Coffee anyone ?

[Bruce]

There are btw, millions of people living today with lines leading back to the House of Plantagenet thru the bastard sons.
I'm one of them

She traced us back to the Plantagenet Kings of England.

So we should now refer to you as Prince Greybeard and Princess Baymule??

My head lamp doesn't have a red light function... So I eat and breath bugs and pick them out of the corner of my eyes, unless it's raining. I try to do chores when the light isn't required. Not cold enough here to kill 'em off yet...

Time to break out that bee keeper's hood!

 

[RollingAcres]

Thank you all!

Skyler is beautiful! Red Merle Aussie?

She's an Australian cattle dog mix and she has the blue coat

 

[RollingAcres]

Bugs are mostly dead around here... even had snow flurries today... I am not ready for that....though my kids are.

I thought all the bugs are dead too in this cold but nope puppy was full of fleas

 

[Baymule]

Not a princess! Just a baymule. LOL

Wash that puppy with Dawn dishwashing liquid, it kills fleas!

 

[Bruce]

Fleas don't die easily, especially if they have a nice warm body to hang out on.

 

[RollingAcres]

We washed her twice yesterday with Dawn soap and also natural flea and tick shampoo. Hopefully we got them all. Tjen I had to wash all of our clothes and jackets....
Here's a close up pic of Skyler

 

[kdogg331]

Wow you guys sure do know a lot about history!! I've always found it very interesting. And I have found it especially interesting how the Romans really were so advanced and even had like those spas/bathhouses they'd all sit in together with like the hot tubs or whatever, piped water, all that stuff, yet when they fell everything just went with them and we went into the dark ages. I've just never understood that or how it was even possible. I mean, surely one person must have survived? It's all just so interesting to me aha

 

[kdogg331]

Also this might seem like kind of a stupid question but the whole AD BC thing gets kind of confusing. Are we in AD right now? Or is that time period over? Like what would the 1600s, 1500s, etc. Be considered? And now?

 

[greybeard]

So we should now refer to you as Prince Greybeard and Princess Baymule??

Odds are pretty fair, that the title would be fitting for you as well Bruce. The farther back you go, the more you will find that contemporary time people are 'related' in some form or fashion.
Being descendant from royalty is so common, that it is no big deal.

Ancestry written records are 'weak'. Too much missing, too much was recorded incorrectly, too much mis-spelled (remember, in those days, only the uppers were educated).
Even one of England's most famous citizens has huge swaths of detail missing from his own history. Shakespeare.

And, too much simply omitted.
Wild oat spawn rarely make into family bibles or are buried in family plots for obvious reasons.
I had trouble pinning down a GGG grandfather's birthplace. Lawderdill, Alabama according grandmother's bible. Turned out, he was born in Lauderdale County, town of Mars Hill Ala.
Died and is buried somewhere in Tenn of cholera during civil war.

 

[greybeard]

Also this might seem like kind of a stupid question but the whole AD BC thing gets kind of confusing. Are we in AD right now? Or is that time period over? Like what would the 1600s, 1500s, etc. Be considered? And now?

AD for most people means 'after death' (of Christ) tho it really comes from a latin phrase anno domini which means "in the year of our Lord", (year Christ was born) which is one of the reasons it is confusing. If, AD meant 'after death' then 33 years would be left completely out of history.

Now, most scientists and atheists use the 2 references that reflect whether a time is of "Modern Age" or prior to "Modern Age) but are referred to as the 'common era', which is abreviated "CE" and equates to AD. We are in the Common Era (AD) now.

Prior to the modern (Common) Era is referred to as BCE which simply means Before Common Era and is any time prior to the birth of Christ.
(There is no year zero.)