Everything but the kitchen sink.

Like personalized t-shirts? I am trying out a new site which may have ‘photo shirts’ — if I can be sure there is no problem with band members of groups represented in the Brother’s Band Family group? If 1 person says no, I will come up with a unique design, Here’s what I have available so far:
http://redlionweaves.onlineshirtstores.com/

My great-aunt, Miriam E. Justice Parrott, died yesterday.

I, along with family members are awaiting for word about funeral arrangements.

She was the youngest sister of my maternal grandfather — Herbert Russell Justice.

Aunt Miriam had been the sole surviving child of Isaac Clay Justice and Lilly Dee Lawley Fulmer (Justice).

She lived much of her adult life in Homewood, and her funeral service will be held in Homewood.

She was born in 1915, and her son’s name is Truman.

[I will be adding/editing more details for this post, as more information becomes available.]

– Cathy

JULY 22, 2011

If you see some hand-crafted item(s) of interest to you

on this site – you can contact/email me directly

OR

— click through to my Bonanza “Booth” to see our current for sale items.

What is there? Hand-woven, wearable items,

as well as craft supplies and misc. oddities –

MORE woven and craft-related item are to be added very soon!

To see the current inventory visit:

http://www.bonanza.com/booths/catcrafted

Thank you, for visiting/reading.

Please, do drop by often to see what it’s new.

– Cathy Abernathy

Just ‘refreshed’ the theme for this blog, this version is a much cleaner presentation. If you have trouble finding anything through the Blog, write me. I do what I can to help you.
It is another HOT day in Alabama.
Hope things are perking along nicely, where ever you are.
Will write more later.
- Cathy

Just found a ‘fresh look’ for this BLOG…switched themes, so the appearance is brighter, easier to read; but the text included on the page/pages is still the same and can be search using the box provided.

If you have troubled navigating my posts/pages, let me know — I see what other themes are available.

Hope your weekend is going well, no matter where you are or what events/struggles you have had this week.

– Cathy

Last week, and this one have not been an easy time for many folks in southern states.

Killer tornadoes/storms stomped locations in central, and north east Alabama, and areas in Georgia.

Dave and I were in our ‘safe place’ (the Q-Hut at the farm)…we lost power overnight, but have not seen any real damage at the farm. We were extremely lucky!

Mom and Byron lost water; Mom was terrified during the event; but it passed them by without any damage at Calcis.

Probably thousands of people are still without power; and many are without employment, homes, and may have lost loved-ones to the storm/tornadoes.

The day after the disaster — Dave, Brent, and I were in Piedmont at the usual store opening time (Mark showed up later) — the whole downtown area was without power.

As they (Dave, Brent and Mark) moved the meats from the freezers to one a trailer; a couple stopped by asking, “are ya’ll open for business?” Dave and Brent hesitated a moment, then said “cash or check only”…so started a day of running th store with the use of paper, pencil, and a calculator on Dave’s cell phone.

Most folks who came in (shopping by flashlight) were buying food items that did not need to be heated; they had heard the power might be off for 10 days up to two weeks — seems that a major transmission line was hit, and rebuilding it was going to take quite some time.

It’s been just over a week.

I like many people — have caught myself thinking it was Thursday, when it was actually Friday; and then realizing that I had known what day it was, when I started out from the house that morning.

Stress can do strange things…I still hope that everyone who needs help will get it.

– Cathy

I have a debate brewing in my mind about this Blog/journal — to privatize posts/pages of a certain nature or not. None of the over 700 posts were ever posted with any intent other than to share my personal memories of my life, hometown and various topics that are current that hold my interests.
This will continue to be my philosophy — and should anyone have “issue” with what I have posted here — I, yes, I am the one you should contact with your comments, complaints or friendly suggestions for change. Not my mother, brother, cousins; or other relatives that have contact with me.
If, you return to my site, only to find a post you read previous has changed from “public” to “password protected” — this can mean several things.
1) The content has been outdated by more current information,
2) I need to update/correct or otherwise change the textual content,
3) There are hyperlinks that are included in the post/page that are no longer valid/active, and I will need to see if i can find current links with the same content, before the post/page can restored to a ‘public’ status,
4) I have ‘family issues’ related to aspects of these post/pages — which need to resolved before the status MAY BE changed to public.
One last item:
I am a writer, trained in journalistic style — at one time I was a Communications major (while in college); I also have some training in legal research; what does this mean? (You ask?).
I am somewhat familiar with what is acceptable to be reported/reviewed/re-posted online, and many websites which host many government/freely available documents — free due to the “FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT”.
So, no — I do not place anything on my blog/journal without some form of documentation, and give credit where the items/text/photos originated from — that would not credible research/reporting.
If you want to find out more about the history of your hometown, GOOGLE is your friend — what it can NOT DO is distinguish between what you “want” to find, and what has actually been documented through media, court cases, expose’ books; and genealogy research.
So this brings me back to the debate — to privatize or NOT?
If you have observations/comments — I would like to hear them.

– C A Abernathy

Hope everyone had a good Valentine’s Day.

It was very sunny, and nice Monday — and today.
It makes waiting for spring, just a bit easier; at least until the last few cold nights are yet to come.

Made a few discoveries/addition for my family tree data. These include some for Dave’s ancestors as well as my SUTTLES-FERGUSON kin…still have to input the facts to my tree program.

For now, am trying to clean, sort, price and places items at the Little Curiosity Shoppe — less than an hour left before closing; and have quite a bit more to do.

Maybe by the week’s end I’ll have things picked up, and the front room better arranged. I can hope so, at least.

More when I get a chance.

– Cathy
weavercat@gmail.com

Quite a tasty meal of corn bread cakes and vegestible soup!

Am a bit groggy after that meal…plus it’s raining again.

Anyway, I wanted to write a fresh post, just to let you know I am still awake — still posting to my various blogs, and still hoping to get over this ‘crud’.

All in all today hasn’t too terribly bad — I was able to get over my morning headache.

Dave has finished stage one of the new wall of shelves. Hehas already put a few books and bit of glassware on several of the shelves.

Okay, I am headed back to my tangled tree of ancestors — with a stop by to check email messages…If you need me — email me. I decided to stay off Facebook while I am working on this ‘little project’.

- CATHY

Still at home recovering from “the crud”. I thought I was over it, but woke up with a sinus/visual headache.

Dave has it as well, but he is keeping busy with small and not so small) projects here at the house. He has putting in a wall, then building shelves on that wall. The other side will eventually be a walk-in closet and storage shelves.

Me?
Today, not much.

Took some Tylenol sinus meds, and me get drowsy from it — if not I will attempt something (else) on the computer.

The stand project the past several days, when I felt up to sitting at the computer keyboard for short spells — has been sifting through data in my family tree program.
As well as following up on a few new leads for the North Carolina families.
Last night I was watching a video class on the new version of RootsMagic…and I am very impressed.

I am eager to watch more — so I can use the newer version, and actually use some of the features I have not — I am still piecing things together in the previous version — but do have the same data imported to the NEW program.

It is just different enough, that I am a bit uncomfortable when I use the data entry templates. (This is why the videos will be big help).

Groups that have been looking through on the tree inclcude persons from one or more of these catagories
1) Huguenot descendants
2) Native American descendants (Creek, Cherokee, and others)
3) Scottish kin
4) Irish Kin
5) Crypto-Jewish families (via Scotland, Ireland, France and England)
6) Melungeon families (mountain families in North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana
7) German kin
8) French kin
9) Branches that have cousins inter-marrying (Native American, Jewish descendants, and descendants of Royalty from Europe and England…)
10) Main surnames in all this?

–I began with these: Abernathy, Davis, Smathers, Hensley, Caldwell.. (NC kin) — then branched off to these — McDaniel, Whitehead, Painter [Panther], Ayres [Ayers] (Kentucky families, many with Native American heritage) — then I found one line among these which showed links to Royal families in Scotland/England/France.

That is where I had been looking last night, and now (today) I will go back to the Caldwell family, and a few others (Ayres, Davis, Bolling/Bowling, Sizemore).

If I make any unexpected connections I will try to update this post at that point.

As for the weather — it has wet and over-cast today. Not even the cats have been out.

OH! Before I fail to mention it — “Shelly” our AWOL cat came up at feeding time last night. First time since Day-lights-savings ended, that I have seen her!

I take this to mean that she and her youngest kittens have been at the neighbor’s house/barn.

She is one independent feline…it took several years for her to trust me enough to come up and eat with our other cats — now she is the “queen” and nearly all of the yard cats are her kin.

I am glad she has been all right. Maybe she’ll be back tonight…we will see.

– Cathy