Julie from IL, USA

Hey Julie...I'm traveling around trying to catch up with some of you that I've been missing lately to say hello and hope all is well. You are so good at staying on top of the comments and page visiting...I don't know how you do it, but I'm always happy to see your cheery comments. Looking forward to catching up with you on SA3 soon.

I used a Nikon CoolPix 8800. Took the telephoto to max and had the camera on a tripod. Took about 30 pictures before the clouds moved in. I used Picasa to enhance the digital photos. It was a nice event. I'm glad the cloud cooperated.
Rob

I signed up to Ancestry.co.uk as that is where the family is based(UK). I didn't sign up to Ancestry.com as for a non US resident that is expensive.
I just keep going over and over the census records. The problem here has been two fold - a family split and the fact that records are sealed for one hundred years. 1901 is the latest census available. Although I can go back to the first ever census in 1841
My biggest problem by far though is on my fathers side. He hailed from N.Ireland and was catholic. The Birth, marriage and death records are not available, to my knowledge, through the Mormons(who run the Ancestry sites) and I don't see myself going there to troll through the church records. This is because they tended to have baptismal certificate instead of birth certificates. It is amazing that he was the 3rd of 12 children all but one of whom married and had children and I've not come across one of them doing any research!
Good luck with your research. If you have British rels. and you know the town or village they come from try CuriousFox.com where you can research by town name. Good luck.

off work today to do errands and Taxes !! I work in the hospital part-time in physical therapy but I teach some water classes at the fitness center - I teach in the warm water pool - a low back class, arthritis class and my Ai Chi class - that one is like tai chi - has set moves but with a medatition focus - we work on slow breaths, being quiet and calm - at least for 30 min. I also teach the pre-natal class and that one is quicker pace - more of what you would do. I enjoy the classes - no paperwork - except for the ai chi one - have to find things to read and reflect upon - I just wrote my own piece -- going on a dog sled ride in the middle of the night and seeing the northern lights, the moon and stars and coming home to a dawn. Well, I'm on the computer to figure out % for some items I sold. Take Care and enjoy your day, Mary

Thanks for your welcome and kind comments, Julie. Nice to know you, too!

Hello Julie - Happy Easter to you and your family. Are you ready for Spring? It has been a long winter this year! Have a great week-end.

Julie, just for you - I'm sending this to you before I put in on SA4

How do you like that?

Hi Julie, thank you for your birthday greeting yesterday, I had a wonderful day, made even more special by the lovely people on this site

Julie
thank you for the good wishes for the christening and that you enjoyed the photos. the kids are both cute, Taylah is a gorgeous child with a wongerful nature. Ethan is a bit of a lala sometimes but we do get lots of smiles hopefully he will grow out of the lala bit.

Julie, I have been overwhelmed by the kindness shown to me for my birthday. It really does make your day to find well wishers from all over the world.
From the bottom of my heart, I thank you.

yes yes i am that artist and am proud of it!!!!!!!!!!! isnt it exciting!!!!!

Hi Julie, and thank you for the kind thoughts. Yes, I've got the anti-oxidants going full force and the vitamin supplements flowing--CoEnzyme Q10, Omega-3, plus the PreserVision stuff. Plenty of spinach salads, broccoli, eggs--I'm prepped for battle! (Ate healthily and exercised before, but now, look out!) Bless you for caring, and have a wonderful day.

Hello Julie, its anew from Utah here, and I just want to say hello. I'm trying to come back. thank you for your posts over the last year, I'm sorry it's taken so long to get back!

I'll try to be here more. Hope all is well with you and yours!Because there are so many people onsite, I likely won't go back any time soon to everyones old pages or the archives, so I'll keep intouch from here on out, if you'd like :)
And maybe one day I'll get the umph to really, truly catch up!

take care,
an old friend

welcome back Julie.. sure missed you on SA

Thank you for the birthday wishes Julie.
Hubby and the boys took me out to Chinese Restaurant for Dinner.
And on the Sunday we all went to Mother In Laws for a delicous lunch.

Julie, I was so very happy to be on the receiving end of many greetings from my Sudoku family, and was most happy to have yours included in that part of making a good birthday ever better. Its aways nice to be remembered and you, my friend ,are usually in the forefront of remembering......

thank you for your idea's and love and support. I too have experienced sciatica and I think I cried during that more than this to be honest, that is horrible, i'm glad we can share our pain/experience with each other.
That was some years ago, and I've had flare ups- but nothing like that before, it sent me to the hospital and I couldn't move for about a week, so I hear you on your pain there.
About the releasing the pain and picturing it go away- i very much believe in that healing and thank you for reminding me about it- i do appreicate it, as my mind gets caught up in the whirlwind of stress/fear and more that I forget sometimes some of the simple remedies or calming actions I can take...
Thanks again, i'll try to keep up on site, each day.
you're great!

Julie, thank you for my birthday wishes. Things are looking up.

Thanks for joining in the fun for the 'twins'. Golf is great. Walking 72+ holes a week now. Our muni is in perfect condition even with new Zoyzia being sodded in it will be even better. Really getting used to playing in the wind now. Having a good swing coach and learning how to hit a solid knockdown shot makes all the difference. Just today's was 25 mph from the south with gusts to 35 and two of the par 5's are dead straight into the teeth of the wind. You'd better be ready to swing between gusts or you could miss the ball entirely being blown off balance. (The voice of experience.)

Hi Julie, thanx for welcoming me back. Will try and keep the comments going as far as possible. How is life in your part of the world? Take care and keep smiling. bye

Thanks for the prayers, Julie. I do have an editor, but the first two rewrites were my own. Incidentally one of my critics has been Keith from CA using his skills as a long time English teacher.

Julie, where are you hiding? I miss your bright, colourful avatar!

Hey Julie..
I hope all is well with you and yours.
havent seen you in a while..
been thinking about you

Julie, sure have been missing you on the SA pages. Whatever it is keeping you away, hope it is good. Would love to have you back and posting again, even if just a check in to say HERE I IS!

Hope this gets through, I have weather interference. If you do not get it, let me know

Hi Julie,i hope you feel free to visit my page ,take a look about some of the protected in egypt

YAY! Just saw your post on SA5 and ran over here. Puff pant!
Great to see you around, hope you can come and play more soon.

Julie!
Just resonded to you on SA5 - so good to see you there. Hope we catch up with each other soon!
Sending you a warm hug!

i appreciate all birthday wishes. thank you.

Julie, thanks for the warm wishes. Yes, I am getting better every day now. Really enjoyed my weekend of free movies, have not seen so many in ages and ages. It kept me entertained too. Tomorrow I have books to read. Friday back to doc and if he is happy, I can be back to activity. Not long now!

It is soo good to see you posting on the board, Hope you can join us often for a chat or some foolishness.

Hi Julie,Thanks for the welcome.Yes I have just started to visit SA6 but dont get there as often as I would like.The photo on my page is of my grandaughters.A very proud Granny I am,with 5 grand children.The others are boys,Ben 6 yrs,Tyler & Beau are also identical twins and they are 5 yrs.
The girls are my daughters and the boys are my sons.I am very blessed.Catch you on the pages

Hi Julie, just dropped in to wish you . I hope you have a great day.

It isn't your birthday, I was looking at the wrong thing. Oh, I'm so embarrassed.

Julie,
Thanks for dropping by my place. Yep been a bit busy so haven't been posting much of late.
Hope all is well with you and yours.
Steve

hi Julie...just wondering where you are from...pretty big state that and it appears to have 2 time zones...is that correct?
I'm trying to slow the insidious onset of that dreadful ailment that causes CRAFT's disease...LOL..
One of my activities in this challenge is trying to keep track of where all of the topsiders are and what time it is when I'm chatting with them....

Hi Julie! Thanks for the welcome - when I visited SA6 there didn't seem to be anyone around, then I had to trot off to do other things. It looks like a fun place to visit though - I'll try to get there as much as real-life allows! :)

Julie, you are so kind. Your words about both Scrap and Mum really lifted my spirits. The latest word about Mum was she had a good night's sleep and was in a brighter mood today. Each day as it comes.
my dear friend.

Thanks for you kind words, Julie. I have found that clicking Ctrl+ often increases the font size and even if the page is a bit messed up, it is much easier to read. I still have to limit my time on the computer, but not as much as before.

Just dropping by for no reason other than to say

Hi Julie, thanks for the request, did not realise I had not invited you oops!

Well Julie, one of these days . . .! When you least expect it, someone goes to visit someone, more hear about it and voila! A sudoku meeting. We really started with just a few of us in California. Keith and his wife Lynn, of course, Kathy and Rob, Vici, and me. But more thought. Why not? Mamacita used it as an excuse to see her great grandbaby in San Francisco. Jane came because she and Kathy are such great friends. It just grew! It'll happen to you!