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2529. wonkers2 - 1/23/2005 3:04:30 AM  Fat fox squirrel.
2530. wonkers2 - 1/23/2005 3:20:44 AM  Squirrel-proof bird feeder.
2531. wonkers2 - 1/23/2005 3:36:25 AM  Foxy up close.
2532. arkymalarky - 1/23/2005 7:38:11 AM Great pictures, Wonk! 2533. judithathome - 1/23/2005 5:59:48 PM I love the Christmas tree...that would make an excellent card! 2534. arkymalarky - 1/23/2005 7:40:33 PM Bob just brought me jonquils from his walk. 2535. wonkers2 - 1/23/2005 9:10:52 PM That's a good sign! 2536. judithathome - 1/23/2005 10:00:41 PM RIP: Johnny Carson 2537. angel-five - 1/23/2005 10:19:23 PM Oh, man. That really makes me sad.
That guy could get more laughs by raising his eyebrow than anyone doing a late show now could get with their whole monologue. I was just thinking of him the other day and how much I missed watching Johnny Carson. 2538. judithathome - 1/23/2005 10:43:39 PM I put that in the wrong thread...ah well, at least you saw it and said something really nice about him, A5. 2539. Ronski - 1/24/2005 1:49:21 AM This blizzard was something of a bust, after all. In the six years we've been here, we've had four or five storms with more snow and more wind.
Still, there's a lot of snow around, maybe 14 inches, it's blowing like hell now (though not snowing: we had a sunny afternoon, beautiful!), and the temperature is about eight F. and dropping of course. 2540. Ronski - 1/24/2005 2:10:18 AM It's still snowing on Cape Cod. I wonder how much they got. 2541. wonkers2 - 1/24/2005 2:36:48 AM We got 12 1/4 inches in Detroit. I had to hire somebody to shovel the snow off flat parts of my roof to avoid leads when the snow melts. The building code on roofs is inadequate for Michigan winters in my opinion. 2542. wabbit - 1/24/2005 7:16:59 AM We got about 14" too. My parents live south of Boston, about halfway between Boston and the Cape, and said they got about 30". 2543. wonkers2 - 1/24/2005 1:37:34 PM Wow. 30 inches is a killer. 2544. PelleNilsson - 1/24/2005 3:27:30 PM I remember, wonkers, that your grandfather, or was it great-grandfather?, was from Söderhamn. The next couple of months I'm going to spend some time at the National Archives and if you want I could try to find out more about your ancestors from the church records. It will not at all be a burden because I will have spare time while documents are brought up from the vaults and the church records are easily available om microfiche (thanks to the Mormons!) 2545. thoughtful - 1/24/2005 3:33:34 PM Nice pics wonks!
We gave up on trying squirrel-proof feeders. Our solution is to make the feeders inconvenient then put enough food on the ground so they won't bother the feeders. Seems to work.
Interesting yesterday as, before we got to shovel the snow and place the seeds, the squirrels were digging down in the snow to find the seeds...soon as the squirrel left, the birds headed in. 2546. wonkers2 - 1/24/2005 5:15:45 PM Pelle, thanks for your kind offer. I don't want to put you to trouble on my behalf. My maternal grandmother, Ruth Malm, was born in Stromsburg, Nebraska. Her parents, John and Johanna Sundgren Malm came from Sweden.
About all I have of their history is a translation of a letter, dated September 28, 1852 written by Per Sundgren to his wife Johanna in Soderhamm from London shortly before his departure in the sailing vessel Apollo for Genoa, never to be heard from again. Although the letter doesn't confirm it, family lore is that he was the ship's captain. His wife was at home on the family farm. Here is a quote from the letter:
"...I have hope in God that I soon get out to sea and a fast journey to Genoa where news for you are waiting for me, news that takes up more room than can be written on a three ells-long sheet of paper.
"I cannot at theis point give you any suggestions regarding business, if I were closer so that I could see you or have an idea how things were going, then I could always give you some help. However, first and foremost be very careful and do not get involved in anything foolish which you do not know anything about or do not understand."
According to a footnote written on the bottom of the letter by my aunt, Per Sundgren and his wife Dorotheia Johanna Smeden were born in Ljusne.
Per Sundgren and Johanna were my great-great grandparents.
 John Malm, center, with his son, Axel and grandson Ralph, c. 1930 2547. ronski - 1/24/2005 6:05:12 PM I have found a kind of feeder that is squirrel-proof for grey and black squirrels, such as hang around my Mom's house. I have one such feeder at her place, and one at mine (plus other devices).
I have only the grey variety of squirrel by me in the exurbs, but we also have the much smaller red (flying) squirrels, and they can fit in the feeder. Though nocturnal (with huge eyes), one has been helping himself during the day lately. 2548. PelleNilsson - 1/24/2005 8:46:36 PM No trouble at all, wonkers, on the contrary. I rather like poking around old records. But to start with I need to pick up the Sundgrens somewhere, either in Söderhamn or in Ljusne (which is not far away). I won't bother you with the technicalities of the Swedish church records but it would help to know approximately when they were born because the birth register contains far fewer entries than the total population register. Also, Ljusne was a smaller parish than Söderhamn
Do you think this John Malm could be our man? That would give a clue to his wife's age and, in turn, to her mother's age.
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