Category: Miscellaneous

February 19, 2023

Cool Clouds

Thought this cloud formation was really cool — distinct horizontal lines around a star

February 12, 2023

Thanking the Maple Trees

Anya likes to thank the maple trees with a hug — sap is flowing as we tap the trees.

February 11, 2023

Sunset

Sunset over the ridge

February 11, 2023

First Crocus Flowers – 2023

As the snow melted, our first crocus blooms emerged

February 10, 2023

Unidentified object … that is flying

Strange that we’ve had a phrase for these sort of things for decades, but none of the statements about the unidentified flying object shot down over Alaska actually use the phrase “unidentified flying object” or UFO.

January 19, 2023

First Buzzard Sighting – 2023

We were building our log archway this evening, and I thought there were a few geese coming in off the lake … but they were flying strangely (well, strangely for geese anyway). Gliding through the air, I saw five buzzards! They are really early this year (although they were also flying south … so maybe they thought better of hanging out this far north in January?).

January 2, 2023

Access Digital Newspapers through the County Library

Your Cuyahoga County Library account can be used to gain free access to the electronic editions of a few national newspapers — including New York Times and Washington Post. You just have to use the links from https://cuyahogalibrary.org/read-watch-listen/digital-library/newsstand to get a few days of free access.

December 16, 2022

Accessing Records – Cuyahoga County Probate Court

We went up to the County Courthouse today to view some old probate records — just like the recorders office, this is all stored seemingly forever and available to the public to review. There is a room where the microfiche is stored in cabinets.

Each drawer is full of boxes — when you search the Cuyahoga County probate court records, newer records have files in the “Docket” that you can view. Older cases don’t.

They do, however, contain a record that provides the film roll number.

And each file drawer has a list of numbers housed in the drawer — to find the film for this case, I needed to find the drawer with roll 03575

Voila — here’s the roll. Each box indicates the range of case numbers imaged onto the roll … I confirmed the case number I wanted was in that range.

They also have a film viewer computer — if you select the type of film, the screen will give you a little animated video with instructions on loading the film. Look for that in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.