I read your interesting note about your busy life. I glanced up and saw KEUHL..one of the names i am researching! Actually I am researching KUHL - same thing! My g grandparents were Lewis and Amelia Elizabeth KUHL. (Amelis was known as Emma or Emilie.) Supposedly, Lewis died when my grandmother was a toddler and my g grandmother married again-this time to Hugo STUMPE. If you come across this line, please email me. Susan Hantke-Ogden also researching HOLTZ, GROSSKREUZ, HANTKE, STUMPE, CLANCY. At 01:44 PM 8/8/00 -0700, you wrote: >Hi! Just a short note to all of those people who normally hear from me >routinely. I recented retired from the USMC, and am currently taking a three >month vacation from life, in the pursuit of happiness (grin)... actually >trying >to catch up on all the stuff I postphoned... Here is what the last few weeks >have been like: > >-Had both feet operated on, bunions removed, a 2 week no walking chit, >pryed on >boots to participate in my retirement parade (paid for that dearly), and just >got into shoes (a few hours at a time) this week! > >-Working 12 hour days, to train the new person who replaced me! WHEW, that is >done. And they only called me twice since my parade!!! > >-Staying up nights to finish the quilt I am entering in the Alaska Dye works >competition, due next week. YIKES!!! It is an original design, called >"Welcome >to MAK's Pad", featuring a frog, second in my series. The first was "MAK's >Cats", of course featuring cats. (Am handquilting the top as we speak). > >-Took two mini-classes, one on stamping (so I can send out Thank you's) >and one >on quilting, so I can do my third quilt in the series "MAK's Frog Cabin". > >-Organizing my notes to finish my dissertation before the deadline (so I can >graduate next spring). This is NOT going well... > >-Packing my entire household (19,000 pounds at last move), to move 10 miles >down the road to my next home, which is a temporary move until I get a job and >buy my retirement home (grin)... > >-Writing resumes, sending them out, and turning down wonderful jobs in COLD >locations, such as NY, NJ, and MD... Nope, not AL yet, but I am wondering >what6 will be next. Want to stay in sunny southern CA, but it seems so does >everyone else!!! > >In addition, the USGenConnect Boards and my server had a software glitch, so I >couldn't post any of the normal stuff. Have 250 messages to read, edit >and get >up. Also, have two indexes one for Wood and one for Portage, that are sitting >here ready to put up, but waiting on the server. The problem is resolved with >the server, so I will do alittle each day to catch it up. Please be patient, >there is only one of me, and my fingers and back do get tired. > >Therefore, I am REALLY behind the power curve. So if you think I was blowing >you off by not writing or posting, or doing what I normally do, it ain't >true. >I am swamped among boxes, papers, and the likes!!! And my perception of >normal >has changed a great deal. > >Right now, I am off to run "normal" errands, like take out the trash, get food >for cats, frogs, turtles, lizards, and newts, pick up the mail so the >bills can >be paid before the power is turned off, and the cable cuts off my server, find >a new home for a turtle, go to the beach to do my walking, quilt until my >fingers drop off, find more boxes for the move, pack up more boxes, hug the >cats, eat, and post new entries on the boards... not necessarily in that >order. hee hee hee... the list goes on and on. > >Thanks for understanding. R/S MAK > >ps The reports of my death are great exaggerated. I am TOO mean to die >before >I get every dime of my retirement pay... > > > > >===== >===== >TheStorm http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/TheStorm >USC NROTC Alumni http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~uscnrotc/ >MAK = "Mar sea ah Ann Keel" >===== > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. >http://invites.yahoo.com/ > > >==== GenWisconsin Mailing List ==== >Mailing list moderator: Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore >email: kingsley@aol.com