The houses here

There are some beautiful stately homes here and they look like the homes that Martha Stewart would feature in her home beautification magazine.  However, to get done  all the stuff that she shows in her magazine, one would certainly need more than 24 hours in one day and more than 7 days in a week just to achieve a small amount of the beautiful things she features.  I love the cape cod homes here and I also love the Victorian style homes that are here.  The Governors Mansion is spectacular but when I get down to it, there is no way I would ever be able to  do a Martha Stewart to any of them much less spend the time cleaning all the nooks and crannies that they appear to have.   I think I will just stick to my little home in Prescott.  If the dirt gets too bad I can do what my mother always threatened to do - open the front door and the back door and pray for a big wind and it will all blow out.................That was Easy!  (Staples button)
The newspaper this morning  offered a $30,000 reward for the return of the little baby girl who was taken just before Christmas.  I see that the squabble between the mother of the baby and the father of the baby (who are not married to each other by the way) has found its way onto the internet and on TV.  Anything for a news story I suppose.
We were sent our results of the last submission.  One re-work and we did that this afternoon.  I am surprised that we only had one because it was part of the single page capture of the 3inch thick books that are 16 1/2 inches tall and 12 inches wide.  These books are way too big to have in the Cradle.
I have noticed that most homes do not have curtains on the windows.  The end result is that as you drive by of a night, the house is like a fishbowl - we can see all the pictures on the walls, the lamps on the tables, the people wandering around  and the staircases.  I think the reason they do not have curtains on the windows is that there is little sunshine this time of year and all the light you can let in, the better.  That may not be the full reason, but it is one explanation.  In any case, they way the homes are decorated is very distinctive - quite different from Prescott and certainly vastly different from Japan, Hawaii, Pennsylvania and Australia.
I was contacted by a lady regarding Lockyer Genealogy and she has sent me loads of stuff.  So I went on new.familysearch.org and wrote emails to some of the people there.  I heard back from one of them today and it is a wonderful blessing to me.  I am making contact with family I do not know but I hope to be able to put together a book on the Lockyer family because it is so vast.