I love ice. Not just winter ice, but ice in my drinks. Cold water just isn’t cold enough! In Nova Scotia, we bought a fridge specifically for its ice making…
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Won’t be long now sunshine
My notes from our first winter here say that the river stopped flowing on November 17th last year, and the sun stopped hitting our house in the same week. Today…
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Some more pictures of the night sky
My GoPro and I just walked around town. Here are a few shots:
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-17C and the sky is lighting up
It’s a clear cool night. -17°C and dropping. But the northern lights are out! Here’s a few more GoPro shots from the backyard. For those curious, this is the 30…
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Mid-October drive around the goldfields
We went for a drive all around the gold fields today (Bonanza, Sulphur, Eureka, Dominion, and Hunker roads) knowing that the snow is coming tomorrow and that’ll likely mark the…
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Yukon River is getting slushy!
Jeff has a horrible awful cold, so I wandered to the grocery store again on this Sunday morning to get him cough medicine. This is about 10:30am. -10°C Definitely hat…
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Pictures from my walk home from the grocery store
Yesterday the grocery store was completely out of milk and frozen pie crusts, but the truck came in today, so I wandered over this afternoon for pumpkin pie supplies. Here…
Read MoreMore northern lights photography testing with the GoPro
I took the GoPro down to the river bank tonight around 10pm. I don’t know if this was more a test of my personal bravery for going down to the…
Read MoreMy GoPro is pretty decent at night sky shots
Just learned tonight that my GoPro has a night time photo setting, so I set it to 30 seconds and went outside in the back yard to take a few…
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Cathedral Grove, Vancouver Island
Cathedral Grove is a place on Vancouver Island where you can go hug big old trees! It was rainy and muddy, but that wasn’t stopping us from taking a short…
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A quick visit to Washington State and Victoria
After the Grand Meetup, Jeff flew down to Vancouver so we could take a short vacation for a few days. Our first stop was in Washington State to visit my…
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Automattic’s 2016 Grand Meetup
I work for Automattic, a company who’s entire workforce works remotely around the world. Once a year, we all get together for a week packed full of work, planning, socializing,…
Read MoreI’m back!
It’s so hard to leave Dawson City, if even for two weeks. This is my safe place, my utopia, my world. But once I leave, this town feels so far away,…
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Monday’s treasure hunt
On Sunday Jeff went on his solo caribou mission, but when he came home he was quick to tell me not to read anything into what he was going to…
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Another drive up the Dempster to see the fall colours
It looked like we had our wings clipped for the long Labour Day weekend. On Friday afternoon, Jeff drove the truck to the mechanics to book an upcoming appointment to get some…
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Tombstone Territorial Park in Fall
It is our second Autumn in the Yukon. We travelled home to Ontario last week for my cousin Leahanne’s wedding, but luckily we didn’t miss all of the fall colours…
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Our Fairbanks, Alaska long weekend adventure
It was a long weekend here in the Yukon (Discovery Day), so Jeff and I decided to take a quick trip to Alaska for one last cross border adventure before…
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Another visit to the Bear Creek compound – what a treasure!
Earlier this summer, we visited the Bear Creek historical compound of the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation, just south of town on the Doors Open Dawson day. Refresh your memory here: https://lisaschuyler.com/2016/05/21/doors-open-dawson-2016/…
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Caribou scouting trip
Jeff heard of a series of back roads and trails that could get him up to a highland area, higher than the treeline, where he could hunt woodland caribou. Despite it…
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Sold our house, poked some cherries, and autumn is coming
It’s been a great couple of weeks! Here are some highlights: House First, we FINALLY sold our house in Nova Scotia! It was a long, expensive, stressful year with a empty…
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