hi Poers just popped in to say hello while I am able, I think you were right Ron after damaging my arm I think arther is paying me a visit lol but I am having a go, I have been looking in on the threads daily as I can scroll with my lef hand, I see Shirley is still having a busy life, but where is Mike or have I missed his posts?

If there are any volunteers to give my shoulder and neck a good massage I will give you my address