Construction
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It’s not horseshoes, close doesn’t count
I got thinking about roof panels after I mentioned it in the last post. Up here pretty much every roof is a metal roof. You don’t see a lot of shingles here. The roof package was part of our main house package that came up on the sealift. The roof, as evidenced in the photos,
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Water water everywhere
Drywall has begun going up inside the house. The water tank room has been drywalled in anticipation of bringing in a mechanical sub again. In Arctic Bay, indeed in much of the north, there are no sewers, or water mains. Water comes to your house in a truck, and the sewage gets taken away in
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Plans
When we started this process, so long ago it seems now, I really didn’t have a clue about the complexity and magnitude of this sort of business venture. I certainly had no idea on just how complex building a house was. And I really didn’t know just how long this would take. We’ve been going
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Travis on site
About 90% of the joy in my life (and I like to consider myself a joyful person) comes directly from my son, Travis Mathew Alvin Avinga Evaluarjuk Kines. Travis is coming on to three years old, he was born in Iqaluit in July 2002, and flew up to Arctic Bay two days later. We adopted