88,000 new jobs

 That has a good ring to it 88,000 new jobs even though I know it is May and that summer brings in new jobs every year it still has a good sound to the ears. Youth unemployment down nearly 1% so the jobs are not all summer but good to see that down as well. The Conservatives should really spend their time with the youth and get them organized to rethink the job market. Having a degree does not guarantee a job but having a trade does. Personally I equate trades and professions equally because I come from a trades family and I do know what it takes to do the work. There are fantastic tools to work with in the trades and you have to be able to manage on a computer because customers would appreciate seeing visuals on any work done. The presentation by tradesmen and professionals is pretty much the same these days or could be if one is using their training appropriately in order to best sell their suggestions to customers. Computers are very much in vogue in the trades. Trades have all sorts of advantages. The winter can be slower giving you more time with your family especially if your wife is a professional because winter dominates a professional's activities. Lots of other advantages; you may well make more money as a tradesmen these days which is good to see. The work though is like a professional as the hours can be long in seasonal times. Calls in the middle of the night because something has failed are pretty common if your base of customers is industrial. Going on and on about a possible recession is such a waste of time. The warning that moving to diversified trade would take time seems to have fallen on deaf ears in the Conservative Party. Question Period should not be a constant whine about the slowness of the effort. Get with it Conservatives and let us see that our tax money spent maintaining members of parliament is well spent. I have voted Conservative for most of my life as a voter but I want to see the Conservative Party have a policy other than attacking the government in power. You did not win the election; it was not even close so find a way to convince people that you have our best interests at heart and are not just clinging to a past that is gone. Trade can still exist between Mexico, the United States and Canada but we need to protect ourselves from tariff and tariff has existed between the United States and Canada for a very long time with some products. Obviously we need to diversify softwood lumber, aluminium, steel and even how we make cars in this country. We need our own car manufacturer  or one of the car companies in the United States or anywhere else could incorporate here so that they are building cars for Canadians using Canadian materials (we have lots of it). Wake up Conservatives as that is part of your value in working hard with the people to make a stronger Canada. We can critique the government ourself we do not need you to do that constantly. We are not stupid we can see what is happening. We do not need a constant repetition of it in Question Period. 

 My daughter had some dental surgery so is recovering at home but back to thinking about her research already. AI is the big interest at the moment and for her as well. 

Beautiful rain last night and supposed to continue all weekend which is good news for crops. The heat is great for growing but rain is needed pretty much every couple of days to get the ground watered. The tomato plants are growing slow but sure. No idea if they will produce anything as the walnut tree sucks all the goodness out of the ground far away from where it stands. At the moment it is impossible really to use the old garden in the middle of the yard as it is full of roots. Must get it grassed in one of these days. But at the moment the raspberries are struggling to still produce raspberries and not just weakened stems and berries because of the walnut tree. It is really a weed that tree and is constantly trying to grow new walnut trees in our yard. 

Must get the information from my Bishops Nympton file  into the newsletter and publish it today. The days move by so quickly. but soon back to normal here. 

Talking to my other daughter and she has been busy in the ER these days and her clinics. Medicine is an extremely busy profession these days with not many breaks in the weeks. 

I did make it into the doctor to review my two sets of blood work which were absolutely the same and identical with my blood work of the last ten years since I have kept all of my results other than my lymphocytes which are at 0.8 but both times I was under a good deal of stress which makes my diverticulosis act up and so the lymphocytes at 0.8 tell one that the lymphocytes are working properly and taking care of the diverticulosis. I will have my blood work done again early in the new year. Doing a whole lot of testing for leukopenia seems like a step that I do not yet need to take since all the other blood work is normal. If there is one place I do not want to spend a lot of time it is hospitals. Loved working there for twelve years; wonderful and interesting work but definitely not where I want to spend the days that are left to me in this world. I will leave that to the people with many years ahead of them.  Since I am not prone to sickness it does seem like a stretch to do a lot of testing which is expensive in the medical system and I am nearly 81. We will see what the blood work is like in the new year. I tend to wear a face mask when I am in places with a lot of people and may wear one to the stores when I go which is pretty seldom. One of my least favourite tasks is shopping but I do go to the stores rather than order in so that I can insure that I am buying Canadian in as much as I am able. That is what we are forced to do because of tariff; we must protect our Canadian jobs. It was pleasanter just to buy what you liked but times have changed; we didn't change them but we have to protect our economy from tariff. I miss my favourite cookies which were American made. Very sad about that. 

Baked custard this morning before the heat of the day as that is one of my daughter's favourites and she is on a liquid diet at the moment but with blenders it is so easy to made wonderful drinks and blend everything to make it liquid. My custard has always been a favourite of hers just a simple custard poached in water in the oven for about an hour and always like velvet and so tasty. 

We need the hate attacks on our Jewish Canadian population to stop now and forever. People who can not leave them alone should go; find some other country to live in. It is intolerable that the Jewish people here are being attacked.  

Solitaire puzzles to do.