Overwhelmed

 It is unusual for me to be overwhelmed to be honest but yesterday was an overwhelming day. It was a wonderful day as it started out with a visit from my youngest brother, his daughter and her family. We had a lovely long chat. I did not do lunch although really should have but that tends to be something beyond me these days. I look after myself very well but beyond that I have  no idea what people eat and having to plan and prepare that much would totally overwhelm me so I do not do it. But our chat was quite lovely. I have not seen this brother for twelve years. No special reason for that but he has helped to raise his two young grandchildren and that keeps him very busy and my niece is a physician with all those responsibilities. They were returning from a camping vacation and the children were a delight for sure. I love to watch children play; they can do so much with absolutely nothing actually. Last time they came there were toys coming out of the woodwork but I had forgotten to mention that they had moved on to two new cousins of my grandchildren. But with some fresh fruit, ice cold water and crackers and a couple of toys they made themselves at home and had a great time. We chatted and I shared my cataract story that takes me from an infant showing signs of strabismus at three months (my mother told me that as one of their best friends was an ophthalmologist who recognized my turned eyes as a problem especially as my father also had strabismus; my daughter has wondered if I had congenital cataracts perhaps because they were so very large; I have no idea just glad they are gone as this is an interesting way to come to the end of one's life) to an almost 80 year old woman who has had cataract surgery and no longer wears the glasses she has worn since one year of age. Not only that my eyes are better than they ever were  so I shared the story of the picture because my niece is a physician with probably lots of people who are baby boomers coming up to cataract surgery. The pace at which my sight grew better and better was something I mentioned as I still contemplate that that is the way that sight develops in an infant after birth. If I were a sketcher I could draw the changes to that picture through the following year after cataract surgery. By six months following the surgery most of the ability was there; it simply refined even further. Amazing really to have had that journey of an infant in old age!

But the day continued as my brother and his family went on with their day and my daughter and her family arrived with the dogs which was a wonderful treat. Also a physician and we sat and chatted for a while. But I was becoming rapidly overwhelmed with so much going on. As a child I would have headed up to my attic bedroom with my first group of visitors but I am no longer a child and did not do that. I very much enjoyed both visits. 

Overall I did not accomplish any work at all but that is okay, I will work today perhaps. This is grinding work as I dig out the results of all these tests and put them into my databases to use for the production of the genealogical charts down to census time.   

I see that the online news is being handled well by Prime Minister Carney and comments by Pierre Poilievere with regard to trade have also been interesting as well as the work moving forward. There is a pace and we have to wait sometimes; Premier Wab Kinew said it right that he had not yet signed onto the pipeline as it was still being reviewed in his province (perhaps building the port would help to push that to affirmative now). He may have by now I do not know I have not been paying attention to the news. But at some point we do need a consensus to go ahead to the energy grid for Canada and a recovery of lost industries during free trade. My desires are few; my needs also very few so I can live in a world where most of the money goes to make Canada stronger and better for the grandchildren and on into the future. As always it is the children who matter not ourselves. 

Tea drank and solitaire puzzles completed. A nap is next and then exercise and breakfast. I was up at 5:50 today - impatient to get on with the day, it is Sunday and Church online in two places today.