Hello Everyone!

Well things here are pretty much the same. I am still waiting for an assignment to the Correctional Academy. Will they ever get this budget thing straightened out. Come on you either have the money or you don't...oh I'm sorry that is the working man's philosophy and not the bureaucrats. My bad.

Will hopefully have some great pictures from Easter when I blog next. Looking forward to flying the kites that Mom got from Costco. I have ordered a windy day so no problem there.

Just got off the phone with Sharon Kelly is in labor and they are at the hospital anxiously waiting for her newest Grand Baby.

I am trying to get my yard in shape. It is amazing how cleaning up after a winter can take so much time. But of course any small chore can turn into a big chore. One that I have run into is capping some sprinkler lines. I cannot find the line that feeds them. I have dug up quite a bit of this part of my lawn and just cannot locate it. One of the problems is that the sprinklers aren't working so I can't turn them on to see which way the water is coming from (I broke a line so I would be able to tell) and the idiot that installed some of them set the sprinkler heads in cement. What a bozo. I have dug under the sprinkler head embedded in cement and I cannot even find the line that feeds them so I think he may have laid the line and then poured the cement over the line. You are probably thinking why don't you just turn that zone off. Well that would work if only this part of the lawn is on that zone...but that is not the case. Another part of the lawn is in this zone also. I am going to give it one more try this weekend and I will keep you posted. I am sure you all will be waiting anxiously.

One of my other projects is geneaology. I am most interested in piecing together stories about our ancestors and not just what their names are. I am a member of Ancestry.com and it has been a wealth of information.

A few weeks ago I spent the day in the Colusa County Records office in Colusa verifying information that I got from Ancestry.com. While there I found the death certificate for Mom's older sister and where her grave is. Sounds morbid I know but it did clarify some details of what happened. I was also able to find out what Grandma Lynk's little brother Lawrence passed from also (kidney failure). Aunt Sis (Grandpa Lynk's baby sister) gave me a book, to review, that had the "Bond" pedigree in it and that was very helpful. While we were going through the book I taped what she was saying and had some pretty cool stories. I will eventually transcribe them and share with you guys. I have preliminarily traced some of our lineage back to the 1600's. I have also found some wills and have requested from the Military Archives the records of a relative that served in the Civil War.

Briefly though we come mainly from England and immigrated through Pennsylvania. Several branches of our family moved to Ohio and Michigan where eventually they ended up in California. The Bond Family has been in the Colusa area for approximately 150 years. Aunt Sis told me where her childhood home was and I am going to go take pictures next time I am in Colusa. She told me that her Father and Brother's built the entire home and none of them were contractors by trade. Would any of us attempt to do that today? (Minus Robert of course).

I have rambled on enough stay safe and well.

Patti