Ehlana and Ethan:
Trois-Rivieres is probably a beautiful place, and we might get to see that for ourselves sometime before we leave tomorrow morning, but we’ve been dealing with rain and thunderstorms for most of our visit here so far today; so we haven’t actually seen much of it yet! Okay, we have seen what we could through the rain during our sprints between meetings and there was some indoor sightseeing too, but we have seen a fair bit of rain too; and focused on staying as dry as possible between the meetings and site visits. Cassie and Michael’s work here has focused on natural resources industry and environmental management; and we loved helping them out with what we could – especially at the two site visits. We’re currently checking into the cottage we have booked for the night; so we don’t have a lot of time for this update before we need to get to a charity dinner. We have an evening meeting too; so we will be busy for the rest of the day. There really isn’t anything else to add for our day-so-far – though I should at least mention that we were up very early for the drive here; and we had working breakfast and lunch meals to go along with the rest of the work. We’re going to repeat that travel plan tomorrow for the drive from Trois-Rivieres to Montreal; and then we’ll be staying there for two days.
For our world news update, the Iran war rolls on with more rhetoric on both sides that does not include any talk of peace as the missiles and drones continue to fly. The fighting in Ukraine – and the missile and drone attacks – continue to rage on; and it is very hard to even watch the death and destruction from a distance for a war that is so pointless. Commodity prices aren’t reflecting all of those stresses to the extent they should, but the economic stresses continue to build; and we know that those problems will continue to compound as long as our world leaders choose war and power grabs over what is truly best for most of the people in the world.
We’re going to stop there for the news, but before we get back to the work and fun; we are missing a beautiful, sunny day at home; our cousins and friends are enjoying a play day unless also working summer jobs; and we’ll miss out on the Tuesday ball practices and Pizzeria pizza picnic dinner at the park. We can also mention that the major camping nights wrapped up yesterday, but there are smaller camps happening at other homes – or indoor sleepovers – for the remaining visiting Johnson clan cousins. It does feel strange missing out on that this year, but then Jayden wasn’t going to be doing that this year even if we’d been home; and he’s the last of the Proctor-Rice clan cousins to do that – at least until the next-gen cousins arrive and get old-enough to renew the tradition! Yes, Kaitlyn is in Witch Falls, but she’s one of us now; so she isn’t a visiting cousin anymore. Okay, that’s enough and we really do need to go now; so we are out of here and back to the real world.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
