Yesterday did end up being a shopping day and I am nearly finished; one more trip out for a couple of items that I could not get yesterday. I must do it earlier next year. Time will tell.
I completed chromosome 18 yesterday and I am fairly happy with the results. Good lengths of Buller on this one and most are actually Buller with a few Buller/Taylor and likely Taylor. There were also good lengths of Pincombe and mostly Pincombe with a couple of Pincombe/Gray. I do not know many Gray cousins and so I do not have a good handle on this line of the family yet. The Blake and Knight separated out well because of good known matches with these two groups. Rawlings for a couple but mostly Rawlings/Cotterill but lots of trees to look at and so I move now to Chromosome 17 which has 107 matches. This Chromosome does not have a lot of known matches so eyes open on this one and good attention. I have always glossed over this one knowing the four grandparent lines fairly well but moving back to great grandparent will be difficult. There are six cousins known to me - two each in Pincombe, Rawlings and Buller. The lengths of the matches are good and will be helpful but I imagine this Chromosome will take a few days to accomplish.
Yesterdays rain did clear the streets and walkways and we still have a snow base. Light snow last night gave it a new clean look. More snow is expected all this week. It is minus 11 degrees celsius and feels like minus 17 so will be a cold one today. The snow not likely fit to do much skiing but work to do and these are my research days. Generally we do not go out on the weekends shopping as it will definitely be very busy these days as people rush to do their Christmas shopping. It was fairly busy yesterday afternoon.
Avoiding the news once again but did note that January will see negotiations begin on the three way trade deal between the United States, Mexico and Canada. Changes to Farm Management are at the top of the agenda for the United States. We love our small farms in Canada and do not want produce from Factory Farms. Certainly the milk and cheeses coming from Wisconsin are very good and there is a good market for them here. Perhaps individual trade deals between provinces/states are the way to go really and 39 of the States have Canada as their largest customer. Given our peculiar situation of being snow bound six months of the year and a much shorter growing season we will always be importing foodstuffs and so a good market for these states who do have a longer growing season. No ideas on that our negotiating team will have it all at hand and the process begins.
The Creator is always with us and as the wind rushed through the trees yesterday during the heavy rain I am ever reminded that God is in control of the heavens. We must try harder to follow his commandments and they are simple - love God with all our heart, soul, strength and mind and love our neighbour as ourself. If everyone followed these commands the world would be the perfect peaceful haven that our youth lying in their graves in France died for 80 plus years ago. We must carry the torch they passed and work for peace and especially reconciliation amongst the First Nations here and ourselves. The Advent Readings every day have given me many thoughts on how we can be more receptive to the Land especially. The First Nations peoples are ancient to this land and have much to tell us about this land.
Time to make my tea, finish my exercises and then solitaire puzzles to do.
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