Yesterday late afternoon another lovely walk on the beach. The weather looks like rain a good deal but the walk on the beach was lovely. A breeze off the river with lots of wind in the trees as I walked along the about 1 km path around the beach and back into the woods and then back to the beach again (managed four circuits). The most activity yesterday was getting the beach organized for a beach volley ball day on the weekend. Yesterday the walk along the beach was most pleasant. The gulls covered the main beach area as there were very few people there. Gulls are interesting; they are not afraid of people and will occupy any piece of beach that they please although do fly away when we come too close.
A few hours on the Siderfin book yesterday. Working on the seventh generation and I am going to do some hand charting just to keep everybody straight as I work my way through all of this bit of text. It would be nice to have the seventh generation complete by the end of July. It has been a different July with so much heat but also a lot of rain. Usually it just gets drier and drier.
The next few weekends that we spend working on Edward's research boxes we will extract all of the Schultz material. It has all been scanned and we do want to see the originals back in the area where most of the Schultz family still lives. They have held a yearly picnic for over fifty years now and they will have all those wonderful pictures and other items to display. They are all double cousins as they descend (as did Edward and our children) from Isaac Kipp and Hannah Mead and from Wilhelm Schultz and Rachel Neumann/Nieman. It is a mixture of Kipp (Dutch), Mead (English), Schultz (German) and Neumann/Niemann (German) with the most recent common ancestors being born between 1811 and 1835. Edward was a second cousin and second cousin once removed to the Schultz members in his age group. All of the ancestors were farmers in the same general area Burford/Blenheim townships in Brant/Oxford counties.
The sky is slowly lightening this morning and it looks like we had a lot of rain in the night and more promised today. The birds were busy at the feeder yesterday so they knew it was coming and feeding up to be ready for the heavy rain today. Animal life is clever; they do establish their borders but are respectful of the other birds waiting their turn in the trees around the feeders. The chipmunks remind me of warring nations - they leap into the feeder when ever they want trying to scare the birds away. The birds do move back but at the first sign of weakness they are back to take ownership of what really is theirs - after all it is a bird feeder! Interesting really how much nature can teach us.
Jumping jacks, tea time and then a bit of work before breakfast.
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