Picture of me looking through my scopes for the August 21, 2017 eclipse.

Most of my family came from Kentucky, on both sides of the family. I retired from Shell Oil in '99, and now we live in the Missouri Ozarks near Mansfield, Mo. Our dogs are Registered Therapy Dogs and we visit 8 nursing homes every month. We have trained our dogs to do over 80 tricks each, and we also do trick shows for many nursing homes, schools, Head Starts, churches, senior groups, scouts, and others.

I like finding out about my ancestors - and like many of you, I find that sometimes the recollections of parents and grandparents do not agree with written records. Not all my records are accurate due to above statement.

Picture of me looking through my scopes for the August 21, 2017 eclipse.

Most of my family came from Kentucky, on both sides of the family. I retired from Shell Oil in '99, and now we live in the Missouri Ozarks near Mansfield, Mo. Our dogs are Registered Therapy Dogs and we visit 8 nursing homes every month. We have trained our dogs to do over 80 tricks each, and we also do trick shows for many nursing homes, schools, Head Starts, churches, senior groups, scouts, and others.

I like finding out about my ancestors - and like many of you, I find that sometimes the recollections of parents and grandparents do not agree with written records. Not all my records are accurate due to above statement.