Yesterday was a busy day on various record sets. I continued on the matches and now down to 107 to do; not a huge amount done but consistent with perhaps completing by the end of the month. I also started work on the family album binders. There are 40 of them but as I discovered with the last one created only 25 pictures of actual family were in that album with the remainder being trips that Edward helped to manage along with George Anderson for the UEL group going down to the Mohawk Valley and along the Hudson River. I will ask the Branch Library if they would like that binder along with the index. I will continue working backwards as, to my surprise, I seemed to have spent a lot of my weekends going to such events. It was a busy time for sure although I had been a stickler for not going anywhere from the time of the birth of our first child until our youngest was more independent of me and spending time with her friends. It just seems strange to have children and not be there with them.
Along with that I called one of my sisters and discussed the pictures as I will pull my family pictures out of the binders to a certain extent and would send them to my various sibling groups if they want them and clarified that with her and will write to everyone to mention that decision. I can just package them up in these lovely Canada Post boxes that you can buy for a price and just stuff them full and send them off through Canada Post and they are delivered. Edward wrote on the back of them all so you can tell the date, where it was taken and who it is. That way I can reduce our family albums down to perhaps six or seven - time will tell. But I was surprised at how few albums cover the 1960s and 1970s but there was a change as we moved from student times to work times and had more money to buy films and develop them; hadn't really thought about that before.
I was surprised that it actually felt quite good to get at this project as I rearranged items to make it easier to do the project. Now I have my working area set aside for just that and full speed ahead. Having the old computer set up to be a workhorse is working very well as I now have two indexes - the original and the family index with the original pictures all having been scanned and available electronically anyway. Plus the slides are all there and we have a slide projector if one wants to while away a few hours looking at boxes of old slides. There is actually a very large plastic bucket full of slides in their little yellow Kodak boxes. I shall try to put them into some semblance of order perhaps with small boxes and label them with years. Edward has them all labelled so should be an easy project and then very neat and tidy in the end. It will be slow grinding work though but the winter is good for that for sure.
Friday and yesterday I went for groceries. I do not go out very often and there is a lot of construction around me. But the workers kindly made a path so I could get out of my laneway and off to the store and back again when I had completed the task - about 35 minutes. I think they appreciate it that I seldom do go out so they can just park anywhere and I am not looking to move out. But I can see the handwriting on the wall for living here. It is too big for me and I can not take care of the huge yard easily. Top that with I do not really have an interest in gardening anymore; that was a shared interest between Edward and I as we aged together following retirement. Then I had to take it on when he took ill about half way through his retirement years. He did recover quite a bit after the pacemaker was inserted although he never again gardened as he had one item after another creep in that caused him trouble as the time passed. I had a lovely salmon dinner last evening which will do two nights as I am not a particularly large eater along with fresh boiled potatoes in their skins and peas. It was delightful. A $6.00 piece of fish does go a long way. So salmon again today and tomorrow eggs and Sunday I am back to chicken stew my most favourite of all. These days a box of 12 chicken thighs costs around $30 and makes three chicken stews so $10 a chicken stew batch and it lasts me for four days at $2.50 per day so a little cheaper than the salmon. I do not buy any processed foods or heavily packaged foods. I do like crackers and buy some made in Quebec. I buy bread made at a local bakery. I love peanut butter and still haven't seen the one made in British Columbia on our shelves. Probably at lunch I have peanut butter five out of seven days with banana along with a piece of fruit. I am simply not a big eater. I seldom eat dessert unless I have made a banana bread which is 100% whole wheat so like a bread anyway with brown sugar and chocolate chipits if I have them.
Today work on the albums and on the matches and the day is planned. Exercise today will be weight lifting and yoga and running along with my usual waking up exercises which tends to amount to 70 cardio units and then my yoga as I make my breakfast another 80 cardio units. So all in all a busy day.
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