Yesterday was a good reading day and reaching Page 145 I just have one large chart and two small ones with their attached notes to go through and then the Index and the first read is done. I will read it again so that at least nonsensical errors are eliminated.
Walked up to the store and got salmon for dinner which was very pleasant. Salmon salad tonight will be greatly enjoyed. The company removed the snow from the laneway including the pile the grader from the city left at the end of my laneway. I need to guage how much to clear at the top of my laneway as I am not having them shovel the porch and patio. It is the end of the laneway that I really hire them for actually but I like them to do as much of the laneway as they can. It is actually a long laneway - good for three cars carefully parked although I just have one and it is in the garage for the winter basically although it comes routinely out to pick up a large food order. Chicken stew on Sunday will be greatly enjoyed as always and last me until likely Wednesday but sometimes only Tuesday but that is good enough as my house is cleaned by then in a normal week.
Searched out some pictures from 1968 as I was chatting with one of my brothers and he wondered about where we had taken him camping when he was about twelve.
My youngest brother and I, he is ten years younger than I am, in 1968 when I was 22 years of age and already married for two years. Edward took the picture. We are on Lake Huron camping for the weekend. I loved camping for many years - now you could not get me to do that unless of course I had to. But we had our canoe and my youngest brother loved canoeing and still does. I gave the canoe away - a beautiful cedar strip that now has a new family in Northern Ontario to enjoy it. They last a long time those canoes. My friend, helps to manage such items for her people and I was very grateful that she found a lovely young First Nations family to take the canoe. Edward took extremely good care of it and he loved to canoe but the last time was too much for him for sure and we shouldn't have let him try but he wanted to and it is wrong not to try and help him to do what he wanted to do.
I can remember my youngest brother from the day he arrived at home with my mother from the hospital. Every little detail is engraved in my mind (as are the details of my own children except for the one tiny missing two weeks in the early life of my oldest daughter - pictures unfortunately did not capture that time period so it is lost to time for me) and I loved him dearly and still do. I have not seen him for a very long time I would have to think about that. But that is the miracle of the internet; one feels like one is still very close to one's siblings although the distance between us can be thousands of miles. The memories are strong and of course he is now almost six feet tall and much older. He is a good height in this picture for his age since I was nearly 5 foot 6 inches in those days. I believe I may have shrunk a little as standing next to my youngest I discovered she looked taller. For some reason both of my daughters were shorter than me (perhaps it was two quite short grandparents - not sure but the genes do seem to take strange paths sometimes).
So today is a working day and I will likely finish the book and set it aside for a couple of days and then do another reading. I will not be rushed this time and then finally I can set aside all of that Siderfin material and move back to Blake and Pincombe but first I must create the Kipp Newsletter as it is late this month but I decided that my mind was just too attached to Siderfin to really think about the Y-700 results from Edward's yDNA test. It has been a while since the results came in but life has been busy and I am working on data that is not my own so have to tread slowly. His autosomal matches are totally out of control as I have not had time to work on them. I only ever produced a file extracted from the various databases (Edward tested everywhere as well except for My Heritage - I did try but it just didn't happen he had other priorities and time ran out towards the end it wasn't our concentration). So there is a lot of data and I need to collect it one of these days. But I have not actually worked on it so maybe I can persuade someone else to do that. We will see but everyone is pretty busy.
Thank you God for another beautiful day on your earth. May the winds of time carry us towards the uplifted plain of peace when Satan is finally eliminated from our world with his greed, hatred and other sins gone.
Tea drank, time for exercises and breakfast. Then Latin to do and I will continue Latin daily even when the lessons are complete to keep my mind attentive to declensions and the like as I slowly move towards those latin documents my fingers have been itching to work on.
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