I found the sermon at Church yesterday to be thought provoking. The service itself was the second Sunday after Epiphany a special time in the Church year as we continue to remember the gifts of the Wisemen to the Baby Jesus but already we are talking about the ministry of Jesus as the entire life of Jesus on earth is remembered in this period from Christmas to Easter. As a child it mystified me but as an adult I find it to be a wondrous time of contemplation when one looks back on more than two thousand years of the Anglican Church which is my heritage. All of my ancestors were members of the Church of England as recorded dutifully in the Parish Registers. Before that date the baptisms, marriages and burials were not always recorded in such a consistent manner so that my Scot ancestry, my possible Irish ancestry does not appear as far as I can tell in any written record but there are still millions of records to examine probably not done in my lifetime! Mind you if my great grandmother Ellen (Taylor) Buller was of Irish descent I have yet to find that conclusive proof of such ancestry.
Yesterday I did work on Chromosome 6 and I am about half way through the 128 matches and I am on the forename J's. The matches continue to fall into great grandparent lines due to the number of known cousins on this chromosome. There are some that do not but for the most part this chromosome is working very well for me. No surprises and mostly the work I have already done verifies itself and the individual matches continue in the same line as I placed them; some of them years ago now and I have not looked at them beyond a glance because some are small and just were not needed for the phasing of the grandparents.
I cleared the laneway; I did not purchase the ultra because I need that sort of look out the window and seeing the snow in my laneway and on my porch and patio to get me out the door and do some yardwork. It doesn't take me very long and the fresh air is good for me as I just push it to one side. But I do like to have the end of the laneway cleared after the city plow has been through and dumped a load in my laneway plus the heavy snowfalls is harder work. I did consider asking to have a no parking sign in front of my house actually but then a different neighbour needed that spot and parked there for a time that one would think is fair to all the people around me. Parking in front of one house for day after day, night and day, does seem to be unfair to the other neighbours who do have moments when they need to park out of their laneway. In particular the laneway of this particular neighbour is usually empty so does seem somewhat inappropriate. During the past January thaw following a heavy snowfall, water collected in a huge puddle about 20 to 30 centimetres deep at the end of my neighbour's laneway which the city workers had to wade through to pick up the recycling during this one particular week. After the neighbour moved his vehicle finally after days and days I went out and broke through the stack of snow that was under his truck to the large puddle and it flowed to the drain just past the next door neighbour on the other side. Since the laneway was absolutely empty for days (perhaps they were away no ideas on that) it did seem very inconsiderate. Plus earlier in the week when the city plow came it left this heap half way across the road. I am too old to move all of that snow but did push it out of the way to a certain extent so it didn't impede traffic. Such is life; one must be considerate of one's neighbours for sure.
So all in all a busy day yesterday and I did Yoga in the evening which was very relaxing. I must get back to doing more Yoga. It took me a couple of weeks to get over the effects of the flu and I am pretty much back to doing all of my exercises again. Definitely the flu shot is worthwhile. I was too slow to get mine this year although I generally do get it early in November so just an early batch of flu that caught me. I will wear a mask in the fall when I am shopping until I get the vaccination from now on. COVID also all up to date; I have not missed even one of those needles as it just seems worthwhile. My daughters are very busy so I must avoid catching such things.
Today more work on Chromosome 6 and the cleaning does not need to be done this week until Wednesday to Friday so will have research days today and tomorrow. Tea all drank, solitaire puzzles completed and time for breakfast. I had a snack after my early morning exercises so just really hungry now.
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