Crown mouldings are plain and simple a pain in the ass to do, but they really do take a cabinet job up a notch so are worth the effort. I’ve been hoping that it would warm up a bit before I had to clean the shop at the house...

It is so beautiful when the mercury drops out the bottom of your thermometer. No, really! Check out these photos taken in the past few days, for example: The historic sternwheeler SS Klondike in an icy fog rising off the open water of the Yukon River as it flows...

Well it’s almost finished. There’s a long list of stuff to do yet but it’s all comparatively fiddly stuff – more trim and kickplate, crown moulding, hanging 2 more doors, paint and such. We’re really pleased with the result, and hugely pleased that we were able to do it...

Today is “hump day” – from this point on we’ll be getting more and more sun each day. The sun will eventually come up at 10:10 today and at 3:48 it leaves our sky. This has been a surprisingly easy winter for both Cathy and I for some reason...

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...