So I only accomplished the main floor yesterday but today the basement can be done - not a big issue. The dogs do hate the vacuum; absolutely dread it anywhere near them. And I just said to myself what is another day as the basement is really nothing - the robot vacuums the rug which is happening soon as I need to go out and do my yard run picking up after the dogs. But will wait a little bit until the rest of the world wakes up and is ready for a possible barker. Sometimes no barking at all; all day long but she has decided that the dog two doors down is not her friend and she lets him know it whenever she sees him. That is probably not going to stop no matter how much I chastise her; she just doesn't like him and I am not sure it is actually the size. The older dog doesn't mind him but she is a big dog as is he.
Still no work done on the matches but time is passing and I will soon have plenty of hours in the day to do that so just set it aside in my mind for another day and winter is definitely coming as fall is showing itself in all its beauty starting already just a slight tinge in some of the trees but more sun and heat into September perhaps; take it as it comes. Since I got rid of the outside swing I am seldom out there but will need to do a yard cleanup this year so that it is ready for planting in the spring. Although my mind continues to think towards selling sooner rather than later. It is too much work for me; I actually do not like gardening - it was something that Edward and I did together in those first eight years before children along with our canoe trips in Northern Ontario and camping a number of weekends every summer. Gradually those memories are replacing his ten years of illness which was on again and off again. It seemed like one was solved and something else cropped up. He was brave though and just kept going until he couldn't keep going. He put together all of the things he did for different groups and gave them to them and I am still looking for his talks to put online. They are in his files for sure and time is mostly the problem. We just found one talk and some of his singing in the Choir at Orleans United Church thus far where he was Treasurer for ten years and sang in the choir for seventeen years. When the girls had moved on in their lives and he was still singing in the Choir I was sitting by myself in the back usually and he decided to sit with me and then the lovely lecture series on the Old Testament Fathers at Dominion Chalmers appeared in our Bulletin and we started going there although the intent was to return eventually it was rare for us to do that. When the new minister came to Dominion Chalmers he was more of a folksy music fan and we moved on to the Cathedral (I am Anglican and generally have attended my own Church for a large part of my life and still do on line and using e-transfer for my collection this is the greatest thing for old people I think). I went to my own Anglican Church usually early mornings here where we live when the girls were young and I stopped being volunteer secretary at Edward's United Church; it didn't seem quite right to do that when I was the volunteer secretary at the United Church. I was working at home in those days doing copyediting and proofreading for one of the local printers (primarily scientific text in English but I also could read both French and German) so was quite happy when Edward's United Church hired a secretary which they did offer to me but I told them then that I was already working full time. I did continue as a volunteer purchasing supplies for the Sunday School at Edward's United Church as I did not teach again after the two year old class that I started when my youngest was there. Teaching children is not something that ever interested me although I did substitute teaching in High School when my husband was teaching in Lion's Head for a short period as they needed assistance but I had just suffered a miscarriage and was mostly taking it easy those days and the substitute teaching was not too much work so took it on plus it paid! I also helped once a week in my children's elementary schools as a volunteer which was quite fascinating as one forgets how much one learns in those early years in school. Working at home did allow me that extra time to do things like that with my children; it was lovely. But it was work designed to be done at home and I was hired in that capacity although eventually I had to chose to go into work part of the time when the proofreader retired at the printer where I was employed but I fitted it into my girls' school hours. Edward loved the music at the Cathedral and we bought a niche in the Columbarium there as a temporary resting place as he wanted to be buried at Beechwood. I have mentioned that and leave it up to our children to re-inter at Beechwood if that is their choice when I pass away but I just wanted him to have that lovely music to keep him company in eternity for the moment.
Prayers continuing for the children of Gaza and the children of Israel - their lives destroyed by Hamas continues as long as Hamas exists. So long as Hamas exists their creed hurts the children of Israel and the children of Gaza as Hamas uses them as cannon fodder; it is a Satanic Creed they follow and so they must go from this world. Initially I thought they could just be reformed but they are part of Iran and Iran destroyed the lives of all those Canadians when they shot down the airplane bringing them home from Tehran long ago now but the pain is still there - the loss of family members never to be forgotten. Iran is also Satan just like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. Their only creed is destruction. God didn't create this world for that; He sent Satan where he belonged and I believe he wishes the same for the Satanists in Iran, including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis their thugs.
Soon the robot in the basement working on the rugs. Solitaire puzzles all done, Tea drank and on to the day.
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