Month: October 2008

Winter can come now – I have 2 years’ worth of firewood in the yard, one year stacked and dry, and both cars are in the slightly-heated garage. The power outages that are becoming a regular occurrence are a minor nuisance, but the house will stay warm and we...

During a Yukon summer it’s easy to just sit back and enjoy the benign Nature that surrounds us, and even that is easily overshadowed by the rush of “things to do” that most of us have. This time of year, though, Nature is tough to ignore – she bites,...

Being a railfan, I love this analogy… Speaking of train wrecks, at BustedTees.com I found a t-shirt for the poor kid who Sarah is claiming as her future son-in-law:...

After staying fairly stable for much of the Wall Street crisis, my RSP funds have suffered staggering losses this week as people panic and bail out of the markets. Depending on what you’ve invested in, that may be a good idea, but probably not. My former financial advisor gave...

I got an email this morning that told the amazing story of Brutus: The K9 above is Brutus, a military K9 at McChord. He’s huge – part Boxer and part British Bull Mastiff and tops the scales at 200 lbs. His handler took the picture. Brutus is running toward...

Stated more accurately, I don’t read properly anymore. Like many people with busy lives, I read snippets of information rather than complete articles – on the Web mostly. I seldom buy newspapers anymore, and often they sit on the table for days or even weeks before I do more...

Some of the readers of this blog are excellent photographers – here’s a chance for you to win some great prizes with your images. Enter Alaska Airlines Share the Moment Photo Contest. Choose and upload a photograph that best captures your favorite vacation moment from anywhere in the world....

Yesterday was a gorgeous day to get out, and it looked like pretty much every Yukoner had the same idea. Our reasonably warm, sunny days are about to end, and traffic was quite heavy on the Alaska Highway – by our standards that means that there were occasionally 6...