It's News to Me

From Reuters comes this interesting bit of news:

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GTBRAD
Originally uploaded by FEDGIRL55.

My cousin, Patty Hill a.k.a. FedGirl55, has created a new Flickr site. This photo of her son Brad, who is one semister away from graduating from college and on his way to grad school, is one of her first posts.

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Now that I have your attention, I'm delighted to report that we learned today that we have a deviant in the family! No, not me, as most of you are probably thinking!

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A «Norman Rockwell» moment

Originally uploaded by CaptQuirk.

Yesterday I shared Thanksgiving dinner at the home of Betty and Eugene Doyle, known to the family as «Mammaw» and «Pappaw,» here in Knoxville. The meal was wonderful, as it always is in that home, and I am deeply grateful to them for inviting me to share in this holiday celebration with them.

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Furman Bisher, a sports columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, use to write a column each Thanksgiving in which he simply listed all kinds of things from the world of sport for which he was thankful. Mr. Bisher still writes for the AJC and for all I know he may still maintain that tradition, but his column is now hidden behind a must-pay-to-view wall at their online site, so I no longer read it. But as I was growing up in Atlanta, I always looked forward to that annual column because he would mention little things, things you wouldn't normally think to recall and give thanks for on Thanksgiving, and those references would always bring a smile to my face.

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It's always nice to hear from someone who appreciates your efforts. Yesterday I got an email from Lee Lankford, a second cousin (Sarah Ann Murchison's daughter), who was asking how to reach my «family news» blog. Even though I had to clarify that this site isn't just a family news blog, I sent her the link to this site and the link to my Flickr photo site as well.

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Kevin Sites is a freelance reporter on assignment for NBC and is embedded with the forces in Iraq. He recently witnessed and videotaped the killing of a wounded Iraqi soldier in a Mosque in Iraq.

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Here's an interesting tidbit, I think.

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While visiting with my cousins, Gerald and Dan Baxter, yesterday at Julia Ann Floyd's funeral, they both asked about how to start a blog. Fortunately, Blogger has an excellent online help system that takes you through all you need to know to set up a blog and customize it to your own specifications. So I thought I'd post this entry to give them the most important links in that help system to help them get started. Then maybe they'll be able to join the others of us in the family who are blogging. Fortunately, this post can serve to guide anyone else who might be interested in starting to blog as well.

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Carole Green and Mary Googer

Originally uploaded by CaptQuirk.

Funerals are those times when families get together for a very sad event, but they are also often one of the few times we all come together, so they are still occasions when we can enjoy visiting with each other. Saturday was such a time at the cemetery in Stone Mountain, GA, as we assembled to support Pat and Brad as we laid to rest our dearly beloved family member, Julia Ann Floyd.

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