Perhaps today the weather will accommodate and I will get a little outside work done; the entire week has passed with my accomplishing absolutely nothing outside but that is not really a strong interest of mine. Now research, reading, writing all strong interests of mine and occupy 100% of my waking hours most days except for doing my CDs, WII exercises and talking to my daughters although that is also texts as they are both very very busy.
Yesterday saw Chromosome 10 completed and I am a little happier with the coverage adding in the Living DNA results but this chromosome does lack some areas with good coverage of matches. I set up Chromosome 9 to work on with this newer system and we will see how that goes today but if the weather clears I will try to get a little more done in the garden before the snow falls!
The Olympics tend to be the time that I follow sports activities but the Toronto Blue Jays certainly scored for their home town with a win in the first game of the World Series. Canada needed an uplift and this appears to be it. Even being there is a great accomplishment not seen by the Blue Jays since 1993. Congratulations to them.
I think being a hermit suits me. Years and years of accompanying Edward everywhere was not really me. I was just along to keep him company, help to carry everything and film it if he wanted that. But now working away on my books is where I want to be - basically undisturbed (I do not consider my family to be a disturbance) and gathering it all up and putting it altogether as I move along on this process of creating the generational family tree up to the early 1920s. Anything beyond that people know or if they do not they can ask their families. I am a great believer in privacy and I think Canada has it just about right for us; everybody is different.
Today I shall also try to finish the index for the first Photo Book as it is probably the hardest that I will have to do. Then it is into the easier books of our first house we bought, our first child and our move to Ottawa and then that period up to the birth of our second child. I am stripping out anything that isn't family (our families, those people to whom we are closely related unless of course they were friends). I will include the life long friends that our children knew (in my case that is zero because I hate to admit it in a world that lives on friendship, I never made a life long friend other than my husband and family and it is that I eschew friendship although my mother placed great value on friendship but I just never came to that perhaps it was having six siblings who knows; I am just a workaholic hermit really that was drawn out of my self-imposed cage by Edward all those years ago when I was 18). My grandfather once told me that God was his best friend and I think in the depth of my heart I feel that as well. That is why I find going to Church on Sundays to be that special time when I am truly in unison with God as my concentration is all there in as much as is possible. I do feel that God is there in all the Churches, all the Synagogues, all the Mosques as He wanted us to be the best we could be as humans and so as we multiplied so did our adherence to God in different ways. My knowledge of religion doesn't extend past these three Great Religions and I apologize for overlooking them but they know if God is there and perhaps one day I will learn more about the other religions of the world. That could be my aim when I am older and the books are done.
I find working on the photo books to be difficult because Edward wanted to live to 92 and I wanted that for him for sure (I think that was the age of his maternal grandfather whom he knew very well actually he was 89, just checked, and his mother was 94 so no idea on why - he never said) but as I look back I think in his mid 60s (and my own) we were both very healthy or appeared to be and that was due to all the walking, biking, hiking that we did in those days. He was nearly 78 when he passed and if COVID had not come our way he would have lived longer I feel that for sure because his activity level pretty much dropped to zero which was very bad for him. He liked to be always on the move, especially shopping or meetings but all of that was gone sadly and ill health crept in. He acquired a hernia along the way in 2016 and for reasons unknown to me really he did not want to get it operated on, he kept putting it off; I have no idea why but it so hindered his movement; walking became difficult because he stopped being active during COVID. He had had the surgery on the other side years before in his early 50s with no problems. It was strange really but just one of those many health difficulties that came his way through that decade plus from 2010 on. Life has the strangest quirks sometimes as we pass through the days. What did God think as he looked down on us through COVID? I have no idea but the skies cleared and the view was so much clearer around the world. Being religious I often wonder if God was telling us something from the far reaches of the universe when COVID happened.
A busy day planned and now drinking my tea and about to do the solitaire puzzles.
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