Thanks to this blog, I’m in contact with an Ednie from France – pretty neat to discover. He says my description of Ednie fits his father perfectly. Well, I wonder how he spends his weekends? My family of Ednies were very busy this past weekend – it’s apple picking time, so it was all work for them. It’s not so bad – I’ve heard stories of Baileys-spiked coffees under the trees, ladder races and more colourful jokes than you can count. Meanwhile, I visited my aunt and cousin to meet their pack – of alpacas (Peruvian Ednies, perhaps?). Definitely adorable, but with thicker legs than the average Ednie male.
My sister – Ednie – celebrated her birthday this weekend, so probably jumped in a kayak and visited Big Nose the seal. Other cousins were off surfin’ for a cool time.
What were the Ednies across the sea doing, I wonder – enjoying food, as we do? (Need I mention apple pie, apple-marinated pork tenderloin, apple donuts, maple muffins….) Getting outside for some air and experience? Working, always working?
It is truly neat to discover there may be another relative out there – it’s a small world afterall.
January 4, 2009 at 8:23 pm
hi there,
so it seems us ednies are everywhere! i’m in missoula montana and am the proud middlest daughter of dr. thomas f ednie, and i’m one of seven. the baby of the family lives in butte, montana. one sister is deceased and the other lives in california. we have two brothers in idaho, one in connecticut. there are 12 grandkids, 8 are boys.
my dad grew up in pennsylvania and his folks came over from scotland in the 20’s.
it’s seems truely curious to find the name ednie anywhere else but in my immediate family. i’ve never met an ednie i wasn’t related to. so this is lots of fun. i hope to hear from someone at some point in time.
soon we will have barak obama as our president. most of us americans hate bush and feel it’s as luck had it that the USA, indeed the world, survived our most awful bush era.
happy new year to all! ~~becca
January 6, 2009 at 3:44 am
Hi Rebecca,
Sounds like we may be related. You say your father’s parents came over from Scotland in the 20s – what was his father’s first name? My grandfather came over around the early 30s, and some of his siblings did, too. In fact, we did have a relative in the US – guess we still do but I don’t know them. Aunt Doll was my grandfather’s sister-in-law from somewhere in the US, and passed away at a ripe old age some time ago.
Sounds like you have a big family! Fun! Must be a very impressive buffet table at the holidays!
Happy 2009 – it will be interesting to see where it all goes, with Obama, with a possible overturn of the Canadian government, with the crazy markets…with so much at stake!