Category: Home Life

This time of year, I start digging through the snow looking for Spring. Well actually I go looking for bare ground – the sun now has enough heat to warm the ground and get things dried out and growing weeks earlier than if I let Mother Nature do her...

Well, Spring officially began about 5 hours ago. The images below show what things looked like here a few minutes ago. Whoopee, I love Spring! w00t… 🙂...

One of the resources I keep handy for my ever-growing “to-do” list is the Web site for free woodworking plans at Google. These have been created using the very cool Google Sketchup program. I haven’t actually found time to use any of them yet, but Spring is coming (I...

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

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,...

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...

I began getting emails and phone calls a couple of days ago asking if I was okay, as I’d dropped off the face of cyberspace, with no blog entries and emails unanswered. The comments on yesterday’s explanation of what’s going on (and the many phone call) are deeply appreciated...

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...

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)....