Cleaning continues

 Yesterday the top floor completed and today it is the main floor and basement. Another humid unusually hot day here as the heat spell continues throughout Canada. Global warming is the problem and the wildfires rage across this country. Rain is in sight and hopefully it will douse many of these wildfires. We were going to go walking/kayaking yesterday but decided against it and settled for a running routine on one of our Wii discs in the cold basement. My hay fever is active for a bit (ragweed and goldenrod about). The hot sun is a blessing to those wild flowers; they flourish. 

Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I will get some gardening time in as the heat dies down a little. Mostly I just want to chop off the tops and leave them on the ground to rot through the winter to freshen up the land. That was part of the purpose in just letting the weeds grow this year. 

No work done on research but some thinking which is always good. The place that I am at with both books is the genealogical charting of the family coming down from the furtherest back known ancestor. The work that I am doing at the moment is simply to get back into the early baptismal registers and have a look at them. English Parish Registers can go back as far as 1538 and land records will take you back further and so that is my concentration at this moment in time. Early American colonial trees on the Blake family are interesting although one has to avoid Horatio Gates Somerby's work as it was fraudulent in his information on the Andover Blake family (and there is at least one line known by me to be descendant of Andover Blake (namely Sedgwick (marriage with a Blake in the early 1600s).  I do have land records back into the 1400s and 1500s in England/British Isles as well in my set of DVDs. Plus I can access a lot of material on line or pay for it and then transcribe it. When my new glasses come I will spend more time at that. 

Staying away from the news feed and concentrating on getting things done. Canada continues to work hard at trade between the provinces/territories which helped to offset the loss in income from cross border trade. Canadians enjoyed their trade with our American neighbours but history has come between that as a new administration has other ideas on trade. So we are busy setting up trade around the world and internally that is our main aim at the moment. We were the largest importer of American products and Ontario was the third largest importer of American products in the world with nearly 40 states having Canada as their largest customer but that has changed due to tariff. Of course our dollar never recovered from the Stock Market Crash in 2008 and has never come back to par with the American dollar keeping our trade accessibility high actually as our products are cheaper in other currencies as well. 

I would like to see shovels in the ground with pipelines happening but one must be patient plus the fires are raging and the sun very hot this summer so fall does seem like a better time. 

Tea drank and solitaire puzzles done, time for breakfast.  I am realizing I did not do the Pincombe Newsletter this month which was due on the 1st of August. My driving  license renewal distracted me for sure and the relief at passing the vision/cognitive tests kept that distraction going. Must get to that today.