Thursday, March 29, 2007

 

NATHANIEL JOHN SPEY

WE'VE GOT SPEY

NATHANIEL JOHN SPEY IS BORN TODAY

Nathaniel is of hebrew origin for "gift of god"

duh

Happy birthday Little Spey!

Wendy and John retrun from the hospital Friday. More news on theis developing story as we receive it. Ceegars for everyone!

Monday, March 26, 2007

 

Pics: Wendy's baby shower


Mom sent this picture of Weny's baby shower with Grandma, Aunt Laurie, and mom' friends Paula and Nancy at a "really neat historic in outside Baltimore."


Thanks for the pic mom, youre really starting to get the hang of this interweb!


Wednesday, March 21, 2007

 

News: Fly fishing is dumb

I've got less than 2 weeks before I start a new job so I have a lot of time kill while sitting in front of the computer. Unfortunately there is still no Future Spey news, so instead I'll just rant about the nincompoopishness of fly fishing.



Why do I hold such a low estimation of something I've never even tried before (much like steroids and anchovies)? Because it ruins all google stalking of Speys. In the long run that is probably a good thing, but I'm so sick of sifting thru page after page of fly fishing web sites looking for news about Speys. I'm not expecting to find much, but try it and see for yourself. You put Spey and ANY word in the a query box and youre gettin nothin but fly fishing. It's infuriating.


You can try using booleans to get rid of some pesky keywords but it doesn't help much.


The question now is what do Speys have to do with fly fishing? The answer should obviously be: nada. It's a coincidence. Grampa, however, begs to differ.


It all starts with the river in Scotland, which meanders thru a part of the Highlands famous for salmon (for which morons apearantly fly fish) and distilling whiskey. This is where 99% of your "spey" searches lead you. There other 1% will be to some airplane engine made by Rolls Royce, but every few hits in a thousand will get something on our humble family. Grampa thinks this is because back during the Crusades, Scottish Knights heeded the call of fanatical Popes to fight in the Holy Wars and headed South. In the midst of thier journey some decided Jerusalem could fend for themselves and settled down in Germany, from whence they carried on the Spey mantle through their ancestors to this very day.


This is, of course, quite preposterous on so many levels. Grampa also once purported that the name for the 'bullpen' in baseball came the fact that pitchers once warmed up in an enclosure full of male cows.







Whatever.



Here is some stuff I've uncovered while google stalking my family members.



John(this picture is on the right)

Matthew

me

mom

dad

more me

and here's another good one from me

and this is what Kirk Cameron has been up to since Growing Pains went off the air



Fascinated I'm sure. Now where is that baby!?!

Monday, March 19, 2007

 

News: The hardest part...

For us and Tom Petty, that would be the waiting. I'm sure Wendy will have a different opinion when all is said and done, tho.

Still, some people are trying to enjoy thier honeymoon, and others are trying to plan their trip up the eastern seaboard, and it would a lot easier if everyone knew when Future Spey would transmogrify into Present Spey already.

In the meantime, how about some jokes?

What was the only member of the family to be featured in the cartoon, Calvin and Hobbes?
Speyceman Spiff

How is Alaska like the Speys?
One is The Last Frontier, the other it The Final Frontier

Why does Bob Barker like Speys?
Because otherwise he'd have to tell people to merely have their pets neutered.

Those are the absolute most awful ones I can think of, can anyone do worse?

Thursday, March 08, 2007

 

Info: Heir to the Throne

As I have mentioned previously, Future Spey represents the sucessful dynastic continuation of the Spey Family. No small feat when you consider our meager numbers here in the States. But is Future Spey the heir to the throne? Or more appropriately, the reclining sofa chair?

To find out, we must first start from the beginning. Before there were any Speys in the New World, there were Speys in Africa. Yes, Africa Africa. It all started in Cameroon, which at the time was the German Colony of Kamerun.












Note: This is a real picture of Kamerun.

Sometime in the pre war years, young Gustav Spey made what was to be the most fore sighted decision in Spey history, and hitched a ride not back to the Fatherland to fight in WWI for the bad guys, but to Shelton, Conneticut to start his family. You can view the ship manifest of Alma Spey, the first American Mrs. Spey, coming back from Hamberg, Deutschland in the 1920's here. You have to register with the web site but it's pretty nifty and well worth it.
In any event, Gustav and Alma begat Hans and Ernest. Uncle Hans, the elder son, produced issue, Cousin Tommy. We have thus already concluded where the current occupent and heir to throne lie, as both Hans and Tommy live in Shetlon, CT to this day.
However, as is this blog's want, we can still speculate about the future, and speculate we shall.
Travelling down Ernie's branch of the family tree, we find a few more limbs on which to expound. Gramma and Grampa had 3 sons, Greg, Stephen and Bryan. Should secession fall on Grampa's offsping (a quite likely event), We must then look to his oldest son, Uncle Greg. Uncle Greg has a son of his own, Cousin Tyler, who is a spry 24 and has plenty time to create Future Speys of his own. Thus, a clearer picture develops.
The family line can be broken down as follows:
Progenitor Emeritus: Gustav
Presiding Monarch: Hans
Heir to the Throne: Tommy
However, in the event of say, Hans' abdication, our line-up would go like this:
Ernest, King of the Speys
Greg, Prince of Ohio
Tyler, Dauphin Vegas
And then, if a War of the Roses battle were to result in the triumph of Greg's younger brother, we would get this:
King Stephen John the Edler of Jersey

Prince Stephen John the Younger of Maryland
and finally to
Regent Future Spey
Matthew and I would be relegated to princedoms and dukedoms of lesser importance or else have to mount our own challange to the crown.
Oh, and of course we need to include Bryan somwhere. It is to be assumed that he would be dispatched to oversee foriegn affairs, as an ambassador to the family, no doubt finding favor in the courts of the Burger King and the Dairy Queen.
JUST KIDDING!
So as you can see, tho he represents the first of the Spey's 5th generation in America, Future Spey would still only be somethinglike 7th inline to the Royal Seat. And that only if we strictly follow Salic Law (but as Germans we probably should).
Of course we've yet to speak about the riches and bounty that actually await the holder of the Spey Crown Jewels. As far as I can tell, our empire consists of the land holdings Anne and Ernie have managed to acquire during thier long and productive reign. Which would be:
Gustav's original Fortess Spey in Shelton

note: NOT the actual house

Gramma's Norwegian Hoagie Homestead in Aneta, North Dakota

also NOT the real thing

And the Condominium in Ft Myers, FL

this is actually Cybertron, the home planet of the Autobots
Anyway, I think you get the idea. As you can see from countdown ticker below (thanks for the tip megan!) we're running out of time for Future Spey discussions. Any topics you would like to see covered you better suggest now, because before long we're going to have BABY TIME!

 

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