The music was lovely at Church yesterday. I do love the organ music. God would be pleased I think that His Church which He created still sings His praises and thanks him for all of His gifts to mankind.
With all the rain, the lawns and gardens are looking very nice. I pulled some grass out of the front garden bed so that the iris could have more room. Iris is a beautiful plant. My daughter has cut the lawns thus far although I did contemplate hiring a company to cut the lawns and still might do that as the flowers that inflame her asthma will soon be in full bloom as she has to stay away from the yards most of the time although does go out a little with her mask on. Fortunately Petrie Island doesn't have a lot of flowering plants in the areas that we go to for kayaking and walking.
My daughter's jaw is healing from the dental surgery and soon back to kayaking once again. She is thinking about her four research projects though and items that need doing. Her student is busy working away with her on these projects as well as the other faculty members who are part of these projects. I am lucky to have her as my caretaker for these research times that she spends here. But we chat every day for an hour or so and I consider her as my caretaker year round actually.
Worked on the book yesterday and in this case the Excel file for the great grandparents. I have looked at 23 and Me, Living DNA, Ancestry and just a quick glance at My Heritage and FT DNA today to ascertain if there are any new large matches. Then ready to go on the charting using all of this data. There is ancient Blake data in the DNA likely caused by two items. Some of the further back matches are in the Knight family where there is endogamy and others are colonial American Blake descendants. Interesting really that these lengths of DNA would be passed down through nine or ten generations but they are common areas which is a marvelous conduit for DNA material down through the ages.
I also wrote my letter to my older sister and mailed it off. I am trying to keep to sending it on Sunday each week. I wanted to find boxes of cards that had different pictures on them and we are going to go to the Rideau Centre next and perhaps I will find some there. Right now I just have two different cards. I just thought that would be more fun to receive. I am typing the letters though as my hand writing is somewhat hard to read although I did get a letter from my brother in law saying that my sister had read the letter so that is good news. I did take my time hand writing it. But I will stick to typing the rest - just sent the first one like that. I was a visitor at one of the local old age hospitals when I was a teenager and it is lonely for people in these homes if they do not have people close by. My brother in law goes every day he said but still I wanted to send the letters to break up her long day somewhat.
Today cleaning the basement and that will begin soon. I will start the Robot around 9:00 a.m. and it runs for about one hour. Does a great job on the rug for sure.
Beautiful sun today and the tomato plants will likely need water as it is a hot sun although just 17 degrees celsius this morning at the moment with a high of 26 degrees celsius promised.
Solitaire puzzles are next.
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