flight

The garden in the Governors mansion, Blaine House, holds many surprises if one stops long enough to examine what is growing there.  I stood and watched a bumble bee wobble his way into a flower and then back out covered in pollen and then find his way into the next flower and the next and the next all the while doing his duty of pollinating the plant.  It is amazing that these ungainly insects can even fly – they seem to be way too heavy for those little wings that are attached to their backs.  Other things that fly also seem to be too big to stay aloft like airplanes etc. but they do.  I know because I have flown in some of the biggest ones.  This morning I saw a Great Blue Heron flying over Augusta.  These are magnificent birds and I have seen them at Watson Lake in Prescott and was within 3 feet of one in Cheney, Washington State a couple of years ago.  My friend Len loaned me his binoculars to see the one in Watson Lake and I was amazed at how beautiful they are.  The one in Cheney was just as surprised as I was finding our presence so close to each other that it took off out of the marsh where it was and I got to see it take off and fly away.  A great lesson in Physics as the bird takes flight.

We are getting very close to the end of the line with the court docket books and still Jeff has not heard from anyone at Family History as to how and what they will next need from the Archives of Maine.  We did get clearance a couple of days ago, but he has heard nothing else and we are half way through the week and three quarters of the way through the Docket books for Kennebec Court.  The fun thing about this is that I have found some court cases that are for the Bessey family – this is Anne’s ancestors and she is very interested to see what I see come up in the docket books.  One of the cases was a divorce that was not granted between a couple named Bessey.  Anne knew their names and was interested in finding out more about this case through its papers.  I have found three other Bessey cases that she is going to look into.  I really love Genealogical research and have missed the chance to do some since I have been on this mission.  Finding Bessey names has rekindled the flame that has been put out or just left smoldering while I serve this mission.  When I was set apart to come on this mission, the Stake President told me that I would be an angel to these deceased persons out here through my efforts at digitizing.  I hope that the Bessey families look upon it as such.

Last night we got a  phone call to tell us that there is a crew that will move our stuff from this apartment to the other one.  Apparently they are slick at doing this stuff - so much so that I have visions of our furniture and belongings just flying across the parking lot and into the new apartment.  I wonder what a flying couch will look like - better yet, how will they get it to fly into the new apartment?  the turn into the apartment from the hall is really tight and they will need more than wings to get this monstrous couch into the apartment.  when we leave in September they are going to have fun getting it back out again.  I wonder if there is a Rent-a-wing company in Augusta?