Handmade Cards

I've been on a card making binge lately.  I have tons of paper that tells me what to make of it.  Fun, fun, fun!

 

It's a New Year

Please, let it be a better year for our country!

 

4th Grand Girl Graduate

Another grand girl graduated today.  She plans to go on for a Masters.  Congrats, Juliette! 

Paying it Forward

This past week I paid for a Starbucks order for the car behind me.  Today someone paid for my lunch.   

Feeling Good

 

Epidurals plus shots in the patooti are helping back and pelvic pain a LOT!  Add spinal decompression with chiropractic and this back isn't complaining as much.  Loving my specialized care - makes sleep a much better experience.

Dorothy Saenz Johnston Manuel

I'm working on a tree and having a difficult time finding this woman.  Dorothy Saenz was born supposedly in California (but Mexico and Texas are possibilities) in 1907 (per marriage cert).  In 1927 she married Jesse Bell Johnston in El Paso, Texas, whom she divorced in 1932.  There is a letter from her dated 1939 from the San Francisco area where her name is Dorothy Manuel.  It is possible this Manuel husband is Leonie Manuel, married to Dorothy in 1935 in Portland, Oregon but divorced before 1940.  Leonie later married a Bonnie Bond in Louisiana and had a son in 1944 with her.  Would really appreciate some assistance with this Dorothy Saenz.  

September-October Lock In

HOA is repaving our streets, a few at a time.  Chewing up and getting rid of all the old asphalt and putting down new asphalt.  We were told we would be "locked in" and unable to use the street for 24 hours on the 28th, but it's actually going into the second week with all the pre-paving work and "might" happen on 10/6.