Another good working day yesterday and today the top floor will be cleaned. Moving forward into the week on this consistent path is good for an 80 year old I think. Working away on my assigned tasks is meaningful to me. My exercise breaks greatly enjoyed as I am an exercise nut so to speak. All this snow is a treat this year as we waited forever last year for this much snow. Amazing how increasing the work load gives us happiness because we do love the snow.
We love Canada although I think we need to examine more closely this tendency these days for our political representatives to come out of a Political Science Program and think they are ready to govern a country. They need to actually work I think in jobs that benefit them for this particular method of serving their country. Coming out of the ivory tower of learning is just not enough to prepare them to be in Parliament. Right now we need everyone to be concentrating on growing our trade externally around the world. If a pipeline is to happen; it will happen but there is much work to do to get to that point. You can not force a pipeline through an area that does not want it - compromise has to be found. Wasting time in parliament on pipeline bills when the implementation of the budget needs to be passed is ridiculous. The Conservatives lost the last election they need to find a way to produce a platform that will win - they need international experience to help grow Canada; they do not have it. Wasting vital time is very annoying.
The world for Canada has changed and we must grow with it and increase our external trade around the world so that we are tariff proof. That is really what this is all about. But mostly it is making sure that what we do buy is Made in Canada in as much as we are able (we are forced to do that really to make ourselves tariff proof). This is the winter and Canada is covered with snow and the growing season is to come so we buy a lot of food which used to come from our good friend and neighbour to the south but life changes and we can not know whether this access to food will still work for us so we must pursue our trade deals around the world to keep us tariff proof. It was not our choice and we love our neighbours and do wonder what happens to all the products that they sell to us as we are their largest customer. It was the preferred way but we have to be tariff proof.
Worked away on the great grandparents phasing and it is interesting. I chose the 23rd chromosome to begin with as it is fascinating to work with especially given the way that it was passed to we five siblings. Three received the usual crossovers and two of us had a slightly different passage with one receiving an entirely intact chromosome for Buller and myself I received 60% Buller to match him and 40% Pincombe which matches the others. It does mean that those nearly 100 matches I have collected over the last decade and a half are very meaningful. For instance the first part of Buller is inherited from my Cheatle 3x great grandmother (Sarah Cheatle married William Welch 24 Aug 1818 at Longdon by Lichfield Staffordshire England and they lived at Birmingham and welcomed six children into the world (three boys and three girls)). By chance two of the girls were twins and the descendants from one are enormous and all over the world and my line also large enough is also all over the world. But this solid length from the start of the chromosome and extending for 50 centimorgans was passed in various ways to Sarah's 3 to 4x great grandchildren (there are different chunk lengths passed but my one brother received in total (as did I) 54 centimorgans from Sarah who passed it to her daughter Ann (Welch) Buller and at this point is was passed to Edwin Denner Buller her son and he passed an intact chromosome from his mother to his daughter, my grandmother (so no Buller passed) and as luck would have it; it apparently then passed to my mother and for whatever reason in combination no change occurred in this Cheatle length but overall Taylor attached itself during meiosis between my maternal grandmother and my mother and this length also readily determined appears as running from 51 centimorgans to at least 100 centimorgans. The known length beyond that to the end remains a mystery at this time but there is much to look at and it may become obvious over time. This is a length of 55 centimorgans thus far belonging to Buller/Taylor. The Rawlings/Cotterill length I am able to separate portions into Rawlings thus far from 108 to 155 centimorgans. The rest is a mystery but I will work away at it. The Pincombe is actually Gray/Routledge as no Pincombe Chromosome 23 comes to us since my maternal grandfather (John Routledge Pincombe) receives his only X chromosome from his mother Grace (Gray) Pincombe. Thus far I have determined one section only that is Routledge and the rest are labelled as Gray/Routledge. There are a lot of matches but some of them are extremely distant it would appear. But it is that distance that interests me as it helps to lead me correctly back into the past. I have an amazing number of American cousins as I sort through these matches but then I did know that as I also have some close American cousins (2nd since I do not have any first cousins). I have had a number of good conversations (on email) with my American cousins. One notes of course that there isn't any Blake on the 23rd chromosome (X chromosome) since my father passes an intact X chromosome from his mother Edith Bessie (Rawlings-Taylor) Blake to his daughters and nothing to his sons as they receive the Y chromosome. The Rawlings has certainly added an air of mystery to my studies generating a lot of thought for sure. It is interesting that such items do make for a very intriguing study.
So that sort of work will continue today and I shall look at the 22nd Chromosome to see what I can see. Some of these chromosomes have many known cousins on them which is very helpful but again this is Citizen Science and the much more crucial Scientific studies remain in the future as DNA will become a very important part of our lives but it does not absolutely control our lives - it is lifestyle that controls how our life flows and we humans with our various foibles work around any limitations that are thrown our way. Some in very amazing ways helped by medical science.
Tea drank and must do the solitaire puzzles for the day.
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