Perhaps it is a return to winter as we are used to with lots of snow about us these days but I feel as if the momentum has really started and Canada is finding its feet in the world. We always were in the world very much part of everything going on but we tended to not be the leader so much as a follower. But circumstances, particularly the need to be tariff proof, has lead us to a slightly different path. That path is being formed by our Prime Minister who has come out of his much quieter life to take on the leadership of Canada in a crisis moment (but he shares that moment with his cabinet supporting him all along the way and doesn't take personal credit for everything). One feels that there is a team at the top working hard on each of their projects bringing it all together and this Prime Minister is a great director. Thank you to him. Another Conservative has crossed the floor to give the Liberals a movement towards majority - just one seat short now. I think he has shown great commitment to the Conservative ideals that many of us have and our politics are such that he had to cross the floor in order to express those feelings. I do see that value in the American system where individual groups in either party will form with the other party a relationship which leads to change that is desired by the American people. Here they have to cross the floor and face that criticism but I feel he has done the right thing; we need to move forward and we can not move forward unless all parties accept that this is the best path to make us tariff proof. I do not see an alternative really that works for Canada. Go Canada Go and bring us to a position where we are able to manage and be tariff proof. That is the aim in all of this effort on our part to travel within Canada, to buy Canadian (and I paid several dollars more for items in the store yesterday so as to ensure that I was buying Canadian (canned salmon from British Columbia was one I particularly noticed)). We look at all the labels to make sure they are made in Canada. I am sad to give up my favourite cookies (American made) but must for the moment but I can think about how lovely it will be to buy a package of them once we are tariff proof. It has become a dream for all Canadians.
I did manage to get to the Prayer meeting yesterday for Alongside Hope (was PWRDF) and it was to be special because of our reflector the Right Rev. Ann Martha Keenainak who was elected suffragan bishop of the South Baffin deanery of the Diocese of the Arctic and it was so exciting to learn so much about her Diocese. I get up and walk about during the meetings but I can hear all that is said very well; I am a restless person but that is a feature I have had all of my life! Activity and myself always have gone hand in hand. She painted a wonderful picture of life that I greatly appreciated. Another meeting following and I had to leave this one a little early just after the reflector completed her part of the prayer session. Thank you to her for sharing so much with us. Our First Nations brothers and sisters know so much about this great land called Turtle Island by them; it is an interesting name and the idea of the protective shell of the Turtle is very very interesting actually. That has only just occurred to me and we have so much to learn about this great land which stretches back way into the eons of time.
I completed Chromosome 21 yesterday and was rewarded with good lengths of known Blake from 10 cM to 42 cM, Rawlings from 1 to 42 cM, Buller from 1 to 33 cM, I have four cousins known to me on that chromosome which is 48 cM long. There are another 8 matches that fit into various places yielding a fully known chromosome (and this is the case for all of them actually with the exception of one tiny length (2 cM) at the beginning of one chromosome for just one sibling. On this chromosome all of the sections can be identified to one of two great grandparents but I am only listing the ones in general that lead me back to a singleton great grandparent. Chromosome 22 was not quite so obliging and I will have to review trees and matches in common to see if I can improve on that. Today I will do some work on Chromosome 20 with regard to phasing great grandparents (I have six known cousins on this chromosome).
I did complete the H11 Newsletter and it is has been sent in for review. It is very short but that is normal for three of the four issues a year. When I do searches to see if anything new has arisen I tend to only find my newsletter but once again I did locate one interesting item which I passed along in the newsletter.
I am working on the Pincombe Newsletter and just have to add in the transcriptions which I have done (most are available on Find My Past these days and I am considering halting that but I am also reaching the end of some of it as well).
Groceries all bought and it was a catch up week with two of us now and my cupboards I tend to run down quite low as we do eat slightly differently and I just follow the lead and make whatever suits both of us. After a busy day we treated ourselves to a Canadian made pizza which was delicious and a lovely fresh lettuce salad (hydroponic lettuce from nearby). Life was much easier when you did not have to spend all that time checking to help make Canada tariff proof and perhaps those days will come to an end and we can go back somewhat to enjoying life as it was although the new foods that are coming in from around the world we do try because it does make us tariff proof. But we still buy a lot of American products simply because it is winter and the growing season is several months in the past now.
Another busy day ahead but mostly research. I do enjoy the research days although the cleaning is also fine as I get lots of exercise. Cleared the snow yesterday off the porch, patio and the very top of the laneway. There was a huge pile at the end of the laneway after the municipal plow went through but the company quickly cleared that away; a well spent addition to my life for sure.
Drinking my tea and on to solitaire puzzles.
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