These last few days before Christmas my husband and I have been:
Wrapping Christmas presents and getting some in the mail. The mail-out presents don't have far to go, just from here in north Florida to our friends Tom and Amanda in central Florida, and should arrive Wednesday. Others are local. Some have already been given, to our nephew Paul who visited us from Australia, where he lives.
Watching NFL football, particularly games in the AFC South conference. Our team, the Jacksonville Jaguars, have been tearin' up the pea patch and finally getting some recognition. We watched them beat the Denver Broncos yesterday, 34-20, after almost every prognosticator had predicted they'd lose. Not the first time the Jaguars have been underrated against the Broncos. The first time was 4 January 1997, when the Jaguars were dissed as "jagwads" by Denver sports writer Woody Paige. That fired up the team enough that they won, 30-27. The effect on the fans was electrifying, and we were among the throng who flocked to the stadium in the dark of night to welcome the team home. Their airplane received permission to divert to a circle path over the stadium before landing at Jacksonville International Airport. And when they arrived, and quarterback Mark Brunell said into the microphone, "Jacksonville, do you believe in miracles?" -- Pandemonium!
Reading. I'm into a book titled Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class, by Max Fraser. It was suggested by a newly-found distant cousin when I mentioned to her that my maternal ancestors had gone from eastern Tennessee, one location of our mutual roots, to Indiana. Cousin Nancy suggested they may have been part of this migration. I'm also reading, via Kindle, You Went to Emergency for WHAT?, a hilarious yet somewhat acerbic account by Australian paramedic Tom Booth of the ridiculous demands often made on hospital emergency departments.
Doing genealogy. One way I'm hoping to preserve my family history and that of my husband is to contribute to the collaborative family tree at WikiTree, which is for genealogists by genealogists. It strictly requires that members provide source citations to reliable sources, an aspect that I am 100% behind. I've just ordered a book on how to see to it that one's family history is preserved after one has shuffled off this mortal coil.
Celebrating. Our grandson Victor just turned 21, and we had a small family celebration. He's in college now, and is planning on moving to North Carolina next year.
Next week, I think we'll spend most of our time recovering!
Happy Holidays to all!
#Sunday Salon
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