The August birthday family

 We start on the 12th, with Kendra, my daughter-in-law, wife of my youngest son Tai. She just turned... 47 years young.

On Aug. 16 my middle son was born, Russ Heym - he's going to be 57 years young.

Russ and myself at my apartment in St. Augustine, around 1997. 

Oh, he's sporting a greying goatee, so let's update his portrait - with Michelle, his wife at a soccer game in 2023.

Then Barbara Baker, another daughter-in law (wife of my son Marty) will have her birthday on Aug. 22 bringing her to great 61 years young!

A very good baker she has used this skill to establish a business out of her kitchen, selling gourmet Macarons at local conventions and shows in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area.

Next birthday is mine, August 23, and this year I complete my 82nd turn around the sun.

Sitting at the Tailgate Market each Saturday morning (well almost) in Black Mountain NC.

And the last August relative's birthday is my dear mother-in-law-sister, namely Joanne Naglieri, mother of Russ' wife Michelle Heym. Joanne's birthday is on Aug. 28, and this year she turns the big 85...which she certainly has not one hint of looking.

Joanne and Kate, our youngest granddaughter, taken in 2021.

I'm so glad to be bunched in with these wonderful Leos and Virgos...and getting ready for some other relative's birthdays in September. What's a grandmother/mother to do? Get the coolest cards I can find for everyone! 

I am skipping Hallmark these days! 

A bit of nursery rhymes on a "card" join my son Tai from his wife Kendra's birthday.

Sharing with Sepia Saturday!

Today's quote:

This universe is much too big to hold onto, but it is the perfect size for letting go.

SHARON SALZBERG

November noteables

 When looking at my calendar, I find dates of many ancestors appearing.

This is a screwy kind of way to look at them, as they usually stay within their two dates (with a dash in between) and with their immediate families, like on my Ancestry tree.

But hey, I've got them appearing all the time, as I've listed their important birth dates (and a few others) in my personal calendar.

Nov 1

Frederick Arthur Munhall Birth 1 November 1890  in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois, Death Feb. 12, 1927 in San Anntonio, Bexar Texas, USA

My mom's stepfather from age 2- age 10,

Nov 4 , Ebenezer Pulsifer, Birth 4 NOV 1744 • Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, Death 1795 • New York, NY.

h. of Sarah Perkins, date unknown birth ABT 1757 • Ipswich, Essex Co., MA, death date unknown,

parents of Capt Ebenezer Pulsifer, 3rd g grand of Ada Phillips Swasey Rogers, my grandmother on my father's side.

Nov 4 also: Martha Poor Granger, Birth 4 NOVEMBER 1654 • Andover, Essex, MA, Death 4 DECEMBER 1723 • Andover, Essex, MA

my 5th g grand on my father's mother's line

Nov. 9, George Elmore Rogers, JR, b. 1914 Galveston TX, d. 5 Jan 1985, Houston TX.

my father.

Nov 10, John Moss Jrm Birth 10 NOVEMBER 1682 • Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, Death 14 MARCH 1755 • Wallingford, New Haven County, Conn

m. Eliz. Hall 1690-1754

father of John Moss

grandfather of Eliz Moss Booth

in my mother's ancestry line of the Booths

Nov 11, Patricia Rogers 1946

my firrst cousin, daughter of James W. Rogers, my father's brother

Nov. 13, Remembering Ammi Ayers Swasey 1687–1783 Birth 1687 either in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire or Boston, MA,

Death 1783 • Swansea, Bristol, Mass

When she was born on an unknown date in 1687, her father, NATHANIEL, was 23, and her mother, AMY, was 32. Nathaniel was known as a blacksmith, which is kept in the Ancestry records.

Ammi married Samuel Swasey Jan 10, 1710 as recorded in Boston, MA when she was 23. They had six children in 22 years. She died in 1783 as recorded in Swansea, Massachusetts, at the impressive age of 96. She spent almost half her life as a widow, since Samuel had died in 1739.

Her home was featured in a later photograph, though since then it has been demolished.

Ammi Ayers Swasey was my 6th great grandmother on my grandmother Ada Phillips Swasey Rogers' tree.

Nov. 14, Elizabeth Anne Worsham Kennon, Birth 1656 • Henrico County, Virginia, Death 1743 • Conjurers Neck, Henrico, Virginia

w of Col. Richard Kennon, on my Rogers family tree

blog on 11.12.2020, Link Here.

I'll check back on more birthdays this month later!