We’ve found the practical limits of using the wood furnace as our sole heat source for the house. It’s -38°C this morning (that’s -36.4°F), and we had to turn on the oil furnace to get comfortable. That’s about the limit for the cabin as well – which is a...

My poor little cabin needed some attention, and the sunshine forecast for today tipped the scale in favour of going to Carcross instead of the kitchen job. The driveway wasn’t as bad as I was afraid it would be, but it will take a lot of work to get...

I’ve just started rebuilding my badly neglected Everything Husky! site, and came across these photos that Cathy shot during the 2007 Yukon Quest race. I’ve missed a lot of the races the past few years due to being out of town on bus trips, and I’m really looking forward...

This is what the setting moon looked like this morning at 11:10 as it set behind Haekel Hill. This shot was taken from the Mt. Sima Road with a 300mm lens, and hasn’t been Photoshopped. There’s a fair bit of ice in the air today, perhaps because of the...

We got the rest of the cabinets for our new kitchen in on Thursday, so were back to work on that project today. We got off to a late start, distracted by the great breakfasts at the airport 🙂 Although we’re running into some bugs, things are coming along...

A couple of envelopes I’ve received in the mail over the past few days came from tiny Alaska post offices, and made me think about how different they are from the mass-producing mail-factories that are found most places now. Just look at the postmarks on them – Nice stamps...

This is a public service announcement, passing on a couple of health warnings: First, do not swallow bubblegum! The second warning may not be completely accurate. Although the woman claims that jackhammer noise may harm her baby, it seems more likely that it’s already caused some degree of brain...

[Updated March 7, 2022] A couple of weeks ago, I received some information from Parks Canada about safety around polar bears. Many years ago I saw a polar bear while I was flying along the Beaufort Sea coast west of Tuktoyaktuk, and ever since have been determined to some...

The warm spell we’ve got happening right now seemed like a good time to put our first Christmas lights up on the house. “Warm” is relative, though – it’s been getting up to about -10°C, which still makes for cold fingers when you’re trying to work with little gutter...