The sunshine and heat continues. And rather bizarrely, I saw a news item this morning on T.V. warning that there was a heat wave on its way to parts of the province ─ is it not already here?
I spent my usual hours overnight working here at my computer after logging in most of the latter evening as time in bed. I think that it was something like 12:18 a.m. when I checked the time and decided to get up and come here to my computer.
One of my last acts before returning to bed was the watering of the front yard garden plants, but by then it was daylit. I was probably back to bed around 5:30 a.m.
My official morning start was around 9:30 a.m. when I next checked the time and rose, expecting to find my younger brother downstairs watching T.V. But he was not yet even up.
However, that soon enough developed.
I joined him around 10 a.m. to watch some T.V., and soon had our Android TV Box in action. I led things off with Odessa Orlewicz's latest video: June 23-Clinton Campaign Official Jailed For Secxz With Children & Bil C-10 Update and More!
It was nearly an hour long, but I had to pause the programme for at least 15 minutes because the 'widow next door' ─ who is about to move away ─ came to the door and my brother volunteered himself to help at least three other guys she had assisting her to move some large metal contraption.
The woman had actually come seeking my eldest stepson ─ the 26-year-old is very brawny. However, as my brother informed the lady, the lad has an afternoon shift and was not yet up from bed.
Naturally, after my brother volunteered himself and left, my eldest stepson suddenly came into the kitchen, finally up for the day.
After my brother returned and we finished watching the video, we only had time enough for an episode of Black Sails, and then my brother sought some bed rest ere heading away for the afternoon to eventually resume his daily drinking somewhere.
I am still involved in E-mail exchanges with my Edmonton cousin Doug regarding family lineage, and most especially the absence of proof of the parentage of our great grandmother Sarah Anne née Bird.
I even composed a lengthy message and sent it off to a certain Stan H. who was doing his best to help, but whom I have not heard from in a week or more. I sent him my recent research involving my great grandfather, and how I was able to trace his lineage all the way back to an ancestor born around 1585 in France.
Why, I rhetorically asked in exasperation, is such a thing possible, yet we cannot validate the parents of my great grandmother from the latter 1800s, fully three centuries later in the province of Manitoba? Heck, as my cousin Doug said in a message from yesterday (and note that Andrew McDermot is supposedly our great grandmother's grandfather):
I was digging more into that Mormon site, familysearch.org , and I found the listings for Andrew McDermot and all of his kids. So I checked every one of them. And I checked all the Birds. Ellen and Thomas Bird do not have a child named Sarah listed, nor do any of the other Birds. I don't understand how Sarah could have been Andrew's granddaughter unless she was illegitimate and not listed or registered. Literally hundreds of McDermot's and Bird's, but no Sarah.
And the Manitoba records link from the Metis site has free access to birth records from more than 100 years ago. When I search for Sarah, 'no records found'..... Her census reporting says she was born in Winnipeg in 1862. But neither Manitoba or Red River has any record of her. It makes no sense. Unless she is simply not registered.
As I said to Stan H. in my message today, we are only spinning our wheels despite how comparatively recently the woman lived, in relation to how far back I was able to trace my paternal line.
Anyway, with such another sunny day, I got in further backyard sunning ─ beginning shortly before 3 p.m., just over a half hour each for both my back and then my front while attired in just a pair of swimming trunks.
I had my day's first meal after that, and then I soon needed to lie down in darkness and surrender to some very deep rest.
Upon rising, I have since dealt with an Angus Reid poll, and then I started work on this post. It is now working its way towards 7:30 p.m., so I wish to stop blogging for the day and enjoy a beer and a little T.V.
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