Month: December 2008

I mentioned yesterday that a brake had frozen on my pickup truck and it was stranded at our Granger property. I stewed about it all night, as the situation was made even worse by the fact that in all the fuss I hadn’t even thought about plugging it in...

We got the kitchen renovation project finished yesterday afternoon, a little over an hour before picking the new tenants (and new Yukoners 🙂 ) up at the airport. Nothing like cutting it close! It’s a fairly dramatic change from the old kitchen – brighter, friendly and with a bit...

Climate change – in the southern Yukon the most noticeable effect has been warmer winters with less sun and more snow. Yesterday morning, the business of the day started at 08:50 with plowing the driveway (and ended 9 hours later when we got home from the kitchen reno job)....

For the past week, we’ve had 2 moose coming through the property on their rounds, and on Christmas Eve they bedded down for the night less than 100 feet from our bedroom window. We haven’t seen them yet, but the next-door neighbour says it’s a cow and 2-year-old calf....

According to The Weather Network, it’ll be darn near Spring, with temperatures hitting about 0°C (32°F). Given the accuracy of weather forecasts, I’m not going to hold my breath, though 🙂...

You would think that Yukoners would know how to drive on icy roads, wouldn’t you? The roads are extra-icy right now, and the number of vehicles off in the bush is amazing – people who were just driving too fast. Usually accidents here are single-car because there are few...

I don’t use checks very often anymore (pretty much everything is done online), but was looking for Northern or husky checks this morning anyway. Along the way, I found these cats -aren’t they cute? 🙂 (they’re from Bradford, who also has some really nice wolf designs.) Yes, you do...

Here are a couple of photos I took on the way home yesterday at 4:25, with the temperature sitting at -33°C (that’s -27.4°F). To get these shots I made a detour over to Long Lake Road, one of my favourite shooting locations. It offers a good broad look at...

Crown mouldings are plain and simple a pain in the ass to do, but they really do take a cabinet job up a notch so are worth the effort. I’ve been hoping that it would warm up a bit before I had to clean the shop at the house...

It is so beautiful when the mercury drops out the bottom of your thermometer. No, really! Check out these photos taken in the past few days, for example: The historic sternwheeler SS Klondike in an icy fog rising off the open water of the Yukon River as it flows...