The past few days there’s been a corporate jet parked at YXY of a type I didn’t recognize, so this afternoon I finally took a few minutes and stopped for a good look. The Mexican-registered beauty, XB-RSH, is a 1980 Rockwell NA-265-65 Sabreliner. The really cool thing about the...

I got the snow tires installed on both cars yesterday. This is the first time that I’ve ever been able to do it myself, and saving $240+ for an hour’s work felt great! It takes a considerable investment in extra wheels, and having an air compressor makes the job...

For many of us this is an even busier period than summer – getting ready for winter is a lot of work when you live like we do. In the city we didn’t have this “problem” – the thermostat provided heat all winter, the driveway was easy to shovel...

I try to get down to Skagway to see the last ships each year, and yesterday turned out to be an excellent one. Lousy weather (as expected), excellent day. I always wonder whether people know the kind of weather to expect when they book these very late (or very...

It’s that time of year when moose mate. Today I got incredibly lucky and witnessed part of a mating dance at Tutshi Lake. I first saw this bull on the sand bar at the south end of the lake, at the mouth of the Tutshi River. He was just...

I was working at the cruise office in Whitehorse yesterday and during my 15-minute commute back to Mary Lake got a bit distracted by some photo ops. That made me think about the difference between a Whitehorse commute and what it’s like in some other places. In the Fall...

Going through photos of our house renovation progress yesterday, I came across some pictures of the snow we got last winter, and was shocked – my memory of being buried in the white crap might have underestimated it. The two photos below show Cathy digging a pathway into the...

The Fall colours on Golden Horn are spectacular this morning – this photo was taken from the deck at 07:40. I had planned to get into the high country today but the friend who was going to go with me cancelled because she’s sick. Now, should I go and...

My list of “to-dos” is lengthy and growing, but the priority is getting ready for the arrival of Father Winter. The largest of those jobs is firewood – the cutting and the stacking. We’ve still got a good stock of logs from our cutting last year, and today’s focus...

Cathy and I had planned on working on the house yesterday. No really, we had 🙂 , even though it was a beautiful morning. But then I got an email from the WP&YR railfan discussion list [now gone] that I belong to, saying that there was going to be...