Adding rings to the tree
When a simple statement by someone else breaks down a genealogical “brick wall”, a bell should ring. Loudly. At a recent meeting, while chatting about an ancestor, one of the local resource people said that the person was a Glendalale Settler. And there it was. Documented. In that book that had come home back at the end of last summer to rest by the bedside.
With a few minutes reading, one of my limbs grew by two generations, minimum. Not the Holy Grail of my family name patriarch, but when a tree has a new, complete ring or two… I now know more about my other forebears. Of course, they were MacDonalds which just complicates thing, but who am I to complain?
Had a visitor during the early afternoon; someone unaware that you didn’t need an oil tank to have a warmed house. I love when I can “show a better way”.
Another automotive manufacturer has been caught out. Installing devices to “beat” emissions tests does nothing for the rest of us; a few dollars more on a bottom line hardly balances the dirt spewn from truck exhausts. A pattern is emerging here. The only way to sell vehicles is to cheat the rest of us. Time to put the “hammer down”. If your company is caught, you lose the right to sell for, say, a year or two. See if the magic stockholders’ report looks great with negative revenues. After all, if their actions aren’t causing harm, the companies will simply adjust procedures cut the cheats out of the process.
