Sunday and Twelfth Sunday after Trinity

 Rainy today and has begun. Luckily the dogs were out before the rain and will watch for a break for going out later. The days have moved very fast as it is nearly two weeks since they came to stay with me. They have been good for the most part except for the smaller dog barking. The older dog used to tell her off but doesn't any more as she is older and feels the need of this dog's protection perhaps. Hard to say. 

Busy day yesterday with grocery shopping for a few items. Other than that though it was a quiet day. My daughter didn't kayak yesterday because the parking lot is always much too full on the weekends. We have a parking pass but that doesn't guarantee you a spot. She loves to kayak but it works during the week better. 

I wonder why there are so many cars going the wrong way on a street - weird really. When she came back from Petri two days ago someone was driving right towards her in her lane (two lane road) so she leaned on the horn and they finally moved back into their lane - are they on drugs or drunk or just unfit to drive? What is the matter with people these days? It is truly ignorant to break the rules of the road on busy streets especially for more than the time it takes to pass something. When you have to pass you do that carefully. I seldom drive and mostly to the grocery store when the children are in school and the streets are less busy. I feel confident driving and will continue for a while yet perhaps; I made certain decisions in my mind with regard to driving. When I no longer feel that my reaction time is quick enough then it is time for me to stop. I can take a taxi or a bus if I need to go somewhere.  

A little thinking on the research yesterday but not a great deal of work. My headache has more or less dissipated now. It was a long lasting migraine; I have not had one for a while actually. Few of them since I had the cataract surgery which was another surprise of those surgeries on my two eyes. Having this sight now after so many years of putting my glasses on first thing continues to truly amaze me. The depth of vision is a remarkable gift of Almighty God to us and it is amazing that it finally shows up in my eyes at this late age. Amusing really. It took a while for me not to just gaze and gaze at things whilst I appreciated the fineness of God's finished product with so many things. Even a bee pollinating a flower catches my eyes. 

Church later this morning and looking forward to that as usual. The dogs generally watch with me and listen to me when I sing the hymns. They have been mostly good all their time here except for the younger one barking out the window. 

Perhaps work on the matches later today. It is cooler now in the mornings as we are coming into late August and soon fall will come. The birds are flocking as they prepare to migrate to their winter homes. Busy keeping their young active in the air flying to prepare them for that huge trip. It is amazing watching the birds on the feeder all these years. The same birds come back every years and we imagine they are the same family as before. They just land and build their nests and then feed at the feeder which we moved to the front yard to keep food out of the back yard is helpful to keep away wandering wild animals. The three yearling raccoons have not returned that I have seen since I blew the whistle. The whistle does terrify them but they are safer in the woods rather than in my yard where the hawks can get them. They are still pretty small not that much bigger than a small cat. 

Solitaire puzzles are next. Thank you God for this beautiful earth which you gave to us. 

An exhausting week

 This has been an exhausting week. I will never book a dentist appointment again when I am looking after the dogs. It wasn't their fault at all; entirely me and my nervous disorder (uncharacterized and I just never got around to working on that and probably never will). Seeing myself in my grandson has been an eye opener for sure. As his speech improves I can remember that when I was his age. So perhaps it is part of the Autism Spectrum who knows and at 81 it probably doesn't really matter. I seldom have conversations with people; I seldom work with people and my time not spent working on my research is spent with my family. My nerves though are somewhat frayed and need a nice rest and that is happening. I shall continue spending the month of September renewing my nerves and doing my research I find that very relaxing. Although I suggested a dental appointment between 8 Sep and 22 Sep to fill the tiny cavity. I have not heard back so will not contact them again until after September. I keep thinking if I had driven myself to the dentist then discovering the change in the setup of wearing indoor shoes I could have just popped out to the car and got my shoe bag and all would have been solved (except I really was quite tired but cancelling two years in a row would have been dreadful and I wasn't infectious) but it is just part of a block away and did consider going back home to get my bag actually. I was quite tired though and the migraine was settled in somewhat. Anyway water under the bridge and I will take care of that tooth soon enough. Although it might be exciting to think of never having to go to a dentist again the reality is that your own teeth are really better and I do know that as an adult. Although my grandmother certainly never complained about her false teeth but she was a realist and I suspect I am also! Plus I do pay for the dental plan so might as well use it! Some years I actually do use everything that I pay into it but mostly not. But I might one day.

So no research done yet. The dogs have been fed and had a run. They are sleeping it off. They weight around 50 pounds and around 65 pounds each so taking them for a walk is not something I would contemplate at any time. One at a time I could manage. They are such good dogs although the one is a barker but she lives in the country with a woods behind her and is just not used to city noises and people. The older dog rarely barks which is great. But they are good sleepers; in bed at 9 and up at 8 and very well rested. I never hear anything from them in the night. Well they do move around a bit. I did sleep in the same room with them for a couple of nights to help them with the change but I disturb them and so I slept elsewhere but close by.  

My Bible Readings have suffered this week but I will go into 2 Chronicles soon and read a couple of chapters. I did think this might happen and it has. These two books are really repeating the stories of the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah that have already been discussed in earlier chapters but are a wonderful recitation of those times and were apparently written for the Jewish people in exile in Babylon (and I think Assyria not sure about that). Babylon is Iraq these days - interesting when one looks back in history.  I used to think it was Iran but did a quick check on that and within the modern country of Iraq is the original location of Babylon. 

Research today hopefully working on the last block of matches and then back to phasing my great grandparents. This has truly been a rather fascinating path that I entered into around 2005. My mother was into family research and started asking me about DNA in the late 1990s. She was interested in the identification of family lines. I explained yDNA, atDNA and mtDNA to her but really yDNA and mtDNA were the only two that were in the news so to speak at this time. I did tell her that eventually atDNA would become mainstream and that was the way to really identify cousin matches. I did promise her that I would investigate this and our last visit together we talked about yDNA and I was a bit slow contacting my uncle in that regard (her brother) but it was in his thoughts. It just didn't happen. He was 89 and lived in Toronto; I lived in Ottawa and was working full time. My interest in genealogy about zilch but I always listened to both of them and can recall our conversations on the topic. They both found it fascinating that they could test to relate to people. I was very interested in DNA as a child when the first papers were released on the helical shape of DNA in 1953 in the April issue of Nature and that it carries genetic information. I was pretty young but it is surprising how some topics can catch a child's interest. This was 1951-2 when the experiments were done and one mustn't forget the work of Rosalind Franklin and her student Raymond Gosling capturing the x-ray diffraction image of the helical shape of DNA along with the work of James Watson and Francis Crick on the actual structure of DNA in Cambridge, England. 

Already time for my first 250 steps at 9 a.m. My readings and then solitaire puzzles.  

Internet up again

Rogers was attacked again by vandals. It is an excellent Internet Provider and they are back up earlier than they predicted. 

 

I got very distracted for a couple of days but mind is back in place once again and hopefully I accomplish a little research the next couple of days. 

 

I really like both my dentist and my doctor (mind you I do not actually know them and perhaps a better term would be respect) and they are both very hard working. I just get upset easily by items probably due to my 81 years of age.  Fortunately I seldom go anywhere which works well for me. Just adding in some rules to aid me along this path I am on.

internet down

Internet down all day. Probably up later today. Surprisingly most of my writing is for the books and does not need the internet

Chatted with my other daughter

 The conclusion is that I had a bad headache and wasn't sleeping well; Ottawa Public Health hasn't recorded any West Nile Virus as of August 2026. I was using this mouth appliance that the dentist prescribed but had to stop because of headaches. I meant to ask her about that and forgot (often happens since I reached the age of 81). Since I have given up the appliance it doesn't really matter. I think I was grinding my teeth for a bit; the earlier dentist noticed it as well. But I seem to have given up grinding my teeth apparently; no one mentioned it. So I guess the appliance worked but has become an archaic symbol of my past. I wonder when all my teeth will fall out. Probably doesn't happen quickly; too bad. I still think these false teeth are a great idea and they look nice. 

My daughter says to go to the doctor if I do not get better soon but I am actually improving nicely.  

My daughter told me that there are tests to distinguish all of these viruses that one can acquire but we do not test for them because the test kits are too expensive for us to afford them all across the country. Even in the ER it is not possible to afford these test kits which would be so very helpful there. In her ER they see more than 18 thousand people a year but they do not get money even for a CT scanner. That seems to be some what limiting when their ER never closes. 

We need to get this economy going so that we can afford all of these items.