These are trying times

 Saturday morning, Joseph Brian hustled to town to round up some breakfast for me. It gets the car going, in this cold, supports our local economy, as well. He goes in early to town, to escape the covidiots with protest flags. We're trying to be really good to one another. I ordered a 3-egg omelette for me, with peppers, spinach, tomatoes and toast. I also ordered a side order of sausages for JB. Unfortunately, they missed that part when I phoned. I felt so badly. I shared my tomatoes, at least. He cannot have dairy, yeast or eggs.

'Truck' Convoy 🚚

The chaos out there just haunts us. They cleared the international bridge in Windsor, but occupiers are taking children there. It's much more than truckers, just racist, anarchist whack jobs. It was finally cleared out with lots of police: Windsor, RCMP, ERTs, as well.

There are no people blocking the US side, as they'd be arrested pretty fast. Our police are a little more measured. They ended up taking away 12 vehicles, as well as arresting 25 - 30 people.

If you know Ottawa, at Bank and Riverside, citizen have had enough and put out a blockade of their own. They prevented some of the protestors from getting right downtown, and were they pissed off! It must have felt so good to actually do something. One occupier dude was begging for gas from a cop. 

They are simply too many people downtown, with downtown hotels filled with occupiers. This Twitter drone video shows how it began, with 11 occupier trucks, and later the Ottawa traffic camera showed the thousands that showed up.

James Hutt had a glorious Twitter video, showing the counter protestors. Nine hours later, Dylan Penner is quite happy that they have removed all the hateful Nazi and racist symbols off the trucks, and made them discard their jerry cans of fuel, before they would let them move. Well done. 

There is another base camp in Embrun. It looks like a farmer's field. 

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Ontario is providing free rapid tests (RATs) for citzens. They are in drug stores, grocery stores, and CheapMart (you know who I mean). Although, CheapMart originally demanded customers spend $35 before they were free. That was swiftly overturned. These big box stores are awful.

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I sent JB out to fetch the camera for me. It was soaking wet, after 6mm rainfall. 

Pouring rain, Feb. 11th, apparently the trailcam was set properly for that. I have MANY videos of rain – in the dark. I have to laugh with self-deprecating snorts!  This is a screen shot. I turned it on, set the time, set it for instant capture – no delay (for mice friends and other small critters), set it to video, and thought all was well. This is video #51, all of them the same! The sound of rain...

Saturday was ridiculously warm, I went out to do some work. Another issue with my hand! That is three times, so I should be done!

Down at the gate, I dug it out in order to close it. It took me two tries. It make me feel safer. By then, it was a deep freeze. 

Funny Story

Sunday morning, I reheated my leftover brekkie from Saturday. It took two tries. I accidentally pulled 'a Josephine.' Lots of the time when they were doing virtual school with us, Josee would turn on the wrong burner to heat her soup. I did that, and saw smoke, as the dirty pan on the back burner had an unhappy time. 

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It is lovey that it is dawn when I put the garbage out. It's bad enough doing it at these temperatures, never mind in the dark! It's cooled off quite a bit.

💖💗💘Happy Valentine's Day! 💙💚💛

Camping 101 - campsite & cooking tour

Camping 101 continues. Here is the scene for breakfast: pancake mix and bacon for brekkie.

The campsite, waterside, Caitlin makes breakfast.

Here is a wee chipmunk.

Breakfast under the tarp.

Raccoons liked the soy milk

Remember, whilst camping, that you are encroaching on animal territory. They live here all year, while you only visit. Store your food in containers.

Raccoon tracks on the beach blanket

Water filtration -
remember to bring it into the tent
at night!

Yummy pancakes, cooked in bacon grease!

The raccoons were terrible. They drank Jean-Luc's beer, puncturing the cans with their sharp little teeth, got silly and ate into the Soy Milk boxes, then punctured a hole in the water filtration bag.

Josephine, having been taught the finer points of videography, gave Sir John a tour of her island campsite. While I miss integrating curriculum and technology (My M.Ed. topic), I am happy to channel my energies into playing/working with the grandkids!

Jofee, 4-years-old, is learning to make videos. Here is a tour of her campsite.

BTW
I have found some YouTube videos, by blackraven1515, on preparing camp foods. She has lots of great ideas for the novice camper.

Camping Cookery: Dehydrated Chili Part 2

Preparing the dehydrated chili at Riviere-aux-Rats just south of Latuque Quebec, Canada More