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It’s coming! I and the Bird #11
I and the Bird #11 is scheduled for release right here at The House and other Arctic musings on Wednesday the 23rd of November. Get your submissions in to me or Mike at I and the Bird by early Tuesday. And do me a favour will you? Get the word out. You know there are…
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House photo
It occurred to me that I had never posted a picture of the completed outside of the House, and I’ve been telling people to look for it on the blog. Whoops. So here is one from earlier this fall….
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The Moon by Snowlight
Yesterday was a dull day. A light snow fell for much of it from a heavily overcast sky, dulling what little light we had. But as I drove down last night to Leah’s mom’s to pick up her and Travis, the sky had cleared and it was a crisp, bright evening, calm and calming. The…
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Putting in a Window
Thought I’d share with you this morning’s poem from The Writer’s Almanac. Putting In A Window John Brantingham Carpentry has a rhythm that should never be violated. You need to move slowly, methodically, never trying to finish early, never even hoping that you’d be done sooner. It’s best if you work without thought of the…
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Other Remembrances
While you’re there sitting with your hand on the mouse (No Ron, that’s not what I meant), take a trip over to Whippoorwill and to Bughunter for two excellent posts on their very different Remembrance Days.
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Memoir
My Grandfather, at some point in his life, began writing a memoir. I believe he intended it to carry on beyond the Great War, but it ends with his being demobbed after the end of the war. I got to thinking last night that some may be interested in it. And if you are it…
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Remembrance Day
They grow not old, as we who are left grow old.Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,We will remember them. Remembrance Day is by far one of the most important days of my year. A day which holds so much meaning and emotion…
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I and The Bird #10
Who? Thomasburg Walks, that’s who. She has done a great job putting up I and The Bird #10, Who? What? Where? Check out a bountiful crop of excellent posts of those great birds we all love. And start thinking about your submissions for I and the Bird #11, hosted by yours truly, here at The…
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What’s with the Purple Saxifrage?
I don’t get championship search strings, not like bootstrap analysis, but I am amazed at what brings people to my site from searches through Google and other search engines. About the most unusual I can muster up is crack cocaine Iqaluit Post Office. But there are several searches that I get on a fairly regular…
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Aqiggiq
I got to thinking, as I and The Bird’s deadline was rapidly looming, that my posts over the next few months are going to start to blur together (if they haven’t already). Ravens, ptarmigan, gyrfalcon, ravens, ptarmigan, gyrfalcon. And really it will be mostly ravens, ravens, ravens, ravens. Hmm perhaps I had better start writing…
