I do love to listen to people talk about the Bible that have made it their life careers. Their intricate thinking is really quite fascinating as they have delved into various repositories of knowledge pulling together interesting sermons/homilies to present at Sunday Service. It is all about how you have spent your life really and for them the pursuit of knowledge of the Christian Religion has been their goal and it is exciting to listen to them discuss their chosen calling. Did I learn anything new? I always thought that the man with the demons was Lots but he is now mentioned as Legions and I found the change in my thinking to be much more picturesque of the events that followed namely the casting out of the demons and Jesus giving the demons permission to enter into a herd of swine and the resultant of the loss of those swine over a cliff. Legions gives this a much larger image and perhaps in our day and age much larger does help us to understand how demons actually work in a society and effect so many people to do things that we fail to understand looking in on various areas of the world from the outside of what is happening inside. My mind definitely wandered today during both sermons as the world issues make themselves felt in everyone's living room as we watched the events of the past few days on the television. I do not really think we are approaching Armageddon to be honest I think this is a blip in the road where evil has tried to raise its ugly head in the world these past couple of years in particular and thrust away good. The existential battle of good and evil has plagued humankind for all time really but Jesus did bring us a message to eliminate evil - Love one's neighbour as oneself (one could easily insert respect as love just to give it a meaning that fits into today's thinking) but respect is what one needs for a neighbour. But enough of the contemplation as there are much greater minds than mine working on this very issue and I shall listen to the words that come from those in charge as I did do my duty as a citizen and vote.
Yesterday was another good day on the matches I completed the second page of the fourth siblings matches and I now have 177 matches to work into my database (a number of them clearly show the endogamy in the Knight family which was one hoped for goal). A couple of areas that had poor Buller representation has certainly been filled with new matches although unknown to me and likely I will not do the necessary research to try to trace them back. I do not really need that information as the trees will only come down to the time of census collecting in the British Isles (or anywhere else if I happen to look carefully at the actual matches). But this fascinating passage of DNA from parent to child through the generations is certainly the new and exciting knowledge of the 21st century. A couple in particular yesterday caught my eye. Again with this sibling as with all the others except me have nearly double the number of Pincombe matches to any of the other three. Mine just happen to be more equal although higher on Rawlings which was my largest percentage gained during the transfer of DNA from grandparents to parents to myself. That is why I am different from all of them particularly my brother Douglas who matches me the least. But by the standards it is actually a good sibling match none the less.
Today is cleaning day and with my daughter here willing to carry the vacuum from the top floor to the basement every week I will begin in the basement consistently week after week and do plan on doing the first floor as well today since we are in for a scorcher with temperatures in the mid 30s degrees celsius. It is already 24 degrees celsius and feels like 31. The air quality is 40 and we are just plain lucky that the smoke has diminished with the heavy rains helping to put those fires out. The fires in Saskatchewan were actually set by vandals which really should carry a long prison sentence for the danger that it created. Tomorrow is also predicted to be 32 degrees celsius as the high. We are having a heat spell and global warming in the polar regions is really showing up this year once again. The Robot is doing the vacuuming and I shall soon make my breakfast. The air conditioning is working very well although mostly dehumidifying as it is set to come on at 24 degrees celsius and the house has not heated above 23 yet and that was yesterday but today for sure it will turn the air conditioning on.
The sunflowers are reaching ever upward as the rains helped them with that. My daughter hoed some of the big weeds but left smaller groups in the hopes that the rabbits eat that instead of the tougher sunflower plants now that they are well through the ground. We do have fencing that we could put around but would like to avoid that if we can. Certainly my hands will say thankyou as even with gloves on my hands took a beating on golf day with the old skin being rubbed off in many places but only two tiny actual cuts. One's skin does rather thin out in old age.
Drinking my hot lemon ginger tea and it is very tasty this morning. Solitaire puzzles next and then breakfast.
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