Good pace yesterday with the charting book and I am at Page 111 which means there are 41 pages left to do. That does have a good ring to it for sure. I am into familiar territory now as this is the main line coming down and I worked on my particular line - Elizabeth (Siderfin) Rew and her children. She was my 3x great grandmother born in 1759 so a long time ago but not forgotten. The picture of her daughter Elizabeth (Rew) Pincombe is a forever reminder of this line. Elizabeth was born in 1800 and died in 1876. Born in Somerset, married in Devon and emigrated to Canada when she was fifty years of age. The five children of John and Elizabeth Pincombe were 16, 14, 12, 9 and 6 years of age when they arrived in the Port of New York on the 7th of January 1851 having been on the ocean from the 20th of November. Their ship went into the silent area just off the coast of Europe and were six weeks without wind in the sails according to her diary. In New York they went up the Albany River to Genesee, New York where John's older brother Robert had emigrated in 1835. From there they crossed into Upper Canada and bought a farm in Westminster Township in March of 1851. I have a teacup that traveled with her and she gave one of these teacups to each of her grandchildren apparently (that would have been my grandfather John Routledge Pincombe) in memory of that trip across the ocean. William Robert (her son) and my great grandfather did go back to Devon and bring Devon Reds back to Canada at least once. So a neat family story around a small teacup! I have a picture; teacups do not last forever for sure.
That was about all that I did yesterday along with my exercises. The day passed quickly. Good news when I read my email Church is online today and this is Christ the King Sunday (the last Sunday of the Church Year) and we begin next Sunday with Advent 1 the beginning of the Church Year. God bless the world and keep it safe. The New Year is fast approaching and it will be 2025. I am amazed many times that I have survived this long and in relatively good health now but it has to be maintained by good exercise for sure. 2025 will see me reach towards my 80th birthday. I remember my grandparents so well in this time period of their life although my grandfather passed away when he was in his 79th year and my grandmother in her 81st year for both of them that was a long life with many of their compatriots having passed in their mid to late 60s the usual age in those days. I used to visit at a nursing home (Parkwood Hospital) in my teen years and I remember this one man who was 66 and had pretty much gone into the hospital when he retired at 65 years of age from the Canadian National Railway. It was my surname Blake that caught his attention as he had known my grandfather. We had some interesting conversations and I was sad when a year or so later he passed away in his sleep. Worn out by long hours and hard work he was a happy man though but his children were all far away and he had no one to visit him. I was fifteen then and death was pretty much what we grew up with in those days; many many of my mother's relatives passed away in the 50s and funerals were very often. I remember she was sad many times as she said goodby to her aunts, uncles and cousins. Plus there were the reminders of all those lost youth in the Second World War. Many plaques in the Churches and the Schools to remember those young men and women who lost their lives in the Second World War but mostly men and so young. Remembrance Day Parades were the most important parade every year for sure. This year's parade in Ottawa was simply beautiful and so many people attended.
Another beautiful Sunday and it is 1 degree celsius but we have not yet had even one snow fall but perhaps this week will see the first one. Teatime, solitaire games and then breakfast. I will work on the Charting Book again today but will space it out to give my eyes a good rest in between.
Thank you to Conrad Black for summing it all up in his latest editorial at the National Post. Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and the other Jihadist groups need to be gone from our world. They are trouble for everyone not just the ones they threaten right now; the others will be in the firing line when the Jews and the Christians, other religions and the non-believers are gone. The biggest thing to remember for all of the Muslims that live in the world; you are just collateral damage to these terrorists Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and the other Jihadist groups all sycophants of Iran (Satanists every one of them including Iran); they do not care about anyone but their goal. They do not believe we have a right to exist if we are not one of them or at least subservient to them. Gaza is an example of what the terrorists plan for all the world in order to conquer it. Sounds somewhat far-fetched perhaps but it is what they threaten in our world. In God's world there is no place for terrorists - the Bible Readings tell us that.
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