Category: Home Life

November 26: I had to go into the cruise office this morning for a bit. This was the view as I pulled out of the driveway – while a contrast to the scenes of recent weeks, it’s great to be home. I took Cathy’s car, which our house-sitter has...

With Fall here now (we had -3°C a couple of mornings ago), I’ve loaded up the firewood room in the basement and the wood furnace is fired up. But with the firewood in the house we also have new residents that we haven’t seen since May – wood bugs...

There’s a very long “to-do” list hanging on the fridge, and only 3 weeks until I head out of town again. The weather is mostly sunny and warm, so I’m not inclined to work on inside projects. The first outside job the take care of was simple – clean...

My old F-150 doesn’t get much use anymore. Other than hauling firewood, lumber, rocks or snow, she just sits in a portable garage hidden beside the house. This morning I took it into town to fix a gate at our rental house, though. As I was driving down the...

While out on our walk around the property yesterday, I spotted the first pussy willows of the year. It seems very early, but I’m certainly not complaining! This has been the easiest winter I’ve ever seen in the Yukon 🙂 This trail runs along our back property line. Through...

What a day that was! While not quite suntanning weather yet, it felt like Spring. The temperature hit +1°C here in Mary Lake, and I saw +3 on a Whitehorse report. We started really noticing the change in the light about a week ago – this is when most...

Some of you may have thought that I was just being negative with my post “Sucked in by the Weather Office Again?“. Well, the forecast that I was referring to called for temperatures of +5°C and showers for today. What we actually have is -25, high winds and heavy...

I thought it would warm up. Well, it did, but I was busy. “Warm” and “not busy” never did coincide (well, “not busy” never actually occurred). So, at 30 below zero, the Xmas lights went up on the house this afternoon. Next year I’ll get them up in October....

It’s a tad nippy out there this morning – -31°C (-24°F) – but my god it’s beautiful. This was our view of Golden Horn at 10:16, 7 minutes after sunrise. Today was a “special treat” morning for breakfast (these special treats get more and more common 🙂 ) –...

If you’re a squirrel, a sheltered woodpile no doubt looks like a great place to spend the winter. There are lots of places to nest in complete safety and relative warmth. But squirrels don’t seem to know what woodpiles are created for – that the pile will be taken...