Hi from southern Ontario,
Chez moi/at home: what's happening here? Weather 8 C and sunny on Wednesday, drizzle all day yesterday, and woke up to a sprinkle of snow this morning. Next week looks okay for this time of year, sunny and not too cold, that means above freezing. I still have garden work to do so it will probably be my last chance to get it done. Rabbit proofing the garden can wait for another week or so.
I made 4 litres of butternut squash soup, now safely stashed in freezer #1.
News reports from British Columbia say that it will be at least 2 months before the Coquihalla highway will reopen, 5 bridges have collapsed and or mostly demolished.
Newfoundland had its own major rain and windstorm cutting off Port Aux Basques from the rest of the island, the ferry from Nova Scotia lands at Port Aux Basques where all truck traffic arrives, this means food will have to be flown in.
And on a more cheerful note, archeologists in England have found a Roman mosaic that includes Achilles and Hector from the Trojan war. The team that excavated it are the same people from the University of Leicester who found the remains of Richard 3rd in a parking lot 10 years ago.
Alton Cemetery project and other genealogy. There are now 338 profiles in the cemetery category, 23.5% of the total, the Madills and Gooderhams are mostly complete and the Hunters who I thought I was finished with, have popped up again as relatives of the Madills, these Hunters aren't buried at Alton but are married to, or siblings of people buried there.
It is very interesting and gratifying when I can connect a family not just to others in the cemetery, but also to another tree branch already on WT.
I found one yesterday for ancestors of people buried at Alton. It has all the right people, so I won't need to add their profiles, but the immigrant ancestor is wrong, it's an old Gedcom import with family members regularly crossing the Atlantic between Ireland and southern Ontario in the 1840s and 50s, while still being listed on censuses and land records here. And dying in Ireland while still being alive on the census here. The PM was briefly active in 2020 but hasn't done much since 2016, and the profile was created in 2011, I'll try to contact the PM.
Reading: I seem to be on an Everest kick, I'm now rereading Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, another book on the same topic the May 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
Covid: my youngest grandkids are booked to have their shots next Saturday, the granddaughter age 8 is apparently very annoyed that she won't be the first child living in Ottawa to get vaccinated.
I hope all of you celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend have a wonderful time!
Virtual Vacation has been delayed, I couldn't find the pictures I wanted and we'll have to go somewhere else!
