Duchess' Melting Snowy Domain

March, 2010 has come in like a lamb here in Southwest Colorado, inf Bayfield. The temperatures during the day were in the mid-40's and heavy melting of snow and icicles falling off the roof edges.

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Weather, Earthquakes, Etc …

We hear that the 23rd February 2010 that southern Oklahoma got an early morn dusting of snow. One of our reader (subscribers) sais, "Well, your snow is getting here this morning. Just a dusting out right now, but suppose to be around an inch by this afternoon when it moves out. I guess we can handle that, if you can handle all you've got the past month. Well! The snow might not have came from Colorado, but since you were the closest person at hand, I thought I'd just blame it on you. LOL! Drive safe."

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Dunlap & Warwick Family Connection

One of our Warwick/Dunlap family network connection sent us this interesting tidbit concerning Colonel Alexander Dunlap (1743-1828). It has to do with the correction of an identification of Dunlap in Oren F. Morton's history book concerning the Dunlap's and Warwick's of Virginia.

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Rock Formations of Western New Mexico

NW Okie took this digital, nightly (dusk photo) while traveling North on Hwy 491, that is a North-South route in the western part of New Mexico, just South of the Shiprock formation, on the westside of the highway [more]... View/Write Comments (count 1)   |   Receive updates (1 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Okie Dokie Memories

Roy of Perry, Oklahoma says, "Each time that I see a reply of okie dokie, I am reminded that when I was a small child (about 1936 or so) my grandmother, Martha Elizabeth [Burdick] Kendrick had a cafe in Britton, Oklahoma that was called the Okie Doke Cafe and she sold a lot of hamburgers (about the size of a salad plate, smaller than a dinner plate but larger than a saucer) at 5 cents each.

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Herbert 'Tup' Brand Died

Roy of Perry also says, "This name might not mean anything to you but at age 89, 'Tup' left kinfolks who were married into some families quite well known, such as the Chenoweth's. His grandson Russell was married to Angela (Goodwin) whose mom, Sally, is a Chenoweth descendent and any way that you spell the name Chenyweth, Chenwerth, you are probably related, as am I through my great-great grandmother Isobel Chenoweth, who married into my Warner ancestry. My mom's mother was a Warner out of the Ohio Warners.

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Shiprock Formation At Dusk

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The Gottschalk Story & Perry, OK

Roy says, " I wonder if the Gottschalk in this story was related to any of the folks here in Perry?"

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