Category: Whitehorse

We’ve put our rental house in Granger up for sale. It’s on a large, private treed lot, has been extensively renovated and has 2 bedrooms plus a den/bedroom upstairs (1,340 square feet) and 2 bedrooms downstairs (1,225 square feet). The asking price is $439,000. For more information, see this...

Although I used the word “volcano” in the title, Golden Horn isn’t technically a volcano, as the lava that oozed out of it wasn’t an eruption. I fairly often post photos of Golden Horn as we see it from our property, but tonight I’d like to show you how...

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...

Whitehorse is a dramatically different community than it was when I arrived 20 years ago, but the changes have come fairly slowly. Yesterday I took an hour and recorded some of the little changes happening now. One of the larger construction projects is the new medical staff residence at...

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...

There’s a conference coming up in Whitehorse in April 2010 that I want to tell you about. The Yukon Wholistic Health Network is bringing Dr. Gabor Maté in to present a series of talks and workshops based on his best-selling book When The Body Says No: The Cost of...

It is soooo beautiful right now – the temperature is still not bad, hanging around -20°C (-4°F), and the sunshine and thick frost are distractingly pretty. Yesterday I went exploring for a bit. I had to meet a Web site client out to the west just before sunrise, and...

I seldom go anywhere without my camera, and yesterday was a good example of why. Cathy and I just had to run into Whitehorse to run a few errands – I’d forgotten my camera but Cathy grabbed it on the way out the door. As soon as we got...

Yesterday was one of the days that make me think that winter isn’t so bad after all. It was flat out gorgeous. I started the day out in the hot tub, mesmerized by the beauty of the snowy forest bathed in the light of a full moon. The first...