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Wow! Did I dress up for the holidays, or what???
Okay, I
know you can't read that font easily, so I'm going back to a more
normal font.
 As
you’ll be able to see from the look of this page, I
decided to forego all the in-between holidays and
seasons and jump right to the Holiday season, and to me
that means Christmas. Actually, the main reason for
this tactic is because I know I simply won’t have time
to update this page again before that season is upon
us. Why, you ask?
Well,
because we’ve just moved again, for the second time in
eight months. Or, for the third time in two years, or,
for the eighth time in eight years… However you want to
look at it, we have moved far too many times in too
short a period for most anyone, let alone someone
approaching “older” (I’m still not ready to admit that),
AND for someone who is quite ill, to say the least.
This move is a permanent one, we hope, as we bought a
home, and we are thrilled about it!
Somehow the
entire summer flew by in the blink of an eye. Jim and I
were discussing it recently, and it seemed more to us
like one long weekend or something, because it was so
full of company and people dropping in at all times of
the day, lots of interesting activities, and lots of
fun!
Early this
year we were fighting for my life against this cancer,
but by the end of spring my health improved and we had
the most wonderful summer we’ve had for many years. In
addition to all that, Jim got to spend quite a bit of
time gold dredging, and in fact is still dredging, but plans
to take the dredge out in the next few days sometime.
To read about my cancer go to
Journal.
We actually
moved the end of August, but are still trying to get
settled, since we had a lot of interruptions on the way
to getting settled. As usual, this new place is the
start of another adventure for us, because that’s how we
look at it. We find that we are, for the first time,
perched on a mountainside, so it’s going to be new in
that we’ve never lived on one before. One of the things
I’ve been looking forward to is having a small garden
again, and this place has a small fenced garden area in
front that gets a lot of sunshine, but judging from the
stacks of rocks and bedrock outcroppings around here,
the entire ground is rocky (and that makes sense for a
mountainside), so gardening here should be a challenge
and another new adventure. Although someone started a
garden here at some time, it has not had any care in
more than a year, and is quite overgrown, so we have
some work to do before we can actually put any plants
in, but that’s where all good gardens start, is in the
preparation.
While we are
quite near to the highway, the back of our property,
actually beginning right at the back of the house, is in
the forest, and we have wonderful forested views from
all the windows there, while in the front our view is of
the mountainsides across the river, and the sweeping
lawns of the homes across the highway. The highway is
actually about 100 feet lower than the house, so we seem
quite private while still being aware of anything going
on in the area. We are also very rural, but have a tiny
store (the only one for 20 miles) just two doors down
the road.
Most of our
property is forested in old-growth redwoods and cedar,
with a bunch of other varieties of trees thrown in the
mix. We have a tiny creek behind the house with wild
ferns growing along the banks, old heavily-laden apple
trees along one side, and the only neighbor structure we
can see clearly is a very, very old barn at the edge of
the property next door. Our entire place is quite
special to us and we love it here so far.
Our new home
is in a very small river community with a population of
80, according to the sign, but I don’t know where they
could all be hiding if there are that many. It is an
old gold mining town, as are all the towns in this area,
and “town” is probably a misnomer, as the tiny store is
the only business other than a campground/lodge down the
road.
Okay!
Now, at first I was afraid I would not get much done on
the website for this update, but somehow once I began
working on it, it just flowed, and I didn't want to
stop, so I've done more at this sitting than I've
actually done in years. It really needed to have
some time spent on it, and I really feel better for
finally getting to it. I have been working on it
steadily for eight days now, and Jim has been helping
out by taking care of some of the things that take me
away from the computer. I'm recovering from
bronchitis, so I am supposed to be kind of quiet anyway,
so it worked out well. I'm trying to keep them all
on the list below, but there have been times I created a
page and completely forgot to link it to anything, so it
was just sitting out there in limbo, and no one was able
to see it... until I remembered it, of course.
Update!!!
December 23, 2006:
I have just added a new page to my website that I hope
you'll all look at. When I went for my last doctor
appointment I picked up a magazine in the waiting room
of the hospital called
Today's
Christian Woman.
As I glanced through it the name "Marcia" (which is my
name) jumped out at me from one of the pages, so I began
reading the article. I was so touched by this that
I wrote to the author and asked for permission to post
it on my website. This new web page is the result.
It is a very uplifting story, and it has a message that
can be important to all of us. The page is called
Radical Gratitude,
and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.
Update!!!
December 9, 2006:
I continue to work on the website as I can, and have
just updated with an entirely new section that puts all
the information I have about my cancer, and
Cancer Helps online in one
easy location to give you the help that you need, rather
than scattered throughout the website and my computer
files. You will find much useful information on
these pages that can help you in battle against serious
illness, and I'm really excited to finally get this
done!
New
Update!!!
November 20, 2006
It is just a few weeks since I finished the update
below, but changes to my health have required me to
resume chemo,
and since I can't do what I want at home, I've been
renovating my Online Kitchen and Pantry. Check it
out! Enter Marcie's
Renovated Kitchen and Pantry
Last
week Jim and I drove to Happy Camp, and I was really
sorry I didn't think to take the camera. The
spectacular display that the trees here had put on for
fall color was amazing! It was just beautiful, and
I'd forgotten how pretty it was. I think the great
mix of trees here makes it even more so, with the
backdrop of mountains, and brilliant blue sky that makes
it so special to me. There seem to be mostly
conifers in the summer, and you just don't realize how
many deciduous trees there are until fall, but with the
mix, those conifers in the background, with their
different shades of dark green just serve to make the
color stand out more brilliantly, and beautifully.
If you go to my new
Fall page, you'll see just a couple of them in
an older photo I had, along with fall news.
I
reached out for a lot of new recipes to try this summer,
and I'm adding some of them to my
recipe
collection online.
I
have added an update to my Christian Faith
pages. I'm surprised each time I visit these pages
to see what an impression they make on me, and what a
boost they give me. They are "food" for my spirit.
I
just completed an update to my
About Marcie page, which was sorely in need of
it. Not only was the text five years out of date,
there was a "table" holding text on the page that would
not behave. So, I'm hoping it looks better and is
more informative now.
I am putting together a page
to tell you more about our new home,
show you some photos and tell you of the plans we
have for it.
I’m beginning a new
garden journal
online, and would like to correspond with others about
some of the plants I hope to grow here. It's a
treat to be where I can have so many beautiful flowers
again!
We’ve also put together
a page about the
camping and gold dredging
Jim and I did this last summer.
I have quite a
few changes I'm making in the genealogy section to
include new information I’ve received. You can see
them all listed at the
Genealogy opening page. I have updated some of
the McClure pages. I added a new page about
My Grandfather, Samuel
McClure, something I've wanted to do for some
time. I've added the court transcript when his
grandfather, Pleasant McClure, bought the
Old McClure Home Place
in 1864. I've added
Directions so
family members can find where their roots were in
Missouri in the 1800's, some poems and family writings
by my great Aunt Lessie McClure about their
Old Church at Mountain
Dale, and brightened the pages with photos of
the landscape scenery in that area so you can see what
it looks like there. I have added
Nathaniel Folsom's
Memoirs to our site to help with genealogy
research. I added a page of further research to
the site about the Hampton family, taking it back to
Daniel Anderson and his descendants, and a page taking
the Compton family back to
Joseph and Mary Farrar
and descendants.
I've
added the last three of
my Journal Updates, with the latest information
about my cancer, and because the list of these has grown so
long, I've reorganized this into a new section. In
these updates, which are posted here after being sent
out to close friends and family, is
information about what's going on in our lives at the
time they're written, so they are what a journal should
be. The most current Journal Update is
August/September
2006.
I've
added the diaries, letters and journals of
Narcissa Whitman to the
website. This is a young woman who came to the
Oregon Territories in a wagon train in 1836, much sooner
than most people, and she kept a record of it in a lot
of interesting detail for her family. There are
more letters, etc., done after they got here, and I hope
I can add to it. It just is fascinating to read
through it all!
Of course, I
have a few things to do other than the website,
since I never met a house that suited me just as it was.
Although this one is in good condition, I feel compelled
(it’s a family failing) to put my personal stamp on it,
and to change some things. For this house that
means changing some of the 70’s style (it was built in
1978), and we plan to do some work inside this winter,
and more work outside next year. All this will limit somewhat
the time to update the website, but I’ll try to keep you
all aware of the changes being made.
Any
new pages in the Index below that come after this update will have a “NEW”
sign next to them so you’ll be able to identify them in
the Site Index below, so check often to see what’s going
on.
If
you've reached this site looking for Alaska information,
you are in the right place even if it doesn't look like
it, and if you'll click on this
Alaska Page you'll be taken to Alaska
instantly. We have moved from Alaska, but all my Alaska pages and
information are still intact on the website, as are the pages about
Oregon, where we also lived until recently. You can still find out about the wildlife,
read stories, see photos of the beautiful scenery, learn about gold
prospecting, find facts and information about the state, and much, much
more! For Oregon information, scroll down to the site index and in
the right-hand column there are several pages about
Oregon listed in the first section under "About Us."
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Jim's Website
Jim
Foley's Alaska!
Alaska
Trapper's Forum
The
Alaska Gold Forum
Jim has a unique perspective on
Alaska after spending more than 30 years there. visit his
site to learn about hunting, trapping, fishing, and outdoors in
Alaska!
The Alaska Gold Forum has just been going great guns. It is a
great place to learn about gold prospecting in Alaska (or elsewhere), or to exchange
information with other gold prospectors here and in other states,
too. This is a very active message board that has more than
3,600 members to date, and is increasing daily. Many more
visit it, but don't join, so it is very interesting.
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Thank you very much for stopping by to visit
us, and we hope you'll come by to visit us again. We
make changes to the site quite often and add more information.
And hey... If there's
anything you'd like to see us put on our pages, please let us know by email!
"Yakoke"
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Family
History/Genealogy
This section is
still quite long and not organized as well as I'd like it,
but I'm out of time for this update. If you'll go to
the Family Genealogy Entrance you will find it more
organized there, and you'll hopefully be able to navigate
through all the families there. I still have work to
do there, too, in some of the family pages. Please bear with
me for now, but let me know of any problems, and be sure to
identify what page name you are on when you have them.
Thanks!
Family Genealogy Entrance
to all
these pages and more...UPDATED!
Searching
for
YOUR
Ancestors
Where Do We Come From?
Burks & Castleberry -
from 1661
Campbell
- from the early 1800s
Campbell
Family Life
Choctaw Introduction
1817-1860 Map
of OK Indian Territory
1884 Map of OK
Indian Territory
1972 Map
of Bryan Co., Oklahoma
Compton Lineage
Durant LIneage
- from 1720 Canada
Farrar
Descendants NEW!
Foley Lineage - from the Civil War
Folsom - from 1615 in England
Nathaniel Folsom's Memoirs NEW
The Town of Gloucester, Mass.
Gordon Lineage - From 1803
Ireland
Greel Family - From the Azores
Hampton - from 1841 Mississippi
Hampton-Daniel Anderson
NEW
McClure Lineage - from 1805
McClure:
Church at Mtn. Dale NEW
McClure/Campbell
Photos
McClure/Campbell
Photos 2
David
McCracken, Last Will 1812
McCracken
Lineage
McCracken's
Station Map 1790 [TN]
McCracken's
Station Map 1830 [TN]
McCracken/Rogers
Burials in NC
Pioneers
of the Rogers Family
Our Rogers Family
Rogers
Lineage
The Elopement, 1912
A Memorial To My Father
Rogers Family Photos
Asbury Rogers,
CSA
Hugh Rogers,
Revolutionary War
Washington
Washington, &
Thornton, Taliaferro
And Much, Much more!
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California
Fun/Adventure
Here is where I'll be adding new pages of
fun and adventures, since we recently moved to California.
As I put together this section I realized for the first time
that I didn't put anything up in 2005, and I guess that was
because we not only didn't have a whole lot of adventure, it
was because I was down with a broken ankle almost all summer
which severely curtails activities on uneven ground!
California
Dreamin'
Klamath River, July 4th
2004
Jim's
Hunt for Gold 2006 NEW!
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My Work
Design
Solutions
This
portion of the website is designed to provide information to those who are
looking for help from someone who is proficient at web design or graphic
art design work.
These
pages will provide you with information about my
experience, and a few samples of my work in the past.
If
you like my work here, please look at my business pages, and
don't hesitate to let me know if you think you might want my
help, I am willing to work with you.
I
can provide graphic design for printed materials ranging from brochures and
business card design to large catalogs and manuals, too.
Please
feel free to email me with any questions you have.
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