Yesterday I extracted all the new Ancestry matches and completed all of my new ones which was the first 16 and there are 9 left to do. I have to pull the data for everyone in each of the matches as I pull for myself first, then my brother Doug, my brother John and my sister in that order so that I have the largest number of matches under my name although the others also match.
I had thoughts on going outside yesterday but I did not make it out. Since it was Sunday I do not like to do a lot of heavy gardening on the Lord's Day. Just a habit from childhood I guess or I am lazy but one day of rest a week was a good idea that God had for humans. God is on our side but we need to remember the laws He gave to us; love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength and love our neighbour as ourself. That would bring us to the uplifted plain of peace in our world.
The budding is happening much more quickly now and soon everything will be green and because there was so much moisture it will be lovely. The Ottawa River is slowly dropping and was a problem here and there but not right here actually. We have been lucky all these fourty eight years that no flooding has ever occurred in this area. The bank is quite high here along the river. It would have to be probably more than three metres of flood water to come over the bank and it is still somewhat uphill to where I am.
I got everything done that I needed to do in the house on Sunday and that was good. Church was very beautiful and the music as usual really well done. The Sermon interesting as it centered on the Lord is my Shepherd and was well researched for sure. There was a baptism of an infant as well which meant the music was really quite lovely; baptisms always bring out the really beautiful music.
Good exercise as well with my hour of calisthenics when I get up and then a thirty minute run before lunch (after Church) and later in the day I did weight lifting for thirty minutes.
Today I will be cleaning the top floor and also working on extracting the data for the matches at FT DNA, My Heritage and 23 and Me. The 23 and Me are limited though unless you have contacted the match. I have all the material from before the change in the system. I have fifteen interesting matches at 23 and Me but our shared matches pretty much tell me the story there. Only four of them are 2nd cousins but 3xr. My Heritage I have six matches (also shared with my siblings), and there are another eight that I do not share with my siblings. At FT DNA there are ten new matches in total to draw out the information so will take a few hours to complete that. I will go back to checking once a month for new matches possibly the first day of the month just to keep it easy. That is also the day that I generally create the Newsletter for the three different projects that I manage the newsletter.
The new projects in Canada are slowly coming to fruition; it does take time. More barriers between the provinces need to be eliminated in order to tariff proof Canada though. That really is what this is all about plus making use of the ability of Canada to produce items that have been set aside during the prior fifteen years for various reasons. I am all for greening the planet and we will work at it but in the meantime it takes money to do all these things and so we must utilize what is needed and marketable right now. Looking at foodstuff when I was a child shopping at the grocery store or helping out in my uncle's store most products were Canadian made or grown actually with the seasonal additions of oranges from Florida, bananas from the tropics somewhere and such things that we do not grow due to six months give or take of snow and too cold most of the year anyway.
Chicken stew last night was delightful plus I had a salmon/pickle sandwich for lunch. I am a very light eater for sure which makes a big difference grocery wise. I seldom snack unless I am eating nuts (of every kind) or Greek yoghurt.
Drinking tea and time for solitaire puzzles.
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