Mary Weissler
Friday,
Febraury 12, 1999 - 12:33:56 am:
Message from Olive
Loggie C/o Charles W.P. Loggie at loggiec@actonline:
Olive asks do we bring our own chairs, oh by the way we are no good at Moose calling.
Friday,
February 12, 1999 - 06:55:32 am:
Message from John
Vickers at info@securitysolutions.nu
Hi Mary,
Actually if my Uncle George or Stephen Kingston is reading this, they would probably have an up-to-date account as to what the latest status on the Ellison property.
By the way, on the Miramichi, hot flys include the BROWN BOMBER, the YELLOW BUTTED BUTTERFLY, and of course the BLACK GHOST.
If you all have speakers, click here for a sound you will have to get use to at KINGSTON 2000!
John
Friday, Febraury 12, 1999 - 08:12:07 am:
Message from Mary Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:
Hi John,
>If you all have speakers, click here for a sound you will have to get use to at KINGSTON 2000!<
The *sound* was like nails on a chalkboard and instantaneously made all my hair stand up on end. I'll stock up on industrial strength repellent before venturing north. :-)
I'll let George and Jack know about the Miramachi flys (fishing) you mentioned so they can start making some...thet'll get into this!
Well it sounds like in a few short hours our president, Billy Boy, will be acquitted of participating in high crimes and misdemeanors and we can all put this ludicrous fiasco behind us. I am just incredulous that our country has spent an entire 13 months deliberating over this nonsense. What do the Canadians think of all this? I'm almost embarrassed to ask!
Mary W.
Saturday,
Febraury 13, 1999 - 09:28:59 am:
Message from Anne
Marie at amking@spots.ab.ca.:
WOW!!! ---This is evoling into a wonderful commincation tool.
John K., my brother seems to have lost his sense of direction and geography. It is my understanding there are at least 2 who live further north than Edmonton.
Mary W. --about Bad Billy --I would sometimes get caught up in watching the Senate Hearings --It is amazing how important sex, lies and videos are to Americans. I can never see a cigar in the same way.
Keep up the excellent work John Vickers.
Editors Note: We have posted notes from Anne Marie in our Articles Section.
Saturday,
February 13, 1999 - 10:10:05
Message from John
Vickers at info@securitysolutions.nu
Whoa! :) I hear the hottest selling Cigar in New York is the Monica Crispo. Actually I think the whole mess has more to do with a philosophical group of elected politicans vs. the general public.
We're lucky up here - Prime Minister Chretien tried the new impotency drug and didn't work. :)
I added a part two to Grandsmothers House in Articles.
John
Saturday,
Febraury 13, 1999 - 12:31:25 am:
Message from Mary
Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:
Hi Anne Marie and John,
Now, Anne Marie, who exactly is your dad? I'm embarrassed to say I'm having trouble keeping everyone straight, but heck...it's one helluva big family! :-)
>We're lucky up here - Prime Minister Chrietien tried the new impotency drug and didn't work. :) <
R O F L ! ! !
I just posted a brief note about Grandmother's house on King George Hwy. in the Articles section. Guess what, I just found Grandma's recipe for ginger cookies and for her raisin bread in my old recipe box. They are on index cards in her handwriting. *sigh* I'm dashing off to work right now but will put them in the Articles section real soon.
Mary W.
Saturday,
Febraury 13, 1999 - 05:26:54 pm:
Message from Will
Vickers at will@internorth.com:
Hi John...I was just looking at the website. It's really nice to read the all the comments.
From North of 60 (Take note John Kingston...smile)...On the shores of Great Slave Lake....at a cool -35
Hello to everyone!
will
Editors Note:
Will has posted a story about Grandmother in Articles.
Sunday,
Febraury 14, 1999 - 07:08:03 pm:
Message from Kevin
Michael VICKERS at kevin.vickers@sympatico.ca:
Kate,
It is great that
you found the website. I am going to pack a bag with some of Andrew's
(my son-your cousin) old hockey equipment and send it to Sam Kingston WEISSLER.
Any kid that can punch like he can should be playing hockey. I know
that your mother Ann will be impressed! Kevin
Sunday,
February 14th, 1999 - 08:38:19 pm:
I will have to defer
to Uncle George on Allison Place's condition (I haven't been to Allison
Place in awhile and I only make it to Mom and Dad's about once a year with
not a huge amount of time to beat around in the woods - at Mom & Dad's
- you're there!). It is probably a little 'brushy' (lots of alders
and switchgrass around, making it semi-hard to get to). I will make
a point of asking Dad the next time I call home. I was definitely the non-woodsy
son.
Mary Weissler - those
recipes you have in Articles are making me hungry (what I did not mention
in my article about Grandmother's cookies is that I ate as many cookies
as grandmother would give me. I have a son now who is very similar
when he visits his own grandparents (!)). And her bread was awesome.
It'll be a great project for one of these dreary winter weekends with the
kids). I think Clinton has probably been a great president in terms
of the economy, etc. but will always be remembered as a goof for the Lewinsky
/ Flowers / Jones / Mondale / whoever... Kennedy was likely as bad but
the press was less intrusive. If he had Hard Copy or the Drudge Report
to deal with...).
August hopefully
will still be good fishing - waders are derigueur (I am an anomaly and
my father's disappointment as I never really got into fly fishing much
as a kid (just wimpy stuff like trout, salmon/grilse was too much work.
Plan on getting Spencer into it a little this year).
John Vickers if you
mention Bobby Goldsboro (guhhhh...), I have to mention - Lawrence Welk!
Saturday night around 6 or 7 pm if we happened to drop by Grandmother's,
I could guarantee that would be on. Kinda funny - When my wife and
I went to Palm Springs California in 95 or 96, we actually stayed at a
place called the Lawrence Welk Desert Oasis (as you can probably guess,
we were among the younger couples there and no there was no bubble machine
upon arrival). Talking about this just makes me think of bad 70's
Canadian TV (Tommy Hunter, The Beachcombers, Juliette, yeesh!) and wishing
I had booked a trip south this winter.
AnnE (!) Marie, I
feel your Dad's pain (to stay in the Clinton theme) - it takes us about
13 hrs. to get to NB from Ottawa. We did it once straight through
but it's murder. I FULLY understand why Mom & Dad didn't do the
big vacation thing with us (told Dad that last summer and he just laughed).
If I recall, your Dad used to drive from Dryden ONT which is at least a
few more hours on top of going from here. Very admirable indeed (what's
the record for motion sickness?)
Willie I saw you
mentioned in the STU Alumni Newsletter (can't believe Keating is a Vice
Principal!). I am sure a copy is winging its way to you. Have
been thinking of those times you used to come up to our place in the summer
and some of the hilarious things that used to go on.
My best to all
SK
Tuesday,
Febraury 16, 1999 - 12:57:23 am:
Hi Stephen Kingston!
Good to see you in
the Gill Net Lodge! I'm sure you'll enjoy making grandma's raisin
bread some dreary day with the kiddos. You can assign them the job
of separating all those raisins. :-) It is really a great recipe
and kids love it. As for Mr. Clinton, yes, he will always be remembered
in conjuction with cigars and stained blue cocktail dresses I think. Ugh.
:-) I just wish to god none of us had ever found out about any of
this!
Well, it sounds like
you're planning on coming to the reunion...COOL! Where are you living now?
Hey...does anyone
ever chat in the Kingston Room? I think I read that someone was talking
to Mary Vickers (hi Mary!) in there. Maybe we should schedule some
times so people know when to show up. I am usually at work in the
evenings but am off 2 nights a week. I've checked in there a bunch
of times and it's always just me, myself and I. Anyone have any suggestions?
Mary W.
Tuesday,
February 16, 1999 - 04:26:29 pm:
Hello
When I have visited
the chat room I note there are others connected to other chat rooms who
can frequent the Kingston - Room. If you're ever in the room and
connect with a clans person, you can make your room private so that weird
strangers don't interrupt. You would just type the following into
the box where you would normally type your sentences and hit return.
/mode #kingston-room
+s
Only one of the parties
in the room would have to type the above and that's it.
Mary your many contributions
to KINGSTON 2000 to date have really been wonderful! Maybe set a
time for the chat room some evening, post it here and let's all see who
can make it. My traffic stats indicates within every two or three
days, most online clans people breeze in to see what is going on.
:)
John V
Tuesday,
Febraury 16, 1999 - 07:22:37 pm:
John...I gather the
chat room is made for the IBM computer. My Macintosh doesn't seem
to like it. Did you get Kingston e-mail and the pictures he sent?
My Mac couldn't read
that as well. Time for a trade in. He says that mom is sick
with a cold. Have you talked to her? It was wonderful day up
here. We're spoiled with -10 C weather.
Cheers
Will
Did you do your taxes
yet?.
Tuesday,
February 16, 1999 - 08:23:40 pm:
Hi Will,
I didn't get it right
either - wouldn't open up properly to view the pictures. Have Al
Thomas doing my returns again - its great - send him everything and that's
it.
Hey - I stopped by
the Chat Room for a minute and there were five of us in
there! Mary and Carmel Leslie, Stephen Kingston, Kevin Vickers and
myself. I had to go shortly thereafter however it was great to see
people saying hi! (PS - Mary W, the time was around 4:30pm Pacific)
The coding to make
the room private doesn't appear to work right. I have contacted the
Chat Room administrator and hope to hear back soon. It was kind of
a drag chatting when people like someone named DELICIOUS popped in.
.
John V
Wednesday,
Febraury 17, 1999 - 11:36:39 am:
Hi John,
>Hey - I stopped
by the Chat Room for a minute and there were five of us in there!
Mary and Carmel Leslie, Stephen Kingston, Kevin Vickers and myself.<
Oh shucks! Sounds
like I missed all the fun! Glad you guys had a good time though. I'm off
tonight and will be at home so I'll check in every hour on the hour starting
at about 6PM CST. Hope I get to see some of you!
As for "DELICIOUS"...
there do seem to be some very strange puppies running around who occupy
adjoining houses in our neighborhood. I have run into some gay guys
who evidently have a room in our area. They were very nice though and I
told them a bit about our room and why it was there. They thought
this was pretty *special*. :-)
Mary W.
Wednesday,
Febraury 17, 1999 - 07:28:28 pm:
Finally!
I found some Kingstons
in the chat area and it was really fun talking with Uncle George, Steven
K. and John V. Those of you who haven't tried out this feature should most
definately drop in sometime! We reminisced about times on the Miramachi
and John was trying to jog Stephen's memory as to his sadness over the
annual rooster kill up at Billy's. (Stephen, I'm just like you are...really
hate to see any creature lose it's life at the hands of man.) Anyhoo, it
was really great talking with you guys!
We also discussed
how neat it would be to have some more family photos from the old days
on our website (the one of the Vickers' in the History section had me roaring!)
I'll write to dad (he has TONS of photos) and ask him to select a few for
me to post. We need you all to rally to the cause here! If
you don't have a scanner (we don't) you can go to your local copy center
(like Kinko's) and scan pictures onto a disc and then send them to John
in e-mail to put on the site. Or, I guess, you could just send him
the photos in snail mail and he could scan them in and send them back to
you. Whatever.. Let's get some pics in here! :-) It would be
nice to see how everyone looks today too...maybe we should set this up
to the tune of a *before* and *after* theme! :-) John, I wish I could
do some of the work for you but I know nadda about website design.
You are doing great! Thank you!
Mary W.
Wednesday,
Febraury 17, 1999 - 09:46:17 pm:
I have finally figured
out a new way to ensure chat room privacy. When you enter chat from
now on, after filling in your name and hitting the connect button a new
window will eventually open requesting a password. Put in the word
MOOSE
and your are in and (hopefully) we can say good-bye to strangers.
Glad that part is over with. :)
Friday,
February 19, 1999 - 08:52:16 am:
Yo John!
I just tried out
the MOOSE password and it works like a charm! Way to go! Poor "Delicious"
will be very disappointed though. :-( If any of you are looking
for some first rate excitement you should go check out this website:
http://www.spies.com/~arubin/alexcam.html
There is LIVE cam-coverage
of the family couch. There is a dog who sleeps on the couch ALL DAY
LONG while they're at work. You can go in any time of the day and watch
Alex snooze. Remember, this is LIVE!
I get goosebumps
just thinking about it! :-)
Mary W.
Saturday,
February 20, 1999 - 05:41:01 pm:
Hello
My name is Will Kingston.
My family lives in Maryland and my father is Barry Kingston. I just
wanted to say that this is a really great website.
Saturday,
February 20, 1999 - 11:19:15 pm:
Hi Will Kingston!
Thank you so much
for writing...great to hear from you!
I guess your grandparents
must be Billy and Loraine then, right? You come from great stock,
Will! :-)
How old are you?
Do you have any brothers and sisters? Please write again and fill
me in on your family. I am your dad's cousin Mary. Your grandfather
and my mom were brother and sister. Welcome to the Gill Net Lodge
and we hope to see you around again soon!
Mary W.
Saturday,
February 20, 1999 - 11:42:28 pm:
Hi Kingstons!
I have been sending
dad print-outs of the Gill Net Lodge message board postings in snail mail.
He seems to really enjoy reading these and I will continue sending them
his way. I got a letter from him today with a message he wanted me to post
to you all:
"What a neat idea
and fantastic construction is this Gill Net Lodge! A typical product
of Big John, who probably learned it in part from his dear old Uncle George
(God bless you, George), who undoubtedly learned it from his in-house instructor,
Stephanie (God bless you too, Stephanie).
Motivated partially
by the marvelous Net and the coming of the super re-union and partially
in pure spite re Tommy's viscious remarks about me (God bless you too Tommy:
you need it more than your father!) I just may get a computer, thereby
confounding all of you! Meaning the Weissler clan who have been working
on me for 'bout five years now to get one. PROVIDING: Tommy comes out to
help me choose the parts, set them all up in working fashion and teaches
me how to milk the machine to the last drop. However, I'll warn you
all in advance, that if that gets Mary and George Kingston and Joe Weissler;
Alloysious, George, and Tommy Kingston; and John, Kingston and Monica Vickers
into a perpetual motion filibuster, you may be perpertually sorry!
God Love You All!
If anyone has replies
to Joe just post them here and I will print them out and send them to him
via the snail. :-)
John, you did a great
job reorganizing the main menu! I looked at the pictures and...is
that my momma???? :=)) I told dad to send me some of our old pictures and
I'll get them to you as soon as he gets them to me.
Mary W.
Sunday,
February 21, 1999 - 10:00:02 am:
Joe WEISSLER,
Sounds as if you
are spoilt with all the great weather and skiing. Very cold day here
in Ottawa with lots of snow. Penetrating raw cold. It was great to
see my cousin Mark and to meet his wife Ann. Your grandchildren are
Kevin
Sunday,
February 21, 1999 - 10:03:37 am:
I will be in the
Chat Room at 4:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Atlantic 2:00 pm Mountain, 1:00 pm
Pacific. Sunday - February 21.
If no one is in there,
I ll be back in at 7:00 pm Eastern
Regards to all
Kevin
Monday,
February 22, 1999 - 12:32:34 am:
Hello Kingstons!
I am making the "Kingston
Rolls" from the Recipe section as we speak. I'm at the stage where
I'm waiting for my scalded milk mixture to cool down and the yeast is activating
in warm water. Jack has some super-duper yeast imported from France.
I put it in a bowl with the warm water, came back 15 minutes later and
the stuff was foaming all over the place! I hope we won't have any explosions
when I bake the rolls!
Our little dog Albert
(Miniature Pinscher) gets extremely excited when there's any sort of cooking
going on in the kitchen. He stands at absolutely rigid military attention
waiting for something...ANYTHING...to fall on the floor. When something
does he makes one furious, bullseye dive for it and runs at full tilt into
his crate in another room. Inadvertantly dropped food is MUCH more
exciting for him than anything you might "offer" to him. It's like
manna from heaven. Stolen treasure.
I'm off today and
will check in the chatroom this evening...probably starting around 5pm
CST. If anyone's around, come on in! Did anyone show up yesterday,
Kevin? Back to my rolls............
Mary W.
Wednesday,
February 24, 1999 - 04:57:41 am:
- 18 degrees centrigrade
here in Ottawa this am. Cold but beautiful. Spoke with Mary
Leslie, Tom Kingston and Anne (with an e) Marie Kingston on Sunday.
I will attempt to be in the chat room again this Sunday, February 28 at
3:00 pm eastern. It would be great to see how many we could get in
there at one time.
Tom tells me my brother
John's computer is down but I doubt for long as it is part of his lifeblood.
It would be great to hear from more cousins in this forum as well.
We have doctors, lawyers, engineers, consultants, social workers, teachers,
salespeople, brokers, peace officers, cooks, mothers, fathers, wood carvers,
financial planners to name just a few of the professions.
No family member
should be lacking in good advice on whatever obstacles that you meet along
the way.
Wednesday,
February 24th, 1999 - 05:55:15 pm:
Whew! Just
made it through the crashes of all computer crashes. One resulting
benefit of having the system all apart at the computer shop was that I
had them enhance my modem to 56K from 28.8 - still think in retrospect
that online cable is the way to go - right JOHN KINGSTON??
Mary how did Grandmother's
rolls turn out? My mother emailed me last week to note that I had
made an error in the salt / sugar combination which I re-edited on the
recipe page. Hope you got the recipe after the correction!...:)
Anne Marie with an
"e" - will life ever be the same? :)
Happy Birthday to
Patricia Kingston-Boyle who has a birthday this Sunday the 28th.
Patricia is George and Stephanie Kingston's daughter (my first cousin)
- she and I were born on the same day, same year - 1960!
John V
Thursday,
Febraury 25, 1999 - 09:51:20 am:
Welcome back John!
We missed you!
Glad to hear your computer problems are over and that you came out of it
all with a faster modem.
As for the rolls,
they turned out great. I did not have the revised recipe but pretty
much knew 1 tsp. of salt was not gonna cut it for 6 cups of flour so I
beefed up the amount. Jack really liked them too.
Kevin, glad to hear
you're getting such a great turn-out in the Kingston-Room on Sunday afternoons!
I wish I could join in but I always work on Sundays. I'll be around
this evening and will poke my head in to see if anyone's about. :-)
Mary W.
Sunday,
Febraury 28, 1999 - 10:00:27 am:
Hi John:
The site is really
impressive. So nice to bring all the Kingstons together, at least those
with access to technology.
What are the actual
dates of the reunion? Will check back in every week or so to get updated
on the actual event.
Cheers, Brenda, Bronwyn
and Leo MacKinnon
Sunday, Febraury
28, 1999 - 11:49:21 am:
Hi Brenda!
I'm glad you found
your way to the website...John has created a really special place for all
us Kingstons, no?
John: Dad sent me
some old pictures which arrived yesterday. OMG!!! I was vascillating between
roaring with laughter and getting all teary. :-)
My sister, Suzanne,
has a scanner and we'll get together sometime this week to e-mail you some
for the website.
H A P P Y B I R T
H D A Y J O H N V I C K E R S ! ! !
Mary W.
Message from Stephen
Kingston at skingsto@JetForm.com
Message from Mary
Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:
Message from John
Vickers at info@securitysolutions.nu:
Message from will
vickers at will@internorth.com:
Message from John
Vickers at info@securitysolutions.nu
Message from Mary
Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:
Message from Mary
Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:
Message from John
Vickers at info@securitysolutions.nu:
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John V
Message from Mary
Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:
Message from William
Kingston at canucks@shore.intercom.net:
Message from Mary
Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:
Message from Mary
Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:
Joe W."
Message from Kevin
VICKERS at kevin.vickers@sympatico.ca:
great. Saw
my mother, father and Aunt Bernadette, Pat and their Kevin on the same
trip as they were passing by Indian Rocks. They are having a great winter
down there. Joe, I see from our cousin Tom that you are adverse to computers.
That is not the Joe WEISSLER I know - get on line and come and meet all
the
relatives in cyberspace.
Message from Kevin
VICKERS at kevin.vickers@sympatico.ca:
Message from Mary
Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:
Message from Kevin
VICKERS at kevin.vickers@ sympatico:
Message from John
Vickers at info@securitysolutions.nu:
Message from Mary
Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:
Message from Brenda
MacKinnon at brenda.mackinnon2@ns.sympatico.ca:
Message from Mary
Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:
