We are now back to work.

On Friday we had the power cord crash and so we could not finish out the day but just sent in our reports and went home.  We do not usually have such an early day but this day we did.

We contacted SLC and they said they would overnight a power cord to us but since the Archives are not open on Saturday we expected it to be there on Monday morning…..waiting for us.  How naive of us?

It came at about 10.30am on Monday morning and the time from when we got to the Archives at 8am till the cord arrived, I spent the time on the internet looking for Lockyer names on the New South Wales Birth Death and Marriages website.  It was really great to see so many of my family names there.  I spent some time tonight entering the citations for the marriages.  There are lots of more information pieces that I need and will get them in time.

So after the cord came we hurriedly unwrapped it only to find that the connection is incorrect.  How close can you go to getting things done?  Well, Bill searched in the box of goodies that have been left by former missionaries and found a cord that will fit – perhaps we are not the only ones to have had this happen to them?  In any case it fit we were able to digitize the rest of the day.

The Rellief Society  President dropped by and left us with some eggs that had been given to her for us by a family that raises chickens for a living.  I told her that last night, after we came home from her house, I found a tick crawling on my body but I managed to get him off before he attached.  WHEW!!!!!

In the newspaper they are warning that this will be a bumper tick season due to the early warming;  Just what I needed to hear.  An interesting thing in the newspaper this week is about men who fish for baby eels.  They catch them and ship them to China where they are raised to maturity and considered a delicacy.  I ate Eel in Japan but did not consider it a delicacy – it does not taste too good to me.

I feel better now that we can digitize.  It was really getting me down with all the breakdowns we have had and problems we have  had to solve just to get this job done.