WILD CARPATHIA SERIES - CHARLIE OTTLEY - FASCINATING

Here's the first in the series. Found this so fascinating. Bears - Wolves - Medieval settlements - and covering an expanse as large as Great Britain.

If you like it, you can find the rest of the series on YouTube (until I get around to posting it all!)

CORONAVIRUS-19 - ACTIONS TO HELP YOU USE YOUR TIME WELL AND COPE

Coronavirus-19 has swept around the world causing economic disaster. I'm well but more worried about money at this point than my health, since my income potential has gone to zero. However, there are a few things I'm doing to get through the next couple weeks without despairing and I think these things may help you too.

Keep to a regular schedule. If you are used to getting up at 6 and going to bed at 10, for instance, keep doing that. Eat at the time you are most used to. Give your body what it expects.

Eat something - peppers - citrus - with Vitamin C every day. If you can't try for a vitamin supplement.

Keep your dog(s) on the schedule they expect as well. Dogs can get cabin fever. However, if avoiding people means getting up earlier or getting sun means taking them out in the afternoon, do so.

Attend to the things that you have neglected, such as sewing, mending, painting, sweeping, going through closets to separate out what you want to keep and what you want to donate, organizing, etc.

Write letters, or send text messages and funny Coronavirus videos (there are many on YouTube) that will keep you connected with others and see the (sometimes dark) humor in things.

Do your family history collecting and writing and genealogy research.

Try new recipes - especially for healthy hearty SOUPS - so long as you have the ingredients.

Groom yourself, your dog, and your yard/ garden. It's spring after all. There is just so much to do, I suspect seeds are still for sale.
Look into trading seeds and heritage seed preservation. Maybe by summer you'll have all the tomatoes you need.

I have pre-posted on the 1828 census so that no matter what there will be posts you can read in April.

This blog has so much information on Hungarian and Hungarian-American genealogy research!

If you find any links broken please let me know by leaving a comment.

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UPDATE MAY 30, 2021  Well - the whole situation went on and on and on, didn't it? We are living in an unprecedented crisis.

NATIONAL DAY HUNGARY

HUNGARIANS DANCING RAG

FEJFA and KOPJATAK - HUNGARIAN CARVED WOOD GRAVE POSTS

I find the historical or traditional carved wood posts with a language of their own that were put on graves in Hungary to be so very interesting.

MAGYAR MUSEUM LINK  Fejfa are posts for regular folks.  Kopjatak for soldiers. 

NEST IN PINE

HUNGARIAN CATHOLIC MISSION - LIST OF HUNGARIAN ORGANIZATIONS BY STATE

HUNGARIAN CATHOLIC MISSION - LIST OF HUNGARIAN ORGANIZATIONS BY STATE

The California Hussars?!

UCLA Hungarian Club!

Dance Ensembles...

Hungarian Refugees in San Francisco ....

A LOVELY VALENTINE

MY DOG : MY VALENTINE

My dog is my Valentine.

She is now considered officially "Geriatric" but her love of life and willingness to have adventures and go go go with me means that sometimes I wheel her around in her cart or carry her a while between walks. 

A doggie- door in our residence means that she can go outside without waiting for me to come home to take her out, so I'm not sure if she actually pee's more often. 

I was looking in her eyes to see for myself but was never sure if it was the lighting or cataracts.  The vet says cataracts for sure. 

Her hearing?  I think she hears me just fine since she still seems to come to me when I call, especially when the words are food or treats. 

She has lost teeth and there isn't much I can do about it since I can't afford to put her asleep for dental care.

She defends her food with louder sounding "puppy whelps" when another dog is in wait for it.  I sounds like an alarm.

Her appetite, digestion, and poo-pooing seem to be in order; all dog owners watch for changes that might indicate trouble.  So far this year no fleas.  Last year she had fleas - not too bad.  The year before it was a battle - just horrible - she was tearing out her hair.  I do my best to give her good food but there have been some controversies about grain free food.  To her kibble I'm adding wet and mushy - green beans - carrots - salmon - beef - people food without too much spice or too much salt - sometimes canned dog too.

I can't imagine life without her.


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VALENTINE MANDALA

THE SOUP COMES FIRST - THE NUTS COME LAST : HUNGARIAN / HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN STEREOTYPES

 

This Hungarian / Hungarian American stereotype is certainly true about me.  It's that Hungarians love their soup and start most meals with soup.  It's one of those stereotypes that does no harm and so it's one I like.

I usually have soup only, or soup as a starter for mid-day or evening meals.  The broth is a wonderful way to get all the water you need without drinking water.  The heat is good for your sinuses!  You can use whatever needs using in the fridge or garden.  You can low simmer broths for hours made of the same.

Over the last several months I've cooked big pots of soup almost weekly and of course I share.  I've tried new recipes using spices including paprika, of course, but also coriander and cumin.  I've used yellow peas, lentils, kidney beans, black beans.  Green, yellow, red peppers.  Cloves of garlic.

I've used cracker crumbs to create the not-Kosher version of matzo ball soup.  Basically you mix eggs, a little water, and olive oil , then throw the cracker crumbs in.  Mix it up to a sticky consistency.  Put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.  Bring water to a rapid boil.  Put spoonfuls into the boiling water.  Let the balls rise to the top and stay there three minutes.   Take them out with a slotted spoon and put in the broth, which you can enhance with your choice of celery, carrots, onions, garlic, parsley, etc.

If you are a polite person, here in America  you scoop your broth and soup away from you to the far north of your bowl.  Slurping too loudy is considered rude.

So what is not true of this stereotype is that it always has to be "Goulash."

I recently ate soup at a new Japanese noodle restaurant which features three different broths and five levels of hot.  I'm not into hot.  Their claim to fame is that they simmer their broth for 24 hours.  They say what makes a good broth includes an ingredient called SOUL.  Everyone is wild about this place, which opened as a minimalistic hole in the wall, and has been so busy the waiters are going crazy.

WHAT INGREDIENTS IN HUNGARIAN COOKING WOULD MAKE FOR SOUL?

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A SENSE OF HUMOR BADLY NEEDED

A sense of shame and embarrassment over a President who I've come to abhor is only somewhat balanced by watching Saturday Night Live parodies of him and other elected officials before and after the impeachment debacle. Lampooning and mudslinging are part of the American tradition - opinion and artistic freedoms are important.  Probably every American President has been ridiculed publicly but never has it been more intense and divisive.  And yes, I think American is going to endure this for a total 8 years in office. I imagine VP Mike Pence secretly desirous of the Presidency, of having numerous supporters in wait, even plans for how he would appoint to the cabinet.

Never have their been more unfilled vacancies in the State Department.
Working for Trump is a great way to get fired and/or ruin your career.

Elect him if you want more senior citizens homeless in the streets, if you want more school children to have diets lacking nutrition, if you want more people forced to fake it and become members of churches to get their needs met.

Sorry to say.

LES BROWN Quotation

Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
-  Les Brown

ADMIT YOU'RE HUNGARIAN AMERICAN and OTHERS WILL TOO

I discovered recently that when I say I come from a Hungarian heritage, people I've just met say they are too.  Often of a mixed European heritage here in the United States, I wonder if others have looked into that part of them that comes from an ancestor who came here with a Hungarian identity.  I've learned so much I didn't know by researching and writing this blog and I hope what I have to share here will help you better know Hungary - then and now - and Hungarian culture.  I keep reading around DNA, tribal heritage.

Like everyone, the holidays distract me from perusing my genealogy and family history writing and I have just so much more to do!  In 2019 I started following lines that go back into what is now Slovakia and also seeing some Slovak or Czech surnames appearing in what was once and is now Hungary. I know that eventually, perhaps even soon, every line I explore will come to a dead end.  If I can link to even one family on the Maria Theresa census I will be happy.  There is that potential with certain surnames I'm researching.

WINTER FIR FOREST