Hey Yukoners, you left too early!
Driving down to Skagway with Cathy this afternoon (after 2 days of painting bedrooms), we met a fairly steady stream of Yukon RVs heading home after what had apparently been a pretty poor weekend weathwerwise. Check out the photo below to see what those folks missed, though – by...
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Photographing & sharing your dream trip
Photographing your dream trip and sharing it with friends, as it happens or later, gets easier and cheaper all the time. Digital photography was the biggest change in that direction – where I used to always at least subconsciously ask myself if the photo I had framed was worth...
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In search of Spring – in Skagway perhaps…
The wind has a bite to it, and most of the fence post holes I’m digging still get stalled when I hit solid ice a few inches below the surface, so today I took advantage of an opportunity to go to Skagway with my buddy Rob, who needed to...
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Digital magazines
Years ago it was said by some self-proclaimed pundits that the digital age would be the end of books, magazines and newspapers. While that hasn’t happened, there have been some major changes in the publishing world. I love the feel of books, and e-books will never replace them in...
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Renovation progress
It’s finally starting to feel like Spring, even though the wind still feels like it’s blowing straight off the glaciers. We’re in major renovation mode now. The wood I cut is almost all removed from around the property, though I have a lot of cutting-to-length, splitting and stacking to...
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Spam and blogs
You all know about email spam, but many of you won’t know that blogs are prime targets for spammers. Not just sex ads like the majority of email spams, but anything you can imagine, from travel agents to magazine sales. The only thing that keeps me relatively sane is...
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A magic dawn at the Bear Glacier
I had intended to post a fairly lengthy report about my trip home from Calgary, but there just aren’t enough hours in the day. I do want to show you a very special moment that happened during the trip, though. I left Stewart at 6:00 am (an hour before...
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Wolf hybrids & cats
Kayla is a such a sweet dog I often chuckle at how she came into my life, and about the wolf-hybrid horror stories that circulate. She’s a registered wolf hybrid from a breeder in Ocala, Florida. When she was abandoned in Whitehorse, I took her in with the understanding...
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Chain saw + sweat = mountain view
I love our new property. Most mornings, we have over 150 birds feeding at the 2 feeders or close by, and their sound filling the forest is wonderful. Renovations have started on both property and house, though, and seeing if we could get a mountain view without losing any...
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Road Trip – Whitehorse to Calgary
It’s time for a major road trip to see some of my family in Calgary and Kelowna. It was timed so that I could help my daughter and grand-daughters move when I reached Calgary. I left the house at 6:15 am on April 13th with the temperature at 0°C....
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