Praise be to God, the hostages will be released as soon as Monday it is said on CBC. I would certainly vote for President Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and it might be next year for his work at bringing peace to the Middle East. It is a great accomplishment on his part; it is a great happening for the families waiting for their children/brothers to come home from that barbaric confinement of the past two years. God be praised. Peace in the Middle East would be such a wonderful happening. Syria has found peace and looking to improve on that. Lebanon is in control of all of their country - Hezbollah has been put down. Only Yemen continues to be a hotspot for the Houthis who like Hamas and the Hezbollah are just satanic agents of Iran. Prayers for strength for the hostages until they are home in their families' arms.
Basement all cleaned and today I will wash up all the gardening shoes/boots and put them away in their winter storage. Perhaps I will get some raking done and sweep the garage and put the car away. It is time to get ready for winter.
Yesterday I completed my work on Chromosome 18 reviewing all the matches in the folder and sorting the "too small" into a separate folder within the folder. I love cascading folders for their specificity and containment but still within the larger overall look. I worked on Chromosome 17 and I am reviewing the matches in that folder and will carry on with that today. Although I briefly looked at the folders for Chromosomes 22, 21, 20, 19 I did not do a thorough review and I may go back and do that before I move forward with Chromosome 16 or may work them together giving some time here to newness and some time to review. It will depend on my mood; I like to be in just that right mindset to review - the pickier the better! It actually takes more stamina to be picky although it seems like it might just be easier.
Yesterday I went shopping as I have decided to go most weeks now since my eyes have really settled now into their new environment and I am slowly getting used to not wearing glasses. The only time I have them on is at my desk/computer these days. I can actually read the tiny print that gives me the best before date now on the food (or I do have my magnifying glass to help with that). I really did think I would cling to my glasses for driving but now two months later I never put them on. I can read the speedometer perfectly so no need. Who would have thought that I, at 80 years of age, would now drive a car without glasses after 59 years of driving with glasses always. Amazing really. I am noting that when I awake putting glasses on is no longer my first thought but that did take the entire year to get used to that idea. Habit is very formative one might say; especially 78 years of habit as I wore them from the age of 1 onwards.
Must try to remember to go to the BIFHSGO Conference although invariably I do forget. But that is next weekend not this weekend. I will find it interesting as my maternal grandmother spent about two years at Soho in the Village Green homes for children after her father died. She was Head Girl in the house where two of her younger sisters were placed. Her brother and another sister were in a different house but Ada had a heart murmur and Grandma liked her to be with her and they consented and the youngest was just four and they consented to her remaining with her as well. Grandma said they were kind when she did mention it just once. I did not understand what she meant when she said that but years later when I recalled her comment I realized that she was referring to these homes (discussed by Aunt Sarah) when we were visiting Great Aunt Sarah and introducing her to our eldest daughter. Sarah reminded me of my grandmother but a softer person; my grandmother was very strict. Learning about these homes will be very interesting.
Drinking tea and solitaire puzzles are next.
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