My "Do List" is getting shorter

This may come as a shock, but I was

Just sittin’ here thinkin’ about…

I guess the older you get the more prone you are to think about the past and other things that you can't do anything about. The reason for that may be that you are no longer able to convert your thoughts to action.

Like I used to have a legal pad and I’d make a list of things I needed to do for the day. Of course it often spilled over into the next day and I’d try to prioritize the stuff. Try to do the undesirable stuff first. Get that off your mind and the rest of the day was easy. The computer made keeping your “Do it now” list easier to update.

I don’t keep lists like that anymore. As a matter of fact, if I can accomplish one biggie a day I feel good! Often I will mentally decide to do this or that tomorrow, but manana never seems to come.

In spite of all that there are many thing I would still like to accomplish. I don’t understand anyone to claims to be bored with life. There is sooo much to do.

So here goes a few things that come to mind just sittin’ here thinking about it.

I’d like to make an oak breakfast table just like the one we gave Ardith a few years ago. We now have it here in our kitchen. I guess we were ‘Indian givers’ since we asked her to let us use it for a while until I could make a duplicate of it. I even have all the metal brackets to make the seats fit up under the table. The table was special to me because it was the table we had while we were growing up and still living in Juniata. Dick and I would sit there every morning with our feet propped on the board underneath that supports the sides. The table has been painted numerous times. When you get it down to the wood, it is just poplar with no pretty grain. I just might get that done—sometime.

I also promised Jessica that I’d make her a crib like I made for some of the rest of you. I’ve been putting that off too. Just fearful that some day we’ll get a call that it needs to be done in the next 8 or 9 months. Then I’ll really have to get movin’.

I did make a number of picture frames for G grampa’s horse picture. I’m not sure, but I think I have finished all of those promises. If not, I’m sure I’ll hear about it.

I’d like to spend more time on our genealogy stuff. When I took a course at Dayton Univ. last year, the instructor told us the first thing we needed to do, was learn how to spell it! Obviously it is frequently misspelled. I’m afraid that you will not be able to connect all of the dots after I’m gone. I received an e-mail yesterday from a lady who was searching the Hoover family. She wanted any info that I might have. As a matter of fact, the one she is searching for is John Adam Hoover, my GGGgrandfather on the Brumbaugh side. The Hoover name has also been spelled in a variety of ways from which comes the name for the local community of Huber [Hoover] Heights. Interesting, huh?
Well, I need to take some time to explain all of that to her.

And since I’m just sittin here thinking, I like e-mail except you never know where these people live. They could be across the street or the other side of the country. I did have a lady in Washington state send we a picture of a Glass relative from the early 1900s. We subscribe to the Blair County Genealogy Society newsletter and get occasional queries through it.

Well it looks like I have more things on this list than I can handle, so I’ll go back to the recliner and see what comes to mind.

Love Gpa G