Currently watching the action.
Watching the action in raw footage without comment is truth. Pictures with words, not so much. It’s easy to cut and paste to misrepresent.
An important day in the life of Canada.
Month: February 2022
This and that February 19, 2022
Another snow storm has moved in and my neighbor bailed me out with her offer of a grocery run. Her husband is my snow removal guy and he had to dig his way to my front door after the last snowfall. The wind is crazy and it drifted up against my door. First time since I’ve been here.
Peaceful protest. Today is the day, as one live streamer observed, that Trudeau has declared war on his own people. Armored vehicles, riot gear, armies of police armed with tear gas and rubber bullets. Horses to push people. Drones to gather intel. This is Jan 6 all over again. Fences erected around the city core. The protest truly has been peaceful, there are hours of footage to bear witness to that fact. Peace and love confuses them. Their attempts to provoke a violent reaction from the citizens has failed.
They have won the skirmish but it’s not over. Trudeau declared in a public forum, awhile back, that he admires China. In his estimation a dictator can get things done. His end game is the same future for Canada. If this is not what we want…
This mornings goings on are here.
One of the reasons it has been relatively easy for them to win at push back today was the quiet and beginning of a gradual pull-out to regroup. This is not over, can’t be over, not if we want to keep our democracy.
In lighter news..
My Amaryllis (first time ever for me) is starting to bloom. It’s amazing how quickly it grew once it got started.
It looks like watching this unfold will take the better part of my day. It is a good thing to be aware of truth and then do what we can to protect what is important.
Other live streams – Ottawalks and Travel Fun 69, and Koke
I’ll share in another post.
Read and enjoyed February 18, 2022
A quick list of recently read and enjoyed books.
These books were enjoyable but they were a star or so below my favorite reads. I didn’t skip too many big sections though so that in itself speaks well of them.
My current read is still a bargain. I haven’t started, only just decided on it. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Save the Last Dance (The Dance with Me Series Book 3)
Kimber Klein has left the modeling world behind. She’s sick of the constant pressure to be perfect and ready to live her life without watching every little thing she eats. She’s also really happy to finally spend some time getting to know herself and the two sisters she never met until recently. Life is good … mostly. Kimber can’t stop worrying about a stalker she’s hoping she left behind in New York City. She doesn’t think he’s found her in Bridgeport, until one day she leaves her volunteer job at the elementary school library to find two of her tires slashed. Has her old life come back to haunt her in Ohio?
Gunnar Law is satisfied with his life as a single dad. He’s still getting to know his son, Jeremy, since he’s only been fostering the teen for a short while. While parenting someone you only just met can be a little awkward, Gunnar loves Jeremy and plans to adopt him as soon as they can get the paperwork through. Life is pretty simple, and he likes it that way. Then one afternoon, he and Jeremy stop to help a distraught—and extremely beautiful—woman who had her tires slashed in the school parking lot. And suddenly life doesn’t seem quite so simple anymore.
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It’s the weekend, the perfect chance to spend time with a book.
Happy Reading everyone.
Bargain book February 18, 2022
1531 Entertainment has an interesting suggestion for us.
Sisters by Design, books 1-3
Mac
After separating herself from the oppressive cult where she was raised, Mackenzie Soeurs has two dreams: to give her son Riley a better life than she had, and to live in peace, as far from the harsh God of her past as she can get. At least that was the plan until her son got hauled to jail for theft and she lost the mother she never truly understood. In the darkest moments of her life, Mac finds herself surrounded by a group of Christian women she can’t understand and a handsome man, willing to take her son under his wing.
Dane Cooper, Garfield’s former bad boy and groom left at the altar, can’t deny his initial attraction to Mackenzie. Neither can he resist the urge from God to mentor her delinquent son. How can he guard his battered heart and still give Riley the same second chance he was given?
When Jesse, Charley, Randy, and Alex signed up for Mac’s first fitness class, they were looking for someone to whip them into physical shape. What they found was a woman bound by a cruel history, suffering through a tragic present, and in desperate need of a friend…or four.
Randy
Her soft side is buried deep…
After surviving a traumatic childhood, Miranda Franklin grew up tough, fast, and convinced of her inability to ever nurture a child. Eli Page is the only man to earn Randy’s trust. For him, she will face her worst fear—spend a day caring for his granddaughter. When the unthinkable happens, Randy realizes she’s the same as her mother was—a monster.
How can he choose…?
Widower Eli Page devoted the last fifteen years of his life to raising his daughter Celeste. Now it’s time for his happiness. His future. But six weeks before his wedding to Randy, Celeste skips town, leaving her one-year-old daughter for Eli to raise. Randy wants no part in raising a child—but how can she expect him to turn away his own granddaughter?
Will their happily-ever-after fall apart?
With their wedding day looming, can Eli track down his runaway daughter? Can Randy discover the truth about herself? Will Randy and Eli find a different future than what they expected—a better one?
Charley
A MOTHER’S WORST FEAR
Charlene Hubbard wanted the dream—a loving husband, a fulfilling career, and a few kids. When it looked like she’d have to settle for two out of three, God dropped a child into her empty arms. For fifteen years Charley kept the secret of that adoption close, fearful that the truth would make her less of a mother in the eyes of the child she loves.
A CHILD’S WORST NIGHTMARE
Kinsley Hubbard has lived her whole life under the shadow of a secret. The shadow dissipated in the harsh light of truth the day she opened an Instagram message from a new friend. “You’re adopted. Ask your mother about her old college friend.” What are you supposed to do once you find out your whole life has been a lie?
CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE
Fifteen years ago, Melissa Emmerson gave up her daughter with no intention of ever looking back. Now she needs a kidney, and she’s caught between an old friend and a husband determined to do whatever it takes to save her life even if it means destroying the family Melissa helped build.
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Just one for today, it’s a good job there are three books in the collection, we are not faring too badly afterall.
Maybe more will show up later.
Happy Reading y’all
Free book February 17, 2022
The first and only suggestion is from BookBub, an author we have seen a few times. It is FREE.
Roping the Wrangler: Wyoming Legacy (Wind River Hearts Book 6)
The spinster schoolmarm makes a match...
Teacher Sarah Hansen has always wanted a family of her own. But a cowboy is the last man she’d consider—especially one who humiliated her in their childhood schoolroom. Oscar White is back in her life, and all grown up. He’s different than she remembers but that doesn’t mean she can trust him.
When three motherless girls are shunned by the community, Sarah and Oscar are the ones who step up to take on their care. As they work together, Sarah discovers that Oscar isn’t afraid of hardship—and that he makes quite a family man. Can the soft heart Sarah has been hiding tame the wrangler?
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I’ve been spending a lot of time keeping up with what’s happening in Ottawa Canada and the Trucker’s Freedom Convoy, and abandoning books.
Here is the current live stream I’m watching. Ottawalks on You Tube. They are having quite the snowstorm. It is wet compare to our dry snow. It accumulates so much faster than ours here in the center of Canada.
These videos have disabused us of a few false rumors too so it all good.
Happy reading, and maybe viewing too
Bargain book February 16, 2022
Browsing is the name of the game today. The usual daily suggestion emails had nothing new and exciting to offer so I’m systematically checking favorite author pages looking for new things.
I am not looking at Amazon suggestion strips these days as they have taken the position of a hard sell on porn and that’s not my thing. The minute I see a shirtless man I’m gone. That is usually on page two or three of a 49 to 62 page strip. It isn’t as if they don’t know my preferences, there are 3957 items (books) on my content page. I’m not buying as many books as I was but I guess that’s their loss. Less is better for me as I still have 261 unread books on my Kindle. I’m trying to significantly knock that number down.
Even with avoiding the suggestion strips I’m still adding more than I’m reading every month (big sigh.) I’m a sucker for good books!
I’m happy to see a new offering from a recently discovered author (2020) and I will look around to see what else is out there before I post this.
A Rebel’s Beacon: A Sweet Adventure Romance (Alaskan Rebels Book 2)
Bjørn Rebel has achieved his lifelong dreams: a helicopter of his own and a business showing-off his beloved Alaska.
When the local search and rescue team asks for air support, he jumps at the chance to volunteer. Not only will his experience flying evac missions for an elite division of the army give search and rescue a big advantage, it will give Bjørn a chance to redeem himself after a botched mission left rumors clinging to him he can’t shake.
Sadie Wilde is flying high on the success of the K9 breeding and training program she started with her family.
Since childhood, Sadie, her sister, and her cousins planned to have a kennel dedicated to breeding superior dogs for search and rescue and law enforcement. With her father and uncle heading up the local SAR, she’s seen first hand how a well-trained dog can mean the difference between life and death. Sadie’s determined to do whatever she can to ensure her dogs are the best. Bjørn, Search and Rescue’s newest recruit, just might be the ticket to taking her training program to new heights.
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I did look and hope for more books but… no luck. Maybe tomorrow.
Check out my iced cake bird bath.
I think there is more snow on the way too. A lot of dry snow this winter.
Much better than the wet stuff.
Happy Reading guys and gals
Bargain books February 15, 2022
1531 Entertainment has two suggestions for us. I’ve read them both but the first one is an all time favorite and I promote this author every chance I get. I’ve read and enjoyed the second book too but haven’t read as much from this author.
Water from My Heart: A Novel
Charlie Finn had to grow up fast, living alone by age sixteen. Highly intelligent, he earned a life-changing scholarship to Harvard, where he learned how to survive and thrive on the outskirts of privileged society. That skill served him well in the cutthroat business world, as it does in more lucrative but dangerous ventures he now operates off the coast of Miami.
Charlie tries to separate relationships from work. But when his choices produce devastating consequences, he sets out to right wrongs, traveling to Central America where he will meet those who have paid for his actions, including a woman and her young daughter. Will their fated encounter present Charlie with a way to seek the redemption he thought was impossible — and free his heart to love one woman as he never knew he could?
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The Silent Governess
Believing herself guilty of a crime, Olivia Keene flees her home, eventually stumbling upon a grand estate where an elaborate celebration is in progress. But all is not as joyous as it seems.
Lord Bradley has just learned a terrible secret, which, if exposed, will change his life forever. When he glimpses a figure on the grounds, he fears a spy or thief has overheard his devastating news. He is stunned to discover the intruder is a scrap of a woman with her throat badly injured. Fearing she will spread his secret, he gives the girl a post and confines her to his estate. As Olivia and Lord Bradley’s secrets catch up with them, will their hidden pasts ruin their hope of finding love?
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Both books have a time limit on the bargain price. There is a need for speed.
My current read is quite enjoyable, although it’s barely started. Things may or may not continue at this awesome level. We shall see soon I’m sure but I plan to enjoy every minute that is good.
Accidental Hero: Hometown Heroes A-Z (Born In Texas Book 1)
Army Ranger Matt Romero allows his ex-fiancée to pressure him into leaving the military during a whirlwind relationship, only to be dumped by her at the altar. During a road trip across Texas for a job interview, he stops to rescue an injured woman from a collision. Her intriguing plea before the ambulance arrives makes him linger in town a few extra hours.
Bree Anderson and her brother, Brody, are barely keeping their ranch afloat after a failed joint business venture with her ex-fiancé. So she is livid when she wakes from a coma to discover that her brother has talked the stranger who saved her life into becoming their newest investment partner. And not the long-distance kind, either.
Despite their instant attraction, neither Matt nor Bree is quick or willing to take a second chance at love. Or even give each other the benefit of the doubt. Brody works like crazy to keep the peace between them, but there’s only so much one partially paralyzed cowboy can do. All too soon Matt and Bree realize they’re fighting more than an unwanted attraction, and flushing out the secret saboteur plaguing their ranch is going to directly depend on their ability to learn to work together — despite the sparks flying between them. Or maybe because of them?
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This last book is still a bargain if you are interested.
Happy Reading.
Found it, February 15, 2022
One of the videos I wanted to share earlier but couldn’t find showed up on a popular followed site. Dr. Steve Turley is another well known American figure supporting the tyranny fight wherever it shows up in the world.
This video is this morning’s Trucker news conference with an update and encouragement for the troops. Reassuring and informative. The convoy is highly organized and committees have been appointed for every aspect of daily life. This group is one of them.
In an official two language country we hear everything in both English and French. Just sayin’.
I haven’t checked for new book suggestions yet today but I will. You will hear from me if anything interesting shows up.
I’m currently watching Ottawalks live stream. It’s a beautiful day.
No political commentary, he just walks and does an excellent job at filming.
Later guys.
More news… February 15, 2022
In yesterday’s Oops post, found here, I shared about much time spent watching the live stream walkabouts and the things I’ve learned about the truckers Ottawa Freedom Convoy 2022.
The post ended with the concerning news of Justin Trudeau, Canada Prime Minister, invoking the Emergency Measures Act. This was concerning because the criteria for using this action is the need for force, which clearly is not the case. It turns out he is using this as a scare tactic to force the protesters to bow to him.
This tactic won’t work and this morning’s short video explains why. Such a relief.
The truckers and the supporters joining them have been amazing in their commitment to peaceful protest.
There were a couple of short videos confirming some of what goes on over there but I can’t find them again. One showed the protesters giving out Valentine red roses to police officers on scene. The other was of the conversation/one sided altercation between a counter protester and the father of a thirteen year old girl who had her flag stolen. It did not end well for the belligerent counter protester, many witnesses – besides the camera, saw the one-sided altercation and the inebriated man was arrested.
There are many new videos today and I would love to share them but will leave you with just one. Dave Rubin, a popular figure in the US is a huge supporter of the Canadian protest and definitely NOT a fan of Trudeau. Dave is excitable and the video is long but he is informative and inspiring.
I’m sure I will be back with more news.
This whole thing is important because they are not just fighting against mandates, they are fighting against tyranny. And this is not just a Canadian issue, it’s world wide.
The truckers are amazing in the way they manage to keep their cool under immense provocation.
I can’t go to Ottawa but I can watch videos. Every view and like counts for them. Subscribe helps them too.
Happy viewing. Be informed.
Oops… February 14, 2022
I was supposed to be writing my daily blog post. Oops.
My mind has been caught up with thinking about Ottawa and what is happening today at the Freedom Convoy protest. Every day new names are added to the list of people I’ve subscribed to, it’s good to have many, mainly because everyone was finding it difficult to stay outside very long with the windchill. Their hands weren’t the only parts suffering. Camera and phone batteries were not liking the cold either. We needed someone else to watch when they left.
One of the guys found a solution to his problem by interviewing truckers while sitting with them in their rigs.
This morning early on, the streets were, to me anyway, uncharacteristically quiet. One surprising bit of activity was the repositioning of trucks scattered out over the surrounding area. The police even provided escort. This was surprising because we had heard the police were tasked with permanently removing them not packing them in more efficiently. Things keep changing.The other thing we heard was that there were more trucks arriving in the next day or two. Some of them must have showed up early as there more today than yesterday.
As the day wore on the crowds of people grew and grew. Today there were hundreds, Saturday there were thousands. In the center of the action Saturday it was almost impossible to move, there were so many.
This afternoon Prime Minister Trudeau declared The Emergencies Act, which means martial law. It would deploy swat teams, riot police, and soldiers with tanks. This leaves us scratching our heads a bit as after many hours spent watching live streams, the whole tenor of the place seems more like a love-in than a active riot, with looting, pillaging, and bodily harm.
I’m hoping someone is planing a legal challenge because I can’t see that there is just cause to declare such a thing. Scary insanity.
Tucker Carlson has some pretty strong ideas about such action and they sure make sense to me. Especially added to last weeks video release of question period in the Federal Legislature. Several opposition members asked questions and made observations that upset Trudeau to the extent that he stormed out of the room without a word. Who does that?
At first glimpse I’m upset with this turn of events, until I begin to hope there is possibility for cooler heads to prevail.
I’ll leave you with Tucker Carlson’s take on the situation.
For the Love of Books 