Ehlana and Ethan:
Happy 15th Birthday, Jennifer Byrd!
While we’re missing out on her birthday adventures, Jennifer’s best friends and family are making sure that her day is special; and she’s most-excited about joining the beginner-drivers’ club. Okay, she’s having fun with all of the play time too, but we don’t actually have those details yet; and will include those stories soon if we hear anything interesting about that from home.
We are no longer in Montreal as we’re writing this, but our late-evening drive time to our next stop, Ottawa, will only take a couple of hours; and we’re about half-way there already. The work we helped Cassie and Michael with today – and for the rest of yesterday after our update – kept us busy most of the time with cameo sightseeing and some comedy festival fun, but we wrapped up the work with a casual charity dinner and then we spent the evening enjoying more comedy festival and sightseeing fun before hitting the highway for Ottawa at around eleven o’clock.
We’re going to be in Ottawa – the Capital of Canada – through to Sunday evening; and the work schedule includes some government-related meetings that will also give us the chance to check out the differences between their center of national power with Capitol Hill and Washington. We’ll have more on that over the next few reports, but as we head into Ontario, one story has gained our attention for the Province that seems very strange to us. They are dealing with wildfires in the far northwest of the province, but the stories that are so interesting to us tonight are about air quality problems in southern Ontario caused by the smoke from those fires drifting into the region so-heavily that it is creating a heavy haze and fog with strong wood fire smell. Parts of Michigan are affected too, and what amazes us is that that smoke and hazard is able to be such a problem hundreds of miles away from the actual fires. We might actually experience at least a bit of that effect over the next few days, but conditions are supposed to improve by the time we get into the areas that have been most-affected over the past couple of days.
Elsewhere in the world, Russia has launched new, massive missile and drone attacks focusing on Ukrainian ports including Odessa; drone production facilities; and ongoing hits on energy infrastructure. Ukraine continues drone attacks on Russia, but the most-disturbing story we saw today was purportedly from a Ukrainian spy ‘mastermind’ behind the bombing attack in Morocco against a Ukrainian oligarch and his family that critically-injured the man, his wife, and their teenage son. We didn’t write about that story previously, but seeing a report of the bombing planner bragging about international terrorism tactics is sickening; and our leaders should be horrified for supporting Ukraine when that also means supporting civilian bombings and intentional targeting of civilians in Russia and elsewhere in the world.
Infrastructure is in the news for the Iran war, with the Iranian leaders promising retaliation in kind against the other Gulf States for American and Israeli attacks on infrastructure in Iran and Lebanon. The attacks on both sides continue tonight; the threats continue; and peace is still off with no negotiations happening or planned. We continue to believe that our leaders are on the wrong side of this war, and we have one example to offer to support our assertion. Yesterday, our central command reported targeting an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf that was en-route to an Iranian port and disabling it in international waters; and then they reported missile strikes on Iran four or five hours later that they claimed were launched to keep Iran from illegally targeting civilian ships in the Strait of Hormuz or Gulf! The idiocy of that hypocrisy is amazing, since if part two of that sequence of events is valid; then other countries should have every right to attack us to stop us from doing the same – and for all of the ships we’ve pirated both in the Middle East region and previously elsewhere in the world.
That’s enough for tonight. Ethan is enjoying more cuddle time with Naomi while my cuddle time with Aiden is too one-sided; so I am out of here and back to the real time and quality co-ed share time with my boyfriend! ;^)
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
