Weaversville

We discovered a some new members on the Sanford side of the family. Nicole Writes

{ “I actually have two children.  Here are more photos of them.   Thanks for your email.  Ashlynn is kinder at my school.  Quinton is two and goes to Montessori very near us.  We live on a large piece of land and enjoy our garden and pond.”}

George

Melissa Marie Weaver married Andrew, (*ANDY*)  Council  at the TJ Farms in the outskirts of Chico California at 3600 Chico Ave.  TJ Farms is a rustic southern style Ranch a few miles out of town off of Chico River Rd.  David and Mary Moss hosted the wedding.

It was time to move Dad’s history off of OLM servers and incorporate them on Blue Host. I have limited resources on OLM and need to economize by consolidating on Blue Host. Scott made some mention of Hostgater but I like what’s available at this time of the Blue Host system even though it’s about twice the cost. Nemisys will still host his stories until I decide it’s time to shut that down or transfer Nemisys to this server.  You can go there at: Memorial or http://www.weavervisions.com/memorial/ .

George

Complete is a relative term! It’s where it is, it is what it is, and, well I’m happy I even got this far. It uses some state of the art scripting from a book “Dom Scripting” by Jeremy Keith. The book was hastily sent to press before checking some typo’s and scripto’s but is the best book written on the subject to date. I will forgive Jeremy for his shortcomings in editing and scripting since this is an outstanding book on programming.

That said, we now have a photo center. Some time in the future I want to activate a slide show with it. (That’s in the book!) I also need to think out how I want uploads from you all to work on the site. Each photo needs 2 files, one cropped to 75 pixels high and one cropped to 300 pixels high. I would like it if you can do the work on your end. It may get down to you sending me 2 copies of each picture in it’s raw format and I will take it from there, but if you have any skills with cropping pictures using a jpg format I would appreciate your help. Gif files will work and png, but I prefer jpg if you got em.

The databases I’m transferring from nemisys to my current host are to say the least not nearly completed, so you may see some problems with that aspect of this site. Not to worry, it’s coming when I can get to it. Be patient and all will fall into place as time permits.

By the way, you can upload pictures on the nemisys side if you like. That functionality is in place here .

George

Got news that the guys were kind of rough on Melissa today at a family gathering football contest.  Compound fractured her wrist and tomorrow she will go under the knife to correct the damage.  Also got word that she is planning a September wedding in 2008.  She should be well healed by then.  Our prayers go out to her for a speedy recovery.

I have a crude image uploading capability that needs a ton of refinement but at least it’s a start towards members being able to upload their own family photos.  If I can polish that script and finish the membership scripts then we have a site that can compete with any family site out there.

George

Well,

Scott has done it again! While chatting we explored our familiar lines of famous people. We uncovered some interesting stuff to say the least. On the Weaver side Scott is related to Johnny Ringo, Frank James, Butch Cassidy and Clyde Barrow. He is also related to Woodrow Wilson and several writers. John Browning and William Randolf Hearst. The Browning family and the Winchester family are in our lineage. So, we can make guns, and shoot them well. This is all amusing but not to be taken seriously by me anyway. The Weavers are related to Sam Walton, and Randolf Hearst.

We managed 1100 miles in just 2 days, there and back. We installed our Garmon C340 steet pilot whom we named MoneyPenny after selecting an english accent and ventured into the LA Bowl, a maze of freeways and traffic jams to see our new grand daughter Olivia Maryam just barely a week old.

I’m not sure what the implications are when I need a gps device just to find my way through Southern California cities, but I’m sure my parents would have never needed to rely on such a device in their day.

Held off installing the dash disc mount for the Garmon just out of lack of time to do it. It would occassionally lose the satelite signal because if it being located in one of the drink holders on the console. Deni had to hold it on the dash to regain the satelite signal. Before the return trip I added the dash mount disc and attached Miss Moneypenney to it never again losing the satelight signal on this trip.

We were excited about our new relative and have been spending months working deals with our relief carriers to make it possible to make the trip to see our new granddaughter Olivia.

Moneypenny performed her task well getting us straight through in record time of 8 hours. Traffic on the I5 was very accommodating and with the aid of our Garmon C340 brought us to Scott and Sarah’s front door with very few hitches.

We spent the night at Scott and Sarah’s taking pictures for memories in the future and sharing some rare moments stairing at our new family member and taking it all in. Deni cradled Olivia in her arms as long as she could. She’s such a quiet good natured baby. We noted the similarities to Scott, (her feet are long like Scott’s were at birth,) and her dimple like her grandmother Jaleh’s. She has the cutist lower lip that is going to charm anyone who has a heart
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Scott wowed us with his new hi-def tv screen and personal video recorder powered by windows media.

Jaleh arrived and then soon after Pam and the Kids came while Chene brought his girl friend Berlin.

We gave the kids some toys in exchange for some hugs that kept them busy, a nerf ball and bat, and some contraption that launched little cars at a spinning wheel. (Seemed a big hit with both Tyler and Autumn.) The ball and bat were a timely gift as Tyler had just signed up for T-Ball little league.

Chene’s High School football team is preparing for his playoff game as his team is #2 in his division. Good luck Chene, wish I could be there to watch you play.

Sarah cooked a pasta meal that was second to none. Bijan had a cold he didn’t want to share with Olivia and missed this visit with us. Sam had a seminar that also kept him away.

In the morning we ate Begals and had Persian Tea and soon after 10 a.m. we had to depart.

We traveled the Pacific Coast Highway and witnessed the freedoms we once had disappear in a commercialized district of state run beaches that we could once walk freely. Now you pay for the privilege.

Irvine itself if the product of the Irvine family corporation and is one large profit machine. I have nothing against profit, just massive traffic jams and millions of acre feet of concrete freeways covering the planet in a web of heat generating heat masses.

The farther north we ventured the more at ease we felt getting clear of the rapid paced LA traffic and all that goes with it, getting back to the sanity of manageable population and it’s support infrastructure.

Once near Santa Barbara we felt sanity returning to our once weary concrete, traffic jam beaten brains.

We traveled the 1 until we intercepted the 41/154 which took us inland over a very curvy road and a new road project that delayed us about 10 minutes, to Kettleman where we once again traveled the I5 North adding another hundred miles and 3 hours additional trip time to our itinerary.

We were on our final leg of the trip home needing to refuel when we stopped at one of the stations we had stopped at on the way down. It wouldn’t accept our shell gas card. I went to the clerk who said to try it again that some times they have to clear the receipts left from the last customers before it will take. Tried again, no cigar. Finally I went in and paid $15.00 out of pocket for 4.11 gallons of gas. Then I got mad and went back in complaining that this had never before happened. So she gave me another 3 gallons on the card by swiping it in the store, (filling the tank.) She said that sometimes happens when you’ve used the card alot, they want you to perform the transaction in front of a clerk. I left angry, but understood the precautions needed to safegaurd the card and our account.

Little Olivia was struggling with a slight congestion and needed the loving care of her mother. We know the stress that comes with hosting visitors and though we would have enjoyed a longer stay, decided it in the best interest of all to keep our visit short.

The kids, Tyler, Autumn and Chene were in school so we made our escape, tired and weary as we were, and made the return trek to home arriving at about 9:40 P.M. the next night.

When I think about our ancestors traveling and how long it would have taken them on horse and buggy, I’m amazed at the ability to travel 1100 miles in such a short time. It once would have taken a full day just to go 10-20 miles and we can do that in just 5 minutes or less on the freeways of today.

If the past is any indication of where we are headed and what we can expect in travel, then light speed is not so far away. I can truly say that it is a different world than we envisioned for the future of LA, (meaning the whole southern Bowl south of the passes.)

Well, about 1:30 P.M. on Saturday we received a call that Sarah was 2 cm dilated and that they were in hospital at Irvine California. We waited by the phone, trying not to interfere until about 11:10 P.M. when, (both of us had fallen fast to sleep,) we received a call saying that Sarah had delivered a 6 pounder coming in at 19 inches in length. We were expecting delivery closer to Veterans Day so we were pleasantly surprised when it was early. We posted pictures on flickr for anyone wishing to keep track of the new Weavers.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgelweaver/

George (Dad) Weaver

November 5th 2007

P.S. At this time 8:04 a.m. Pacific we have not received the baby’s name.

I’m still working on creating a membership system. This will take well into the fall or longer before it is what I want it to be. I will have a multi-teared system, those who support the site financially will get the cream of the crop options. So there will be a Lite system and a Pro system. Eventually there will be a news letter sent out by email and maybe a once per year or more postal mail news letter. This isn’t a for profit setup, so not to worry about that, I will just try to recuperate the cost of mailings and hosting fees. I’m just trying to give our legacy to future generations. Scott will inherit the site, because I know his abilities with programming.