Sunday, July 13, 2025

Do we actually need external trade; that is the question?

 Pipelines are what we need and distribution for liquid gas to sell internally ( no more importing of our own oil back refined). Building materials are needed here to house all the people. More internal production of items we actually need like refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, clothing and less importing of these items. Back to when we produced everything we needed pretty much because we can eat turnip, cabbage, carrots all winter since we store up so much and we have plenty of protein product from the fish in the waters to the meat on the land and the products of such cultivation - cheese and other protein sources. Still stored carrots in the store here; not as nice as last fall but they are edible and they are Canadian. Invest in Canada if you are Canadian; we are a powerhouse. Trade is just a luxury item and like all luxury items not really needed just interesting. But we need to concentrate on re-inventing our industries lost during free trade. Our youth has the opportunity to reinvent these many products as they look for work to do that is meaningful. 

Always interested in being in the wooded areas of Canada. One must always be on one's toes and safeguard any fires so that we minimize wildfire to storms. As always that is the main cause of wildfire. Surrounded by the bush for miles has this very ethereal effect really on one's brain as you sit out in the middle of a lake first thing in the morning and just smell the air, listen to the birds and it is a truly memorable experience that wakens the brain cells and re-energizes these old bones for sure and blisters the fingers kayaking. Kayaking all alone on an empty lake is a beautiful experience and communion with God. God put us on this earth to care for it; nurture it and not destroy it. He put us on this earth to use our brains to ensure that the best life can be obtained by all; Jesus reinforced that message when he told us the two great commandments - Love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and love (respect I read) our neighbour as ourself at all times and in all places (are you listening Russia and Hamas (the Houthis, Hezbollah and their supplier Iran)). This world can not survive given the ability to destroy it held by ignorant people (are you listening Russia) if these ignorant people do not withdraw back into their borders. God loves the world and World War II taught us that as He watches and He waits; He does not act. Peace has to come on the terms that He set and sent Jesus (His son) to tell us. When will the world wake up! Armageddon was World War II but we survive by the Grace of God and now it is our job to continue the work of all that youth that died on the battlefields of Europe in pursuit of freedom. Does mankind never learn; one wonders. 

Sunday and it is Ordinary time (the Trinity for Christians) as the summer wears itself away and already the darkness descends earlier day after day as we head towards fall. The richness of the fields as we drove to the cottage was beautiful to see. Lots of stored vegetables for the winter once again. Lots of cattle out in the fields also storing up for their consumption next winter. Still no shovels in the ground that I can see and we do need to move on this economic powerhouse idea put forward by both the Liberal and the Conservative parties - 85% of us voted for that and we all need it to happen sooner rather than later. 

Back to work on the books and the other items I continue to think about but do not accomplish to any degree. At the moment I am engrossed in the extraction of the remaining data from the last sibling as I work my way towards the rephasing of my grandparents with 100% British data which should prove interesting and already I can see where it will resolve the few conflicts that I had with the earlier data. Then on to the great grandparents and writing the books on the Pincombe family of North Molton, Devon, England and perhaps Pencombe, Herefordshire, England and Blake of Andover, Hampshire, England. When those are done then I move to the Buller family of Bermondsey, Surrey, England and Birmingham, Warwickshire, England (and are they descendant of the Buller family of Cornwall) and the Rawlin[g]s family of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England and Collingbourne Dulcis, Wiltshire, England. Along the way I am picking up my French once again to get back to my son in law's French Canadian families from various places in France although several of them concentrated in the south east near Ile de Ré where my husband's Huguenots lived before coming to Staten Island, American Colonies in the early 1700s. 

Today though will be Church online and I look forward to that. 

Then some weeding this afternoon if it does not rain when I am wanting to do that! 

Prayers for those who died in the Texas floods and continuing prayers as the hunt for survivors continues.  


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