Yesterday was a huge shopping day although I started off the day picking raspberries mid morning. Not too many yet but they are coming along nicely. The birds have eaten about 50% of the red currants which they love it would appear along with the gooseberries. I should pick them but really watching them enjoy eating the little red and purple berries is much more fun as these are pretty seedy berries and mostly just good for making juice for various dishes or making jellies which I do not eat. Although I made hundreds of jars of jam (and perhaps even more) through the years I do not have a sweet tooth and it was my husband mostly who ate all that sugar so when I went back to work outside the home in 1994 I stopped making jams and jellies for the most part as it wasn't actually good for him to have all that sugar as he was by then in his early 50s. I didn't tell him that I just said I wasn't a martyr and could not maintain that sort of life style when I worked full time!
But off to the market for the newest vegetables in our area (these outdoor markets are wonderful that the farmers set up around the city) and then picking up some items at a specialty food store that I am fond of (namely frozen Canadian blueberries) but a few other goodies and then to the grocery store where I had a huge load to buy this week. By the time I reach the grocery store I am a bit tired; my nearly 80 years are showing. When I am on my own then I spread out any trips but my daughter drives me and has a busy schedule with her research and so I just fit into the pattern. Plus I just shop occasionally on my own for sure; I am not a shopper. Then out to buy some other items once all the food was stored away that were perishable. Our shopping all accomplished we had a lovely meal of fresh meatballs (made by our hands), a lovely potato salad also made by us and fresh asparagus (likely the last meal of that locally). Along with fresh vegetables on the side it was a perfect meal.
In the morning I worked on the matches and Page 2 is nearly complete and will work on Page 3 today. I am at 210 new matches to work into the database once I get through all of this data collecting. Many of these are significant because they demonstrate the endogamy I knew was there but needed a solid concentration of my British cousins to really see it well. This sibling is more like me with an even number of results from the four grandparent lines rather than a heavy double percentage of Pincombe matches to the other three. I did not inherit nearly as much Pincombe as the rest although this sibling did actually just proportionally they fell different from the others. There are more individual matches to this sibling which I also knew from the other testing companies. But in general we are all good matches with each other and well within the range given for siblings. I am picking up quite a few of the suspicious ones which were mostly endogamy with so many lengths of chromosome between six and twelve centimorgans with many of the samples having one length of six to nine and one of twelve to fifteen along with four to five between four and six centimorgans. This collection of up to 70 centimorgans on occasion could be seen to be Blake but having all five sets together to look at helped to marrow it down to one of the great grandparent lines a little easier. That is the thought with all this new data that I am using all the companies phase our great grandparents in a meaningful proveable way.
I did pull some weeds as I was picking raspberries and that is something I need to do a little more of to let the flowers have room to flower this year. On the one side no problem the hostas take over most of the ground and the weeds are minimized but on the other the weeds just keep coming back - they are hardy for sure. The lawns need cutting and today looks good for that - sunny but not too warm just 14 degrees celsius at 7 a.m.
I must admit to being a bit impatient to see shovels in the ground for the pipelines and ports and more industry being created here in Canada but it all does take time and our trade is going well between provinces getting that set up. I am looking forward to seeing more foods from the provinces on the shelves in the stores. Canada is a huge country with lots of ability to do well and unleashing it will take a bit of time for sure. I still think that the American car companies should just incorporate their businesses as Canadian here and break their ties with their American businesses other than the sharing that can exist between compatible industries. That way they will continue to produce cars for sale here in Canada and we do buy a lot of cars. Since our car (Dodge Caravan) has just over 30,000 km in five years I obviously do not represent most of Canadians but in our younger days we generally put 15,000 to 20,000 km per year on our car. But I scarcely drive it on my own just the grocery store and to the garage to change the tires twice a year and have the usual oil changes and the like done to it. But there are a lot of young people in Canada and it is really a rite of passage here to get your driver's license at 18 now (used to be 16 for a permanent license but times have changed and one does need to ensure that one thoughts are always on careful driving on the roads) and then buy a car and still live at home and go to school. The laneways are full of cars for every house. But it is the choice of the American manufacturers for sure; the Auto Pact has cost particularly Ontario taxpayers a lot of money these past sixty plus years and even if they leave it will continue to cost us money because of promises made. We do tend to be a punishing lot Canadians and will not generally purchase foreign cars but only cars made in Canada with Canadian materials. At 41 million we are a large market to lose for sure.
Drinking my lemon ginger tea (one of these days back to green tea but I do not need the caffeine at the moment!) and on to solitaire puzzles. Then yoga and breakfast and the lawns!
I did complete the Blake Newsletter but still debating the small writeup on the new Big Y-700 results in the East Anglia group. I will probably release it early next week.
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