I shall start reading the Official Ministry of Transportation Driver's Handbook today just to sharpen up my memory of the rules. I only need my license to drive to the grocery store and back in actuality as I do not go out of my area on the roads anymore. I am too busy and I hate shopping so have no need to go anywhere actually except for food which I can have delivered. However, I will go and renew my driver's license as it is handy to have. Who knows I might have to drive someone to the hospital or something like that in an emergency but for the most part at nearly 80 emergency is a word in my past for sure.
Today is the second cleaning day and it is an all day affair for the most part although I take breaks. The main floor and the basement get the cleaning today. Yesterday went very well and was accomplished primarily in the morning. Today is another day of the heat wave and at 7:00 a.m. it was 19 degrees celsius and at 7:45 it is now 21 degrees celsius and brilliant sunshine. I have the windows all covered with drapes etc at the back where the sun shines in. The air conditioner is working well and set at 24 degrees celsius although it doesn't come on very often generally mostly the dehumidifier runs.
Still have moving on the brain and gearing myself up to downsizing once again for this move. No idea when I will move but the where is gradually coming into view although I doubt that I will have a clear thought on that before next spring. But move I need to do as this house is too much work for me.
No work done on the extraction of matches and probably not today either but back to that tomorrow likely. I would like to complete the last sibling's extractions so that I can start entering them into the database. I will also be paying attention to the endogamy and recording that on a separate database now that I have a clearer picture of the involved chromosomes where we all inherited from the Knight-Arnold-Butt families and how they break down into these family lines. The Routledge is actually more difficult and I may not yet have adequate information although the number of matches with Routledge has increased exponentially with the Living DNA results which is not surprising as most of those cousins are still in England with just Thomas Routledge and his wife Elizabeth (Routledge) Routledge coming to Canada in the late summer/early fall of 1818 and my first Canadian colonials with their daughter (married a Gray and they are my 2x great grandparents) also born in England with them along with their other eight children (one daughter already married came with her husband and children as well). However the footprint of this family is not that large in that most of the sons never married (and had no children) with just one son marrying and he and his wife had nine children and all three daughters married where the bulk of the descendants continue into my generation although the one son who married was the father of seven sons and two daughters so quite a few descendants in the Routledge surname there. But primarily the relatives remained in England.
I would really have liked to have seen the session in Parliament last much longer this year (surely a couple of weeks off in the summer is adequate given the present situation) and some movement towards the energy corridor right across Canada. However, I am still willing to give the Prime Minister a break (a honeymoon) so to speak and I think that the news sources should do the same after all what they write is read especially on line and we must continue our trend of support (85% of Canadians voted for the platforms put forward by the major two parties Conservative and Liberal) for the government to get the job done. Internal trade seems to be coming together with the hurdles between the provinces coming down and it is what we buy and sell everyday in our country that is most important - trade is a luxury; nice to have when it works for us but otherwise the internal sales in a country are the most important.
The weekend plus at the cottage was good for me. Left me a bit disorganized as we had to shop more than once for groceries and with our downsizing had taken items to Salvation Army as well as mailing boxes to cousins of Edward's material so quick trips here and there in my socks and shoes with a dress. It must have looked very 1950s for sure!
Drinking tea and solitaire puzzles are next. Then yoga and breakfast.
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