Snow

It is only a sprinkling but there is white out there finally and at last. Hopefully more to come over the next couple of days. We could use the snow cover as it is going to be very cold. Even the trees need the snow cover to protect their roots. 

Yesterday I read through the first 27 pages and found a couple of things here and there, I actually am looking for most of them so good news in that regard and I am 16% of the way through the book. It may well be the middle of December before I release it but I am going to go through it carefully and then perhaps read it one more time just for the flow. I also am still working on the Preface and Acknowledgements. I have written them but want to make sure they are saying what I want them to say. 

I needed some downtime that didn't involve screen time or heavy exercise so I bought a thick book of Sudoku which I love to do. Microsoft has that on their Solitare page as I call it but there is something very comforting about sitting there with pencil and eraser and just quietly working away at a Sudoku puzzle. I do love numbers and find them soothing as I run them through my mind counting out my steps or activity during workouts or just sitting there quietly as the numbers 1 to 9 in each block get arranged carefully into their order to complete the puzzle. It is good for the mind I think; settles it. 

Well I am once again in agreement with the Prime Minister who had the good sense (and I think the Premier of Manitoba said it best we need to let the President-Elect know what we are doing to protect the border; he has asked) to go visit the President-Elect of the United States and to take our  Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc with him to discuss Canada and its border control. It was the absolutely right thing to do; it also gives Canada a chance to congratulate President-Elect Trump on his win in the election face to face. The United States of America is our wonderful neighbour and I am glad that this has occurred. I still need to see far more efficiency in our government; too much money is being wasted that could go to the military. Perhaps the military should manage CRA! 

Today, more work on the Companion Charting book and I shall try hard to keep my mind from wandering towards the Pincombe and Blake books. I am anxious to get back to them although it will probably be the first of January before I return to them. Of course the interest in them is fairly personal although I will blog items that are interesting especially when I start to transcribe some of these old documents plus I still have about a thousand wills for Blake to transcribe that I have collected through the years. I will continue doing that as well as writing the books because I find comments about the Blake family at Andover within wills that end up surprising me and gave me that connection between the Oxfordshire Blake family and the Hampshire Blake family way back in the 1500s. I need to learn more about that as well. 

I also want to have time to work on my yearly (although it is now nearly four years) re-phasing of my grandparents and great grandparents DNA. Knowing where they are buried, it does occasionally cross my mind that perhaps I could actually do DNA on them although I expect the cost would be rather high and my family would think I had perhaps lost it. So maybe not. After all it is amazing what you can come up with when you have five sets of sibling results. 

More snow hopefully this weekend and into next week and I look forward to that. 

Tea being drank and soon breakfast time and then Latin once again. I am surprised at how quickly I can read these sentences now in Latin without having to go back to my file and check. I do want to get back to my French as well but need to finish the Siderfin book first.