This Echinacea popped up in my flower bed this week. I'm enjoying it's uniqueness among the other colors. I love it when plants do their own thing!


Years ago I planted mums at my front entrance and opted for all white. Then this happened.



This particular flower had a few petals that were evenly split between the white and yellow. There were a few fully yellow flowers as well on the white bush. Nice!

I like being unique, too.
😉 
Several weeks ago I was the painter and carpenter. Last week I was the plumber and doctor as DH needed some care; it happens occasionally. Heck, the man is now 8 years past his surgery! 
I'm acting as the travel agent, booking rooms and finding things to do on our road trip through some of middle America in a few weeks. 

As always I'm the investigative genealogist working on projects. I've gotten myself deep into the US Black Heritage Project on WikiTree searching and transcribing records and building family trees for formerly enslaved persons and matching them to their enslavers. It's been an eye-opening historical journey and I've gotten to rub virtual shoulders with some renowned persons and institutions and learn as much as I would in classroom.

This week I'm the crafter creating a sweater for Little Miss. She has worn one of the dresses I made her last year so often I've had to re-sew and reinforce every seam twice. I offered to make her a new one and the unique colors and print of material that she imagined do not exist. Not the least bit disappointed, she asked if I could make her a peach colored sweater, fuzzy, with a hood and with flowers; she pointed to a Jacobean print of flowers on a picture! Try to find all those requirements in a store! She drew me what she wanted.


Pockets. Hoodie. Very fuzzy. Buttons.
I've gotten a VERY fuzzy yarn nearly on the edge of peach that I'm going to explain it away as a 'blushing' peach. It's so bulky, yet light, that I've had to reconstruct the pattern by a third and even then I'm winging it. I might be ripping out a completed hoodie and rebuilding it by the time she tries it on. I have no clue what to do about the flowers. Perhaps I can crochet some small posies. I can say she didn't put it on the request. Maybe she'll forget. I doubt that!



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  1. MorticiaAddamsAugust 30, 2023 at 6:49 AM

    Yes, that Echinacea wants to be noticed. The bi-colored mum is very unique too. I have always been different. People in grade school knew that about me. I don't try to fit in. I do my own thing and encourage others to do theirs.

    Very interesting about the Black History project. A worthwhile endeavor.

    Loved your sweater instructions. LOL. It's nice to be needed and important.

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    1. OverworkedjanetAugust 31, 2023 at 4:48 AM

      YOU, are needed and important!

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    2. MorticiaAddamsAugust 31, 2023 at 12:53 PM

      Those instructions are definitely a keeper. The For Nana part being the best part. I'm like an old worn out t-shirt - I would make a good rag. LOL.

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  2. OneKidsMomAugust 30, 2023 at 7:02 AM

    Oh, you have such a wonderful, varied life! Can't wait to hear how the sweater project comes out!

    The genealogy work sounds fascinating, too, although I can see where it would be like a black hole, sucking one in! But it's a HUGE puzzle of missing history for the formerly enslaved people and their descendants. I know what a monkey wrench one burnt down courthouse was in my own family's attempts at tracing my dad's side of the tree. I can hardly imagine what the systemic "not counting as people, but as property" did to being able to follow the branches.

    Enjoy the transition to autumn, and be the flower that does her own thing!

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    1. OverworkedjanetAugust 31, 2023 at 4:56 AM

      I used to feel guilty about spending several hours a day on the computer reading records. Mostly, guilty that I didn't have to go some place and find them like my parents did. I was missing out on all those road trips! My enjoyment comes from finding the little details that ensure a family unit can be solidified. I was able to prove the matriarch of a family as she was identified as an informant on her grandchild's death certificate and it included her address which was also tracible.

      Now I make my family stop at obscure cemeteries so I can photograph gravestones that could be lost to time and erosion.

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  3. BarbAugust 30, 2023 at 3:30 PM

    I watch Finding Your Roots w/Dr. Henry Lewis Gates. FASCINATING. Many of the genealogy studies he does are for black people who had ancestors that were enslaved. It is quite the road to find their ancestors, since they were never identified directly by name, but did have their slave owners last name. Good luck. And yes, so terrible to think they were NON-PERSONS, possessions, passed onto family members in wills, etc. *SIGH*

    Sweet Caroline is as smart as a whip! She knows exactly what she wants and is making sure YOU know so you can deliver the 'goods'. GOOD LUCK. Lol. Made me smile.

    LOVE LOVE LOVE that multicolored mum. BEAUTIFUL.

    Hugs
    barb
    1crazydog

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    1. OverworkedjanetAugust 31, 2023 at 5:00 AM

      I'm lucky to be in a group that includes people who work with the National Museum of African American History and Culture and other larger entities. I am getting quite the education in both Black History and genealogy!

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