Northern Life
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Subtleties of Light
We are now only about four days away from seeing the sun, and it is a joy to watch the light creep ever farther down King George Mountain everyday. As is the case with the days in between 24 hour light and 24 hours without sun, the sky is an ever changing tapestry of colours
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I’ve been remiss
I haven’t yet made mention of Comet McNaught that has been appearing in our South Eastern Sky during the "day". Both Darcy of Way Way Up and Jennifer of Nunablog have posted on it. The strange thing is that a link on one of the Nunablog posts led me to the discovery of my friend,
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Dinner and more
It must be some sort of a record for a family supper. Last night we hosted Christmas dinner for both sides of Leah’s family and had a great turn out. I’m not sure how many people exactly were here, but I’m estimating around 70. Leah tried to count at one point and had reached over
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Worry.
It’s Christmas in the Arctic. Well, okay, it’s Christmas everywhere (except maybe Australia where it might already be Boxing Day). Tonight was one of those incredibly crisp clear nights, where the smoke from chimneys rises straight up. It’s getting cold, I think -35 or so, I’ll soon have to start wearing long underwear. Tonight, as
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Poker
I enjoy poker. I enjoy playing poker from time to time and we pretty much watch one of the myriad Texas Hold’em Tournaments several times a week. (Sorry you had to find out this way mom.) Back when I was a summer student in Thompson I played somewhat serious poker, and pretty much doubled my
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Aurora
I originally composed a post on this about a week and a half ago but about 30 seconds before I added it the connection reset and it was lost. Throwing my hands up I didn’t tackle it again, however recent comments (Hi bev) made me revisit it. Occasionally people ask about the Northern LIghts up
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The light right now
Thought I’d post a couple of pictures for your perusal. The first is the sky from earlier this morning. It is a little darker than in reality but will give you an idea of that wonderful gradient that is the sky up here now. The other picture shows how much light we have at noon
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A Thought on “The Plane”
This past week Jennifer of Nunablog posted some thoughts on "The Plane". An excellent post on what most of us think about the arrival of the plane. It reminded me about a conversation I had shortly after I got here. I was talking to a person from Arctic Bay, and I was all excited because
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Headaches
The other day we got word that Travis needed to go down to Iqaluit the beginning of December for some dental work. This of course entails me having to fly down with him (Leah doesn’t fly well). Now it’s not that I’m so adverse to a small change in scenery (although Iqaluit is really, really