My latest attempt on the Y Trail

I was too busy last week to hike up to the Y, but this week I had some time.  Plus, I could see the Y, and the weather had been warm, so I figured most of the snow that had come down recently would be gone.

Well, yes, the recent snow was gone.  In fact, I had to scrap mud off my shoes before I got back in the car.  BUT, that nice snow pack on the switch backs was now ICE. 

Turn 1, Y trail, looking up.

I tried to squeeze around the corner without stepping on any ice, but it was impossible.  I didn't get 2 steps before I slipped.  Sigh.  Thankfully, I just hurt a knee, and not too bad.  But decided that I didn't want to try to go higher.

Turn 1, Y Trail, looking down.

So instead of going all the way up to Turn 10, I went up to Turn 1 and back down three times!  Kind of got boring, so I figured 3 times, and 35 minutes was good enough. :-)

Here's the prickly bush I stood next to while taking these pictures.

Prickly bush on Y trail.  Yikes!

 

I was hoping to get some of my own photos from "high", but this was as high as I went.  I'll try again in a week, and see if the ice is melted yet!  Too scary this time.

Corrected a name in my Family History

My ggf, Francis Marion Proctor, had a child, Mollie Emma, from his first wife.  I had that Mollie's husband's name was W. Pleasant Robinson, and they had a child, Viril Pleasant Robinson.  Both Mollie and W. Pleasant died within 6 months of their son's birth.

I have looked and looked and looked for Viril Pleasant Robinson.  Today I finally found him.  His first name can be spelled several ways in the records, but in the SSDI, it was VIRREL.  The main problem I had finding him was I had his surname wrong.  It was ROBERTSON.   AAUUGGHH!

How I finally found him was when I was looking for him in Ancestry.com, under just his first name, but an exact birth date (which I had from the family records) in the WWI Draft Registration.  I was excited when I saw he was there, but didn't even realize at first that his last name was different than what I had it as.

Through an afternoon's worth of searching, I found him on 4 censuses, found his wife, 8 children, and several of his children's death records.  His death record from familysearch.org, proves he is the son of Mollie Proctor.  Listed his dad as Virrell Robertson, which is incorrect, but close.    Ancestry.com family trees have his father as William Pleasant Robertson.

Yippee!!

Doubling up a necklace

I have several long necklaces.  I love the beads, but not the length.  I just prefer necklaces closer to my neck. :-)

A while back I realized that the long necklaces were "just right" if I doubled them up.  But how?  I first used a safety pin.  Worked great!  At least at first.  BUT, the edges of the pin started scratching my neck, and the beading wire moved down into the grooves of the safety pin, so it was difficult to take off.

Then I thought about maybe a short ribbon, that snapped together.  That would have worked fine, but I found my beading stuff first, and decided to do it this way instead.  

This is going to work out fine!  If I wanted the necklaces to be a little adjustable, I could have made it instead with chain and a clasp, with each of those attached to a short piece of ribbon that would go around the necklace.
Here's how mine turned out.  Not bad, huh?