Just as forecast, a couple weeks ago we went from a couple nights at -30C to a daytime temperature of +10!

It didn’t take more than a day or two for the winter’s load of snow to start falling off the roof. It feels like an earthquake when it starts sliding, and the thud when it falls is incredible.

It also makes it super tricky to get out in the yard with Hank, who can step right over the front fence.

Makes the front porch steps tricky too! This snow is hard and dense and heavy, and I’m just waiting for it to melt. No one is strong enough to shovel this load of snow!

Most of the houses in town have metal roofs, so you can hear similar slide and crashes all around town as the sun warms up the metal and the snow slides off. In the photo above, I caught a picture of the snow taking a pause on a house down the street before it all came crashing down.

One morning, a few days into the great thaw, I received a text from a loyal blog reader (my Dad):

Well I’ll tell you, loyal blog readers!! The first day the temperature went above zero, all the dozens and dozens of red polls we’ve been feeding since Christmas vanished. They finally flew north to their breeding grounds and not a bird has touched the feeders since!

Hank’s paws are muddy again after our evening walks.

He’s not one to jump in the puddles. Maybe stop for a sip though.

The ice road officially closed just 4 days after the temperature increased outside. People are still crossing though. For a few days still by vehicle, and now just on foot.

Jeff was away for a weekend teaching firearm safety courses in another Yukon community. I joined some friends for a trivia fundraiser for our local radio station at Gertie’s. It was great! Each team had to send someone up on stage for each category, and we had to write the answer on a white board.

And we won! $300 to split between us!

When I walked out of Gertie’s around midnight, there was a big pink band of northern lights in the sky. I drove home and by then the entire sky was lit up. Here’s an iPhone photo from the back step of the house, looking up.

In the front of the house, the northern lights were dancing around the moon!

While Jeff was away, Hank and I did a nice spring hike up Mary McLeod road, by the cemeteries, and then down the lower Dome road. A nice 5.45 km hike on a Saturday afternoon.

Some big puddles always decorate town until the sewer drains are steam thawed.

The Klondike is thawing nicely too!

Fifth Ave has a big hole in it, as we’ve come to expect every non-winter season lately. Last year’s construction crew failed to hook up something properly and the city had to dig it back up.

Pussy willows are out now too!

We’re already prepping for camping season, and ordered a new Douglas mattress for our camper. The mattress that came with the trailer seemed so nice, but we kept waking up with sore hip bones. It is just too hard!

The mattress came last week, so we went out to where we store our trailer for the summer to get it unboxed, and unrolled, so it could expand. It had a couple creases from being folded and shipped, but it should recover. We may get the trailer out in mid may for our first weekend camp!

Yesterday my friend Tarie and I went to a garage sale, out for lunch, did some shopping, and then went to pick pussy willows for her porch.

While we were cutting some sticks on a back road, suddenly we smelled something poo like. Did we step in something? Nope, no poo on our hikers. We kept walking down the road, hunting more fluffy sticks, and then wondered… do you think that was the stink of a spring bear? Hmm. Neither one of us had bear spray, so we decided we had enough pussy willows and packed it in.

Stay tuned for my next post. Today we got the quads out for a spin!

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