A bit of kayaking as one's muscles need to prepare for this type of expedition but it was enjoyed followed by a walk on the beach. But smoke maybe coming so that will remove that interesting occupation for a bit until it moves on or stays as it did a couple of years ago when it swirled around the backyard in ways I never saw before coming from southwestern Ontario where the effect of forest fires was not felt when I was a child. I do keep thinking when we arrived here in 1975 I was then almost 30 but in many ways I probably was still like a child as I had married young going from my parent's house to my husband's apartment. There was never a time when I was independent really although as a teenager before the knife attack I was more independent than I became after that. So I do tend to think my childhood lasted long into my 20s until the birth of our first child when I was 28. Motherhood wakes you up to reality really. A nice reality for sure but definitely a wake up call. We had a couple of friends here known to us and when we visited them in their carriage home (located just behind where we live now) we decided to buy one especially as the yard was exactly what Edward wanted (lots of room for his garden) plus our daughter was then ready for school (and desperate to go actually) so we signed her up as a tuition student at the Roman Catholic four year old class and she loved it. Had we stayed where we were we would have had to bus her to this area to go to school eventually as there wasn't immersion in the public school system where we were then. Plus we were renting and had always meant to buy a house but just didn't get to it as we had ended up selling our brand new house in southwestern Ontario to move here! But once the decision to stay here was made then we moved on.
More work on the matches yesterday as I worked my way through the next 50 matches in genetic order. I continued to place them into one of the four (or more if it could not be determined otherwise) grandparent's matchbox or into the insufficient or suspicious matchboxes. Not very many in the suspicious matchboxes as these tend to be a match that looks like all four grandparents which in my case is an absolute no as my father was an only child and my mother's only sibling did not have children. Although it could be possible with small amounts a larger amount greater than 10 cM matched by a perhaps 8 to 10 cM second match in my opinion is unlikely but it is small amounts and could be in a "common" area so they are in a box because they are suspicious! The insufficient are just that the amounts spread over five to six lengths but less than 25 cM are simply too small to determine quickly although referring to the matches within these blocks will be possible if I decide to take that time. But I have plenty of matches and tend to save my time for the larger ones.
Living DNA is proving to be interesting as there are more Buller matches here than anywhere else on some chromosomes that had scant Buller matches prior to working this data set. I am still just working on my own matches and will continue until I reach a point where it is no longer productive for me to continue probably around 20 centimorgans when I can see that there are only three and up lengths with none of them greater than 10 centimorgans. I have been matchboxing the in common with as well which is helpful.
I keep reminding myself that I am doing this because of the Blake and Pincombe books as the modern descendants can answer some questions as I work my way through the generations.
Yesterday top floor cleaned and today will be the main floor and the basement and it is time for breakfast. Tea drank and solitaire puzzles completed. The sun is shinning although temperatures are going to drop again which is interesting as we looked to be having a heat spell once again with rain. The high today is meant to be 31 and the air quality has risen to 45 so smoke may also be on the horizon so no kayaking perhaps but lots to do inside.
I am also realizing I am now behind in two newsletters so perhaps should spend a little time between cleaning to work on the Kipp (late one month) and the Pincombe Newsletters (due the 1st of June). Where has the month of May gone!
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