Category: Lifestyle

I’ve heard that hoar frost on power lines can cause power outages, but never paid much attention to whether or not it’s true. Since we moved to Mary Lake, though, we get split-second outages at least once a day, so this morning it was time to check out what...

With 4 properties to manage now, there’s always something to do – if I had a “real job we’d be in trouble. This morning I was up to Carcross to clean the snow off the cabin roof for the first time this winter. While local snow enthusiasts might be...

Here I sit at the computer at 04:15 a.m., after laying in bed stewing about wolves for the past hour or so. A dozen or so domestic dogs have been killed by wolves within a few miles of here the past couple of winters, and wolves came by last...

Today is “hump day” in the seasonal sense – the day when we get the least sunlight of the year. Winter Solstice, the exact time when Whitehorse is leaning farthest away from the sun, occurs at 10:08 tonight. The sun will rise above the horizon today (and tomorrow because...

This is another easy-to-amuse morning for me. I see that recruiters from Queen Margaret’s School, an “all girls’ university preparatory school” for Grades 7-12 are going to be in Whitehorse on Tuesday. Their half-page ad doesn’t say anything about their academic programme, but does say that the school, located...

I’ve received some emails recently wondering if I’m okay. I appreciate the concern, and it has been over a month since I’ve posted here, but it’s not because I’ve been sick or any such bad thing. Spring is just such a busy time in the North, and this Spring...

I’m getting soft. Too much time in Whitehorse with a well-insulated house, propane heat and a cozy spa-for-2 will do that, I suppose. Our 6 Northstay guests arrive from Nova Scotia tomorrow, so all the furkids and I are at the cabin and Cathy is in Ontario visiting family...

I got up really early this morning so I could get lots of my backed-up work done. Good theory. Then I found a Web site with a lot of very funny stickers and buttons and such, and my productivity rating fell to zero. They claim a million stickers, but...

That was some holiday. I got sick two days before Christmas, and am just now getting back to normal. Cathy says she’s never seen me so sick – I can usually ward stuff off pretty good or at the worst have a couple of down days. We had intended...