I have been so busy with my phasing of my great grandparents that I have forgotten the Blake Newsletter so will attempt to produce that today along with cleaning the main floor. Yesterday top floor was completed and in pretty good time but extra hands do make less work. In four years my daughter will retire and return home at least that was the long term plan. That she would still like to work when she comes back goes without saying really. She loves working with her students and she is good at it but then I am her mother of course. The cold weather keeps us in day after day as it is just too cold for her to ski but she is getting lots of work done on her projects. The internet from its inception has rapidly changed our culture as one can work with people all around the world in just seconds on the internet and she does as well as her local colleagues who can also be on the internet or in person. Her students love the ability to meet with her at pretty much any time although onsite is also possible but mostly they also have busy lives and appreciate that she can meet with them so readily without a lot of work on their part. I am amazed at how many students do their masters whilst working a full time job these days.
Being over 80 now has a different look to it that I had not anticipated actually. Although I still have a lot of plans on work to do; my mind does tend to be directed towards completion rather than just continuous work on it collecting new information. Now I need to be directing myself towards completion; all the time completion. My mind still feels very sharp but I am aging slowly but surely towards that time when I may not be quite so sharp! Although in my 60s (and I can find it in my blog actually) I had planned to continue my gathering research until my 80s and then get it all written up and that process is falling into place, amazing how well one can think in one's late 60s!
I worked on Chromosome 8 yesterday and a little block of matches that looked like either Pincombe or Blake have finally found a home in the Blake family. I wasn't entirely sure but one match did it finally as it was slightly larger with an accompanying match that cinched the deal. Where they fit in continues to elude me although they are 3rd cousins for the most part according to the estimate which means we share 2x great grandparents and that would be John Blake and Ann (Farmer) Blake and their 54 grandchildren so not surprising that I am finding them difficult to place. They have this lovely long match on Chromosome 8 (mostly in the 25 to 35 cM range) which should make them Blake rather than Knight but I will continue working that through as my Edward Blake who married Maria Jane (Knight) Blake may not have been the only one of the Blake descendants of John and Ann who married a descendant of the huge Knight family! The descendants are all over the world though although primarily in the British Commonwealth or the United States. Moving ahead with the chromosome although slowly as there will likely be a couple of bumps in the road in that there are a number of "high count" areas on this chromosome.
Sudoku has become my new interest and I generally play a couple of games a day. I like the precision of working with a set of numbers and playing with them to get a solution without getting any errors. It is great fun.
I continue with my solitaire games each day and my tea is slowly cooling and I must move on to that. I am avoiding the news for the most part. I know Canada is in good hands at this moment in time; a person dedicated to growing Canada as it should have been grown these past sixty years. He has his nose to the grindstone working working working. Thank you to him for that as he will make us Tariff Proof (one cannot fight tariff; one must improve one's own economy so as to minimize the effect of tariff) as the way that countries do business is changing slowly but surely. We have our free trade deals around the world and will just keep expanding on our exports moving across this beautiful world that God gave us eons ago. Expanding our exports (both internally and externally) is the way to go to bring us to a better position economically (the need for Canadian products is huge; we just have to be there with them available to purchase - Go Canada Go). The Fathers of Confederation built a railway across a continent that few believed could be done and we can build trade around the world that benefits us and the people who buy our excellent products. Another beautiful day and it is sunrise but cloudy. Cloud isn't all bad as it is hard to ski with the bright sun!
This is the true Feast of Epiphany Day, January 6th, but the service on Sunday was very nice and life has to work into the schedule that fits into people's lives. We can not live on a day to day basis we must plan and prepare for the long run to make us the great economic powerhouse that we can be; it will be expensive; it will be hard work but the gain is huge as we work alongside our friend and neighbour to the south and the north (Alaska is part of the United States) and we will be economically sound and efficient - no more waste in the CRA. That has to end and sooner rather than later. Billions of dollars wasted!
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