Month: March 2009

It’s March 9, it’s almost 10:00, and the thermometer is reading -35°C – sigh...

Well, The Weather Network long-term forecast seems to indicate that the cold is about at an end 🙂 There are moose tracks all over the property now (even in the corral), so I was out shovelling waist-deep snow today to create places for our moose to get to new...

Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while have seen many photos of Fraser, British Columbia, that I’ve taken on my drives to Skagway. I’ve now posted some information about Fraser and an album of 23 images taken throughout the year. It will hopefully give...

The white crap just keeps falling. I’ve never seen the likes of this in the Yukon – we just don’t normally get a lot of snow. At our city property, the piles are over 8 feet high and there’s no room to put any more, so this morning I...

I went down to Canadian Tire yesterday, thinking about buying a snowblower – shovels just can’t keep up with the white crap this year in the many places that my truck-mounted plow can’t get to. What did I find instead? The front of the store is jammed with barbecues,...

I often see what little value many people place on their family’s history, and today I have the pleasure of showing you the other side of that coin. A collection of photos shot on a cruise and land tour of Alaska and neighbouring regions in the 1930s has now...

We had another moose drop by this morning. Monty alerted Cathy that something unusual was up, and she looked out the bedroom window to see the cow walking by about 30 feet away. The cow was walking quite gingerly, and I believe that she’s pregnant (calves are born between...