Northern Life
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Sundog Triptych
I've been feeling guilty about the people who have been visiting the House from the Canadian Blogging Awards expecting to see a photoblog here, and decided that I had better at least get one picture up. Trouble is, I've not seen anything to inspire me and light is at a premium these sunless days. I
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Home again, home again
This will be short, as I've got things I'd rather be doing after being away from my family for a week. Two short items. First, I thought perhaps it was a fluke that my "breakfast" (muffin, apple sauce, cheese and crackers) was served frozen on my First Air flight south. But no, that is apparently
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This bread we break
Eating the foods we love, or enjoy shouldn't kill us. And I'm not talking about the slow death from that extra pat of butter, but something a little more direct. A little. Jayko died a little more than a week ago, and was buried yesterday. This past weekend when I called home I received some
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How to make a guy feel welcome
What a nice place, they even have Ravens soaring outside my windows to make me feel welcome.
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Okay, the other Arctic Bay bloggers were doing photos of the full moon.
So I figured I better jump on the band wagon. I had to be up at 3:00 am to get the moon in this position though. Time for bed.
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My morning
I'm working on day four or so of a badly spasming/sore back. Not the worse since I first threw my back out, oh eight or so years ago, but definitely in the top five. This morning, while I was grinding coffee (Equator's Breakfast Blend) I didn't hear a client come into the kitchen. He spoke,
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Missed it
I'm looking out over an ever deepening sky right now. It is tinged with lavenders and pinks and multiple shades of blues and greys. Today was the last day we'll see the sun in Arctic Bay, until it reemerges from below the horizon in February. Until then we'll only have twilight as the sun stretches,
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All Hallow’s Eve 2008
Halloween is one of those "no miss" events on the Arctic Bay calender, if only for the fantastic costume contest in the evening. I've blogged so many times about Halloween (four I think) that it is difficult to come up with something new to say. So I'll post some photos instead. This is Travis' rather