The new agreement signed by the Prime Minister and the Premier Ontario is aggressive and should be helpful in speeding up, finally, the mining in Northern Ontario. It is more than thirteen years since we were at Moosonee and they were telling us about the mine that they wanted to develop in Northern Ontario. We were on a trip to go to the Eco Lodge on the Island (which was marvelous) and a boat ride up the Moosonee River to James Bay. A wonderful trip which we all enjoyed as my eldest daughter had joined us on the trip at the time that Edward was first ill before the pacemaker. He wanted to go very much but I did not feel I was strong enough to help him for that period of time without some help and so my daughter volunteered to go and she had a great time. She has always wanted to learn some of the First Nations languages since childhood and it was a wonderful adventure for her during her research time that summer. I feel blessed to have my daughter with me during her research times and she has found the quiet helpful and I am a very efficient person really so that she has very little to do here when she stays whereas she has to manage everything where she lives. Plus the air pollution is greater where she spends her teaching part of the year and it tends to be good here for her. That has always been a problem for her since she was a very young child with a chronic asthmatic condition aggravated by particular items which abound in our world unfortunately. But she has managed in spite of that very well. I remember when Dr Katz first designed her allergy needles meant to reduce her allergic response to some of the items and some items were reduced but overall her allergic response to some items is large and requires medication. She started her allergy shots when we moved to where we are now about six months later I think it was. Our doctor at the time was certainly liked by her initially but the allergy shots quickly changed her mind. Personally I wasn't worried about that and on our first day at Edward's Church her response to seeing him was to run away across the room and I went with her but Edward stayed to chat with his cousin. The allergy shots lasted such a long time and we were there every couple of weeks it seemed in the doctor's office but finally a break after a few years and tried it without the shots but it was monitored which also required doctor visits. But now it is in maintenance mode most of the time. I worry about her somewhat especially during forest fires as the smoke is very dangerous for her and we are set up here (as is she at her home where she works) for the smoke as well. But here I can go out and get items whereas there it is more difficult. But so far so good. Retirement is coming though although she would like to work beyond first retirement possibility so we will see how that goes. The AI grant that she and another academic received is under way and that is wonderful (they have been doing work for a while now even before application for the grant). AI is such a marvelous tool but needs a great deal of managing and organizing to make it productive. The other researcher is one of the students she worked with during the student's PhD training and then her student went on to get an academic position at another university. My daughter has worked with a lot of PhD students in her career. Having taken French Immersion and then French classes in her chosen path at University her entire time in the school system she always hoped to work in French as well as English (whatever was needed) and has kept up her French as much as she can plus she has also learned Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Russian through the years and uses some of these languages in her work with students from around the world who have come to her University to do their PhD. She is really good at languages for sure and I think still in her mind is this interest in becoming more knowledgeable on First Nations languages - time will tell for sure.
Pouring with rain here but I finally bought the large recycling bags for food waste and have unloaded my freezer now of all the food that I did not feel was good after the hydro was off here for ten hours when the new hydro system was set up. It is difficult to get rid of large amounts of food for sure in a proper way as I did not want to throw it into the regular garbage. Hopefully the snow base is not completely destroyed by this heavy rain - at least it is not freezing rain but is heavy. It will clear the roads and sidewalks of any adherent ice though probably.
A little work done on Chromosome 18 as I smoothed out the difficulty with a few of the matches and actually proving them to be Buller or Blake great grandparents with a large chunk of Buller coming down from my 2x great grandparents in the middle of Chromosome 18. The other sections that show as Buller at the grandparent level remain Buller/Taylor so unknown for the great grandparents but I do have some trees to look at. There is one length of the Chromosome 18 where they do not test many spots and that was part of the conflict once I figured that out.
So maybe complete Chromosome 18 today with just 21 matches to review and about six of them are known cousins which is helpful although one has to be a bit wary of any small matches with cousins as they could be a match with another line so always check that carefully. This is quite fascinating though working on the great grandparents.
I think the rain is slowing down finally and it is 8 degrees celsius which is warm for us here in the winter. But there is still snow on the ground but a quick freeze is coming so will be icy for a bit. No bare spots thus far in the back yard where we skied.
Must get some work done and my breakfast. Tea drank and solitaire puzzles all completed.
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