News, near and far

🔥Firstly, there was sad news on Facebook from our blog friend, Gaelyn. She's been boondocking around the US, in Nevada. There was a fire, and she lost her vehicle. It is tragic. Not only that, but she lost her cat, Sierra, in the fire. She is housed with friends. It just hurts my heart. She is waiting to hear from her insurance company, she had her phone. I know we wish her the best.

📰 Lest my American friends think they've cornered the market on conspiracy theorists:  Trial catch up: Day eight of the criminal trial of  'Freedom Convoy' protest organizers Tamara Lich, Chris Barber.

Then, we've the self-appointed Queen of Canada, Romana Didulo (a Filipino immigrant), who is trying to convince people that she can forgive them their taxes. She has been kicked out of a small Saskatchewan town, where she was lobbying followers to stop paying utilities. The town rose up and sent her off! 

"You can't come into a town and tell the mayor, the community safety officer and the RCMP — and people of town — that you're in charge," Brunt told CBC News.

⛟ Former Ontario MPP Randy Hillier, who is facing charges in connection with last year's "Freedom Convoy," is seeking for a second time to move his jury trial away from Ottawa. He totally pissed off so many Ottawans, but that includes many Ontarians anyway! 

✈ US Air traffic: There was an incident on Sunday, and they were looking for the plane. I thought it rather interesting. The pilot is fine. CAP3935, FOXX849 looking for F35, Sunday, pilot ejected. Flight Radar on Twitter X.

💻 We had catch up time with the Vancouver kids on the weekend! Isn't technology grand? They were at the cottage and Bryony (in Kindergarten) gave me a cell phone tour. We had a good catch up on news and events. The trick is the 3-hour time difference. 

Cluny is in Gr. 3, and she told us about the Axolotl they have at school.  

🎃 More fun, Butch has been playing with my pumpkins. One was in the middle of the driveway, the other across the driveway. Little scamps.

 

Butch is trouble! from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Last summer patio meal?

I am watching the Lich/Barber 'Freedom Convoy' trial with some hope. These are the instigators and leaders, who told angry protestors to 'Hold The Line,' and encouraged the dirty, noisy, filthy, remorseless occupiers to remain for weeks. 

"The charges against Tamara Lich and Chris Barber include mischief, counselling others to commit mischief, intimidation and obstructing police." 

It is a trial by judge for 16 days. The high priced lawyer (💰 Lawrence Greenspon) claims we cannot refer to it as an occupation, in deference to Ukraine. Weird point of view. People couldn't get their groceries, medications from the pharmacy, they couldn't sleep, were harassed leaving their homes. Wrote Shakespeare, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." 

🔥 The weather has been horrid for many, I know. We've had this heat wave. We knew rain was on the way for Thursday and/or Friday. JB suggested we go out for a patio meal. Most of the tourists have left us, but many don't close up cottages until October. We are happy to see them go. Loons are gathering in flocks for their migration trip south. A couple of teens were seen harassing them on the lake nearby, doing stunts around them. Freedom, me arse. The loons are needing all their energy for the trip south.

Wednesday, Sept. 6th

OK, dinner out. We took off for the patio, hopeful to get a seat. In fact, we snagged our favourite corner table. There was a bit of a breeze, which was delightful. We only saw a vulture circling and soaring in the wind. We shall miss the birds.

This was with my cell phone, but there were 3 Le Boat rentals passing by. What could go wrong with this? Well, there were a couple of disasters in the summer with one getting grounded, another staff put diesel into the canal. 

1.  LE BOAT CLEANING UP RIDEAU CANAL AFTER DIESEL SPILL

2. It's the second time in three years that a diesel spill has happened by an employee of this luxury cruise boat company since 2021.

Here are three Le Boats in a row. You can tell my iPhone photos aren't as good as with my camera. I'm not sure why, maybe I shake too much! 

Here we are! Caesar Salad with salmon, and a hamburger with salad. 

🍁Autumn, bring it on!