Oh, so sorry. Poor fingers! Poor YOU! Glad you could sleep. Ask your pharmacist for a Probiotic. Most will do. Better than yogurt, and yes, Kefir is better than yogurt, too. It's simple to just swallow the antibiotic, then the probiotic a bit later. This keeps me from 'the runs'.

My earliest US ancestor came from Wales to the Virginia Colony on the SW side of Chesapeake Bay in ca 1735. From there, with the Dodson(s), they removed ca 1750 to what is now Pittsylvania Co, VA. My ancestor established a 420 acre plantation. I suppose his reason for coming to the colonies was agricultural, and a chance to acquire land. My Franklin ancestor (of my Dad's Mother) came to the colonies for a very different reason. He lived in Acton, England and saw his father hanged for being a Presbyterian. He made up his mind that Acton was not the place for him and left for the colonies hoping to establish a life for himself and wife and children. They were literally penniless upon arrival. They arrived in Boston in the 1700s. He first tried making a living with candle making and found that was not adequate. During the Rev. war, a British Officer brought a wounded conscript Scotsman, Hugh McCoy, to the house of my Franklins (who were now in New Jersey) to recuperate. Hugh McCoy did recover, caught the eye of his benefactor's daughter, and refused to sign up again when his term expired. Daughter and Hugh marries and Hugh now stays in contact with his new family. (This is the only Scot that I can verify in my line.) Near the end of the Revolutionary War, my Franklins, and Hugh McCoy, removed to Burke Co, NC using land warrants from the French and Indian Was and the Revolutionary War to buy land in N.C. After 6 children were birthed, Hugh supposed that he had some property coming to him in Scot,and. He takes passage on a ship. He and the ship is never heard from again. It is supposed the ship was lost at sea. These Franklins move through Boone Gap into Kentucky and thence onward to settle in Franklin Co. TN. One of Hugh's children married a John Brown. It is this couple who came to Illinois in 1828 when the southern portion of Illinois opened for settlement. They produced my Grandmother.

I had a friend back in grade school who went to the same church as I did with my family, she had 4 sisters and the oldest 3 would rotate who got their own bedroom each year and the rest were in bunks in another bedroom while parents had their own as well (of course). I only had a brother and we both had our own room. My mom was born in Houston in 1946, my dad born in California in 1945 - her family moved out here (California) when she and her twin were 5 years old and pretty much all on both sides except for my immediate family (brother had been living there since 1996 then my parents left for Nebraska in 2007) has continued to reside in California. But we're all basically what one would think of as the definition of "nuclear family" - I have an aunt and an uncle through my mom's side and an uncle on my dad's. My maternal uncle had 3 kids, my aunt had two, my paternal uncle had 2 kids from one marriage and one kid from his second. I remember when my brother left our parents house for air force basic training, his old bedroom was turned into a home office within 24 hours - I think my mom was happy that the computer could finally be set up somewhere other than their bedroom!

I had a 'shoot-a-bunny' moment, Donna, when I read your comment, because I'd already begun piecing the top together. THANK YOU for suggesting a second-glance. I was able to correct a couple of spots. After closer inspection, one 16-patch is already pieced. I'm taking the 'galloping horses can't see it' approach on that side. Happy Sewing & Quilting, y'all!