MY TESTING IS UNDERWAY

Well the first days testing is over and that wasn't so bad after all! I was rather nervous and tense the first day, not knowing what to expect.  From where to park, to what are they doing to me now?  

 

The second day will be much easier and will be much more routine.  The only thing to worry about now is "What will the results be?"  and "What do the results tell them and how soon can I get those results?"  



ALL QUESTIONS THAT ARE UP IN THE AIR

 

LEST WE FORGET

 

Rememberance Day has always been rather sacred to me, but after doing a lot of Ancestry research I have even more reason to keep this day.  

  WWI     James Goodwin

              Gladstone Ewart Baker

WWII    Herbert Baker

              William Baker

              James Baker

              Harold Whittaker

              John (Jackie) Whittaker ...killed in action

              Elmer McLay

            

  

STILL MORE BOAT PROJECTS

Well, seeing as how we are stuck here waiting for medical procedures. we might as well keep busy.  During our spring work on the boat, we realized our mast on Thunderbird had some serious rot problems.  So, we dismantled it to assess the situation.  

It's obvious that the mast is purely decorative.  As we have been without it this whole summer and never really missed it.  The only function it serves is to carry our top white all around light, and our forward facing white light, that is only used for night running and anchoring out, which we never do.  It also has a spar and was originally intended with a manual pulley system to lift a dinghy onto the roof of the boat.  But we have never used it for that either.  We just never trusted it's strength.  Once completed and re-assembled perhaps we will be able to use it for that purpose. 

There was no rot on the spar, so that will simply be re-attached.  We have a new 4X4 post that is now being shaped to replace the original.  Thanks to our son Ken's wood working skills.  We are also adding some length back onto the mast as we are aware that it has been cut down a couple of times. (due to said rot)  It has been suggested by some that we save ourselves some work and do away with the mast and spar.  But real Trawlers were working boats, and conversions,  and I like the utilitarian look of this equipment. 

SO THAT IS THE PROJECT WE ARE WORKING ON NOW, TO KILL TIME.  

MORE ON COMPUTERS

I am sure glad I am fortunate enough to own two computers.  I have updated my desktop computer to Windows 10, but left my laptop running with Windows 8.1. 

There is a REAL problem, with how this new Windows 10 handles or should I say "Does not handle" photos.  All of the photos I have taken since the change in programs are useless to me.  They are almost impossible to find, and when you do find them you can not do anything with them.  It won't let me edit them, move them, use them in my blog,   Nothing. 

On the Windows help site there are pages after pages of everyone complaining about this since the launch on July 29th, but so far no fix has been forthcoming.  So, I will not be updating my laptop to Windows 10 until this problem is resolved. I will clean up my good old laptop as best I can and get it ready to use in Texas.  I will leave my Desktop computer on Windows 10 and wait and see if they have found a fix by the time we get home in the spring.  If not I will remove the update if I can. 


COMPUTERS : IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING.  


 

ANCESTRY RESEARCH IS FASCINATING.

(This is from my family research and will be of more interest to my family members than the casual reader.)

  HOW DID THE DODSONS COME INTO OUR FAMILY

The Patriarch of the Dodson family was John "Joe" Dodson.  And the family story goes, "In 1908 when the Goodwin family, James and Elizabeth and their three daughters,  Adeline (my grandmother) Carmen, and Hilda, were immigrating to Canada on the "Tunisian", they met a young man named Joe Dodson.  He was from the same area of England that they were and at 14 years old, he was an orphan with no adults with him, just a label addressed to Winnipeg Manitoba.  They took him under their wing so to speak and sort of adopted him.  He lived with the family when they first arrived in Winnipeg and became like a brother to their daughters.  The next generation always called him "Uncle Joe" and future generations grew up together as pseudo cousins.  

A very nice story, but like most family stories, not quite true.  As I started to try to pin down this information, facts got in the way.  I first found the ships passenger list for the "Tunisian"  and sure enough, there on the same page as the Goodwin family was an entry for a single male, John Dodson.  But his age was listed as 18 years old.  Not exactly the child in the story, but a grown young man.  He was actually the same age as their oldest daughter Adeline.  Perhaps they were looking for a future husband for her.  Later research revealed that James was inclined to arrange marriages for his daughters.  The other untruth in the story is that Joe was heading for Winnipeg, as they were.  Well, the ships manifest shows that John's passage was booked for London, Ontario.  They would have had to part company at that point, as the Goodwins continued on to Winnipeg.  Perhaps Joe got off the train in London couldn't find work there, then followed on later.  Knowing he had friends here in Winnipeg, would have been an incentive, because we do know he ended up here.  

My grandmother Adeline later married Tom Baker.  I have heard it quoted that,"James and Elizabeth Goodwin, didn't much like Tom Baker, So they made sure they picked the husbands for the other two daughters".  They married Carmen age 16, off to Harry Stewart at the age of 29, then later, Hilda age 17 was married off to Harry Whittaker at the age of  34.   

GIRLS NOW A DAYS DON'T KNOW HOW LUCKY THEY ARE TO GET TO CHOOSE THEIR OWN HUSBANDS.  

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE MARINA

We are shocked and horrified to hear that our friend and dock mate Bob Inkster has landed in the Health Sciences Center hospital with serious outcomes.  It seems Bob has been living with type 2 diabetes for a few years now and complications from neuropathy have caused him to have to have his left leg amputated just below the knee.  

 Dan visited him in the hospital yesterday and his spirits were good, but he has a long road ahead of physio therapy, prosthetic fittings, learning to walk with a prosthetic, etc. etc..  Cards, calls and visits would certainly go a long way to help keep his spirits up during this long therapy journey he is about to go on.  Right now his is on the 3rd floor in HSC.  Keep him in your thoughts as we all look forward to seeing him at the marina next summer.  

CHIN UP BOB, YOU CAN DO THIS

COOL WEATHER MEANS HOMEMADE SOUP

When the weather cools down, there is nothing quite as wonderful as homemade soup.  It's time to pull that Turkey carcass out of the freezer and put it in a pot. 

By the time I'm finished, I add so many vergetables it always ends up being Stewp" .  A cross between soup and stew.  But really tasty and really healthy. 

COOL FALL WEATHER AND HOMEMADE SOUP.