Cerrigceinwen

Okay.  Time to play catch-up and add some things to the blog that have nothing to do with weather in Canada, and everything to do with the point of this project: our ancient relations.

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Last September, A.R. & U.P. went to Wales for a holiday, and I asked them if they would stop and take some pictures of one of the little dots on the map off the North Wales Expressway to Holyhead called Cerrigceinwen, as this location is the birthplace of one of my great-great grandmothers, Mary Evans.   They kindly set off down a road that ended up as not much more than a grass track and found the church of Cerrigceinwen - and that was about all there was left to see.  Cerrigceinwen is the name of the parish, and there is not really a village, or even a crossroads there now.  I did go onto Google Street View later and "drove" all through it myself and I could see that it was really off the beaten track.  The church itself is closed and is for sale, but all the parish records are safe in Llangefni apparently.  I am hoping to get to Wales and spend some time researching in 2015.

Here are the pictures A.R.  took for us.

Thanks, once again, to A.R. for her enthusiastic assistance, even though this is not her side of the family.

Christmas Day

It was the first Christmas at my sister's new farm, and what a beautiful day.  One niece, Dad, and I went out on a photographic expedition before The Feast.  Here are some pictures of the surrounding land.  The drive down was gorgeous with the bright light reflecting off all the ice-encrusted trees, but my camera was in the trunk, so I didn't get any shots along the way.  The roads weren't too bad, thanks to the crews who'd been sanding/salting/plowing around the clock for 4 or 5 days.  As you can see, a dusting of snow came down after we got there, which was just right.

Today's Temperature

There is a reason why we obsess about the weather here in Canada.  It is only December 14th and we are getting mid-January temperatures and I, for one, am not amused.  See the blog entry for July 15th. There is about 120 degrees Fahrenheit difference.