Spent most of the day cleaning actually but finally got to doing some work on the new matches. An interesting one that was just 9 cM on Ancestry but 22.l cM on Gedmatch. The names absolutely nothing comes to mind and the countries in the family tree Ireland and Maine, USA dating back to the late 1700s. Since it is a paternal match and not a Blake I just made a file and I entered it into the databases. Just interesting and I have a dozen matches in this area where some are known to be Rawlings/Cotterill. For the second sibling match I have double that number so will have a look to see if there are any clues.
Avoiding the news again but certainly that was most interesting to discover the name of the new Governor General to be. She will be fantastic. Thank you to her for serving at 79 years of age. Wonderful of her to do that for sure.
Cleaning day today and it is the top floor and then finished for another week. Sometimes I feel like I spend half of my week cleaning but actually I usually manage to complete each floor in half of a day.
Today 13 degrees celsius is said to be the high temperature so a cool May thus far and it is going to rain. Looks like rain.
I am starting to make a list of summer projects so that I get the gardening done. Each year I like gardening even less. It was something Edward enjoyed very much and through the years I sort of gravitated towards it as we did it together. Now on my own I have little knowledge of gardening; barely recognize the plants that I am weeding around and generally prefer lawn. Interestingly Edward said to me to just grass it over as he knew I would try to keep it like he liked it. I am gradually moving to that for sure.
Trees are budding now and soon we will be awash with leaves. Canada is a lovely country and the founders certainly had good ideas. They knew that incorporating the treaty rights into everything would protect Canada and so it does. Our First Peoples are great thinkers and doers. I will always remember our trip to Moosonee. Going to Moose Factory Island by water taxi was a wonderful experience and our time on the Island greatly enjoyed. We also traveled by canoe to James Bay along the Moose River which is a trip of about 20 kilometers. One of our sightings was a white wolf; absolutely majestic on the shore. I forgot to be frightened actually the view was so spectacular. The bird life was absolutely wonderful. When we canoed all those years in Northern Ontario we were mostly just north of the Trans Canada and did not go that far north because there isn't a road anyway all the way there.
Soon time to clean; just have to do the Solitaire Puzzles.
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