Some of you may be like me – when you’re downtown you’re focussed on projects and probably miss the details around you (hopefully not details like red lights or icy roads, but some people in Whitehorse are missing even those really important details lately). One of the details I’d...

I’ve heard that hoar frost on power lines can cause power outages, but never paid much attention to whether or not it’s true. Since we moved to Mary Lake, though, we get split-second outages at least once a day, so this morning it was time to check out what...

With 4 properties to manage now, there’s always something to do – if I had a “real job we’d be in trouble. This morning I was up to Carcross to clean the snow off the cabin roof for the first time this winter. While local snow enthusiasts might be...

I love vintage posters, and was surfing this morning to see what’s out there. The answer, not surprsingly, is “almost anything you can imagine”. One shop in particular was fun – I found these 2 posters at Mountain Chalet. Okay, the boarding one isn’t vintage, but it would still...

A corporate/social power struggle has recently reached a unique zenith in the States. It could be called a battle between conservatives and radicals, and it’s led by Burton, makers of a line of snowboards and related equipment, including the Vapor, called by many the best snowboard in the world....

The garage in our city house that I showed you a few weeks ago is mostly empty now, allowing lots of room to bring a car in (what a concept – putting a car in a garage!). It has a wooden floor, though (apparently because it was intended to...

Here I sit at the computer at 04:15 a.m., after laying in bed stewing about wolves for the past hour or so. A dozen or so domestic dogs have been killed by wolves within a few miles of here the past couple of winters, and wolves came by last...

This morning started out cold and colourless – very much a black-and-white world – and I expected few or no photo ops on my trip to Carcross and back. As you’ll see below, though, the camera did come out of the bag. The first shot was taken just north...

On Boxing Day, Cathy and I went out looking for deals in Whitehorse. The only deal we found was at Staples, where you could get Norton Antivirus for $10 – there was an unstated catch that you could only get the $25 rebate on 1 copy, though, so I...