Let’s get caught up on all the excitement around here! Hiking / Daily Walks I’ve had to adjust my daily walking schedule. (You knew it was coming.) (No I didn’t…
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Break up
We were actually standing on the shore of the Yukon River when it broke this evening! We were walking Hank in the 6pm hour. Jeff took Hank home while I…
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The river broke, and a hike
The river broke on Thursday morning (May 6). Jeff messaged me to say it just broke and then I heard the town’s air raid siren to notify everyone (to be…
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A winter visit
The winter! the brightness that blinds you, The white land locked tight as a drum, The cold fear that follows and finds you, The silence that bludgeons you dumb. The…
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Emergency preparedness brochure – nice timing!
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 southern end of the Yukon…
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The thaw is on
The thaw is on! Streets are melting, mud and puddles are reappearing, and with all the metal roofs in town, the snow is crashing off like avalanches! The sunset is…
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Our new ice making hobby
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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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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Easter Sunday drive
It was unexpectedly sunny today, so we went for a drive. We headed down to Aspen, then took the back highway to New Glasgow, through Garden of Eden. Then we…
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My indoor garden is growing!
I’ve been slowly upgrading my indoor garden from the little peat pods I started the seedlings in last month, to their own pots. I was surprised how many little pots…
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SNOW! About time it stopped raining….
It was warm enough yesterday to pour rain for hours. But since everything was already covered in ice, it just made a bigger mess of the mess. Jeff’s cold is…
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They do blizzards wrong here in Nova Scotia
Yesterday was a cold day that started calm and clear, with a big bright moon. The snow moved in later in the afternoon, the fine kind of snow that accumulates…
Read MoreToday started at 4:50am…
There I was, sitting in my massive travel trailer, getting ready for a nap, hoping my company would leave so I could see if the antennae on the TV got…
Read MoreIce cleats – get ’em!
While the rest of the continent is experiencing the polar vortex, our temperature spiked to 7°C today with rain. That means our driveway is hard, wet, and incredibly icy. Like…
Read MoreWho wants THAT?
40-50mm of rain coming tonight, and tomorrow it is going to freeze. Any chance we can cancel this forecast and select another? Update: Jeff is trying out the chains he…
Read MoreIce, cold, new wipers, days are longer, and I’m still standing
-11°C this morning! The lake is frozen from our place north, but is still wide open south, through the widest parts of the lake. We don’t have much more than…
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Today on our adventure we went to check out the road that we heard was washed out a couple weeks ago because of an ice jam. We took the road…
Read MoreDrunk on sunshine
I’m drunk on sunshine today. I LOVE days like this. The sky is blue, the sun is bright, the air is still cool. (And there are no mosquitoes or blackflies)….
Read MorePictures of our ice dam
I really wish I could have gone back further to get a better photo of our roof ice, but the snow is simply too deep to walk back there. If…
Read MoreIce Dam!
Notice big icicles on the back of the house, especially over my bathroom window Wish it would stop pouring rain after snow, and over and over. Watch icicles form for…
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