Notes - work-a-day / Europe DNA family /

         A change in schedule, you woke up, had a bath, then breakfast and the paper. You lead a wild reckless life, old man. - Amorella

         Thanks, Amorella. Having the bath first was a rebellious moment and I contemplated for a few minutes before carrying through.

         When Ship is the center of attention does he enjoy the satisfaction as a cat, dog or other family pet might?

         It is a programmed pleasure in that he feels he is doing what he was built to do; serve via help-to-humanoids and creating and observing safety standards at the moment and into analytical projections on plausible futures. These are obligations and duties expected by marsupial humanoids. Rather than beginning with Ship as a transportation devise Friendly begins with a more personal nature, one on one with Ship.

         Mid-afternoon. You raked loose grass and put it in ACE environmental bags for disposal then you and Carol spread several bags of mulch (from Boy Scouts) and have several more to put out in place. Lunch at Penn Station then more yard work. Presently you are at Natorp's where Carol is looking for flowers for outside pots and beds. Tomorrow you are leaving for Westerville about ten as usual but you are not meeting Fritz until one. The morning will be in the Delaware area checking out Kim and Paul's house rental as well as the surrounding area. It looks like the house is located within a mile of Perkin's Observatory, which you think is "most cool".

         While chatting with Carol on the front porch during a yard work break she recollected where she had lived in her life, this is after you were talking about what Owen would remember of his University Heights home. She could remember each of them since she was three, but the one she has never really talked about in Saigon she went into detail about. First, the Director of lived cater-cornered from them in an even larger house. This is a paraphrase of what she described and you were all ears because it not only was interesting, it was old cultured and French.

         'The house was large with a big stepped porch entrance and double wooden screened doors to the house (always open in the daytime for the breeze). The upstairs steps were about seven feet across up to the second floor. There were four large bedrooms and three had their own toilet and bath. Each bathroom was the size of a small bedroom (11x11). The upstairs screened in porch sat large across the whole back of the house with at least two entrances. The first floor had a large vestibule, large dining room and sitting rooms as well as an office and kitchen. There was a large first floor screened in porch across the back under the upstairs porch. Outside in the back the first building on the left was the cooking kitchen and the three small houses lined up next to it (moving further out from the house itself) were servants' quarters. Mary Lou has the painting of the house in her living room. '

         I may not have the words quite right but this is what I remember. In the old days Vietnam was a French Colony and who knows who lived there first. I have seen that picture often but never heard about how it was inside other than "large". I think they only had one live-in maid, at least only one that the sisters talk about. Hard to believe that back when we were born former slaves were still living and the British, French and Dutch colonies were still alive and kicking so to speak.

         You are home and have been doing more mulch work but you've had enough for today. Post what you have. - Amorella

         1744 hours. I don't know what we're doing for supper and don't really care. It has been a tiring day.

          Checking emails and cruising the web I found this:

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Science News

DNA study shows almost all Europeans genetically related

Published: May 8, 2013 at 5:31 PM

DAVIS, Calif., May 8 (UPI) -- People in Europe are one big family, closely related to one another for the past 1,000 years, a study of the DNA of people from across the continent found.

"What's remarkable about this is how closely everyone is related to each other," evolution and ecology Professor Graham Coop of the University of California, Davis, said. "On a genealogical level, everyone in Europe traces back to nearly the same set of ancestors only 1,000 years ago."

Coop and study co-author Peter Ralph, now a professor at the University of Southern California, set out to study relatedness among Europeans in recent history up to about 3,000 years ago.

Coop and Ralph said while the degree of genetic relatedness between two people tends to be smaller the farther apart they live, even a pair of individuals as far apart as the United Kingdom and Turkey -- a distance of some 2,000 miles -- likely are related to all of one another's ancestors from 1,000 years ago.

"The overall picture is that everybody is related, and we are looking at only subtle differences between regions," Coop said in a UC Davis release Wednesday.

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         1819 hours. This is really interesting, particularly the next to last paragraph.

         Worthy of posting and can be brought up in the present Pouch segment.  Post. - Amorella