September finally

 The second day of cleaning and it will be the basement. Glad that it is September and the children are back in school so my food shopping days can begin again. I always stock up in mid-August to last until on into September. I actually have quite a bit on hand still. Moving does sound so delightful actually. I will probably just order my groceries delivered though. That actually works very well. 

Edward was so attached to his property here but I never was except at the very beginning when we first  moved here. It was so lovely and quiet. We knew our friends over on the street behind us. We could just spend all our time  on our projects including our daughter. She was so into reading but gradually she made a couple of friends that she played with mostly on the climbers in our back yard as we came with three in total which we set up for her to play on as she had had them at the house in South Ottawa which we were renting. But she loved to read and was starting to write little stories to send to her grandparents. Then she was off to four year old kindergarten in the Fall at Convent Glen Catholic as a tuition student since Edward had listed us as public school supporters but they had a spot for her in their four year old programme (no four year old kindergarten in the public school system then) which was great. I would have kept her going there but Edward preferred she be at the public school. Her best friend was just two doors up and they were best friends until he moved away. Her other friends were close by which was nice. 

I remember being out for a walk with our eldest daughter just after we moved here (eight years older than her younger sister) and some children called her over to play on a climber but she said no she was going for a walk with her parents. It was cute. She was like that although she did feel sorry for a couple that dropped by our house with their dog and they were saying they didn't have any children to her. But I told her they will have children eventually. He was our family doctor actually and she did like him at first until she started getting her allergy shots and then she did not like him anymore but she was only five. When we went to Edward's Church the first time she ran away when he came over to speak to us. Edward stayed and chatted with him; they did work on their in common Kipp genealogy as they both came from the same area (I think it was on Gordon's maternal side but no ideas on that). I avoided all such conversations so do not know  much about it. I think he might have been younger than Edward though; no idea on that. When I was checking the Tillsonburg Kipp family as one of the people in Edward's Kipp yDNA study had asked a question. I discovered that he was from that Kipp family so they were about fourth cousins or greater actually as the common ancestor in this family is unknown - Edward descends from Isaac Kipp (Northeast Town, Dutchess County, New York) and John Kipp was a Quaker who had come up from somewhere in New York State to the Niagara area before moving on to Tillsonburg, Ontario. I think Gordon thought he was descendant of Richard Titus Kipp (brother to Edward's Benjamin Kipp (Edward's great grandfather)) but Edward had placed him in the Tillsonburg Kipp family at some point. His last name was Riddle though so on his mother's side perhaps or could be his father's mother's side. 

Reading Nehemiah and the last couple of chapters and then will  move on to Tobit since this is a Catholic  Bible that I have. The King James Version does not have Tobit and Judith but I will read them both. Then it is Esther followed by two more Books that are not in the King James Version 1st and 2nd Maccabees. Then Job, Psalms and Proverbs and then are a few more additional books in the Old Testament Catholic Bible. Always remembering why I started to reread the Bible from the beginning as I understand better my thoughts on resolving all of our differences and moving to that uplifted plain of peace that would give the world so much happiness. I always felt that Armageddon had come during the Second World War and we had survived by our ingenuity and the hard fight that was fought against evil and we had moved through Revelations to a peaceful existence. God very much in our minds and hearts but the second coming did not happen then and is perhaps way into the future because God loves humanity and wants them to survive much longer. It is something that I have felt for a long time and I wonder why I think it now.  Perhaps the Bible will reveal that to me; no ideas on that. Millions of people have read the Bible but one has a different look when one is in their 80s I think as one reads the Bible. Although with the Russians throwing around the idea of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine human life might not be as long as it could be. What does one do with such evil people?

Today it is cleaning day and I will do the top floor after all; I was going to do the basement but first I will vacuum the basement. Generally I wash the floor because 3/4s of it is cement and the rest area rugs. Washing the cement keeps the dust down.  We only use the one end of it as a TV room/exercise area. The rest of it used to be packed full of tools and all sorts of stuff most of it went to Salvation Army or the Tool Library and some to neighbours except for what my son in law wanted - he got first choice. We kept enough tools to do repairs that we can do ourselves. It still surprises me to see how empty it is. 

Another beautiful day in God's world. Success for the Liberals they won all three of the ridings in the by-elections. Although I do not necessarily support the Liberals in all of the things that they do I feel very strongly that the idea of diversification of trade is our most important step including our huge investments in the military along with getting these pipelines built to tidewater. The Eastern pipeline is also very important to Ontario/Quebec. I just do not think we will be giving up oil anytime soon in terms of cars although EVs are certainly interesting. We buy so many cars in Canada and we did have a Canadian car industry which was bought out; perhaps a new one will appear in the near future. There have been so many surprises. 

So cleaning today and then work on the genealogical tables and mostly quiet work once I finish the cleaning. I am still getting back my energy after a very busy summer. There is a lot of yard work but I shall soon begin my one hour per day cleaning up the yards. It will take a few weeks but that is fine. 

Solitaire puzzles are next. 

Prayers continuing for the souls of those who lost their lives in the glacial flooding in Nepal and Tibet. Prayers for the rescue of the thousands still buried in the mud in tunnels under the earth. The Chinese military are doing a fantastic job of helping in the rescue there. They have been on the job since it happened.