Volume 12 , Issue 43

Duchess & Sadie's Mtn Domain

It was mid-week that saw the golden aspens scattered in with the pines, showing their colors and brightening up the mountain sides here in the Southwest slopes of the Colorado Rockies. As seen in the photo image on the left.

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Home Comfort Cookbook - Hash, Stews & Fried Cheese Sandwich

On the begins of the Cold Fall/Winter cycle, something simple, hot to warm you up on the inside. What about following that Hash or Stew with a Fried Cheese sandwich. Does this combo sound economically feasible to any out there?

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Ramblings & Rumblings of NW Okie

I love the Fall/Winter weather! Especially in the SW Rockies of Colorado! For the past week, the mountains have been brightening up the mountainsides in the San Juan mountains with its hues of golden aspens with the help of the reddish hues of the scrub oaks that are coming back and mingled with the Ponderosa and other pines that survived the 2002 San Juan forest fire that sweeped through the Lemon and Vallecito Reservoir.

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Grace Ward Smith

As seen in the image on the left that I found on Ancestry.com for Grace Ward Smith, this 1920 U.S. Federal census shows the Harry C. & Florence Ward family of five living in Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma at the residence of 507 Choctaw Street.

Harry C. Ward was listed as 43 years of age, born in Ohio; Florence, his wife, 38 years of age, born in Indiana. They had three children: John (16 years, born about 1904, in Oklahoma), Grace (8 years, born about 1912, in Oklahoma) and Louis (6 years, born about 1914, in Oklahoma).

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This Day In History - 25 October 1916 & 1944

WWII -- On this day in 1944, the first kamikaze attack of the war begins with the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, where the Japanese deploy kamikaze suicide bombers against American warships for the first time. It was costly to both sides. Leyte was an island of the Philippines where the American fleet was based.

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1st Amendment - A Wall of Separation Between Church & State

In 1779, Thomas Jefferson was concerned about the power of the Church of England within Virginia. He felt a guarantee of religious freedom was the best guarantee that America would avoid the religious intolerance and religiously inspired bloodshed that had marked much of the history of Europe.

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