When I went looking for my quotes I found two things that I had been looking for for a long time.
I had looked for years for a poem I had started. Well, it was in with my quotes. Then I found a family tree from my mother's side of the family. I had forgotten that I had the family tree and don't remember where I got it from or who made it up.
THE OLDER I GROW, THE MORE I LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T TALK MUCH.
Germain Glein
I have decided to make some changes to my blog. I have been struggling lately. Topics seem hard to come by. If I don't have something interesting to say it's hard to write something. So, like I chose my retirement, I couldn't teach the way I wanted to . I knew then it was time to quit.
So I'm not exactly quitting. I'm going to do a quote of the day. Where did this idea come from? Well yes, I did this in school. Many kids read the quote of the day once they got into the classroom. For me it was way to get their attention I was always impressed when some little guys checked into the classroom for quote of the day and they weren't in my class.
So once in while there will be a post but most of the time a quote. I hope you like them.
I will still be round to read your posts.
Blogging has been very interesting and rewarding for me.
My family background is German except for my mother. Mom had to tough it out at family gatherings because when the family was together, they spoke German. The family was good to her and tried to keep her in the discussion.
My Grandfather was born in 1864. I was born in 1939. That means that he was 74 when I was born. He was very happy as I was his first grandson. 74 was quite old to become a Grandpa.
Here I am when my grandpa sees me for the first time
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Now skip on a few years. At the family gathers the men visited in the living room. The women stayed in the kitchen. The girl grandchildren were nice the little girls. The boy grand children ran all over Grandpa's very neat farm yard. Grandpa was out on the yard with us trying to protect his neat yard from the grandsons who ran all over the place. Grandpa had special way of piling his would. We would crawl over his neat wood pile and mess it up. He was probably watching us to see that we didn't harm ourselves.
So I often think about what he thought about his first loving grandson and that grandson who later ran over his neat farm yard.
Grandpa lived at our house for much if his last ten years.
I wish my friends and readers a Happy Canada Day. I hope that we stay united and work together for the benefit of all.
Wednesday July 1, is our Canada holiday where we celebrate when we became a country. We became an independent country in 1867. Before that we were a colony of the British Empire. The independence was limited. We had many more hoops to jump through before becoming fully independent. Our Supreme court was in Britain. We were still under the Queen. We had to follow British foreign policy.
Never the less , in 1878 Canada declared July 1 the day to celebrate our independence. The day was called Dominion Day .We didn't really gain full independence until the 1930's.
So , we've had a bit of a change. We now celebrate Canada Day.
In 1982 we changed the name of the day to Canada Day .
Canadians celebrate Canada Day by showing off the many things we can do.
I was prompted by Mr Pudding from Yorkshire Pudding to ask some questions about blogging.
I asked and I got some great comments on the situation.
First I had to look back on my follow list. I haven't followed a new blog for maybe 5 years. If I'm going to be an active blogger , maybe I should get busy and reach out and find some new blogs to follow.
Many times I have a hard time coming up with topics. I like to have something meaningful to say and try and make it interesting. I find that an idea will pop into my head but by the time I come to write about it, the idea is gone. Maybe I should write the topics down
I'm a lazy blogger. I do very little research for any of my posts. I guess that's another thing I could sharpen up on.
A few months ago I looked in my archives. There was a tremendous difference in my writing and topics at that time.
So I guess I have to remake myself if I'm going to interact ands communicate with more bloggers
Last week Mr Pudding from Yorkshire Pudding lamented that blogging seemed to have slowed down. I have a similar feeling. People don't seem to be posting as often or commenting as often.
So this post is an opportunity for me to admit that I'm one of the guilty people who are not posting as often as I used to. I've been running on empty when it comes to topics. If I don't have anything worth while to say I should say nothing. At least, that's what my Mom used to tell us.
Summer is a busy time and that interferes with blogging.
So I will take Mr Puddings comments to heart and try to pay a little more attention to my blog.
Some times we have to look at our blog list. I think we would be surprised to see how many people are not blogging anymore.
