Rainbows and Butterflies - A Letter From a Cousin-Family Tree

Rainbows and Butterflies

Jul. 19, 2005

A Letter From a Cousin-Family Tree

Posted in From My Emails-Names are changed to protect privacy

Dear Trudie,

Hoping all is well in your neck of the woods. I have one more week of apple picking, and then I am supposed to get some free time. Free time to clean house, free time to get the lawn mowers winterized. Put a cover on the pop up. I would do that today, but because of the high winds and rain, I can wait. This morning a made a batch of potato pancakes. I am stuffed. Marie is at work, Sam stayed overnight at a friend, and there is just Mike and I at home at the moment. . , He was up walking about. Your cousin Carol is up visiting him this weekend. We heard you were evacuated from your home with the last hurricane (Ivan). We had pretty nice weather during all the storms. Church is about to start in one hour so I need go get changed. In the meantime, take care, stay warm.

...Robbie is working with Marie today making blueberry doughnuts. I might go over after a while to see if I can be of some use...

How many did you eat of them? And you didn't send me any? :( I went picking three or four times this spring. Oh, YUM. I love blueberries. They are truly one of God's gifts!!!

... How is your search going for lost decendances? I made some progress in contacting my dad's younger brother's family from his first marriage.

I (Trudie) forgot about this. I don't know how. I got my dad's medals from WWII a while back and scanned them into my FTM files. I remembered a picture that was in this huge mess of pictures that I took to MI to get Aunt D. to help me ID. It is a picture of Macarthur. There was no one else in the picture I recognized. We thought then that Dad might have met General Macarthur. Well, when I talked to Aunt D. about that and asked her more questions, she told me he had sent his mom pictures of him standing with a jeep with 5 stars on it. Grandma took the pictures to get them copied and they "disappeared". Dad had a medal from the Philippine Campaign (I think that is right.) Ray being so into military (20 years in the Army can do that.) put 2 and 2 together. My Dad possibly drove General McArthur around when he was in the service. I don't know how to find out if that is true or not.

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