Peace

 Peace is a beautiful word and what God wants for us. Jesus brought us the two commandments by which we should live - Love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and love our neighbour as ourself. Living these two commandments could bring us to that uplifted plain of peace where all live a good life. Greed and envy must disappear from our world.  When they do the world will be a better place in which to live. 

Tough times continue in Canada and will for a while yet as our diversification of trade around the world takes hold. There are increases in jobs being created and we just have to wait. The Baby Boomers have had an entire lifetime worked around them and now they need to tighten up and help the economy to survive by spending locally instead of flying all over the place and enjoying themselves all the time. Life was easier for the Baby Boomers than it is for subsequent generations in so many ways. Attending university was so much easier and less costly and the dreaded compulsory Departamental Examinations became nonexistent in the later 60s (after I wrote them actually because I was two years ahead of my age group!). Life was handed to the Baby Boomers on a platter and they need to do the same for the generations that are following them. This diversification of trade is sixty years coming and should have been the practice of all Canadian governments prior to this one but it wasn't and we are paying the price.  We will continue to pay that price until we are on solider financial ground. 

Sad for Michigan because they were meant to split the tolls with Canada from the new bridge following the repayment to Canadian taxes as the people of Canada actually paid to build the new bridge. It would be a good bonus for Michigan and its people all that toll  money coming in to support all sorts of special projects or even just usual items like sports for children, better facilities in schools and all that sort of thing. Strange to continue to use such an old bridge especially for all these trucks when there is a bridge that is brand new (built equally with both Canadian and American steel and other products) with better access to the main highways. This new bridge has been talked about for years because the old one is just that - very heavily used and getting very old. Likely people will still use the old bridge but the truckers deserve to have a new bridge which is easier to access from the main highways and so modern. Truckers are the great heroes of people as they drive long hours; many miles to transport goods from coast to coast and back again. Ever increasing amounts of goods travel by truck all over North America. 

Worked the Pincombe file yesterday and it took only about 30 minutes to add in the Gray. Thinking of Michigan I have a lot of cousins who still live in Michigan that are descendant of the Pincombe Family. I still think that hand adding the known greatgrandparent is perhaps the better way so as not to create any confusion in the instructions to Copilot. Plus it lets me look at them in a global way as I entered them one after another without really regarding them beyond putting them into the table. The real challenge is coming where the work that I have done on the individual files will be used to help to look at matches that are totally unknown to me but share pertinent matches. That is very time consuming to do one by one but Copilot will be able to, without bias, pull out the information and produce lists that will be very productive. 

Today is cleaning day and it will be the main floor. I borrowed my sewing machine back from my daughter to make some new tea towels. The ones I have date back at least fifty years. Amazing they have lasted so long but I did make about twenty of them I think and there are three left that still have some cloth to dry dishes coming out of the dishwasher. Dishwashers have certainly made tea towels less of a necessity. 

Continuing to work on the phasing of great grandparents and creating the genealogical charts for the Blake book high on the agenda for my work time. 

Cloudy today and cooler just 15 degrees celsius - a normal June for sure. Tea brewing and solitaire puzzles to do.