Brexit, Wexit, Sovereignty and Coronexit

With Ottawa and Gatineau both code red, Thanksgiving weekend is looking rather different this year.

We'll still enjoy a nice meal but there will be just two humans and one cat on the premises. Yesterday I opened a big tin of pumpkin and used half of it to make muffins. Then today I put the rest of it into a pumpkin pie, which is baking now. This afternoon, I'll start grinding up nuts and breadcrumbs and onion and celery and such, in preparation for assembling a nut loaf. With a few accoutrements like vegetables, cranberry sauce and a nice wine, that will constitute our Thanksgiving meal.

So no visitors, no Perth-Lanark studio tour but life is good, albeit less interesting than it might be.

Apparently there will be again be some kind of officials stationed at the bridges although unlike in March, April and May, they will not be levying fines. I don't think they plan to force people to turn around, either - they'll just remind people of their responsibilities and generally make it inconvenient and guilt-inducing to cross the bridge. I just hope this phase doesn't go on for too long!