Hi, cuzzins It has been a busy weekend here in the SC Lowcountry. There were so many things going on in Charleston this weekend that, if you were going to go out for fun, you really had to pick and choose. Susan and I have been working hard on healthy aerobic weight loss and also on our yard, which was a jungle when we took it over. I'm down about 15 pounds from my high weight around January. So yesterday we opted for exercise rather than yard work. Susan went to the gym to work out yesterday morning, and then we took the dogs on a long walk before biking down to Fort Johnson from our house to watch the Blue Angels, the Navy's precision flying team, put on the first of two air shows this weekend over Charleston Harbor and Fort Sumter. I had seen the team before when we lived in North Carolina. This was a great opportunity to see them again without all the hassles of trying to find parking and taking a shuttle to the viewing areas. And, as I remembered from the first time, they were amazing! They were flying very low over the harbor, and we had a great view of the maneuvers and formations of this team of pilots. It was a great show. Other things happening yesterday were; Tennis: the semifinals of the Family Circle Cup women's tennis championship, with an exhibition match last night with John McEnroe, pro tennis's bad boy of the 70s. Festivals: A grits festival, of all things.... An Earth Day festival Weekly Farmers Market in downtown ...and just about anything else you would want to do. So today we turned ourselves to our yard work. We've been working now for several years trying to tame it. It was a big mess when we moved in. I have spent several weekends since mid-winter dismantling an old shed full of stuff that was kindly left by the previous owners. The shed was falling apart and was not really worth trying to rehab. Last weekend I finally got down to the foundation and was able to get it all up and out to the road for the trash men to take away. So that was a great load off my mind and a welcome riddance to an eyesore in our yard. There was also a pile of old shingles in the middle of the yard when we moved in, with lots of weeds and vines growing up in and around it. So we had put a tarp over it to try and kill the plants so we could deal with it. Finally today I pulled off the tarp and tried to get rid of the pile. Much to my surprise, there was a brick firepit, about 3 foot square, buried in there, too. So I ended up digging it out for us to use as a gathering place in the yard. Looks pretty good out there, now. We still need to tame the rest of the back yard and gain control over the poison ivy, climbing ivy, and wisteria vines that are choking out all the trees back there. We're gonna have a real showplace when it's all done! So to genealogy... Thanks for Cuzzin Jimmie for hopping in and helping out our new cuz Keith Lovelace with his family. I've only skimmed Jimmie's outline of the family, so I don't really know where Keith fits in. But I'm sure it'll get all figured out. I'll try to look through it all tonight. And thanks to Wanda Rabb and Bob Stewart for her continued posting of tidbits and obits for members of the western NC Lovelace family descendants. This is invaluable for filling in later generations of our family. I'm saving all the posts until I have time to enter the data. And thanks to Buckette for keeping up with our morning messages. I know how much work that is, and how sometimes you have to rack your brain trying to come up with something to say. Thanks, Buckette! And thanks for you all being here and keeping the list going. Maybe one of these days I can return to a more direct role here, but the time just isn't there now. Well, I've bored you enough, I think. Y'all have a great Sunday evening. Peace, Part of the Tree, Greg