Yesterday was a busy shopping day but included a trip to the library so that I could renew my library card and sign up for Mango Languages. There is a Latin course on Gallic history to help me with my Latin transcriptions; at least I believe it will! A quick and easy fix as the young woman helping me was able to take my card and quickly update it to the present year. I haven't borrowed a book from the library in many many years; I just tended to buy the ones that I wanted to read and a great deal of my reading has been online since the late 1990s plus I was working and going to baseball games with my youngest in my free time when I wasn't keeping up the house after work hours so reading books from the library just did not happen. But I do think libraries are essential and gladly pay taxes for all these extras.
So Market Day, Grocery Store day (and I did two grocery stores yesterday for essentials) and then a walk on the beach. It was lovely and I didn't see one smoker actually. People are paying attention to the danger of cigarette butts on the ground in forested areas. I never smoked so I see no value in it really; it is like rolling up a dollar bill (loonies have replaced them) and smoking it really and probably it is worth considerably more than a dollar these days; no idea on that. But I am a workaholic and do not hold things against people; just expect them to absolutely obey the law.
A beautiful sunny day as I put the frozen green bin contents out to the curb and the goodness of God shines through on a day like this; thank you for this world dear God and prayers that mankind can reverse Climate Change and take care of the world as you commanded. No wind today, He is sitting and waiting for people to do the right thing in his world; will they? Prayers as always for the children of Gaza and the children of Israel (they are the losers in all of this adult happening). Children need food but adults can manage without for periods of time although not a pleasant thought for anyone. Children are growing and they need protein every day.
Yesterday a little work on the matches - one peculiar one that I put into the bin of did not enter but always there in case something evolves in that regard. Slow going with 158 matches still to be sorted and the need to go into the other DNA companies and find the latest ones there before I move to re-phasing grandparents and working on phasing the great grandparents. This is fun though working with all this data and coming up with solutions - something you couldn't have done just a mere fifteen years ago. Life has been productive since the Market Crash of 2008 but most of the economic worries have stemmed from that crash although our dollar being low is not necessarily a problem but rather makes us more competitive in a highly competitive world. The more pressure put on us the further down the dollar goes and the more competitive we become.
I did suggest that we should work with China on this business of the production of EV cars. It does not look like the American car manufacturers are prepared to separate their businesses and produce independently in Canada so one does not know the result of the tariff on Canada in the long run. The Auto Pact is sixty years old now and has made many companies rich. But we need to move forward and I do believe we should take the tariff off of Chinese cars if they are produced in Canada by Canadians with Canadian material (but we could also recreate our home auto industry!). That way we could also deal with the new tariff on canola that will cripple our farmers (but we could also buy canola oil in preference here to weaken that threat). We will see; Pierre Poilievre has the right idea; we need shovels in the ground and pipelines being built to get that commodity to market the best way we can and at full price.
Interesting that the Ward Councillor had a kiosk on the corner near the grocery store yesterday. I think too many politicians have too many holidays and we need work done now. Recall Parliament and lets roll up our sleeves and get things done.
Another working day and perhaps a walk on the beach; time will tell. Summer is slowly waning away. Just 13 degrees when I took the recycled frozen food out to be collected later. It keeps the racoons away as not much smell in frozen food.
Tea drank, solitaire puzzles are next.
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