Lovely music at Church

 The music was lovely at Church yesterday. I do love the organ music. God would be pleased I think that His Church which He created still sings His praises and thanks him for all of His gifts to mankind. 

With all the rain, the lawns and gardens are looking very nice. I pulled some grass out of the front garden bed so that the iris could have more room. Iris is a beautiful plant. My daughter has cut the lawns thus far although I did contemplate hiring a company to cut the lawns and still might do that as the flowers that inflame her asthma will soon be in full bloom as she has to stay away from the yards most of the time although does go out a little with her mask on. Fortunately Petrie Island doesn't have a lot of flowering plants in the areas that we go to for kayaking and walking. 

My daughter's jaw is healing from the dental surgery and soon back to kayaking once again. She is thinking about her four research projects though and items that need doing. Her student is busy working away with her on these projects as well as the other faculty members who are part of these projects. I am lucky to have her as my caretaker for these research times that she spends here. But we chat every day for an hour or so and I consider her as my caretaker year round actually. 

Worked on the book yesterday and in this case the Excel file for the great grandparents. I have looked at 23 and Me, Living DNA, Ancestry and just a quick glance at My Heritage and FT DNA today to ascertain if there are any new large matches. Then ready to go on the charting using all of this data. There is ancient Blake data in the DNA likely caused by two items. Some of the further back matches are in the Knight family where there is endogamy and others are colonial American Blake descendants. Interesting really that these lengths of DNA would be passed down through nine or ten generations but they are common areas which is a marvelous conduit for DNA material down through the ages. 

I also wrote my letter to my older sister and mailed it off. I am trying to keep to sending it on Sunday each week. I wanted to find boxes of cards that had different pictures on them and we are going to go to the Rideau Centre next and perhaps I will find some there. Right now I just have two different cards. I just thought that would be more fun to receive. I am typing the letters though as my hand writing is somewhat hard to read although I did get a letter from my brother in law saying that my sister had read the letter so that is good news. I did take my time hand writing it. But I will stick to typing the rest - just sent the first one like that. I was a visitor at one of the local old age hospitals when I was a teenager and it is lonely for people in these homes if they do not have people close by. My brother in law goes every day he said but still I wanted to send the letters to break up her long day somewhat.  

 Today cleaning the basement and that will begin soon. I will start the Robot around 9:00 a.m. and it runs for about one hour. Does a great job on the rug for sure. 

Beautiful sun today and the tomato plants will likely need water as it is a hot sun although just 17 degrees celsius this morning at the moment  with a high of 26 degrees celsius promised. 

Solitaire puzzles are next.  

Sunday and another rainy day

 Sunday and this past week has flown by. I have forgotten to send my letter to my older sister and will get that done today. A very very busy week has passed but the summer just by its nature is always very busy with going in and out. 

I did complete the Pincombe/Pinkham Newsletter and it needs to go in for review and hope to complete that early in the week. Not much content other than the Bishops Nympton baptisms and marriages. The priests who maintained these registers through the years did a wonderful amount of entry for individual marriages which is very helpful for those searching back in time. 

In the spirit of the moment I am contemplating buying my favourite cookies (made in the United States) as they are still for sale at the store (I do not drink so whether or not alcohol is on the shelves makes no difference to me). I love very crisp cookies about my palm size; my teeth still work very well and have no problem chewing as I also love crusty bread! I used to buy a box a week. I will not buy cheese that is made with anything other than fresh milk. If I cannot tell then I do not buy it. Our Prime Minister said that Canada could help to "Make America Great Again" although personally I have always seen the United States as a great nation and we are a middle sized nation next to them. The individual companies in the United States that went off shore for production are responsible for any loss in jobs in the United States. The economies of all three countries (the United States, Mexico and Canada) have grown over these past decades and the powerhouse of North America is huge and benefits hundreds of thousands in all three countries. We have been at peace on this continent for a very long time and trade flows readily between the three countries. When large corporations chose to take their production off shore they are hurting their country and the people in it. The prices may be cheaper and generally they only destroy local smaller businesses (and are not the good quality that I remember from my youth so do not buy them unless I can not find something made here) and no one truly benefits in North America from companies going off shore only the companies' owners and their shareholders. 

Today I would like to nip into the Blake book and contemplate the starting of the Generational Tree using Legacy as my feeder text. I do have a lot of this information in individual trees. There is a little work hanging - looking at new matches and seeing if I need to add anything to the Great Grandparent Excel file before I set AI loose on it so to speak. I will use a copy of the original file just to protect that file since I will be extracting information from it in a particular fashion but want to preserve the original setup. 

I like the idea of expanding our air force and especially having both the F-35s and the Gripen as our aircraft. The Gripen are perfect in the Arctic where they were created in Sweden for that terrain and temperature variance.  The F-35s will be the larger force as they will be covering the land area from the border with the United States up to the Arctic. Looking once again at the map from the other day:

 

 This is a good map of the Arctic area that is on the Geology.com website ( https://geology.com/world/arctic-ocean-map.shtml ). Although one can only see down to the 60th parallel north the size of Canada in the Islands of the Arctic is smaller than the Northwest Territories. A second map below shows the usual image of Canada and I think perhaps Nunavut is larger than any other province/territory (interesting to see that and if Quebec ever does separate it will become even larger as the First Nations in the top half and more of Quebec wish to be part of Nunavut and not a separate Quebec!).

 

 This map is also from the Geology.com website (https://geology.com/world/canada-satellite-image.shtml). One can readily see why we would need many more F-35s as the land mass of Canada (second largest country in the world) is huge. Each plane offers its unique abilities particularly well to the Canadian archipelago. In total agreement with the Prime Minister on this purchase.

Conrad Black's editorial yesterday was very interesting. His overall view of Canada is well written. 

The map doesn't nearly show all the water in Manitoba as the lakes are not quite correct but the Nelson River is immense and the Red River coming north into Manitoba from Dakota is left off. The South Saskatchewan River is missing as well (only the North Saskatchewan River is shown). Canada has huge fresh water resources. None of the large rivers in Ontario or Quebec are on the map. Should find a better one and will have a look later today. I didn't actually find anything better as others tended to enlarge the northern part of Canada beyond its actual size. Many of them did have the water right though as this was is really bad. 

Solitaire puzzles are next and then back to work for a bit before Church.  

 

 

 

 

 

88,000 new jobs

 That has a good ring to it 88,000 new jobs even though I know it is May and that summer brings in new jobs every year it still has a good sound to the ears. Youth unemployment down nearly 1% so the jobs are not all summer but good to see that down as well. The Conservatives should really spend their time with the youth and get them organized to rethink the job market. Having a degree does not guarantee a job but having a trade does. Personally I equate trades and professions equally because I come from a trades family and I do know what it takes to do the work. There are fantastic tools to work with in the trades and you have to be able to manage on a computer because customers would appreciate seeing visuals on any work done. The presentation by tradesmen and professionals is pretty much the same these days or could be if one is using their training appropriately in order to best sell their suggestions to customers. Computers are very much in vogue in the trades. Trades have all sorts of advantages. The winter can be slower giving you more time with your family especially if your wife is a professional because winter dominates a professional's activities. Lots of other advantages; you may well make more money as a tradesmen these days which is good to see. The work though is like a professional as the hours can be long in seasonal times. Calls in the middle of the night because something has failed are pretty common if your base of customers is industrial/commercial. Going on and on about a possible recession is such a waste of time. The warning that moving to diversified trade would take time seems to have fallen on deaf ears in the Conservative Party. Question Period should not be a constant whine about the slowness of the effort. Get with it Conservatives and let us see that our tax money spent maintaining members of parliament is well spent. I have voted Conservative for most of my life as a voter but I want to see the Conservative Party have a policy other than attacking the government in power. You did not win the election; it was not even close so find a way to convince people that you have our best interests at heart and are not just clinging to a past that is gone. Trade can still exist between Mexico, the United States and Canada but we need to protect ourselves from tariff and tariff has existed between the United States and Canada for a very long time with some products. Obviously we need to diversify softwood lumber, aluminium, steel and even how we make cars in this country. We need our own car manufacturer  or one of the car companies in the United States or anywhere else could incorporate here so that they are building cars for Canadians using Canadian materials (we have lots of it). Wake up Conservatives as that is part of your value in working hard with the people to make a stronger Canada. We can critique the government ourself we do not need you to do that constantly. We are not stupid we can see what is happening. We do not need a constant repetition of it in Question Period. 

 My daughter had some dental surgery so is recovering at home but back to thinking about her research already. AI is the big interest at the moment and for her as well. 

Beautiful rain last night and supposed to continue all weekend which is good news for crops. The heat is great for growing but rain is needed pretty much every couple of days to get the ground watered. The tomato plants are growing slow but sure. No idea if they will produce anything as the walnut tree sucks all the goodness out of the ground far away from where it stands. At the moment it is impossible really to use the old garden in the middle of the yard as it is full of roots. Must get it grassed in one of these days. But at the moment the raspberries are struggling to still produce raspberries and not just weakened stems and berries because of the walnut tree. It is really a weed that tree and is constantly trying to grow new walnut trees in our yard. 

Must get the information from my Bishops Nympton file  into the newsletter and publish it today. The days move by so quickly. but soon back to normal here. 

Talking to my other daughter and she has been busy in the ER these days and her clinics. Medicine is an extremely busy profession these days with not many breaks in the weeks. 

I did make it into the doctor to review my two sets of blood work which were absolutely the same and identical with my blood work of the last ten years since I have kept all of my results other than my lymphocytes which are at 0.8 but both times I was under a good deal of stress which makes my diverticulosis act up and so the lymphocytes at 0.8 tell one that the lymphocytes are working properly and taking care of the diverticulosis. I will have my blood work done again early in the new year. Doing a whole lot of testing for leukopenia seems like a step that I do not yet need to take since all the other blood work is normal. If there is one place I do not want to spend a lot of time it is hospitals. Loved working there for twelve years; wonderful and interesting work but definitely not where I want to spend the days that are left to me in this world. I will leave that to the people with many years ahead of them.  Since I am not prone to sickness it does seem like a stretch to do a lot of testing which is expensive in the medical system and I am nearly 81. We will see what the blood work is like in the new year. I tend to wear a face mask when I am in places with a lot of people and may wear one to the stores when I go which is pretty seldom. One of my least favourite tasks is shopping but I do go to the stores rather than order in so that I can insure that I am buying Canadian in as much as I am able. That is what we are forced to do because of tariff; we must protect our Canadian jobs. It was pleasanter just to buy what you liked but times have changed; we didn't change them but we have to protect our economy from tariff. I miss my favourite cookies which were American made. Very sad about that. 

Baked custard this morning before the heat of the day as that is one of my daughter's favourites and she is on a liquid diet at the moment but with blenders it is so easy to made wonderful drinks and blend everything to make it liquid. My custard has always been a favourite of hers just a simple custard poached in water in the oven for about an hour and always like velvet and so tasty. 

We need the hate attacks on our Jewish Canadian population to stop now and forever. People who can not leave them alone should go; find some other country to live in. It is intolerable that the Jewish people here are being attacked.  

Solitaire puzzles to do.  

 

 

 

Busy week

 Yesterday was another busy personal day as will today be and not much work accomplished. Not surprising but I do sense that more work time is coming which will be nice for sure. Harder to find that time in the summer months but the lovely walks on the beach are very much worth losing the work time. 

Warm again today but mostly cloudy and must go out and water the tomatoes soon before it gets too hot. Grass all cut last weekend and probably does not  need cutting for another week as we like it to grow long for the bunny to graze on. Why not as he seems to enjoy it. 

God's world still hasn't moved to that plain of peace as we wait patiently for an end to war and lots of discussion in the United Nations. It is really the only way; it worked well during the Cold War for nearly 45 years. But Russia seems unable to accept their boundaries created by their bankruptcy trying to take over Afghanistan in the 1990s and continue in their aggressive taunts threatening everyone with nuclear war. Is it because no one there has an ability to think through what comes out of their mouth? No ideas on that but it needs to end for the good of humanity. We are tired of listening to their threats but we are not an aggressive people and prefer the route of peace. Russia claims all sorts of ridiculous assumptions about NATO and they tried to convince the United States to destroy NATO I think but everything appears to be on that same page once again supporting the efforts of NATO to keep the Russians corralled in their 1990s borders.  Why do the Russian people listen to the ridiculous statements made by their government? One wonders that. 

Pincombe Newsletter mostly written and just have to pull the Bishops Nympton data which I am currently publishing in the newsletter. My Pincombe line was at Bishops Nympton from the late 1500s and continued well into the 1900s. Before that they were at East Buckland and  Filleigh and before that at North Molton and East Buckland. My line, Richard Pincombe, was the fourth son of William Pincombe and Emotte Snow whose family included seven sons and two daughters. My own line used the spelling of Pincomb in England from the 1500s to the mid 1800s and initially here but gradually the surname came to be spelled Pincombe. 

Tariff has raised its ugly head once again as discussions on CUSMA come together. We must continue making ourselves tariff proof as we move ahead in Canada with nearly 90,000 jobs created in May this year. The only way does appear to be totally independent but that is a shame as our trade with so many American States was equally balanced and we are good friends. Personally I do not want cheap cheese made with freeze dried milk mind you the cheeses made in Wisconsin and their milk are absolutely lovely. Wanting to take over our market just doesn't work well but wanting to trade items that we do not have is a great idea and has worked well since we first got into trade deals in the mid 1960s. Primarily with the American car companies at first and gradually increasing in the items that we trade back and forth. We tend to be resource rich and the amount of oil which is purchased by the United States at a discount (we sell the rest to the world at full price) has put the trade slightly out of balance but we could just decrease what we send to them at a discount and sell around the world at full price if that helps the discussions of equal trade. No ideas on that really as I am not involved in that at all nor do I wish to be at nearly 81 years of age. 

The discussion yesterday by the Prime Minister on our AI future was fantastic. Good ideas and the implementation sounds very straightforward. Starting with medicine a good idea as the AI can collect all the information on a patient quickly and have it available especially in the Emergency Room where the lines can be very long. AI can be a powerful tool with the right hands being the recipients of all that information. So much of our medical information is online making that a reasonable proposition as we all have our Health Card numbers attached to all of our information. I do like socialized medicine. In the past it was sort of socialized as the local doctor always had the ear of the local council and funding when needed. It is really just a step up from that original careful dolling out of medical care as needed in a parish. I think it is one of the really great values and there are many more that have come to us because of our religion. The Parish system was the system setup by the Christian Church and if one goes back in time it existed for the Celtic Church allowing quickly when Jesus came amongst us for the Celtic Church to move to the Christian Celtic Church. English records are such that one can follow the story of any recorded village/town/city in England through their records painstakingly recorded through the centuries. 

But for me our Christian Religion is based on the laws which God gave to us initially with the Ten Commandments to Moses and later with the two commandments that Jesus brought to us simplifying how we should live. It is concise and we could all be living that life of "loving our neighbour as ourself" where loving is respecting and then wars would end and the uplifted plain of peace would be ours to have. We still have to be ready as we do not know what is out there in the universe - God said "Be vigilant: as we read Old Testament and New Testament passages. 

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." (1 Peter 5:8, NKJV)
 

Time to do the Solitaire puzzles.  

 

 

 

 

Cleaning accomplished

Cleaning all accomplished and today is technically a research day but will involve some gardening. It needs to also involve the Pincombe Newsletter as it is now day 4 in June and it is three days late although that is more my suggestion to myself then cut in stone. Once I started into writing the books those types of deadlines no longer exist in my mind as I have little to put into them in actuality at this time. 

Sunny days for the last couple of days and the earth is drying up rapidly. Rain predicted for the weekend and it will be very welcomed. The tomato plants still surviving but the lettuce plants were unearthed too early by the rabbit although will check on that today to see if they can be put back into the ground once again.  

The company that tore up all the grounds last year has been busy repairing the lawns which is good to see. The new system is in and working the same as the old although more efficient for the system I would suspect since the earlier system went in fifty years ago! Our hydro though has always been good here even during the dreadful ice storm in 1998/1999 which certainly put Ottawa on the map and the entire area was coated in a thick layer of ice for about a week and basically shut down. I was working at the hospital at that time so continued to go into work on an altered bus schedule which got you there quite efficiently actually. To show the power of nature the bus was heading down one street and a large branch came away and banged against the windshield and cracked it . The driver managed that so very well one scarcely noticed that it had happened aside from the huge bang. 

Another very very warm day likely although just 19 degrees celsius and sunny at the moment.  The predicted high is 30 degrees celsius. I need to water the tomato plants shortly and the iris I transplanted. 

I can sense our movement closer and closer to the European Union and we are one of the founding members of NATO. We have a lot in common with Europe and they are very interested in maintaining full security in the Arctic and the Arctic nations, Greenland,  the state of Alaska (United States) and Canada have a front line seat on the western section of the Arctic with Russia, Finland, Norway and Sweden on the eastern side. The closest reach between Asia and North America is to the north (top) of this particular map although the distance between Svalbard (Norway) and Greenland is a several times greater distance (and the closest distance between Europe and North America). One can see the tremendous value in the Arctic Ocean as it becomes more navigable to shorten the distance between all of these areas. However it will still have winter limitations. 

 

This is a good map of the Arctic Ocean that is on the Geology.com website ( https://geology.com/world/arctic-ocean-map.shtml ).

The distance between Canada and Europe is considerably less when one looks at Hudson Bay and its access to various water lanes to Europe or for that matter anywhere in the North West Territories. I continue to like the idea of Norway, Germany and Canada having the same submarine fleets making surveillance of this part of the world quite straightforward and well covered by the number of future submarines belonging to the three navies which are all part of NATO. 

NATO is very much on guard in the Arctic. Having so many countries supportive of peace is a comfort after the horrors of the Second World War and the Cold War. We have an opportunity, we in this world, of obtaining peace between all nations using the United Nations as our place to speak. We may not always individually agree with the final opinion sometimes but we want to hear all the opinions and that is important. 

The dream of Port Churchill on Hudson Bay is real and Ontario should really create the port that has been talked about as well. The potential for trade in Europe has increased these last couple of years as we diversify our trade here in Canada. 

Solitaire games are next.