Family History Fair

The 10th Ward in our Stake hosted a Family History Fair today.  It had wonderful things to look at, learn and even eat!  I taught a class on using FamilySearch.org.  I prepared a PowerPoint presentation, so I would cover all that I wanted to.  I ended up teaching the class 3 times, so not bad. 
 
Unfortunately, as it goes with almost anything to do with Family History, it wasn't a great turnout.  People were there, but it should have been 5 times as many.  Oh well.  I had fun, the people who came had fun and learned new things!  Plus, they brought in one of the scanners from BYU, and I was able to scan about 125 pictures in about 15 minutes.  And it can scan both the front and back at the same time.  Very, very cool.  I wish I could have keep scanning, but they needed to clean up. :-(  But I can go to BYU and do it!   The only reason it took me as long as it did for those 125 pictures, was because I was only stacking about 5 or 6 at a time, because I wanted them to go back in the same page they were in in the photo album.  The scanner feeds them through probably about one picture per second.  Amazing!

Here's one of my favorite photos that I scanned!

Rearranging the living room.

I have been wanting to rearrange the living room for about 4 months now, and I saw that yesterday was a great opportunity to do it.  Neither John or I had any commitments outside the house after the morning, and the family dinner was coming up, so I decided it was time!  What I thought may take about 2-3 hours, ended up taking about 6 or more.  We started about 11 or 11:30 a.m., and I didn't finish putting the last things back on the shelves until after 5 p.m.  Of course, we had to vacuum in spurts, and I had to dust everything.  We cut a piece of wood that fits from the front of the TV stand all the way to the wall, so the bird feathers won't go down behind the TV.  Man, is that going to save a lot of time and trouble!