Probably? When Jeff was fishing with his brother in northwestern Ontario last month, he wasn’t there for even 24 hours when he sent me a real estate listing. That’s when…
Read More
Happy Canada Day!
It’s a cold, breezy, rainy week in Dawson City, but none of that matters when it is Canada Day! Time to celebrate our great country and its people! I put…
Read More
Ants, high river, broken pump
Hank and I have been Jeff-less for over a week now. He’s having the time of his life fishing with his brother and friend, hopping from lake to lake in…
Read More
Gerties, Kelly Bishop, and voles
I am so sorry, Kelly Bishop, to include your glorious name in the same sentence as voles. The two are not related; let me assure you. If you are as…
Read More
Early summer in Dawson
It’s been a cold spring up here in the Yukon, but we’re pushing through it! Finally the afternoons are warm enough for me to work from the front porch (even…
Read More
The Pit is gone
It’s the May long weekend, and I woke up on this Sunday morning kinda annoyed that a neighbour down the street must have left his campfire smouldering all night, and…
Read More
Amazing tea, crocuses, and ick!
I returned home from Singapore with an icky cold! What started with a sore throat spread to face pain (sinuses probably?), sore teeth, crackly ears, chest congestion, sneezing, coughing, just…
Read More
Snotty Nose Rez Kids
For the final show of my winter get-out-there-and-sample-new-things series, my friend Janet and I went to see the Snotty Nose Rez Kids tonight! They are a hip hop duo from…
Read More
Spring Updates
Nothing substantial today, just a bunch of pictures and brief updates! Garage flooded Our garage flooded! The base of the garage doors is flush with the back alley. In the…
Read More
Was it really the coldest March here in 50 years?
We’ve been hearing that it was the coldest March in 50 years up here in the north. From: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/forecasts/locked-in-the-freezer-northern-canada-just-saw-its-coldest-march-in-50-years But was it in Dawson City? Was it really the coldest…
Read More
Thaw di Gras 2026
It was Dawson City’s Thaw di Gras Spring Carnival this past weekend. As always, it was bitterly cold, but sunny! I went out three nights in a row! We kicked…
Read More
The graders say it is SPRING!
It’s totally not spring, it’s cold, and windy, and never ending, but it is sunny and the graders are stripping the snow off the streets! I zipped out for some…
Read More
Armour courtois – a night of medieval jazz!
Tonight, with my friends Janet, and Alex, I attended Amour Courtois: Medieval Meets Jazz at KIAC (Klondike Institute of Art & Culture). Janet and I purposely didn’t look up anything…
Read More
Saturday afternoon updates, of little importance
The red polls are back for the season and are finally eating the bird seed we’ve provided! The sun shone on our house today! For the first time since November….
Read More
Boil water advisory just lifted, but Hank had to skip a walk
Thanks to Facebook, home of our community’s digital rant and complain board, we heard that an aggressive pitbull had just ripped a dog apart, killing it, on the north end…
Read More
Broken water mains, flooding, frozen pipes, and a boil water advisory
It’s been a busy week in Dawson, most particularly for our city workers, and local contractors. We’ve had a couple of water main breaks lately, which happens here in winter,…
Read More
Yep, still cold
It’s January. Of course, it is still cold. Turns out, that was our 6th-coldest December in Dawson City since 1898. Zooming in on that chart for Dawson City: I’ll have…
Read More
I’m 50! Recap of the week
When my brother and his wife told me a few months ago that they were thinking of coming up to visit us for my 50th birthday, I thought they were…
Read More
Hundreds of earthquakes and the cold is here!
On Saturday afternoon I was decorating the house for Christmas and I was a little damp-eyed as I set up the little Christmas tree that always sits on the kitchen…
Read More
I went to a French rock concert
And I thoroughly enjoyed it! Except maybe I should bring ear protection next time, that was kinda loud. I had a goal to get out and do more things this…
Read More