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Yus would be happy to know, that when I tended school in the green country, I was in one class where my fellow classmates also bore the name MacCloughry and yes, as did even the teacher.  I'd prefer to think the name Kingston was spun off of MacCloughry rather than the other way round - them Scots are typically up to something.  We hopin yus all have one hell of a reunion by the way.

Jimmy

Now I am wondering exactly who you are Jimmy. Your email incon denotes a capital letter - not acceptable on the world wide web for email communication. Thus your camoflauge is uncovered. Yet, your Irish heritage seems quite recent. A mystery lad.

John V

John,

Putting my statement analysis skills together, my guess Jimmy is Brendon KELLY, Patty's husband. There is true raw emotion behind the first message sentence regarding land being confiscated in Ireland to pay off Cromwell's soldiers. You however, have the luxury in seeing the electronic trail which may lead you to New Brunswick.

Kevin

Hey John...

Does Jimmy's server address match the one of our mystery poet a little while back?

Mary W.

Sorry Kevin,

First of all, unlike the gobshite impersonating Jimmy , I do know how to spell Galway.  For a clue, consider "Our Ancestors".  Jimmy should have said, " Your Ancestors" if he is not related to the Kingstons.  Anyway, happy St. Patrick's Day to all you limeys.

Hey...

Jimmy said he "tended school in Green County".  Anyone have a clue where Green County is???

Mary W.

(Mary, Green Country sounds like Ireland to me and Kevin the message tracer through Virginia indicates "not available  through provider" so I have come up with a blank and Jimmy remains a mystery man for now....jv )

Great to see you are here with us Brendan.

Kevin

Howdy folks,

Glad to see Brendan and "Jimmy" on board.  I suspect that Jimmy is either Uncle George or our long lost Tommy.  There is just too much information there for it to be anyone outside of the G. Kingston branch.

Speaking of the G. Kingston's, any word on Patricia? Her due date is tomorrow.  I think about her often and wonder how she is managing.  The last few weeks of pregnancy are the pits, but it is amazing how fast one recovers.  Hang in there Patricia!

Does anyone have any plans for "spring break"?  I am putting it in quotation marks because we are expecting a winter storm tonight.  I guess the Vickers are heading to Florida (lucky dogs!).  Anyone else doing anything exotic?

Due to the storm, our break plans will probably be cancelled. We had planned to take the girls to Moncton tomorrow night for the weekend and spend a day at Crystal Palace and the other by the pool. I could really use a break. I find everyone is so stressed at this time of the year -- myself included. Does anyone have a quick tip on relieving stress when you don't have time to really do anything?

Oh well, only 18 more days until spring. Yeah!!! Take Care all....ME

Hello,

Decided that Kingston and Will were going to have too much fun and flew down here to Florida yesterday. (Will arrives tomorrow however he had phoned to say he was coming two days early, however when they came to pick him up it was me and not him..:) (We are sly aren't we??) Needless to say the folks seem pretty pleased. Dad (expecting Will) stood there and squinted with this strange expression - you don't look like Will!) My flight arrived at 4:15 am instead of 11 pm thanks to those wonderful lightening storms which love to wonder through the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Leave it to my Mother to have a ham dinner waiting. (I saved you a few morsels Will.. I think I did..:)

Went and bought 12 beer for the fridge this afternoon - on special for $3.95. God bless America!

John V

John,

Sounds as if your surprise was a success. The beer price you mentioned was unbelievable. However, last year I had occasion to meet my cousin Mark WIESLER in Chapel Hill NC. He had made his own beer from a beer kit he received from his little sister Suzanne. I was so impressed that I have gone out and purchased my own kit. I am now producing beer at 5 cases per 11.50 Canadian $. It is not as good as Mark's beer, at leat as how I remember it, but man it will bring a smile to your face. I am tempted to mass produce for the reunion. However, Kingstons are Scotch drinkers and not beer drinkers. From reading Brendan's message, I guess we are really mongrels. Pulled between Scotch and beer. Or as they say Champagne taste with a beer budget. During my trip to Scotland, I was not far from grandmother Lillian's home. A local distillary called Locknagar produces a Scotch called Royal Locknagar. I purchased a few bottles. On the box is written:

" ah ! there my young footsteps
in infancy wander'd
My cap was the bonnet,
my cloak was the plaid;
On chieftains long pershish'd
my memory ponder'd
As daily I strode
through the pine-cover'd glade,
I sought not my home
till the day's dying glory
Gave place to the rays
of the bright polar star;
For fancy was cheer'd
by traditional story,
Disclosed by the natives
of dark Lock na Garr

Years have roll'd on, Lock na Garr,
since I left you,
Years must elaspe
ere I tread you again;
Nature of verdure and flow'rs
has bereft you
Yet still are your dearer
the Albion's plain.
England, thy beauties are tame
and domestic
To one who has roved
o'er the mountains afar:
Ph for the crags
that are wild and majestic!
The steep frowning glories
of dark Lock na Garr.

Now if I could just sip this stuff this summer over a camp fire while my cousin the wood carver, George Wiessler, recites same.

Kevin

My that was a fine ballad Mr. Vickers. A fine ballad from a fine box of the world's finest scotch - at least as the locals would like to think. I'll be keepin my message short as I don't wish to be intruding when the Kingston blood in my viens may be sparse.

Jimmy

Hey Jimmy!

You are more than welcome here and I agree that Kevin's ode was rather remarkable. I sent his entire post to my brother George in hopes that he will put it to memory for a dramatic recitation at the reunion. George is quite the master at this type of thing. :-)

What's going on down there on the sunny beaches of Florida? Beer and.....................

Mary W.

Hi!

Kingston, Will and I just managed to consumed six pounds of medium peel and eat shrimp in about 20 minutes. I can hardly move however will force my self to as there is this great Jamaican band playing on the beach in Clearwater as I speak...Dad says he is going for a snooze and that means Johnny is heading to Clearwater in the bosses white caddy..:) Will and Kingst off to shoe world where Kinger says great Nikes can be had for $30.

John V

Me again..

We calculated this evening my mother walked about seven miles today.."not bad for a lady who is 72" she says. And this ain't no stroll...she walks really fast. People she passes often comment they can't get over how fast she walks. We had a giant turkey this evening - I can't believe my food consumption is already showing across my waistline. I just can't seem to stop eating...foooood is everywhere. Last time I left here I couldn't tie my top botton on my shirt when I went back to work and had to get by squeezing my tie into my neck so it wouldn't show...looks like a repeat performance. Kingston leaves us in the morning to fly up to Philly to visit the new love in his life..says he will try to get back prior to the end of the week.

Vacations (in hot or cold climes) are so amazing. You forget how much you need one until you get away from it all for even a few days. Certainly feeling rested and still six days to go...:)

Mother has been updating me on some of the travellors for the reunion. Certainly sounds like everyone is going to be there..

Brenda, we you impressed with your south paw's responses? Sounds like there are lots around.

John V

Tuesday, March 7, 2000 - 06:47:07 am:
Message from Patty Kelly at seanchai @acncanada.net.:

John, I think you are writing so often just to show off your great weather.  Yes I know how fast your mother can go I couldn't keep up. She is what we call SUPER MOM .  I must run I am off to school. English class.

Patty

Patty,

We're expecting temperatures into the 50's tonight so not to much to brag about here this evening..:) I do note it is supposed to be about 90 tomorrow however I won't dwell to much on that part!

How is Barry doing in Toronto Patty?  I was happy to hear that things are working out for him there. Everyone in the west now says Ontario is the big job engine again.  (Everyone except Albertans that is.)

Out fishing on the dock tonight however not much on my line.  Dad says he landed a perch that weighed so much he couldn't bring it in...I am still awaiting signs for such fish to be around. People use live shrimp down here for bait..you keep them in an enclosed bucket with holes in it so that the water runs through...Something about picking one up, ripping it in half and sliding it on your hook that seems abit more painful that a plain old Miramichi earthworm.

John V

Hey Floridians!

I know you all like to sit around watching the weather channel laughing your little arses off over the fridgid misery of your northern relatives.  Wipe that grin off your face!  It's been in the mid 70's here!!! Unbelievable! Jack and I spent the entire day hiking with the dogs yesterday.  We were in shorts and t-shirts and we were hot! :-)

John, Jack and I went on some excellent off-shore fishing charters in Florida and caught massive amounts of snapper and triggerfish.  We used cigar minnows for bait.  If you decide to try this, I hope you have a sound stomach...we were just fine but some of the other people on the charter were blowing chunks all over the place! :-O

Go, Aunt Monica, go!  Tear up that beach! :-)

Mary W.

Wednesday, March 8, 2000 - 07:43:45 am:
Message from Monica Vickers at Florida:

Hi Mary,

Glad to here the nice weather is finding its way to you too.  We are very glad to have the boys down. John has shown me how to leave messages here at the Gill Net and I am looking forward to walking with you on the trails in Newcastle.

Lovely morning here, just came back from Ash Wednesday Mass and we are all sporting black marks on our foreheads.

God Bless,

Monica

Thursday, March 9, 2000 - 05:10:36 am:
Message from Mary Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:

Hi Aunt Monica!

It was great to hear from you and I'm so glad John taught you how to click on the moose and leave messies in the Gill Net!  We will definately have to go on some walks in Newcastle...that is, if I can keep up with you! :-)

Well, the miraculous warm weather has had a downside.  We had a tornado touch down in Milwaukee last night! Luckily there were only some minor injuries and no one was killed.  This happened on the south side...a long way from us (thank god).  Tornados hardly EVER hit Milwaukee...there's something about the atmospheric conditions Lake Michigan creates that wards them off. It's supposed to be in the 30's by afternoon. :-( The party's over!

Mary W.

Thursday, March 9, 2000 - 06:17:03 am:
Message from John Vickers at jvickers@home.com:

All this nice weather up there!  Aunt Bernie and Uncle Pat emailed Mother to say it was in the 70's there and they got the lawn chairs out of the garage to enjoy the sun on the deck.  Aunt Patty was talking about the heat and over your way too Mary - hard to believe it's the middle of March.  When I grew up in Newcastle, mid-March always meant one giant St. Paddy's snowstorm that cancelled school and we would really get buried in the white stuff.

Off with Will and Dad to see the Toronto Blue Jays this afternoon in Dunedin. Should be fun!

John V

Thursday, March 9, 2000 - 09:39:46 am:
Message from Patty Kelly at seanchai@acncanada.net:

Mary W. at the time of Tornado your cousin Robert was at the airport ready to fly home to Toronto, when every one was asked to go to the center of termial.  When he was in the air many times he said this is it.  It was his first time to fly out of the country on business, he was excited about that.  He is home safe and sound.  You will have trouble keeping up with Aunt Monica on her walks. I know.

Patty

Thursday, March 9, 2000 - 03:48:02 pm:
Message from Mary Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:

Aunt Patty,

You mean Robert was at the airport in Milwaukee?!  Holy smokes!  What was he doing here?  It would have been nice to see him. :-)

Mary W.

Thursday, March 9, 2000 - 05:31:52 pm:
Message from Jimmy MacCloughry at jmacCloughry@Ireland.com:

It seems you Kingston's are getting abit addictive, if youse could parden me for usin' the term. Every time I head for the hay, I now call up yer house and see how yus are all doin'. Now since I've written this much, I guess I should add some meat to me message and shall leave yus with the following thoughts for ye.

In a shady nook one moonlit night
A leprechawn I spied,
With scarlet cap and coat of green
A cruikseen by his side.
"Twas tick tock tock his hammer went
Upon a tiny shoe.
Oh, I laugh to think he was caught at last,
But the fairy was laughing, too.

Nite All,

Jimmy

Friday, March 10, 2000 - 06:36:00 am:
Message from John Vickers at jvickers@home.com:

Sounds to me that Jimmy is fussy about grammar - my thought is maybe Brenda from her newspaper background could be responsible for those entries?? (How about it Brenda?..:)

So, it has been one week already since I arrived in the sunny south - time sure flys. Not to much on tap for today - Will and I are debating about going to see the Tampa Bay Lighting and the Florida Pathers duke it out at the Ice Palace this evening in St. Pete's (Tampa's rink).

My mother tells me I eat to fast. I was informing her that when I was a little kid, I was always amazed at how fast my father ate and for years and years, when I sat at the supper table, my mission was to see if I could gobble my dinner down before he could.  It was like Olympic training that I had praticed and praticed.  Now I have to relearn (at 40) the art of chewing food very, very slowly....pausing occassionally and then setting my utinsles down, then slowly bringing a napkin to my mouth just in case of any signs of excess, talking about something of communal interest, something engaging, then picking up say a fork, and slowly move forward with the rest of my meal. It's quite an art form however I remain confident I can get it down.  We are indeed an evolutionary species.

John V

Friday, March 10, 2000 - 10:15:27 am:
Message from Brenda MacKinnon at brenda.mackinnon2@ns.sympatico.ca:

Hi: Jimmy must be Tommy....he was so vocal for awhile and then disappeared....even the alias "Jimmy"....all he had to do was change a couple of letters...he may be getting some inspiration from someone, like his Dad, or who knows..but my bet is on Tommy.

Hope you are enjoying all that sunshine, John and Will and hi to Aunt Monica and Uncle Bill. Tell them to stay there for a bit yet. We had some snow this a.m. but at this time of year it rapidly disappears.

Also John, keep working on that eating etiquette...you have lots of time....maybe it's a Kingston trait...we all came from relatively large families by today's standards and we had to make sure we got our share.
Cheers,
Brenda

Friday, March 10, 2000 - 05:06:59 pm:
Message from Mary Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:

Yo!

John, you'l be giving Emily Post a run for her money in short order! Remember also, that you should always leave a small amount of each item on your plate remaining. This implies you are really not very interested in your food, can more or less take it or leave it and your intellect is preoccupied with much loftier fodder than the eating of meer food. It's also in very good taste to move your food around on your plate with your cutlery in a very disinterested way rather than eating it. Food is very boring and the compsution of it is rather banal and for the dogs, really.

Brenda, I never in a million years would have suspected you were Jimmy! Good to hear from you!

Jimmy, oh Jimmy. You have our wee brains perplexed! Jezzzzuusss, Mary and Holy Joseph, you have us all scratchin' our wee heads in confusion! Who er ya lad??? We love yer rhymes!

Mary W.

Friday, March 10, 2000 - 08:00:43 pm:
Message from Jimmy MacCloughry at jmacCloughry@Ireland.com:

It appears I have yus wonderin' bout me. I'll have yus know that as far as I know I am the real Jimmy.

I spied a small sign in a bar in London one time. It read "God created whiskey so the Irish couldn't rule the world". I thought I would share that with yus all as it sounds there is lots of Irish blood in your viens - particularly youu Ms. Weissler.

I have decided that I will welcome myself to the great Kingston reunion - and I am hopin you'll let a stranger in at the door.

Jimmy

Saturday, March 11, 2000 - 05:22:05 am:
Message from Mary Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:

Yo Jimmy!

> "God created whiskey so the Irish couldn't rule the world".<

Laddie, we Irish are so overburdened by our abberantly oversized hearts that we have no inclination toward taking on the world...we can barely take on ourselves! Any part that the divine milk has to do with this situation is much more likely attributed to scotch than to whiskey. :-)

Please bring ye wee self to the reunion! Wees all will be most interested in meeting you!

Mary W.

Saturday, March 11, 2000 - 09:52:13 am:
Message from Monica Vickers at Florida:

Hello Again,

Remember the sabath day and keep it holy was one of the readings at mass today. It took me back to memories of childhood - the minute you woke up you knew it was a Sunday. The house, the world as we knew it, took on a different flavour. This was a day of rest from labour for the adults. Cooking for the weekend completed, baths taken, hair shampooed, shoes polished, etc. on Saturday. Saturday was a rush, rush day - but Sunday was a day of rest. You could smell it in the air and feel it in every pore of your skin. This was a special day - the aroma of coffee would fill the house (we had tea on other mornings) sausages and eggs (other days we had beans and porridge). Mother's home made bread, toasted on top of the wood stove, would be well toasted on both sides but soft within.

This would be followed by a noon meal of roastbeef with all the trimmings, pies, rolls, cookies and cake. After dinner, someone(an envied person as it was their turn) would make fudge - after the potato pot was clean. Oh, the aroma!

No work was done on Sunday. No knitting, sewing, etc. was allowed.

But there was always the outdoors. Tracking animal prints in the snow, sliding, skating, etc. in winter. In summer, "swimming" down at what we called the Big Brook -there would seem to be a sense of great peace.

God was in his heaven and all was right with the world. This was his day. He was good.

God Bless,

Monica

Saturday, March 11, 2000 - 03:43:49 pm:
Message from Brenda MacKinnon at brenda.mackinnon2@ns.sympatico.ca:

Hi Aunt Monica et al:

I could not let your e-mail go by without commenting....how Sundays have changed! We have a parish priest who is originally from Bouctouche and is pre Vatican II. I am not very happy with
the man and in fact there is a petition circulating in the community to get rid of him.  I did not instigate it nor did I sign it but I would dearly love to see him go.  However, who replaces may be worse.

Anyhow, last Sunday he preached about the wonderful Sundays when he was growing up and his mothers and sisters got rid of all the men in the house (they probably went to the tavern, had a few beers, shared a bottle, whatever)  and scrubbed, polished, cleaned, baked in preparation for Sunday. Then on Sunday everybody rested. I wonder who made the meals on Sunday, who looked after the wee ones when they needed tending to, etc. etc....the Catholic church is so patriarchal and still today, is very reluctant to let women assume a leading role. When you reminisced about Sundays I couldn't help but think that life did go on and women bore the workload associated with that.

Hey, Monica, wish you were here! We could talk about this and many other things.

Love,
Brenda
P.S. I am not a bitter woman!!!!!

Saturday, March 11, 2000 - 05:39:13 pm:
Message from Monica Vickers at Florida:

Dear Grenda,

I love you.

Monica

Sunday, March 12, 2000 - 10:51:05 am:
Message from Mary Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:

Aunt Monica,

I loved reading your reminiscences of Sundays in New Brunswick when you were a child. You painted such a vivid picture with your words that I felt like I was right there.

Interesting comments from you too, Brenda...I doubt all that divine sounding food was created by spontaneous combustion! ;-)

Mary W.

Sunday, March 12, 2000 - 12:18:59 am:
Message from John Vickers at jvickers@home.com:

Hi!

Last day in sunny Florida.  Will gets to stay for another week as spring break in the north is two weeks instead of just one.  I am envious however it's been a great break with every day being a sunny day. I am going to miss three big meals a day, deserts, afternoon naps, all everything else that goes with being on holidays. Only up 8 pounds in ten days - better than last year..:)

Flying through Chicago Monday - Mary W I recall Wisconsin not being all that far away from there. When I was growing up I remember my Dad often telling me Wisconsin has more dairy cows than Canada does...:)

JOhn V

Sunday, March 12, 2000 - 07:20:33 pm:
Message from Stephen Kingston at stevek@watchfire.com:

Hello All

Aunt Monica I as well loved your story. My early memories of Sunday mornings were various brothers and sisters acquainting their elbows with my ribs so I would look straight ahead.  Later memories were of Dad blasting me out of bed with Glen Miller or Guy Lombardo on his stereo (which would not have been my first choice but it did get me up to go).  Funnily enough, that roast beef dinner found its way into our house as well as did dunks in the river or sliding or skating on the beaver pond. And Mom's lemon meringue pie ... drool.... somethings no matter how hard you try or search you can never replace.

Over the last few months Spencer and I start Sunday morning by going to 8:30 mass and then heading to the gym (he for swim lessons, I for some overall better physical condition as I want to start doing some 10 k runs this summer). On the spiritual side, he knows his Our Father and sports no bruising in his rib cage (as long as he is not dancing on the pew and quiet, I am happy). On the physical side, he can kick the whole 25 m pool on a kickboard and jump in the deep end. And (on occasion) there is a roast beef dinner once in awhile. Sundays are typically very good days. The priest in our church is a very sharp guy and is a very forward thinker (perhaps well suited for Antigonish, Bren). Not to the point of letting women say mass (which I don't have a problem with) but that those involved in sex scandals likely should have faced stronger prosecution sooner. Bottom line I don't think any religion is perfect but I think it helps set some guidelines and concepts that help make a better person. And it provides time to reflect which I don't think anyone has enough time to do anymore.

Scotch... religion.... Florida vacations..watery American beer... this month is looking OUTSTANDING on the old web archives! Someone start talking about hockey and I will plotz!

Other than that, the kids are with their grandparents in Sudbury for the week so this is get it done week (house clean, income tax, and general work stuff). Got a nasty 4 inch dump of snow last night but was on its way to being melted today.

Thoughts and Love

SK

Monday, March 13, 2000 - 04:49:01 am:
Message from Jimmy MacCloughry at jmacCloughry@Ireland.com:

Monica, ye'd be happy to know that we still make our toast the same way on top of the old stove. Yill have ta come by and trie it or maybe I shill bring the metal holder along to yer reunion and we'll see if we can toast some up over an open fire. And yes, our's leaves the insides of the toast nice and soft too!

Jimmy

Monday, March 13, 2000 - 05:45:36 am:
Message from Mary Weissler at 110607.3647@compuserve.com:

Great to hear from you Stephen!  I agree, the Gill Net has really picked up velocity over time, which is so fun.  When I first started checking it out way back when there were only a couple of messages a week. Now, in addition to alot of regularily visiting Kingstons, we even have complete strangers from Ireland joining in the fray! :-)

John, it sounds like you had a great week in Florida with your family and I enjoyed hearing about all your activities. It's also so great you showed your Mom how to leave messages in the Gill Net!

Jimmy, nice of you to think of bringing your antiquated toasting apparatus to the reunion but you may have some trouble getting that thang through customs.  You'll have every metal detector at the Dublin airport screaming like it was being murdered alive!  None of the officials will have a clue what the thing is, will assume it is some type of very sinister weapon, and you will be in deep doo-doo!

Mary W.

Monday, March 13, 2000 - 07:49:36 pm:
Message from Robert Kelly at robkelly@acncanada.net:

Mary,

It has been a while since I have visited the Gill Net Lodge.

I was in the great state of Wisconsin from Sunday, March 5 to Wednesday, March 8.   I actually visited the big city of Manitowoc. (Why can't Wisconsin have normal names for towns?)  A fellow co-worker and myself embarked on a journey to install and set-up some equipement, and train users who will operate the machine.  Needless to say, everything went off without a hitch until the journey home Wednesday night.

First our flight was delayed over 40 minutes from Milwaukee, then due to the storm the power went out in the whole airport.  Then all travellers were evacuated from the concourses into the main area. Finally they couldn't re-fuel our plane due to the lightening!!  Three hours later we took off from the airport to travel through the storm over Lake Michigan.  The worst turbulance I have ever gone through.  Thank God for the complimentary drinks once the ride smoothed out.  I think being in a
50 seat plane didn't help. In any event we made it home safely.  Did you see the tornado??  Next time I'll have to take an afternoon to come and visit.  Where about in the 'Cheese' state do you live??

Rob

12 hours of flying later and reality check...work in the morning..:)

Now that I have turned everything back to blue, I am beginning to think I liked the black and white print better.  I was landing in Chicago and just as we were hitting the tarmac and captain gunned it and we shot straight up.  Apparently another plane got in our way and we had to avoid it.  We then had to do another go around.  Glad when we finally touched down.  Sometimes I don't seem to mind air travel and sometimes I do.

John V

Hey Rob!

I can't believe you were in Wisconsin and I didn't get to see you! Next time you are here (do you come on any type of regular basis?) you must let me know so we can hook up! You were here for some pretty unusually wonderful weather which culminated in that FREAK tornado. No, I didn't see it...we live on the north shore of Milwaukee in Whitefish Bay...pretty far from the airport, thank god. That must have been one heck of a terrifying experience! :-O

John, the Gill Net looks beautiful in blue again. I like the blue better cuz it's easier to read and I know you've been tending to the site. :-) Sounds like you had a hairy ordeal at O'Hare too! YIKES!!!

Mary W.

Tuesday, March 14, 2000 - 06:12:44 am:
Message from Stephanie & George Kingston at redoak@nbnet.nb.ca:

The on-site chair person of the Samuel and Lillian Kingston reunion (Stephanie), who has been in Saint John, NB for the last two weeks waiting for her #5 child (her daughter Patricia Kathleen (Kingston) Boyle) to produce her # 5 child and a new grand child.  The moment arrived at 7:15am this day March 14, 2000 and Patricia and Dennis Boyle's daughter weighed in at 7lbs 4oz with black hair.  Patricia's has ravin black hair.  Dennis and Patricia's email address, although they seldom get near their computer with three previous son's and one daughter, is dennisb@nbnet.nb.ca

I have not kept close count but that must be near 190 descendants of Samuel amd Lillian.

Speaking of the reunion, Stephanie has rented a travel trailer that sleeps 8 from Aug 2 to Aug 8 to be on site of the reunion.  The new mother Patricia has rented another travel trailer which also sleeps 8 for the same time.  Martha Ann (Kingston) Brown living in Calgary has also rented an additional travel trailer that sleeps 8.  Samuel Kingston's son who is Stephanie's much better half (that's me) is to set up two tents that would sleep another 8.  And I George (that better half fella) will likely sleep in the back end of his little 1/4 ton truck which has a cap on the back.

Now the trailer screed above is to remind you if any of you would like to rent a travel trailer for the reunion, contact "RV WORLD @ phone no 1-506-458-9555.  The rental cost is $475.00 + 71.25 tax for a total of 546.25 Canadian $.  They require a deposit of $100.00.  You do this by giving them your credit card number.   Now these trailers if any more are available are in Fredericton, NB some 120 miles from the Reunion site.  They, RV World will deliver and pick up the trailers for the cost of
$100 each way.  For a grand total $746.25 canadian, for the week.  If 8 of you can get along that is a      total cost for the week of $93.28 or 13.33 per each person per night.  (If only you find 4 that can get along, that is only $26.66 Canadian dollars per person per night, and Canadian $ at that  - Chicken feed!)  If any of you would like to rent tell RV World to deliver to the same place - Brown's Boyles where other Kingston travel trailers are being delivered to at that time.

This is my first contribution to the 2000. We all owe that John Vickers a great deal for this Web page.  John a great big thank you and bring your guitar for the reunion and I know everyone around the campfire will enjoy the sing song about 10: pm.

(Your're very welcome George!...:) jv)

I am so glad to hear the baby has arrived.  And a GIRL!!! Yeah!  Christine must be tickled pink to have a baby sister.  I think this baby is #190.  Have they picked a name yet?

Regarding travel trailer rentals, there is another place on the Woodstock road in Fredericton -- I think it is called Doug's -- that rents tent trailers.  Ray & I rented one before we purchased our first one.  As I recall, the price was less than the competition at that time.

Ray is heading back from Virginia tonight.  I have really hated being a single parent. It has been especially bad as the girls were both sick.  Last night I went through a large bottle of Javex cleaning up the messes. ARGHHH!  I think after Ray talked to me last night he became a little scared about coming home.  In fact, this morning his secretary called me to say that he called the office to say he would be delayed in Virginia due to technical difficulties.  Hmmmmm, I think he just wants to retain his pseudo-bachelorhood for just a few more hours:).

Take Care all....ME

p.s. Brenda, I think you have the start of a great debate to be continued following a few drinks by the river during the reunion.  I think if my memory serves me right that Aunt Monica, Aunt Bernadette and my dear father would love to add their 2 cents :)

 May the road rise to meet you,
 May the wind be always at your back,
 May the sun shine warm upon your face,
 The rains fall soft upon your fields and,
 Until we meet again,
 May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Happy St. Pat's to yus!

Jimmy

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BOYLES!!!  Yippie!!!  Please let us know the name of the 7 lb. bouncing bebe!

George, it was great to hear from you and thanks for delivering the grand news of your new grandchild. Is this REALLY your first entry in the Gill Net???  There is a delightful gentleman named "Jimmy" who has been frequenting the site recently who reminds us all alot of you. Welllllllllllll.........??????

HAPPY SAINT PATTY'S DAY TO ALL OF YOU!!!

Mary W.

Hey John,

Would you re-post the website where one can download the software to hear all this audio?  I was gonna do it and it just slipped my mind.

St. Patty's Day is a big deal in Milwaukee (lots of Irish here).  Most of the bars open at 6AM, serving a big breakfast and green beer!  They are packed from the get go, so I am told.  The city bus lines offer free rides all day, until midnight, for all the drunken ejits.  It's a normal work day for me and I hope I don't see any fallout from all this rable rousing.  Here's to ya'll! \_/

Mary W.

(Click Here Mary - simply fill in the form, scroll down and hit the download button....:) jv)

Re the 14 grandchild of Stephanie & George, the 5 child of their daughter Patrica & Dennis Boyle.  Her name is Catherine Anne Patricis Boyle.  I think that would be accepted as Irish.  The mother Patrica is now at her home with Catherine Anne Boyle. Stephanie has been chief cook and bottle washer for over two weeks now which will probably end next week sometime, and she will have to revert to cooking for me.

Regarding Jimmy what ever his name is, I suspect some one in the East as the emails seem to arrive early in the day.  Would it be Brenda the newspaper Lady in Nova Scotia. This is my second contribution to the 2000.

If only two of you can get along the cost is about $50.00 per person per night.  With the dogs having lots of room to wander around the spread.

See Ya George

Hi Uncle George!

Catherine Ann...what a beautiful Irish name.  Have you seen her yet?  I bet you miss Stephanie!  What kind of concoctions are you cooking for yourself?  Mac and cheese?  Hot dogs?  Campbell's Soup? :-) For all I know you may be a thorougly talented lad in the kitchen and are feasting on all sorts of culinary wonders.

So you REEEAALLLY aren't "Jimmy"?  Hmmm...back to the drawing board on that one.  I don't think it's Brenda...does not sound anything like my one and only senior cousin.  Do you think it might be your illustrious son Tommy?  We have not heard from him in the Gill Net in ages!  He used to always try to beat me to be the first person to leave a message at the start of each month but I have been competeing against thin air for quite awhile now.

As for accommodations at the reunion, I believe Dad reserved a block of rooms for us at a motel fairly close to the site when he was in N.B. last fall.  We're gonna get our airline tickets soon as it appears the rising gas prices are causing a rapid escallation in airfare prices as well.  We are starting to get REALLY excited about seeing everyone! :-D

ME, I hope your girls are feeling better and that the AWOL Ray in Virginia has returned safely to the nest.  After John and Robert's air travel nightmares I worry about my airborne relatives!  BTW, what is Javax...some kind of disenfectant?

John, thanks for the sound down-load info...I'm off to go get it now.

Mary W.

Yo John...

After visiting the Real Basic 7 site, I realized we already had this but for some reason it wasn't working.  Soooo...rather than start fiddling around and possibly blowing up the computer, I waited for the Jackmeister to get home and asked him.  It turns out we had the sound turned off in my Compuserve settings.  One little mouse click and we were bopping to the lively Brady Bunch theme song. :-)

I dunno about your idea to have one LONG Gill Net page that encompasses March through August. This sucker is gonna be HUGE! :-O

Mary W.

(You may well be right Mary.  By the way, those links for those theme's up above sure don't seem to work to well.  You can go the the site and listen to a huge selection by clicking here).  

Spent the weekend travelling around the Island and visited this little hamlet called Chemanius.  To boost tourism, the mayor a few years ago employed all these painters to paint giant murals on the side of almost every building in town.  Soo neat! jv

John,

Belive it or not, Ray & I were in Chemanius about 10 years ago with Rick & Norma MacLean.  I rememember going on a walking tour which ended up close to a mill and the logs were HUGE!  I think only 4 or 5 would fit on a trailer.  Dad's tongue would have hung out if he had seen them.  We loved Vancouver Island -- so did the hippies ( we saw a lot of them) as I recall....ME

(Neat Mary Ellen!  Hippies apparently migrated to many UpIsland places...the beads, the hair, the clothes, you can sure spot them.  I know what you mean by big logs!  I was telling Dad sometimes you see a big 18-wheeler going by and there are a total of THREE LOGS on board..there is one spot where you walk into the middle of the trunk of a standing tree and the inside area is the size of a dining room...:)jv

I get a real kick out of these old audio files!  The connection on these is better...:)

John V

Before long the Easter Rabbit will soon be callin' and the long days of summer will lengthening out to our satisfaction.  I must be gitten' around to find out about flyin' over to see yus all in four months or so.

Jimmy

Hello.  

This is Michael Kingston saying hello from 13480 104TH AVE IN SURREY, B.C. (DBA "KINGSTONS PHARMACY" TEL (604) 585-0525 FAX 585-0522.  I don't have an e-mail address yet but working on it.  I started business on 01FEB2000 and doing great.  I am going to the family reunion in August for 4 days.  As a new business owner, I will not be able to get more than the 4, 5, 6 and 7th of August off.  Hope to see you all there and we can get caught up on how you are doing.

Michael,

Great to hear from you.  Look forward to seeing you this August.  Glad to hear your business is doing well.

All the best

Kevin

Hi Michael,

Great to hear from you and so glad you will be coming to the reunion.  It must be 14 years since I saw you.  Wow!!  Take Care and Good Luck with the Business...ME

Hi Michael!

I'm not sure I remember who you are. Sorry! Which of my mother's sibblings do you come from?

Ok kids, I now have all the scoop on which of the Weisslers are coming to the reunion.  Jack and I and the dogs are definitely coming.  Dad is coming.  George and Nancy are expecting a baby in June (should be the youngest decendent at the reunion) and pending any problems, they are planning to come.  Mark has medical meetings in California that week so they have to bag out.  Suzanne has a big dog show that week so she won't be able to make it either.  Well, we managed to get over half of us.  I can't wait to see all of you!

Jimmy, er ye coming all the way from Ireland by yerself or are ye bringin' some kin with ye?

Mary W.

Thanks for the notes Kevin, ME and Mary.  It has been a while since I saw you and it is understandable that Mary wouldn't remember who I am so I printed my name and current geneology. I don't expect it to change anytime soon, that is my geneology, as I am sure your geneology stays static as well.  I had to dig myself out of a hole there.  Anyway ME, I guess a lot of things have changed for you in the last 14 years.  Kevin and Ann, where are you living now?  Well if I don't get caught up on the computer with all this information I will get caught up at the reunion.  Signing off for now.  Michael Kingston 1st son of George and Stephanie.

Mary Leslie, I got your note and will send you the information.  I cannot get my computer to send email at the moment.  I have to get back to Stephen Kingston as well.

Kevin

Mike, I do get over to Vancouver occassionally and will stop by to check out your place when I do.  I use to work at 13600 of 104th avenue in Surrey - just down the street!  It really is great Mike that you are coming out east.  Have you heard from your younger brother Tom these days?  We have been trying to track him down...:)

Great to hear you are making travel plans Jimmy boy!

Cheers, John V

Great to hear from you, Michael.  I hope you are able to check out all these e-mails of welcome.  Good luck with your pharmacy, and perhaps things will be running so smoothly by August, that you will be able to extend your stay on the beautiful Miramichi.  It will be good to see you, Michael....it's been years!!!!!!

Regards,

Brenda

Hi All:

I sent an email to Tommy yesterday and heard back from him.  So he is still alive though quite busy.

Best wishes, JoAnn  

If yus could have seen the sun rise over Cork this mornin', ya would swear it was goin' to be a grand day.

I too will be pleased to meet you Mike as well as all the rest of yus.  Now Mary, you seem to be keeping a better job at whose who from what family than I am capable of knowing.  Seems like a lot of study would be required.  Yus must all descend from way over here judging by the grand size of yer family.

Jimmy

Okay, John V. Give it up!  You are Jimmy. Convince me otherwise....and fix this damned page so we don't have to scroll for miles to get to the most recent messages.  At the same time, I thank you profusely for your regular careful and thoughtful maintenance of the site.

Cheers,
Brenda

Hi All, Thanks for your messages I thought I would let you know my e-mail address.  THE g is missing I will try to have it changed to read mkingston@hotmail.com but in the meantime it is mkinston@hotmail.com.  So that's about all for now - business is going well.  Dad, your monitor works well when I fill prescriptions there will be no need to change it.  So that's all for now.

Michael

ROFL Brenda!  You really think John V. is Jimmy?  John and Uncle George thought it was you!  I agree with you about the tedious miles of scrolling but we shouldn't complain...that just means alot more Kingstons are yapping in the Gill Net. :-)

Jimmy, where is Cork?  JAYsus, mystery lad, ye er drivin' us all ta distraction tryin' ta figger oot who ye er!  Michael, er ye sendin' this lad some of yer wee pills?

Mary W.

"Fix the dam page" and "miles of tedious scrolling" -- Geez, my many first cousins are turning into a hostile bunch!!!  You guys are spoiled!  (just kidding!...:)

As Gill Net Lodge administrator, I must testify that given another month or two, this page would probably take a couple of days just to download.  So, we'll return to monthly increments as before!

We had our first major crash at Gill Net Lodge, which, in case you hadn't noticed, was down for about 24-hours.  I ended up calling my service provider in California to find out the problem which is now rectified.  Sorry if you tuned in and we were off the air!

As for who the real Jimmy is, I must now admit that due to careful cybernet tracking, I have discovered just who the man is.  Upon confronting the masked individual, I find myself being sworn to secrecy for now....

Aunt Patty has forwarded a picture of Nelson, pet dog of Rob & Anne Marie Kelly.  You can visit Nelson in PETS by clicking here.
 

John V

>As for who the real Jimmy is, I must now admit that due to careful cybernet tracking, I have discovered just who the man is. <

I betcha any money it's Aunt Carmel! ;-)

Mary W.

Hey Aunt Patty,

Nelson is absolutely adorable!  What a face!

Cheers to yus!  A kind thank yoou John Vickers are keepin' me identity disclosed for now.  My Patty, that sure is a cute pup your young Robert has!

Jimmy

John:

Do you remember the poem my mother sang to us as children and I sang it to you children?

Little robin red breast sat upon a tree
Singing cherries were you made for me?
No said little Billy whom the robin heard
God did not make cherries for such a foolish bird

Then that little robin hung her pretty head
Feeling very badly before she went to bed
Come back little robin you may have a few
God made the cherries for Billy and robin too
Then that little robin sang that summer day
Thank you thank you Billy and then she flew away

There was another one my mother used to sing:

Good little Lucy tied up her hair and said on her
knees her evening prayer
She did not say to the sun good night
Though she saw him there in a ball of light

The rest I cannot remember - it would be nice if all these new mothers could sing it to the next generation.

God bless 
Mom

Hello Everyone,

I just thought I would update you all on the new email address now that it is corrected its mkingston50@hotmail.com.  So I now feel better that I got the last name correct.

Anyway, things are going fine.

Michael

Thanks for your great posting Mother.  I certainly can remember you singing the robin song..:)  A few  more days and you and Dad will be back on the Miramichi.  It is hard to believe it was almost a year ago in April when I flew out east for some spring fishing when Aunt Patty was there.  (Aunt Patty maybe we should do it again and go for coffee at the Douglastown Mall like the old days - what do ya think?..:)

Love John

John wouldn't that be GRAND, to have coffee at the Douglastown Mall and we would invite Carmel, Stephanie,Monica.  KINGSTON 2000 is fast approching we will do it then and order BEER FOR YOU.

Patty K.

Mom.....I remember you singing that robin song to me when I was a young lad.  I can still picture Grandmother looking out the big window and trying to spot the red breasted fellow.

Have a safe trip back.

Will

Hi!

We are Piedmont and Tig, Mary Weissler's kitties.  Unbeknownst to our mom, after much observation, we have learned how to operate the computer and check out the Gill Net all the time!  We loved Aunt Monica's poem and wanted to add some verses of our own:

Little robin redbreast sat upon a tree.
Little does dear robin know that we are watching thee.
From our little window we salivate and drool.
Thinking of a robin fate that some might find quite cruel.

We gaze upon the crunchy wings and meaty little breast,
Trying hard to figure out how we could raid that nest.
We get frenetically excited when robin goes "tweet tweet",
Imagining the crackling sound of tasty robin feet.

But alas, we're pampered indoor cats so robin need not fear.
We're doomed to merely window watch the wild world oh so near.

Love,
Piedmont and Tig
 

(Mary, I had a nice cat posted here for you however it was slowin' people's puters down.....jv..:)

We saw your precious little face-licking kitty!  We were trying to jump into the monitor to get at her...sooo cute!

Thank you Unca John!
Purrs,
Piedmont and Tig

Hi Mary W.

I didn't know you had cats also.  Just to let you know I do not have a cat but a cat has adopted me, of course I see she has milk every day.  Lassie just loves her.

Hi everyone.
Patty K.