A good day of accomplishment as the cleaning is completed for the main floor and will do the basement today. I am spreading it out over three days as I want to also do some gardening. There is only so much time in the day that I want to have in cleaning and gardening.
I also worked on the matches and have reviewed all of the old ones now at FT DNA and I removed thirteen from active use as they were very small and I did not know any of the people in terms of their relationship to me. It is good to do that probably. I just haven't really looked at matches since 2021. The occasional glance but nothing comprehensive. I now need to add the fourty five new matches into the database as I also completed the task of collecting matches for siblings that were missing due to the process by which I picked up the new matches. So fourty five matches to place into the database and all of them are a good size actually. Most of them have been assigned to a grandparent but this process will show me any problems with that earlier assignment. Sometimes I have not yet decided on the assignment as well.
The gold dome certainly sounds like an interesting idea and the new radar system will certainly fit into that idea. North America is of course our prime concern with regard to defense along with our neighbour the United States. That was why we established NORAD after the Second World War. I am happy to see Canada once again put militarization at the forefront as we were very militarized back in the 50s when I was young. It is important for many reasons including protection from external events poised against us but also our military often helps during crisis situations here in Canada like hydro failures during freezing temperatures, flooding in the spring (we have a lot of rivers and lakes) and forest fires. They supply the expertise to manage and control disasters.
So today is more or less planned with the basement cleaning a priority but not so much hands on there as the robot will do the rugs. Plus the basement compared to four years ago is almost empty which is good news for someone expecting to move one of these days to a smaller place. Probably still looking at four years or less but it is still a while away but I have a lot of material to still go through and pass it to cousins of Edwards in the different lines. I hated to break it up but there was not a natural successor to all that material. The many books he had will be extremely useful to people doing genealogy at the Ottawa Branch here in the City Archives (he was in the process of doing that actually as he was moving away from so much work on genealogy the last five years or so). I have passed information to the Rathbun family, the Schultz Family and I am preparing material for the Allen family. A lot of Kipp material also went to the Schultz family as Edward was a double cousin having links on both the Schultz and the Kipp side. That leaves me with the older Kipp material which probably should go in an archive of some sort to make it more available. Still thinking about that. The Link family material (his mother was a Link (mother an Allen)) was mostly passed on the Link-Rathbun side to a half-first cousin. When the Allen is passed that does complete that family pretty much. But there is still a surprising amount of material as Edward and I did a lot of collections before our first child was born and I think I should publish that material as an epub. The pictures are really very very good of various areas in Ontario that we visited back in the 1960s and early 1970s. But it all takes time and I am also involved in my own projects. Some of that maybe my older daughter might do when she retires. We will see as the years are passing in those terms as well.
I do think my glasses are too strong as I am having some eye strain once again. I really do not think I can get any more comprehensive in my vision but then I didn't see well before so have no comparison. I just take the more indepth vision as a gift of the Almighty in my old age. God must be shaking his head as he looks down upon us wondering when the wars will stop. When will mankind love its neighbour as itself following the commandments that He sent to us. The satanic peoples of the world (Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and Russia, Iran) need to get rid of their hatreds or find a desert island for themselves to live on until they can live properly in society. One should always withdraw when one's actions are unacceptable or could be unacceptable and not continue to hurt people; hold people hostage for nearly two years and all of those sort of things. The perpetrators need to stop their war mongering. That is why we have mental institutions to help people when they entertain such visions of violence against other peoples. Too bad that wasn't the first choice for Hamas and for Russia during these past few years - withdraw and let people live.
Tea drank and the solitaire is completed. Breakfast is next.
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