Washing Machine all repaired and it looks like new and now runs like new which is good news. I like the machine; it has a lot of extra features that we do use so it is good that it was repairable. I look forward to washing machines being made in Canada again though as it takes time to get parts. There are so many things that we did make and could make. Free Trade did punish Canada quite a bit but we never complained. I think it should really be Friendly Trade where we sell products that we do have with the world with a reasonable exchange of costs and being a polar country with a long winter we buy things that we do not have. Time will tell how all of that goes but our Trade agreement with the EU is bringing in a lot of items that we used to buy solely from the United States. We still do buy from the United States though and may of our needed goods are produced there (or they were until the companies down there greedily took it all offshore to stop paying decent wages to Americans and hurt their economy). Time will tell on all of this; it always does.
Not much done on the matches but I did do a lot on preparing for my Senior Driving License appointment. I learned all about round-a-bouts although did discover I had learned just because we have so many of them now. But the rigorous rules are now part of my lifestyle. Will keep that up as the test is just a few weeks away now. I have an appointment with the optometrist and will take my form with me for my vision. Since my eyes have changed enormously since the cataract surgery (no more blank spots out of my right eye which I was always very cautious of when I was driving), I want to fill in that particular document before my license appointment to support the fact that I no longer need to wear glasses to drive. That in itself is spectacular considering I wore glasses for 78 years of my life. I still look to put them on first thing in the morning but eventually that will pass I suspect. I only wear them now pretty much when I am sitting at my computer or reading a fine print book. I can read large print easily and the TV absolutely amazing to look at the TV without glasses.
My daughter bought a spinner to use when one hand washes clothes and it is fantastic. When one washed with the bulky cycle on the washing machine you generally have to do an extra spin but using this machine takes out about another litre of water from just the principal run and does it in just five minutes instead of the 11 minutes on the washing machine. But I only use the bulky cycle maybe once a week at the very most. But for hand washing it is great.
Today work on the matches and I am still sitting with the one from day before yesterday. Not sure why one sibling is missing but it could be that there are two matches from two different lines of the family that just happen to fit together. It is in an area that is common to the Blake family but did not appear to be a Blake match. Will continue to look at that for a bit today and then move on.
Lovely weather, warm days and cool nights so unusual for July really. Not too much rain this past few days though so must water the sunflowers. That is really our only crop and we are not eating it but the squirrels will! We will plant the Christmas Cactus outside today for its last summer since the winter will kill it off but it will refresh the ground where it sits.
Grass will need cutting likely by the weekend. I moved my desk so now I can see more blue sky once again. The walnut tree though fills one side of the window pretty much completely now and the amount of blue sky is maybe 10% in the eastern exposure so lovely light in the morning with the trees blocking the too bright light of the sun.
I may have found another place for Edward's many pictures that are not family. He took a lot of pictures when we were young still at school and before marriage and later after marriage we still went for walks on the campus in our lunch period. Another project to do although must admit I would very much rather Edward was doing it himself. He was gradually downsizing all of his material the last (as I now realize) five years before he passed away. All of the material from his tours with George Anderson has gone to the societies that sponsored the tours (George and Edward managed them) and all the lectures that he gave have been given to these societies. The last year before COVID we drove around the province (mostly me driving!) and met with many of his cousins as he continued to pass material to them or at least share it with them and I have now passed that material on to them. There was (and still is) so much family material that is original that I do not want to see lost to those family lines. There are many researchers in his various family lines so I do continue to try to manage that but I was by then into my own research and working with the material is strange to me although I have sort of a good handle on his lines but not enough really to do any true research for him although I maintain the yDNA study for Kipp and will do so for quite a while I suspect. As I look at the material it does seem sad that he is not there working away at it as he did ever since he retired in 2004 - seventeen years of concentrated research although he had been doing it in his spare time when he was not working or volunteering since I knew him way back in the mid 1960s. Reflecting on that he never actually encouraged me to do my family history as he liked to know that I could roll up my sleeves and do projects for him whenever we traveled to repositories through the years since we married. The work that he did on my parent's 50th Wedding Anniversary book was the extent of his work on my family lines; it was my mother really in her letters about her own pursuits in genealogy along with our cousin George DeKay that ended up seeing me spend my retirement years as well on our family history.
Drinking tea and solitaire puzzles are next. Thursday already; the week has flown by.
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