Northern Life
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Something’s happenin’ here.
What it is ain't exactly clear. The picture is dull and dark, but it was a grey rainy evening. Just a perfect evening for ATV'ing out of town to change the tire on a truck with no spare. The picture is of Arctic Bay (the body of water) from the opposite side of town. Arctic
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Class of 2020. The class with vision!
Travis' kindergarten class graduated today. Ready to take on the world. Afterwards he said "Dad, tomorrow I'm in Grade I". He was so thrilled about it I almost didn't want to tell him he now has the summer off… or that there are 12 more years, undergraduate and med school still left. Doesn't he look
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Scenes from a Derby
This past night the Fishing Derby wrapped up in Arctic Bay with the awards night at the gym. First prize at each of the five locations was one thousand dollars, and although she was quite successful in her fishing, Leah didn't catch any award winning fish. Travis didn't catch any fish, but being outside for
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Quirks and Quarks and Polar Bears
Just in case you think I'm just blowing smoke out of my nether regions on my previous comments on the threat to polar bears, here is Bob MacDonald's (of Quirks and Quarks fame) take on the issue.
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Alone again, naturally
Well not quite alone. The May Long Weekend brings the annual Fish Derby to Arctic Bay and this afternoon Travis and Leah left with Leah’s family to Kugurajuk, about a 9 or 10 hour snowmobile ride south of here. They’ll be gone until Monday. And I’m quite sure that there’ll be three or four other
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Ready Aye Ready
Arctic Bay has a pretty good Cadet Corps program in place here. In a community with not a lot of activities to offer young people Cadets has been a bright shiny light here. Over the past few years they’ve done very well in drill and shooting competitions and have garnered individual awards and accomplishments. Every
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Another blow
Today the US Government listed the Polar Bear as a Threatened Species. For the most part I’m just going to point you to what I said back here. I guess this now means that in order to remove the threat the US will finally take action against Climate Change. Won’t it? Nothing has changed, the
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Scenes from a Quest too
Wednesday, saw the end of the race here in Arctic Bay. Things started to happen around noon, when the barbeques were fired up down on the ice and lunch was provided for anyone who wanted. There were, of course, games, while the crowd waited. There are always games. Around two thirty the snowmobiles, and komatik,
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Scenes from a Quest
The Nunavut Quest dog team race ended here in Arctic Bay yesterday. The race itself ended but there are still festivities going on until the weekend. The final leg was won by Moses Oyukuluk of Arctic Bay and he may have won the overall title but the winners won’t be announced until a dance on
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Infernal Combustion Engines
I’m not what you would call very mechanical. I wish I was, and darn it mechanical skills should be innate. Shouldn’t they? Luckily I live in a place where everyone else is a small engine mechanic. It is not unusual to come across someone on the land, tarp filled with parts spread out beside their