Welcome to Autumn
Our first significant snowfall started overnight, just in time for the first day of Autumn! Winter always makes a quick appearance, leaving me feeling a...
The great thaw update, red polls, puddles, and pussy willows
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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...
The Great Thaw Begins!
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We hit 14 degrees Celcius this afternoon! The thaw is on! Here are a few photos from my walk around town this afternoon. The website...
It’s pretty cold
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It is -45C here today, oh, just dropped to -46! That’s not windchill or exaggeration. Here’s a new thermometer I took out to the porch...
Snowy November
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We both came back from Holland with a terrible cold. I’ve had weeks of a cough and green filled gooey chest. But I’ve come through...
A snowy August long weekend spent along a river
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On Friday after work, we drove up to one of our favourite spots, about 100 kilometres up the Dempster Highway for a weekend with friends...
Cold
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I love the cold. It’s clean, it’s crisp, it’s fascinating, yet it hurts. We’ve gone into the -40’s for a few stretches this winter. Most...
Hmm, should we go triple pane?
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We’ve got big old wooden windows in this house. They are two pane, but I suspect if we upgrade to triple pane windows, we may...
Emergency preparedness brochure – nice timing!
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How timely that we received an Emergency Preparedness brochure in our mailbox today! Why timely? Well this morning there were two big earthquakes in the...