Ancestral Musings

 Spring is coming!  This morning the sun is out and even though it's chilly, the claim is that we'll get into the lower 50s today.  My husband and I are both fully vaccinated, just waiting for one more week to allow the vaccines to reach full effectiveness, and it will be possible to see our children this summer if all continues as it has been.  So, reason for optimism!   I think we had a topic like Multiple last year, but most people concentrated on things like multiples in the sense of twins or triplets, or multiple marriages.  I'll have to look at what I did then before I publish this but I just finished reading a couple of other peoples' entries and it was really interesting.  One woman whose great(a few times) grandfather had 29 children by three wives and her quest to track down all of those children (still missing about 8), a woman whose grandfather had multiple jobs during his life and had left a written and recorded account of those jobs,...

 It's the beginning of March 2021 and the pandemic is loosening its grip ever so slowly.  Once in a while it seems to tighten up again, but there are now three effective vaccines approved in the United States and vaccination is proceeding apace.  I received my second dose of the Moderna vaccine on Monday, my husband got his second dose of Pfizer on Wednesday, and now we wait. Power was an interesting pick for a topic. You can look at electrical power--my two maternal uncles both worked for Puget Power and my father worked on dams that supplied (and still supply) hydroelectric power to the state of Washington.  Or there is political power:  no one in our family has or had that in the last couple of centuries (as far as I can tell, someone is probably going to pop up and make me eat my words).  But I find that I have little to say on this so I'll move on to week 9's topic:  multiples.