Lola's birthday is less than a week away! She'll be 3 on September 27! I'm excited. I got her a new collar and name tag (a little more glitzy this time around). It's finally getting cooler out here in LA, so I've been able to walk Lola in the mornings and on longer walks. She's been pretty content to sleep her days away now - I assume she's entering that adult phase of her life. I'll be sure to post a picture of her in her new collar next week. I've let her sniff it and I've fitted it to her, but we're still using the old one.
In the meantime, no job leads... so Lola and I will be moving back in with my parents next month :( Well, at least I'll get to enjoy fall this year for a change and Lola will probably enjoy the much cooler weather and having other dogs to hang out with.
I've also been working on the family tree a bit more, got some stuff about my mom's grandparents and am trying to track down their parents, siblings, nieces and nephews. It's been going alright. I have a few people I want to call and ask some questions of, even if they can't give details, knowing there's someone to look out for there is very useful too! For example, I found Emma Parry's obituary and she died in 1941 and had 6 grandchildren. Well, knowing how many kids and when they were born, 5 of those 6 were my grandmother and her older sister and 3 younger brothers... that meant obviously that Emma's son also had a child before 1941 (just 1, but he might have had more after). So knowing he was probably married, I managed to find his wedding announcement to Genevieve Buckley in 1939. Not sure what their child's name was or how many more they had after 1941, but... Aunt Jean's daughter's godparents are Uncle Joey (her brother - whose last name is not Parry) and a Mrs. Joseph Parry (perhaps the wife of her cousin AKA the 6th grandchild of Emma). Of course, Mrs. Joseph Parry might not even be related at all, who knows. I assume she didn't ask my grandmother (her sister) to be godmother because my grandmother just had a baby a few months earlier? Things to speculate on for sure.
Happy birday Lola! And i hope you find a job in the future :( the family tree work you're doing will be wonderful for the future. My grandmother was a poet and on her free time traveled the world writing a book and drawing out a family tree. My mom now has both and the large tree is hung in one of the rooms in their home. A topic of conversation during every holiday :) keep up the good work!
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