I did return to the will and I am still working on it. The Probatum is unusual so requiring a little more time to sort it through and then I will blog it. My Latin though lets me read it almost instantly just the missing characters that make it a bit obscure and I like it to be as complete as I can make it. Ever the perfectionist. I am pleased that I decided to take up Latin two years ago and I want to start using the readers that I have as the language is a bit more in line with what I am looking at on a regular basis.
I do think my glasses are too strong so I have three purposes when I go for my eye checkup prior to renewing my drivers license which will require testing of some sort as I am turning 80 years of age. I want to get just reading glasses but will need to pay for them myself as they will not be covered by my insurance but I can claim them on my income tax. I can go without glasses (usually do except when driving as my license is restricted to having prescription lenses) so I need a letter stating that from the optometrist. I am still somewhat concerned about my eyes being bluer than they used to be - that blue eye ring seems somewhat more dominant but I could not really differentiate things like that readily before cataract surgery; really since childhood so I can not say if they look the same as in my childhood. I can remember saying to my mother that I thought I had a blue eye ring (but that was really my grandmother speaking because she said that I did). She said not really it was much too small and the definition of eye colour is either blue or brown. I would need a letter if the optometrist thinks my eyes are somewhat blue. We will see. I had two grey-eyed grandparents so anything is possible especially with our new knowledge of DNA and that eye colour is not a simple one gene item. Much more complicated. I just want to have that letter if I am ever crossing the border back into my own country. I doubt I will travel very often outside of Canada after 80. It just isn't something that I think that I will do. I would like to spend time with my daughter though so we will see. It is beautiful along Lake Michigan. As a child we spent time at Lake Huron and we used to visit my parent's cottage on Lake Huron with the girls when they were young. Time though took us elsewhere so it has been a long time since I was at Lake Huron. The Ottawa River is nice but it is not a Great Lake! and the same goes for the St Lawrence River. Very nice but it just doesn't have that feel of water as you can see land on the other side.
One thing I have noticed about my vision is covering the strong eye (used to be and probably still a bit stronger) I can now actually see out of the weaker eye without shadows or a blurred area coming and going. I can actually see letters that aren't huge. I vaguely recall the ophthalmologist saying there was a problem with that cornea - so no ideas on that I am a long way from those records for sure and probably they do not exist anymore. I just have to go with the verbal explanation that I recall from childhood. But the lens was replaced not the cornea so I am perhaps remembering what was said way back when in bits and pieces because I was young then maybe eight or nine and I really didn't talk to the ophthalmologist after that time as he had students and they just checked my eyes for changes - they never really changed as I could still see using my infant glasses right up to before my eye surgery. I actually haven't tried; must look at that! The last time I was in his office I think he had retired so I just went for my usual checkup. I could see and never really thought about it.
So today cleaning the basement; a bit early this week but I have a plan in mind to have greater accomplishment for a spring cleaning. I will spread it out over three days. The benefit of cleaning every week without fail is not having big cleanings to do but occasionally one needs to really shake everything out and move everything around just to capture the dust that sits behind and under. The robot is already doing its task and I have about half of an hour left to work away.
So today continue on the will and complete it and blog it. I see I have two wills that I completed back before my life changed quite a bit in terms of available time; spending time with Edward watching cooking shows and the like just seemed like the right thing to do. We chatted whilst we watched as well. He enjoyed watching the cooking shows and then experimenting cooking. The exercise doing that was certainly good for him as he could not be persuaded to take up exercise. In retrospect I think it was too big an effort and I didn't carry on about it. He was happy.
Ceasefire in the India/Pakistan dispute is good to see. I was happy to see the Americans still involved in that thought process as they have been a power in the world for 80 years plus and the world has benefited from having their superiority for such a long period. But then it was peaceful for them too as the attack at Pearl Harbour was a wake up call for them back in 1941. One can be neutral but it doesn't protect you from Nazi type aggression. One must be ready and it is music to my ears to hear new purchases/money for our military. We also need to be ready. Am I afraid, no not really. But being ready is much better.
Back to the will. Breakfast complete. Two sets of exercises done and soon the work of dusting and scrubbing the basement floor and everything there. Then tomorrow the main floor and it is Sunday so Church is online at my Church and also Sheffield which is close enough to my Holme on the Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire. We went through Sheffield on our way north one of those times. I counted it as being close to the East Riding of Yorkshire. Although it is fascinating to go back to the exact place I find that it isn't something that I am going to do unless it is fairly easy for me to do so. It seemed more apt to go to Upper Clatford directly because my grandfather talked about it so much.
On to the day.
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