Sunday Service

The Sunday Service was quite remarkable and memorable. It reminded me of the Morning Prayers of my youth although the language is from the Common Worship Prayer Book which I purchased when we were in England but have never really read it thoroughly.  It was interesting to have that service yesterday as the world is deep in contemplation of the changes to come. The Bible Reading today from Daniel 7:1-14 was rather an eye opener as one read through it thinking about our current situation.

For myself yesterday I managed to finish another couple of sections of the Charting Book. Generally I do not work on Sunday on the books but rather have a day of rest but Saturday was sort of that so I did do some work yesterday. I also had a lovely walk around the block (about 2.2 km block). When we first moved here in April of 1978 I walked around the large block (which is probably about the same but at some point after the more local block was created I switched) which was still somewhat unfinished and no sidewalk along Orleans Boulevard but it was a nice walk and mostly I did that every day with my toddler. Good exercise for children and I could always carry her on my back when she got tired. But she too loved the walk. We did not know anyone on that path although did have friends in the area. I mostly reveled in the anonymity that was mine here in the Ottawa area. I did not have any family other than my own and it was just really something that I had been looking for personally in my life. I needed downtime for a while. I did think for a few months that I had found it. But life flows and change comes and we just adapt in whatever way we need to.

So today is cleaning day and it is the large cleaning which I shall set to very soon. FitBit has a new Readiness level on the app which is rather interesting. After I had my flu shot my readiness dropped way down and yet I did not really feel any different perhaps a bit tired. But a week later it is back to normal so that was an interesting experience. I still did my exercises and slept about the same. Interesting though; the FitBit has proven to be a fascinating addition to my life anyway. I rejected the initial one I had and stopped using for maybe six months as I thought it was having too much control over how I lived my life. I had to look at it differently and make it function to suit me which I did and now I quite like it. One thing it did show me was that I was not getting as much protein as I thought I was so remedied that by changing up the sources.  When one is old one does require more protein which is expensive so you have to be cautious and selective to make sure you are getting a sufficient amount without overdoing it or breaking the budget. I am definitely a budget person; I love to make it work efficiently.

Project for today though is continuing on the Charting Book. I am looking forward to the end of that book for sure. I will take a peak at the Latin document; ran out of time yesterday. I will do my Latin studies as always after breakfast. I am a bit late today as I had some thoughts that I woke up with and went with them. Getting up at 6:00 a.m. is a habit and I enjoy that habit. Then there is the cleaning and I just have to fold the clothes that I washed and hung on the racks in the front room where the plants can benefit from the moisture and I save the electricity from not running my dryer. I can run it if I need something urgently which is rare. I do not have urgent situations anymore; I pretty much never go anywhere except to walk which I do love to do. Sang Happy Birthday yesterday once again to my grandson who has completely forgotten the unfortunate incident; children are so flexible. When the chair arrives and works he will just be happy and now he knows one is coming. He so wanted one; he has autism and was non-verbal but has come along so beautifully. I can see a lot of me in him in his learning ability and how he goes about learning so time will tell. For me it was a lesson not to always be so trusting of science; open it up and check it out! An expensive error for sure but one learns and that is the way life goes. The first one worked so beautifully back in the spring.

Onto the day. My correspondent in England is off to the Registry Office again today so we will see if he sends any more interesting items my way. I am always excited to see Pincombe documents that I do not yet have. I photographed a huge number (perhaps as many as eight hundred when we were at the National Archives) and I have worked my way through a number of them but the Latin I set aside for my need to learn Latin so that I can transcribe them. I have moved along and I think I am ready to make that plunge but have saved it waiting for the end of the Charting Book. The documents in latin that I would have needed for Siderfin had already been translated by James Sanders. That is a gift that he made to the descendants of this family and respect always for his careful and attentive book that holds these documents for our use over one hundred and 12 years later. Thank you to James Sanders my cousin (distant not close) although we descend from the same 5x great grandparents so he is a 3rd cousin twice removed. Our four times great grandparents were siblings and of course we are out of synch as he is a 3rd cousin to my grandfather John Routledge Pincombe. Who would have thought I would find family studies so fascinating. No one actually I think as I managed to stay away from it for most of my life until I was 58 years of age - funny really. My mother had an interest though and this work is all done in memory of her and her desire to learn more about the Pincombe family from which she descended. That was also the case for my uncle. I shall always remember when I went to help him with the funeral service for his wife (my Aunt Norma). He had a huge stack of material that he wanted to go over with Edward to explain what was in the packages. From my mother he had the notion that Edward would write up the Pincombe family at some point and he wanted to let him know what was there. He pretty much ignored me but I listened carefully because it meant so much to him and I did love him dearly and he returned the love for sure. But he did not think I would ever be interested as I never really did display that much interest in the people more in the history that he told me about. So in his memory as well I am doing this Pincombe book. 

Have I taken on too much in my old age. I don't think so; time would be heavy on my hands without all this work. My time before Edward passed away was spent partly helping him when he asked which was fairly frequent. I just had to fit in my stuff when he wasn't wanting me to read something or write something that he needed for his Ottawa Branch Journal. Then we always went shopping which I never was into very much. I am a list person; go and find it; buy it and go home again. Walking around stores admiring all of the goods that are produced was never really my thing (he was definitely good for the economy; I do buy things but probably not as good for the economy as he was). I find it hard to give up clothes that I really like and will wear them far past their due date. Astronomy out in the black night sky yes always happy to be there. But I was happy to be with Edward as he wandered about so it worked well.