The Budget

I starting watching Power and Politics as usual but soon shut that off. I do not find it to be particularly meaningful to have people threatening, in advance, to cause a great outlay of money for an election when they have no idea what is in the budget. That isn't planning that is whining and we have done enough of that as far as I am concerned. Three times in my lifetime opportunity has knocked on our door (in the  mid 1960s, in the early 1990s and now in the mid 2020s and in Ontario we just continued to hang onto something that wasn't tangible - a company is out to make profits; they do not really care how they make those profits and it shows (even worse if they are a foreign company). Time to create new industry in Ontario; we are not an old province; we have thousands of youth capable of taking on great amounts of work - they are young; they are healthy. The market is huge around us; stop whining and get it done. 

I didn't vote Liberal; I hate the way they throw money at things but the Prime Minister has been saying from day 1 we need to roll up our sleeves and get to work (he has made many proposals and suggestions but he can not do all that work; we need to be there helping and doing what needs to be done and whining doesn't do it). That isn't taking ten years to widen a highway to four lanes from Arnprior to Renfrew - ridiculous. One summer should have done it and more. That isn't putting more roads into Toronto; public transit is the way in that area. All it does is put even more cars on the road there. I want to see eager minds looking at the the Budget; make proposals if you do not agree but stop whining. The Canadian public does not need our hands held for everything (we can budget and pay for our teeth; pay for our medications (control our diet better so we do not need so much medication); the youth need work in their hands; help do that - the whining needs to end. 

A good day of work for sure; I have almost completed Chromosome 8. A huge task I have undertaken but it brings order to already somewhat existing order although I have a few queries here and there and thus far they have all been resolved to my satisfaction. 

The food package was picked up in good time and now on its way presumably to packing up for those in need. If they picked up four cans or whatever at every house on this street they will have done very well. It is good to see the youth so involved for sure. It is good that the high schools take on this venture. 

Today more work to finish Chromosome 8 and setting up Chromosome 7 for work. I am steadily working towards Chromosome 1 and re-phasing my grandparents with the slight changes in the data. Then working on the great grandparents which takes me back in to 1800s where my books will basically end although I will come up to the 1921 census (or whatever it is called in the other countries where my families live). My eight great grandparents were born in 1837, 1839, 1845, 1850, 1850, 1853, 1858, and 1859. My four grandparents were born in 1872, 1875, 1876, and 1886. That is the luck of the draw to have all of my great grandparents on the 1841 census and later with their families making this task so much easier and useful. Plus my grandfather still had living in his childhood great grandparents and he kindly passed some of those stories on to me so that my picture of some families is quite clear back into the latter part of the 1700s. Amazing really and chance would have it that I would be the one who sat and listened to both of my grandparents talk about their youth when they were in their late 70s and I was just a child eager to listen to all that they had to say. I loved to listen to both of them talk just because I loved them but also because they had that accent that told me whenever I heard them speak who they were (both with British accents although my grandmothers was much stronger than my grandfathers (his was a slight Hampshire accent and my grandmothers was a Birmingham accent). It is fun to recall all of that in my old age when I am sitting here typing away what they said to me on occasion (I would have said both were very interested in their times (how people managed; how they managed - it was fascinating); other times it is other typing!

Another work day and time to make tea. I am up early as I like to be. As a child I was always a pre-dawn person happy to see another day in God's world. We are so blessed with His world. I am certainly not the people person that God and Jesus are but I do love the commands that Jesus brought us; they are so perfect and one day we may yet reach that plain of peace that God envisioned for the human race.  Edward was definitely not an early morning person ever but camping he willingly woke up and the day started early whether it was portaging the canoe to another camp site or hiking a trail we had noticed the day before. Marvelous times in northern Ontario. Northern Ontario may well  hold the future for Ontario if we only get it going; time to work.  Help the First Nations to make Northern Ontario all that it was meant to be. It is stunningly beautiful on a crisp morning looking out over the pristine lakes and knowing that each lake leads to another lake and back again. James Bay was everything I thought it would be and more - wider actually than I imagined (and perhaps it would be different now with my new eyes although probably just slightly different proportions!). The water sparkling in the sun as we moved quickly down the Moosonee River to the Bay. What a treat that was back in 2012.