Blog housekeeping

The Buller Time blog received 452 visits during the month of August, an average of 14.6 each day. Of course, some of these visits were by bots scouring and indexing the Web (Google the three words grandma, blackwood, and brothers, and you’ll see that our blog is being indexed), but most were presumably by family members. Not too bad for a bunch of landless hicks from Molotschna!

You may notice that the sidebar to the right lists only birthdays now; since the primary sources for information (the Buller Family Record and Wayne’s 2005 family calendar) are now dated, it seems safest to include birthdays, which do not change, but to exclude anniversaries, which in some cases are no longer celebrated or are replaced by a new anniversary with a new mate.

If you notice any incorrect or missing birthday information, please email me (address: last name dot first name at gmail.com) with the correct information. Better yet, have someone in your family update all of your family’s information in the Buller Family Record, so we can distribute a completely current edition.

The Buller Time blog is also a great place to announce engagements, weddings, births, and other life events. Nothing will be posted without the appropriate person’s permission, so if you want to announce any of this news to the family, you will need to tell me to do so. To be safe, I will not post it on my own even if I know about it.

Pictures are also a great addition to the blog, whether from the past or the present day, so please consider sharing any that you have with everyone who visits. Sorry for the repeated bleg, but we will lose track of our family’s photo history if we do not take steps to archive it soon.

Our family home on the east side of Lushton; photograph taken in 1961,
when Bullers accounted for a good chunk of Lushton’s total population.