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1. Let’s talk pillows: soft/medium or hard? Synthetic/hypoallergenic, memory foam or feather (duck or goose)? How many are comfortable for you to sleep on?
We had feather pillows when I was little. They were awful compared to modern foam, even without allergy problems. One is plenty under my head, I like firm better than spongey soft.
2. Have you ever traced your ancestors? How far back can you go?
It was a thing in both my mother's and father's family, before I was born. There was a book printed up about 1900 for a family on my mother's mother's side, and a more modern print-up of my mother's father's family about 1970. My father's mother did both her own family and her husband's as far back as she could and typed it up about 1950. I got interested in it as a teenager. With help from Ancestry.com before it was bought out and became a paid service, I could trace back to Charlemagne and beyond. I'm more interested in the American branches these days. With the Mormon site (familyhistory.com, I think), I could trace several branches of the family back to the 1630 arrival of Governor Winthrop's fleet at MA. No one in the family was on the Mayflower that I know of.
3. It’s Hobbit Day - created alongside Tolkien Week by the American Tolkien Society in 1978. Are you a fan of the Hobbits?
I liked Bilbo, but I kind of got tired of them in LotR. Kind of wanted to put "Kick me" signs on their backs.
shadowkat1. Let’s talk pillows: soft/medium or hard? Synthetic/hypoallergenic, memory foam or feather (duck or goose)? How many are comfortable for you to sleep on?
We had feather pillows when I was little. They were awful compared to modern foam, even without allergy problems. One is plenty under my head, I like firm better than spongey soft.
2. Have you ever traced your ancestors? How far back can you go?
It was a thing in both my mother's and father's family, before I was born. There was a book printed up about 1900 for a family on my mother's mother's side, and a more modern print-up of my mother's father's family about 1970. My father's mother did both her own family and her husband's as far back as she could and typed it up about 1950. I got interested in it as a teenager. With help from Ancestry.com before it was bought out and became a paid service, I could trace back to Charlemagne and beyond. I'm more interested in the American branches these days. With the Mormon site (familyhistory.com, I think), I could trace several branches of the family back to the 1630 arrival of Governor Winthrop's fleet at MA. No one in the family was on the Mayflower that I know of.
3. It’s Hobbit Day - created alongside Tolkien Week by the American Tolkien Society in 1978. Are you a fan of the Hobbits?
I liked Bilbo, but I kind of got tired of them in LotR. Kind of wanted to put "Kick me" signs on their backs.
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