Another .............

 ............. emergency blip (EB).

A wet and soggy day so spent a lot of it online 'doing' ancestry.   This is my ethnicity map.   
With my great love for the US/Canada am a little disappointed not to find any First Nation or Native American in my genes however there was a small group of "family" (surname Cowburn) who sailed off across the Atlantic, in the mid-1800s, ending up in Utah, joining the Church of Latter Day Saints - a small but pleasing connection.
Whilst clicking through some profiles I DID find a lady (related by marriage) who, when she died in her late nineties, left a large family including 145 great, great grandchildren.   145?????   Goodness me.

I have to confess to becoming a little addicted spending waaaaaay too much time searching.

Smile for the Day:

Listen now to the story of the two brothers Hing and Ming.
 
Each was devoted to the search for ultimate wisdom, but they differed greatly on how it was to be found. 
One day their pet chicken fell ill, began to moult and soon lost all of its feathers!  The brothers decided that this would be an ideal test case and agreed to each spend two months trying to cure the chicken.

Hing immediately went back to university taking numerous courses in ornithology and traditional Chinese medicine.   He decided that the answer was a large daily infusion of gum-tree leaf tea. He gathered bushels of the tea leaves, brewed gallons of the tea and poured it into the chicken for the remainder of the two months.

Meanwhile, Ming traveled all around China, praying at the shrines of his ancestors. One night he had a dream. His ancestors appeared and told him to feed the chicken tea made from gum-tree leaves!!!

Ming, aware of his brother’s lack of success, decided that the problem was quantity. He gathered whole cartloads of leaves and brewed barrels of the tea and poured them into the chicken for the remaining month. At the end of the time, the poor chicken was still as naked as a bowling ball.

Moral of the story: 


All of Hing’s courses and all of Ming’s kin couldn’t make gum tea re-feather a hen!


:o))




~ Anni ~




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