How’s that for a weird title?! If you didn’t notice I’ve been on a break, please don’t tell me or I’ll feel bad ;). I am back, but only on a limited basis because of all these things like work and life that keep intruding on my genealogy research and blog reading! I wanted to stop in today to say:
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Let’s make 2015 the best yet!!
I have a set of old glass negatives that have been digitized. I’ve shared a few on this blog. Here is one I have not shared. At first I thought it was a photo of a pig (hog? what is the difference?) with her very cute babies. I am quite certain this was taken by Joseph DeKorn at Brook Lodge in southwestern Michigan (I’ve written about the place here).
But when I looked more carefully I saw Grandpa sitting in the upper right corner! I wonder what he was thinking and if he was tired. He seemed to be visiting the resort with his cousin and uncle.
Here are some more pig photos from Uncle Joe.
These photos are 100 years old. What remnants of our lives will there be in 100 years? Maybe too many!
The Family Kalamazoo 
Welcome back! May 2015 give you some time to breathe and to research and blog. It is amazing to have photos that are 100 years old. I wonder what will be here 100 years from now. Will people have chips in their brains that store all their photos and documents? I worry sometimes about the permanence of what I am writing if it’s not in some hard copy format.
Happy New Year!
Thanks to you, I’ m back, Amy! 🙂 Chips in their brains?! Oh, I hope not! We need to leave some things for the imagination! I’ve thought about that with the blog, too. I think we should consider taking the posts and self-publishing from it. Have you considered that idea?
I have, but have not figured out how. When I just tried printing out one post for an elderly cousin, the formatting and pictures were all messed up. Do you a way to convert from the blog to a format that is readable?
Amy, the only way I’ve been able to do this is to copy and paste many posts at the same time into a Word document and store it. This doesn’t allow for any organization, but it does prevent the messing up with the photos and all. And saves the material. The other thing is that apparently we should be exporting our content into a WordPress extended RSS blah blah blah every once in a while. It’s kind of like backing up your computer. I haven’t done it in a long time.
I do the backup thing, but that doesn’t help me create a tangible copy. My parents keep asking me to print something out for them in hard copy. I can’t imagine cutting and pasting my almost 300 posts! But maybe I will give that a try…. Thanks!
No, you copy and paste a lot of posts at once. Do it from your website URL, not from inside an individual post.
Ah! It worked! I could get the last month or so by copying the whole first “page.” Thanks! Now it’s just a huge task to put them in chronological order instead of reverse….. Too bad there’s no way to get the posts to come up in chronological order. THANK YOU!
I found the instructions for posting in chronological order! You’ve been a great help. Thanks so much!!
Still trying digest that it’s 2015! 100 years seems like a long time but I suppose in the great scheme of things it’s not! I can’t imagine what people will be thinking of our photos 100 years from now (if they’re still around — the people, I mean)! Here’s to a fabulous year, my friend! 😀
Can you imagine people looking at the “selfies” with “duck lips” etc in 100 years? Hahaha We are going to be known as a very strange period in history!!! You have a fabulous year, too, Linda!!
What delightful looking pigs at Brook Lodge. Happy New Year!!
You, too, WJ. Yes, they are adorable. I love the curly tails! and the babies!
Pig vs Hog
• Pig is any species of the Genus Sus, whereas hog is a domesticated subspecies of one of the species of pigs.
• The name pig is more commonly used than the name hog.
• Pigs are found in the wild, but hogs are never wild except for some feral populations in New Zealand and Australia.
• Hogs have a thicker fat layer beneath the skin compared to wild pig species.
• Pigs are of many colours, but hogs are always pink in color.
So there you have it. Thought I’d find and post a less complicated and clearer description then what I would have provided 😉
YES, we have missed you and hope you had a very productive December. Looking forward to the announcement of your publication and of any book signings.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
XOXO
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 12:24:47 +0000
To: threeqtrsfarm@hotmail.com
J, thanks so much for this! I would have thought it was the other way around–that hogs are the ones that are in different colors. Shows you how little I know about farm life! What I know of pigs can be found in my very favorite movie of all time, Babe, and from Charlotte’s Web!
Thank you about the book! Been a problem lately with the book’s cover, but I hope we get that resolved soon! Happy New Year to you and hubby, too! And all the animals! xoxo
Glad to see your post. Even if you post on a limited basis it is better than none at all. I hope the new year will be kind to you and you make some great discoveries in your family history.
I think you’re right about the posting. If I couldn’t keep to my once a week schedule I decided to “withdraw” for awhile, but I missed my blog buddies over here and started to feel like I was getting too far away from it all. Amy tweeted me and that nudged me into coming back now and not waiting any longer! Thank you so much re the discoveries–I wish that for all of us. Happy New Year!
Welcome back, Luanne. Happy New Year and thanks for your pig/hog shots. Your 100-year-old shots just go to show these critters are timeless. I can’t count the hours we spent as kids at our cousins farm daring each other to madly dash through the pigpen, scaring ourselves and the pigs equally. There is nothing like a family farm for fun, adventure and the occasional mishap, all of which enrich the family lore.
I always want to call you Sammy J instead of Sammy D (because of your name)! I’d love to know where the name comes from! Oh how fun for you and your cousins on the farm! The pigs must have thought you were all very untrustworthy haha! I loved my great grandfather’s farm, and the only time I got to stay there without my parents was one week one summer (that I can remember). It had everything although by then nothing functioned as it had in its heyday. Hen house, outhouse, barn, silo, tractor, etc. I loved the weeds and especially the wild flowers in the woods across the street.
Yes, Luanne those out-buildings held such allure for children. It wasn’t until years later that it dawned on me my Uncle actually WORKED at farming and wasn’t just riding his tractor for fun!!
Since you asked and only if you have time, of course, the link below expains why I write as Sammy D.
http://bemuzin.com/2014/02/18/name-game-part-1
But you can call me Sammy J 😀😊☺️
Hehe, I just went over there and left my stage name. I love what you say here about not realizing your uncle worked at farming–I know what you mean!!
Clueless kids !!
I love the photos! I hope 2015 is a great year for you Luanne. 🙂
Thanks, Amberly! For you, too!!
Happy New Year, Luanne! In 100 years people will be so different. I think at some point enjoyment in the natural world will replace tech gadgets as more and more they become boring after a certain point.
I mean to say that while people will have much technology there will be greater enjoyment in the things we bypass now while hooked into a tablet or iPod. Natural beauty can be bypassed in favor of electronics for just so long.