Continuing with my phasing of my great grandparents working on Chromosome 5 yesterday and the same today. Definitely a good time to be indoors as the temperatures are going to plummet. For a bit our good friends and neighbours to the south (the United States) are going to have this huge snow storm coming out of the south west and following the jet stream (which will capture the polar vortex pulling it down much further than normal) right across the United States. It will be terribly cold for them as they do not usually get such cold arctic weather (except in Alaska of course). It will be cold here as well but we are pretty much used to windchills of minus 40.
I am also thinking about how to begin the work to accumulate the information to phase Edward's grandparents. If I can do it then that would be all the great grandparents done on both sides. It is an interesting idea now that I have decided to move forward with that. I did ask Edward's nieces if they would test their DNA (I would have paid) but they were not interested - not everyone is interested for sure.
Thus far I have just encountered one match that I can not differentiate between Pincombe and Blake on Chromosome 5. But there are still lots of matches to look at so the solution may well be at hand and I will just put that match into the "too small" folder if not. Many of these matches I have not looked at since I collected them years ago. I am going into the matches and collecting the relatives in common as that is also a handy tool as I am working away.
Outside already to put out the paper recycling and I had a large cardboard box so put everything in that and it will all be taken away. This is the "small" week collection as I refer to it with the "large" week collection next week. This is a very orderly process here and we have a new company doing the recycling and lots more is being recycled which is great news. I scarcely have any actual garbage these days as everything ends up getting recycled. The plastic bag is holding a month's worth now and is only half full. I also swept and shoveled away some of the snow and will finish that later. Heavy snow is due on Sunday so the company will do the laneway but I will clear away the couple of centimetres that fell overnight.
All this snow is great as it will keep the Great Lakes, the Ottawa River and all the many lakes and river systems in Canada full to the brim. It would be nice if next year's fire season is less vigorous but fire is also natural in a forest to help in regeneration. We have so much forest here all across Canada.
Busy times ahead as we continue to diversify our economy. We enjoyed Free Trade with our neighbours (United States and Mexico) all these years and really did not have any complaints as the natural flow of goods from centuries ago has always been north and south but gradually we are shifting that just a little so that we get products from all the provinces as well which is really nice. The canned salmon coming in from British Columbia is lovely and we have not had that before. Making ourselves Tariff Proof is the aim in all of this and slowly but surely the flow of goods east to west is happening. I would just like to see Ontario hurry up and re-develop the industries lost during Free Trade as they were out-competed or bought out and so many products come to us through CUSMA. I have no idea if it will be renewed but I think we need to be ready for anything actually (with the loss of some of the the car industries we need to find different employment for our people as it appears the car companies were making too many cars here). I think the revised CUSMA was a great idea and benefited both the United States, Mexico and ourselves. It updated the original trade deal written before the days of internet and digital commerce and tweaked some weaknesses - great job.
Breakfast completed and time to get to work on the matches. A whole day of research ahead of me, these past couple of weeks I have gotten quite a bit done. Life was pretty busy around Christmas and New Years.
Must make my tea and do my solitaire puzzles.
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