Sunday, May 18, 2025

Just the fourth and fifth sibling to do for the FT DNA matches

 Continuing extracting matches from FT DNA yesterday and good progress. It does take a bit of time but mostly the matches sort themselves into a grandparent line which is great. 

Still no gardening done but the spring is rainy these days and not great for working in the garden. I want to leave the dandelions to bloom as long as possible for the bees to gather honey.  The bunnies are eating the clover quite happily and it looks very large fresh and green. Even the cardinals have returned for a bit but no food out. They find what they want though and that works. Birds are very practical although always happy to eat food put out for them. 

Sunday and Church is back in Cornwall this week online and also at my Church here online. I am feeling quite content having two services every Sunday for sure. It is working very well thus far. I enjoy going to Church very much and for me this is the best case scenario. The very quiet existence suits me very well; I discovered that as a child living in the attic and later when we first came here living quietly with our little one. I remember someone that I knew from University days was here with her husband and child and wanted to get together. She called about a planned engagement to let me know her son had a cold so I said no problem we could get together another time - really I didn't want anyone around me except family. I was never rude about it; just preferred my own people around me. 

Thirteen degrees celsius and we are in for a short cooling trend with rain most of the week. The growth cycle was very fast the last week and now the ground has a chance to get caught up with lots of rain. I do want to get the weeds pulled but there is lots of time to do that when the rains stop. The weeds are easier to pull then!

Today more extraction of matches from FT DNA and perhaps I will complete that initial part of the project. I will still have to go in and collected everyone's results for individuals who match above 22 cM for some of us in one length but below that for others as that will not show up in the first extraction. 

The Pope is giving his First Mass of his Pontificate today and it will be well attended by the leaders of the world I am sure including our Prime Minister Mark Carney. Then this week will lead into the Opening of Parliament with King Charles and Queen Camilla arriving a week Monday and the Speech from the Throne on Tuesday. Tomorrow is Victoria Day in Canada celebrating the birthday of the Sovereign here. 

Teatime and solitaire games.  Must fit in the Kipp Newsletter today; it is very late this month.

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