This Chromosome like Chromosome 5 has a number of Pincombe or Blake matches which I never really bothered to separate out because I already had so many matches that I could use. The process continues to record the Relatives in Common and sometimes it is immediate that I separate them out and others I will need to go through the trees on Ancestry.
A lovely Sunday service; I particularly liked the hymns this Sunday. Some interesting thoughts from different scholars in the sermon that proved to be thought provoking. Always a good thing I think to learn something new or a different side that you hadn't thought about for a long time.
The day passed so very quickly and I made my chicken stew that I do love so much and enjoyed it thoroughly. I forgot to buy turnip when I shopped and will do that next time but I had plenty of fresh stored vegetables and frozen to make an exciting (for me) stew for Sunday. It is nice to have it all made up to cover my cleaning days so that I just sit down to a lovely bowl of steaming hot stew each cleaning night.
Today cleaning and it is the top floor today. Cleaning is this necessity that one does but also it is fantastic exercise that extends generally for about three hours or so a day since I usually work continuously from the time I start to when I end for that day. Most of my exercise periods do tend to run around the one hour mark but they are intentional whereas when one is cleaning the exercise level is variable from one ten minute session to the next. Still thinking about a nice new vacuum and perhaps that will happen one of these days. Although the shop vac does a great job for sure.
Government back in today and will watch Question Period this afternoon. We are in a working together mood always nice to see that. The intention to make our country tariff proof and in my mind restore some of the lost industries that have disappeared during these last fourty years of Free Trade. One enters into Free Trade somewhat naively I think but it was natural to trade with our friends and neighbours to the south (and north, Alaska) and I would say we never particularly had any complaints on any free trade items but time does move on and life is seen differently and so we are here working away at making ourselves tariff proof as fast as we can. Perhaps the new word on the block in this generation is tariff. I think though it is nice to see that the difficulty we encountered with China is cleared away. One wouldn't describe China and Canada as best friends which is our association with the United States but we are at least not on such bad terms as we were. With just a simple tweak - China sends us 49,000 EVs and they are tariffed and they buy from us canola (still tariffed but not so much and other items). A good trade and we are back to where we were before the uncomfortable incident in 2018 (imagine that was December 2018 and just over seven years ago). China might build cars here but that is probably into the future (it depends a lot on the American car makers and how many cars they build here and hence how many cars are available to purchase). Life has changed here though and it is more likely that 49,000 EVs will find a home then it would have been a year or so ago. We mostly buy American branded cars made here in Canada (and some European brands) but that has changed as the companies are reducing the number of cars that they make here. The Chinese EVs might be cheaper, no ideas on that, and for our youth they would be an excellent car as they enter into the wonderful world of driving. It is truly a right of passage in this country to get your driver's license and a car and stay at home. That is why there are so many cars in the laneways in Canada. I suspect that we will see more people buy extra cars just because these EVs from China might be cheaper and it will be practical for more families to have two or three or four cars in a family. At least that is how I see it.
Another big snow fall and the laneway is already cleared; a very efficient company but we are used to snow for sure. It is still cold but not as cold as yesterday so perhaps we are back to our "normal" cold weather. We will see.
In the depths of winter now in Canada likely lasting until mid March of April this year and more skiing once it is warmer (like just 5 or 10 degrees below zero - I prefer minus 5 or above at my age of 80 years). Minus 15, 20 etc is just too cold for me. My arthritis doesn't like all that cold. It is beautiful though and I have no desire to go south although it is lovely in Florida I have to say. Swimming in the pool in March in Florida in the warm sun sounds absolutely beautiful (and was, I have been a number of times with my children) but I would miss the snow. I love winter. I can swim in the summer here when it is still somewhat cold but I do love a refreshing cold swim.
Anyway drinking my tea and must do my solitaire puzzles. Time to get to work soon enough but first breakfast.
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