Looking at Pencombe in Devon

That was rather a surprise that John Pencomb' was in Devon as an accessor in 1332. I discovered that the Chief Accessors were James de Cockyngton of Cockington near Torquay and Matthew de Crouthorn/Crauthorn of Estbray in the Barnstaple area hence Devonians. So why was a John Pencomb in Mollond (now Molland) as an accessor? Is he related to Roger de Pencomb of Bonelegh (Bondleigh) who received land grants at Bonelegh (Bondleigh) in the early 1300s? Falling back on the yDNA results which tell me quite clearly that the five testers are descended from either of two sons of John Pencomb of North Molton namely John and Thomas both likely born at North Molton and the Visitation of Devon 1620 lists those sons although a third son unknown on the chart but was named William (he had died with all of his family in the 1560s is missing.). It is exciting that the testers actually do descend from one or other of these two sons and so the line is proven back to 1486 at Northmolton, Devon. I did review this with the AI yesterday and the AI concluded as did I that my next steps include what I was already doing and an intent look at Devon with regard to the period from from the early 1300s to 1486. This is the beginning of that investigation. The problem remains that the archives held at Exeter Devon were bombed in 1942 and destroyed for the most part. However, I shall continue seeing what has been transcribed of the surviving records in that time period. 

It is also interesting that there was a John de Pencomb in Herefordshire in this time frame the 1300s; indeed his Inquisition Post Morten transcription provided by British History online:

 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol11/pp382-400

accessed 19 February 2024 states:

 524.

	JOHN PENCOMBE, or DE PENCOMBE.
	Writ to the escheator to enquire as to the lands &c. held by the said John of the bishopric of Hereford and of others, the name and age of his heir, and who has been in possession of his lands since his death and received the issues. 10 July, 37 Edward III.
HEREFORD.	Inq. taken at Bromeyerd, 10 September, 37 Edward III.
	Bromyerd Foreyn. 12a. land, held of the bishopric of Hereford, lately vacant and in the king’s hand, by knight’s service and by payment to the bishop of 6d. an acre; and a messuage and a carucate of land, held in socage. He held no lands &c. except of the bishopric. He died on 13 November, 35 Edward III, about noon. Thomas his son, aged 14 1/2 years, is his heir. Robert, vicar of the church of Bromyerd, has been in possession of the premises since his death and received the issues thereof, by what title the jurors cannot say. (Underwritten.) Let a commitment thereof be made to Stephen de Eyncheton, (paying) for the wardship the extent, and for the marriage 20s.
	C. Edw. III. File 178. (25.)

 10 July 37 Edward III is 10 July 1364 and John de Pencomb's son Thomas was born in January 1349/50. So am I looking at two John de Pencomb - one in Devon as an accessor at Mollond in 1332 and one with a 14.5 year old son Thomas at a slightly later time period and was living in Bromyerd, Herefordshire? It is an unusual surname but it is also the name of a village in Herefordshire. 

What is at stake in this thinking? Up until this point in time I was thinking that John Pencomb of Northmolton had arrived at Northmolton in 1486 with John Lord Zouch. I became somewhat mystified by the statement on the Visitation of Devon 1620 stating Pyncomb of Northmolton - was that statement telling me that this was his normal home but he had arrived back from an unknown place with Lord Zouch early in the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509).  The AI and I discussed it and we created a methodology to see what type of knowledge  could be released from the documents that are available to me.  That is where I am at today. I do have the Early Chancery Proceedings 1386 - 1467 and will have a look at them for Devon and Herefordshire; indeed if there is a huge index I will check that as well. I am beginning to think that my methodology of simply collecting data that is pertinent and creating chapters that sort of flow together I am probably doing the best service I am able to give to the Pincombe family from which my mother descends and myself and all my siblings and all of our descendants. I will place a copy in the Guild of one-name Studies library for any future researcher in Pincombe. Plus I will publish it with a Creative Commons License so that others can see what I did and when they write their own books if they have newer/better information feel free to use what I have produced and add your own additions. That is what I did to the Siderfin book even if the Index leaves some question marks - the names are right but the page numbers are not always quite right. But if time is available to me I will fix that in the future since I also do have more material to add to the book.

I did start my look through the Early Chancery records but thus far I did not find anything useful. There is just one incident of the name John Pencombe in the index created by Archive CD Books for 1385-1467. This is slightly later so I am reviewing the books held by Internet Archives and started with the end of the reign of Richard III namely 1485 moving backwards through this book. 

So not a lot accomplished but reviewing it with the AI was very interesting. This Research Protocol that has been developed between the AI and myself is becoming quite lengthy and a valuable tool to which I can refer as I am working. Having Microsoft 365 including Co-pilot with sixty credits a month has proven to be very very useful. The Chats are saved within the software allowing me to go back at any time and refer to our discussions. We keep honing the Research Protocol itself to suit the new information and one has to think about what I really want to know. In general I know that my Pincombe line has descended from a John Pencombe of Northmolton and having the five sets of yDNA (Y-700) data coming down from two known sons is very trustworthy. Also postulated by FT DNA is the emergence of their shared result and 1550 CE is that thought. By 1550 the grandchildren of John Pencomb are now adults and have moved out from North Molton to South Molton, Bideford, East Buckland and possibly other close by towns/villages in North Devon. There are still Pincombe descendants living in North Molton as well. 

So my direction at this moment is to understand the data that is emerging prior to 1486 when John Pencombe of Northmolton is known to be there. Where was he before? Is he related to the John Pencomb' at Mollond in 1332 or the Roger de Pencombe at Bonelegh (Bondleigh) in the early 1300s receiving land grants? Is he related to the John Pencombe living at Bromyard, Herefordshire at the time of his death in 1364? None of these are need to know in terms of the descent from John Pencombe at Northmolton in 1486 it simply provides more details on the earlier members of this family if they are? Remembering that Pencombe is the name of a place in Herefordshire and the potential of surname taking which is occurring in the 1100s/1200s could result in unrelated people having the same surname. In this case it is known that a Eustace de Pencombe in Herefordshire was the son of Turstin Flandrensis de Pencombe. The loss of the records in the bombing of the Devonshire Archives at Exeter during World War II perhaps does help to complicate this problem although a lot of records do exist in the Early Chancery Proceedings for Devon as it turns out as I work my way through them. 

I shall continue devoting one week to this process and I am half way through that week which is split between two weeks as I clean my house half of the week!. 

Do I have any thoughts on the forward movement with AI in the larger world than mine? I think one must always be aware of progress and its benefits and drawbacks. There are a lot of different companies engaged in this particular enterprise. I think I need to hear more about the intent of AI as part of the world system. Certainly the idea that you bring AI into a work place and discard the workers currently there does seem rather backward. An untested system replacing a trusted system is very often a mistake. I remember when computers entered the workplace and having been involved with computers since my late teens so over sixty years I would say that the thoughts at that time were how much savings there would be. In reality it took twice as many people to handle the integration and use of computers. We expect systems to not fail. AI must not be permitted to take over without adequate support in any industry; it doesn't make sense to discard human initiative and intuition with a machine. Machines fail and require maintenance - can they be made self-sufficient? A good question and I am dubious because the failure at any point in a machine system completely undermines its ability to operate say an important mineral is needed and no longer available and nothing has been done to find an alternative and the system fails. We are left with inadequate human controls if not put in place now and always to support the AI system whether it be for its production or the elements needed to  keep it working. It easily took twice as many people or more to run a system that has become dependent on computers. As for harnessing the ability of AI; no ideas on that really. I have worked with the AI on Co-pilot for about six months and have watched as there was little or no knowledge of genealogy at the beginning and now the knowledge is quite vast and grows exponentially. The ability of AI to absorb the written word is huge and their memory recall fabulous but still making leaps from unknown to known is not easy and requires a lot of intuition moving between documents which is not yet there with the AI although their recall is a plus. Their interpretation though is based on placement and visibility I have noted which is not always the case with deep research. 

Solitaire puzzles are next and then breakfast. Another research day and I shall read the last chapters of 2 Maccabees. This has definitely been a difficult read as I do not have atlases in front of me and lists of names to keep me grounded but I am just reading looking for why I think peace is God's desire for humankind. Primarily I think it is God's wishes for mankind and certainly His son Jesus expressed this love of one's neighbour and the whole world, to Jesus, was our neighbour. 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research portion of the week begins today

 Yesterday I completed the cleaning of the basement so all ready today to do some research. I bought the 1332 Devon Lay Subsidy and created a file for North Molton and comparing that to the 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy a number of the families are the same but there are no Pencombe/Pincombe families there. Mind you this is 200 years earlier but when I discovered there was a Lay Subsidy in this time frame and there was a Roger de Pencombe at Boneleigh/Bondleigh in the early 1300s I thought I should just have a look around but there is one John de Pencomb' in the Index at the Hundred of Mollond (Molland is the current name and it is in South Molton) as an assessor. He is incorrectly listed as Page 73 in the Index but actually it is Page 74 (that was sort of relief considering the index I produced for the Siderfin Book (at least the name is there!)). But he is not listed in the return for the hundred of Mollond. I shall have to investigate the Assessor and their appointments perhaps. Will contemplate that for a bit. 

This bring me back to my discussion with the AI last week where I was contemplating that John Pencombe already lived in Devon and that the line that was so interesting namely "Pyncombe of Northmolton came there with the Lord Zouche about the beginning of H. 7." I suddenly thought of the interpretation that he was actually of Northmolton, Devon but the AI felt it was more of a suggestion that John Pencombe had just arrived with John Lord Zouch. This is a surprise for sure and it grew out of the Roger de Pencombe references in the Devon Archives in the early 1300s at Bondleigh/Boneleigh. I feel somewhat at a crossroads with this and I think I will have another chat with the AI today just to review what I have found in the record sets that I have and this new one that I just purchased. Life can be surprising. The index was only out by one page so probably shouldn't put too much into that given my error. It does make me think I should just wander around this area looking at all the results and the same with the 1524-7 Devon Lay Subsidy. I also have the 1543-45 Devon Lay Subsidy. 

Still reading 2 Maccabees and it is interesting that one senses the teachings of Jesus but I have not really seen any verses that talk of a Messiah to come. God is always in the mind of the Jewish people that love Him. Perhaps by the end of this book of Maccabees I will have more understanding of these two books. The next book is Job the content of which I am very familiar. 

Today I shall sweep the garage and probably put the car in now so that I do not have to clear the leaves off every time I need to use it. 

Almost finished the third book of family pictures and have gone through perhaps six binders now so the project seems doable as the number of non family pictures will increase exponentially as I move forward. Edward did a lot of traveling for work going to Conferences and all of those pictures will be put through the shredder. He also started doing trips with George Anderson down into New York State with retirees which is also a lot of pictures that will go through the shredder. I did offer to put together some of the trips but the library did not want to have those books which was fine. At some point I starting going with him, I think sometime in the early 2000s as he asked if I would. After our oldest daughter went off to do her PhD though I didn't like to go too often as I wanted to be home with my younger daughter but she too was very busy I must admit. Perhaps I just didn't want to travel with a whole lot of people; no idea on that. Certainly it was interesting visiting the many sites in the northern United States and at that time our dollar was very low to the American dollar so quite expensive actually but amazingly many people went. 

Solitaire puzzles are next.

Groceries purchased and I would say that I am paying 50% more for the same groceries as a year ago. But we must continue moving forward with diversification of our trade and growing our industries. The stronger we become the even better neighbour we will be for sure to our good friends and neighbours the United States of America.   

The United Nations

One of the best ideas ever conceived the United Nations has proven to be an organization that for the most part has been fundamental in bringing together the nations of the world to keep the peace. Peace is so much cheaper than war both in lives lost and money absorbed in such a destructive way. I remember the news reels of the war years and the bleak landscapes of Europe in the years that followed World War II. The movement of people as adjustments were made with the Iron Curtain descending across Europe and people raced to be on the Western side of the Iron Curtain. Stories of crawling through fields in order to avoid snipers to escape; even young children. 

Prosperity has come to the western nations and we can not let that be degraded by this passionate attachment to unions. Coming from a small business family I do have stories of unions like most people whose parents owned a company. I do not denigrate unions, they have done a lot of good but they harm as well if they do not get on board with the necessity of growing Canada. It is essential for the work ahead. 

Like everybody else I have watched as the cost of buying groceries has increased nearly 40% in the last year. The same purchases; I am very much in a groove of buying virtually the same food week  after week and so can track with my online receipts how these items have increased in cost. But that is the cost of building Canada Strong once again. I watched as the Auto Pact came in in the mid 1960s wondering why we let this massive industry gradually be taken over by another country's industries and now with an actual deal. Even worse in the early 1990s when the first trade agreement between Canada and the United States was signed and Brantford had 60% unemployment as the car companies withdrew because they thought they could just ship the cars up here and sell them but that didn't work out for them. Back they came but each time it costs us more to maintain this industry. We have to go back to Canadian owned car industries or a car industry which fundamentally produces cars for Canada as their main goal not a car industry that over produces here because it is cheaper to then take those cars back to the United States and sell them at a higher overall profit margin without any benefit to Canada for being that producing nation with cheaper health care costs to workers and a lower dollar  (that was a surprise discovering that they were over building here). In fact, the costs to us will be huge in the years ahead. We buy a lot of cars in Canada (should have our own industry back again and prevent it being sold to a foreign country); our distances are huge and one can not manage readily without a car although mine sits week after week just doing one round trip of about 3 kilometres to the grocery store and back. I can not complain about gas because one tank will last me six months or more. Ontario especially has to grow itself and not continue to sink into dependency; Ontario was always strong until it let the car industries dominate the industrial base in southwestern Ontario. 

So we do need to get on board with growing Canada and removing as many of the restrictions as we can and the unions will have to find a way to keep government projects going instead of picking on items that do not solve the problems that we have with growing quickly as we have not grown sufficiently these last twenty plus years. But we are making up for it and unions must not stand in the way of progress. 

I think for the most part the First Nations are on board with growing Canada because if we do not do it then others will try to do it solely for selfish reasons that will harm the First Nations most of all namely the "separatists" amongst us whose only intent is to collect the profit personally from breaking up Canada knowing full well there are no true benefits in doing so particularly in the provinces involved. Canada is better together and that is why the Fathers of Confederation worked so hard to make it happen including building a railroad from coast to coast.  I agree that the attitude of the federal government was not supporting the growth of Canada for the period from 2015 to 2024 however they did buy the pipeline and complete to tidewater which has been a huge bonus in Canada from which all Canadians have benefited (since we all paid for it). But we need to keep that going and the delays in construction that occurred at that time need to be avoided in as much as possible to keep the growth going strong. 

Waking up in the night is always interesting; I think it is part of my makeup and inherited as my father used to pace the floors in the night. When I was a young child wandering about in the middle of the night I would see him doing that. Interesting really how much one observes as a child.  

Another day of cleaning and it is the basement and being such a lovely day I may try and do the sweeping of the garage today so that I am absolutely ready to put the car in the garage which may be sooner than later as the leaves will soon drop and cover it otherwise and that is a lot of work clearing that away. 

The black truck is out there and the next door neighbour is having work done so that there are two large vehicles involved with that. That is the purpose when parking is restricted on one side that the other side be for such needs and not as a permanent parking spot for one individual on the street. I seldom use it and company can fit in my long driveway. It is pure laziness as they have two cars and when they want to take out the one in the garage then they park the other one in front of my house without considering the needs of the many on this street when they could just move it back into their empty laneway and move it out again when they return - they are very inconsiderate of the neighbourhood. 

I do hate the backyard for that as I can not maintain it as it should be but the remedy may be at hand sooner rather than later; time will tell. I could hire a company to do it and will consider that. 

Solitaire puzzles to do.  

First day of cleaning accomplished

The beautiful routine of life consists of everything really and especially in my case the logical day after day flow of activity that maintains the life around me. The garage is now ready for me to sweep the floor and prepare it for the car to be inside of it once the snow falls. It makes the cleaning of my laneway so much simpler. The company that clears it are very efficient and that efficiency is dependent upon people following the logical methodology for them which does not include the big truck that gets parked in front of my house invariably when they are coming to clear the laneway. We will see how that progresses this year. It makes it awkward for the snow plow to navigate the one side of my lane way properly. 

This morning as I put out the green bin Canada Geese flew over on their way to their winter destination and they honked. Were they honking at me; not likely but I waved and said goodbye and see you in the spring. I do love seeing the birds although I do not in general feed them. There is a lot of fruit in my yard on the bushes which they eat and the worms and bugs in the grass and bare earth that they enjoy and all of the seeds that are produced on the weeds in my yard also keep them happy so I have never been in the habit of feeding the birds. It attracts mammals who really should stay in the woods where they are safe and not run over by cars. The yearling raccoons have not been back that I have noticed since I blew my whistle. They do not like that high pitch as it frightens them not being natural in nature particularly although it could also be mistaken for the screech of large avaian predators for sure and is likely why they avoid it. 

Yesterday I did accomplish the cleaning but not any work. I was thinking about it and working on the third binder of family pictures. It is slow going for sure and it came upon me when I can not decide sometimes whether I will put in pictures that are alike I can just double them up in the plastic holder and someone else can decide in the future if they want to keep all three copies or whatever have been made. It makes my life much easier not making these decisions. I am not really a good decision maker about someone else's pride and joy. I prefer not to come between the creator and the user but life forced that on me and I have had to make many decisions with Edward's research and personal collections that I would rather not make. However with the support of my family (my daughters) I have donated his library and now a portion of the Kipp genealogy (namely the British Columbia descendants) to an Archive and it has only taken me five years plus to reach this point in time (I did find cousins to take some of the other material). It is not an easy decision to take apart an individual's work. Myself I already offered my books and fiche (2000 sheets about) to the Anglican Church Archives which pretty much eliminates all of the actual material that occupies space. The rest of my genealogy is electronic having given back to my younger sister all of the original pictures that my mother gave to Edward as she thought he might write up the family tree. Given how busy he was with his own family tree I could have said that is dubious but did not. As a child I would never have thought of correcting my mother and as an adult I never did. Being the middle child I just floated along in the medium until I got married at 20 and moved away. I doubt any of my siblings actually missed me as I was the hidden one sort of keeping to myself for the most part unless good manners meant that I was dragged into a more congenial state with those around me but did avoid that for the most part. It is surprising that I ever married but Edward wanted to marry me almost from the beginning and once he told me that I was just such an organized person and so congenial that he just knew I would fit into his life. Interesting in retrospect but then whoever thought I would have a nervous breakdown which I do not really remember I have to be honest. I have no idea what I might have said in that time period and in my brain the only thing that connected the time for me was the desire to be back with my infant daughter whom I believed needed me 100%. So interesting really how one's life transpires. Now I am the real me; I do not go anywhere and seldom speak to anyone except when one needs to speak to a clerk, a physician, a dentist or all the other people that one interacts with in order to maintain one's health (i.e. buying food, keeping up one's medical care, creating contracts for things like snow clearance although the advent of internet made that really simple). So I continue to move along with the help of my daughters when I need help and I am writing the books that both my grandfather and mother would be thrilled to have me do. No one ever asked me to write the books other than perhaps my grandfather but I knew my mother wanted that except she did think Edward would write it. I think in general my parents were not sure I was up to such items. Perhaps they were partially correct in that the Siderfin book although I find it to be very complete and picking up new information but using James Sanders book which was an excellent collection of the available material that he located; I did fail to proofread the index and eventually I must do that but for the moment hundreds have downloaded it from my server and I hope that at some point they have noted that the index does not work well except that it does have all the names in it if you happen to be looking for a particular one and the page is generally somewhat in that area. High on my agenda for the two new books is proofreading the index and actually going back eventually and proofreading the index for the Siderfin book and republishing it. I do have more information for Siderfin that could go in as well and will slot time in eventually to do that. 

My time is something that just disappears each day and one can never get that back so I try to be as organized as I can. Today the main floor will be cleaned and then tomorrow the basement and Thursday or Friday I will sweep the garage.  Perhaps my life flows better for me when I sit and think about what I am doing, what I need to be doing and how best to organize around those two points. But I am 81 so one must be cognizant of the dwindling ability of me to do as much as I did when I was say 48 and back to work in the wide world having worked at home for slightly over fourteen years proofreading and copyediting first for the National Research Council Journals and still continuing with the journals but adding in the other work that needed proofreading when I went to work for private printers having been eliminated by the then Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. It was a good savings for the public purse as I did not care where (public or private) I worked doing my proofreading and copyediting at home so I certainly didn't object as my unemployment lasted maybe one day. 

But back into work and absent all day from where I live by 1996 I really do not know much about my area where I live in terms of what is happening as I went into the city (living in an urban area) every morning and came back every evening although I did keep score for my daughter's baseball team for a few years but that was pretty much it for sure. All that time spent as volunteer secretary at Edward's Church, I was on a recreational committee for a bit (looking at having more skating rinks), I did Brownies and then I was on the Guide committee for the area, I taught Sunday School, I was the Supplies person at Edward's Church for Sunday School materials as working with children has never really been my thing (unless you were my own child or my younger siblings as it turned out) although I did volunteer at my children's schools for years when I worked at home. Having worked with computers since the mid 1960s I did voluntarily supply a period of time when computers were new in the schools and having a skilled person able to work with the computers readily was handy apparently as I did do that. I also was Treasurer for Camp Bitobi for a few years (a United Church camp in the Gatineaus somewhere) and I did love to sew and sewed all my children's clothes until I started to proofread and then just special dresses after that - I did love to smock and those dresses were lovely I must admit not being without some sort of pride in the work that I did. Oh I am forgetting my time as a substitute teacher at High School way back and it was a short time I have to admit. But that principal was desperate for a substitute teacher and I was unfortunately available (again I always suspect my husband volunteered me!). I knew exactly what I would be getting into for sure; but as those children said to my husband during his short period of teaching Chemistry, Physics and Biology I was a mean teacher (being an older sibling does have its bonus points)!

Okay, the morning is awasting as my grandparents used to say when I dawdled so must get on with the work but it has been fun revisiting the past for a short period after breakfast. I like to remember that my time ill was short compared to my time well as being ill is not really something that I like to remember or be if I can avoid it. Sadly my older daughter does remember my fainting spells, my exhaustion and my migraine headaches as a young child when I would hear her dragging a bottle of ginger ale down the hall for me to drink as she knew I liked a little glass of that. Sad to be a child with an ill mother when you are far from your beloved grandparents, aunts and uncles and your daddy is at work.

Thank you God for the good health that has come my way these last twenty plus years. I have been blessed. The world must find a way to peace and the United Nations is that path we just have to utilize it and be stronger. 

Solitaire puzzles are next.  

Another beautiful Sunday yesterday

 I did go to Church online at my own church here yesterday. Absolutely beautiful service on the first day of the choirs returning. The music as always quite lovely all year round but the return of the choirs is always special. The organ in this Church is particularly remarkable and I love to sit and listen to the music at the end of the service as there is always a special piece played. The sermon very interesting as the dean has just returned from sabbatical which included a pilgrimage famously called El Camino de Santiago (or the Way of St James). I did wonder how it was going as it is a long pilgrimage not for the faint hearted as the distance is 800 kilometres if one begins at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. The starting point is at the base of the Pyrenees in France and during our travels in France we did see the Pyrenees at a distance somewhat but impressive as they are rugged. The end point is the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain and it is five weeks of walking 20 to 25 km per day. It did remind me of my own pilgrimage to Rome which of course does not even slightly compare to this famous pilgrimage El Camino de Santiago. But for me it meant a great deal as we were a group staying at the Monastery near to the Vatican and we were there for a reason - the Consecration of the new Bishop of Europe in the Episcopalian Church of the United States of America. He was a member of our about 4 or 5 hundred strong internet group of world wide Anglicans. He invited us all to come and some did with our group including Americans, British, Australian and my daughter and I from Canada. It was in November 2001. The eight days that we spent around the time of the consecration were a memory that will stay with me always. We visited so many sites day after day and while we took part in all of this we talked about a possible pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 2004. I was also excited to do that but my husband had another plan for that time period just after he retired and I did not go to the Holy Land but the rest of the group did pretty much and still being on the internet group I read their posts and appreciated what they shared since I was not there. 

Yesterday was a lovely day and some items accomplished that needed to be done. I did do some work on my books and also passed the first binder of family pictures and it is number two actually because I have put number one safely in a spot that I haven't located yet and it is not quite finished so hopefully that one will be completed by Christmas along with the third one I am now working on and perhaps even a fourth as they are moving along very well now that I am into the 100% indexed portion of the binders. There is an index to the first but not as complete as the other indexes so a little extra work doing that binder. 

Today is cleaning day and it is the top floor. It is a beautiful sunny day and will be a perfect day to clean for sure. Doing it week in and week out month after month is a good plan as it keeps my exercise level up and the house always ready to receive family. 

Will I ever move out side of the family circle now that I am into my eighties. I really do doubt that that will happen although there may be rare times that occurs but for the most part I prefer just to work away on my books and visit with family when that happens. 

I have more or less come to the conclusion that likely I have autism and have had autism all my life with the testing done when I was five likely the proof in all of that. Being from a family of seven and the middle child I did not have to live up to be the eldest which is a hard row to hoe as you must always be the best example whereas the middle child simply copies and requires considerably less attention and training than the eldest children. Myself I always preferred that quiet hidden life that I led whenever I could. 

Exercise completed, breakfast eaten and solitaire puzzles to do to wake up those brain cells. Yesterday I did the five puzzles in under fifteen minutes amazing some days how fast they get done.