11/19/2022 0 Comments Snow daze canon ending![]() ![]() I came across of photo of my mother at what appears to be the same location but to the left of where I had stood. I dug out my parent's honeymoon photos from Hawaii in 1960. I was able to see the photo below of myself at the falls by Wailua River State Park and I had an aha moment. The most interesting part of the trip was coming home and looking at the photos. If i had the time and the money, I would spend a little more time investigating the island. We rented a beach bungalow for two nights and Brigid and Tony had a room at the Inn across the road. Kris, Todd, Teagan and Jon flew home Friday night. I preferred the quaint (funky) parts of the island vs the industrial vacation parts. I came to realize that I am not a monied person. We traveled down to Waimea for the rest of our time there. Without knowing much beforehand about the island, we came there to experience it as I saw it. Pool, fitness center, parking and surrounded by golf courses. We stayed at a timeshare in a coastal golf community. P'ville as I will call it, was very beautiful. The first five days we were in Princeville. He had live in Hawaii 10 to 15 years before and as he lives in Montana, getting away was good for his health. My brother in law Jon came along with us. Now we have their little 18 month old Teagan along for the travel. You will know that we vacation with my sister and her husband, and with Cathy's sister and her husband. Damn skippy we're going to a tropical island. So in January Cathy and I had the chance to go to Kauai for a week. To read more about the family tree click here The family all moved lock, stock and barrel to be original settlers of McHenry Illinois I found my 3x great grandfathers tithe to the Church of Ireland. I was able to go back another two generations for two reasons. Names and dates of BMD (Birth Marriage Death) written. For the marriage of my Igoe great grandparents was in a notebook. The are no existing records of their births. BTW on February 19th, 2018 was their 150th anniversary. They were the 7th couple in first year the parish kept a Liber matrimomiorum (the Book of matrimony in Latin). My great grandparents (Edward Smyth and Catherine Durkin) married in 1868. The registration was not standardize by the government until the late 19th century. Records were only kept for crimes and the courts. It wasn't til after 1829 that Catholics were "emancipated". The Penal Laws suppressed the Catholic religion, Irish language and non Anglican Protestants. In Ireland, Catholics were with the Penal Laws of the early 1600's. I have collated about 3649 people in a family tree based on extended family with my son as the key pivot point. My major pursuit outside of work and keeping Cathy sane in her PhD adventure has been genealogy. I have focused a lot of time on a variety of things. Remember, the whole idea of these traffic circles is to prevent traffic from stopping and to maintain a continuous flow, so when you stop in the middle of it you're really effing up the flow and putting other drivers at risk.So I haven't used this site in the last two years and find that is time to get back to it.Ī lot has happen since January of 2015 and our trip to Hawaii. ![]() I've seen this happen more times than I can count which makes me think how many times it's happened when I'm not there to see it. I've seen this happen SO many times! Do you have any idea how dangerous it is to literally STOP in the middle of the rotary to let others in? Not to mention it's an inner and an outer lane, so if the car next to you in the other lane doesn't also stop to let the traffic in it's going to become a hot mess real quick. When you're in the middle of driving around the rotary, do NOT hit the brakes and stop halfway around to let other people in that are waiting at an intersecting street. Spoiler: Here's where my pet peeve comes into play. People that are currently on or in the circle have the right of way, while those sitting at an intersecting street have to wait their turn to pull into traffic. There is a certain flow to the way the rotary works. This means that it tends to be pretty busy all day long. Traffic is entering the busy roundabout from Memorial Bridge, Stone Street, Cony Street, Bangor Street and the other side of Cony Street on the hill. There are lots of roads that merge onto Cony Circle in Augusta. ![]()
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