Revelation 12 tells the story of the huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and a crown on each of its seven heads and the casting of this wicked dragon down to Earth from Heaven but the dragon wants to destroy. Yesterday more threats from Putin who seems to think he is a reincarnation of Peter the Great but Peter the Great loved Western Europe and wanted to emulate it and dreamed of a Russia that was advanced and modern not living in the despotic age as serfs sending their sons to war; Russia has lost many wars in the past and the women of Russia have paid an enormous price with the deaths of so many sons. Putin threatens NATO once again with nuclear weapons for defending Ukraine's rights to exist. How ignorant? Does he not realize that starting a nuclear war will destroy the planet? Perhaps China will tell him. In a nuclear war then all of Russia will be lost along with the rest of the world. The Bible tells us that God only loves and protects those who obey him and follow the teaching of Jesus to protect, care and nurture his people not to bomb them and commit genocide against them just because they want to be Ukrainian not Russian. The Ice Refuge during the Last Glacial Maximum of thousands of years ago has been called Ukraina in our time and perhaps much longer. Which did come first one wonders but the logic is there for it to have been Ukraine not Russia; are Russians descendants of Ukrainians. Interesting thoughts.
I also think that Lukashenko of Belarus saying that any attack on his country will mean World War III is borderline crazy. Why would anyone attack them; they are more likely to create a false attack on themselves? It is his support of Russia committing genocide in Ukraine that is the problem. Remember that nuclear waste doesn't obey borders and if Russia blows nuclear plants in Ukraine you all will suffer terribly. We would just like to build a mile high wall and keep them (the Russians and their adherents, the Iranians with their supplicants Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis) all away from people until they have grown up and can become adults in this world. At the moment they are ignorant people (their minds aged about two years of age) greedy as all get out without a care for this world unless they can have all of it.
Yesterday two bags of leaves out for recycling. I did well for a 79 year old and likely there are twenty or thirty bags of leaves yet to come! Not a lot of work outside and today I complete the emptying of the garage and start putting the car inside. I am tired of brushing leaves off of the car for sure.
Also I completed the John Line and into the Robert Line all the way up to my ancestral line back to Elizabeth (Siderfin) Rew. I still have three more children of Elizabeth to follow down and then her twin sister Charlotte's family. The last member of the family is Thomas and all of his descendants. I had a few thoughts on how to relate the two books and will use footnoting to refer back to the updated Siderfin book. The book is actually at 105 pages now so will be perhaps 150 pages which did surprise me. I could create an index if I simply add all the names on the pages with the indexing, turn it to white and then shrink it to the smallest font and run the index. I will think about that as my daughter thinks an index is a very important part. Myself I think the page numbers are adequate but I come from a different generation for sure!
Today not so much computer time as my eyes were tired yesterday. Lots of exercise done yesterday though and will concentrate on that today and perhaps working on the photo albums. I am struggling with that one as my husband was very proud of his fifty photo albums of our life together and I am going to reduce that to perhaps twenty. I will just retain the printed pictures that include members of the family. They are all electronic and could be viewed anytime on the computer but perhaps I should consider recreating the photo albums as *.pdf. I wonder if there are enough days for me to do all of this work. Fortunately I am a workaholic and what else do I want to do? There is actually nothing (other than my own book writing) that I want to be doing so that works. Yes slowly moving towards these modern ideas of displaying material that started just as small projects but does now seem to be growing to rather big projects.
Since my gardens got somewhat decimated during the fence construction I am thinking I will mostly just let what comes up in the spring do so and keep it hoed so that it is tidy looking for the sale of the house. I am definitely not a gardener and will be happy to move on to grass preferably in the yards where ever I end up. Edward did so love all of his flowers and they were lovely and there are many pictures of those gardens. I do often wish that he had outlived me so that he could have managed all of this downsizing. I find it somewhat sad for Edward to see it all slowly pass away but for me it makes my life easier for sure.
Breakfast completed, Latin is next and then we will see what I accomplish today. It looks like it is going to be a beautiful fall day. Just 10 degrees celsius now but heading towards the low 20s. Perfect outside working day for sure. Although I will probably not spend a lot of time out of doors as I have a lot to do inside. The one room concept is very appealing on such days!
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