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Paint Spilling Update
A little while ago Dave figured out that perhaps to keep the paint from spilling the lids of the paint cans need to be on tight. And keeping with the construction philosophy of if a hammer won’t fix it, you aren’t using a big enough hammer, he made sure it was on “tight”. Gary was…
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Cilantro!
I have cilantro in the fridge! And jalapenos, and fresh limes, and avacodos. We brought up a new finish carpenter to help us in the home stretch of construction. Gerard is from Calgary and he arrived on the plane from Ottawa this afternoon. When he was getting prepared to come up here I gave him…
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The Floe Edge… continued
I had just been bemoaning the fact that we hadn’t seen a single Ivory Gull on the trip so far, or even heard one for that matter when one flew over and checked us out. It was followed closely by a second Ivory Gull, which landed on the pack ice a few yards away. (Sorry…
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The Floe Edge
Okay, first off, I’m an idiot. Lets get that out of the way right off the bat. I have never been so unprepared for a trip on the land as this one. Ever. I forgot eating utensils, plates, cups, and sugar, and now that I think about it, toilet paper. I left the meat in…
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Pipe
Gary and I started putting in the pipe for the heating system yesterday. When planning the house we settled on in-floor radient heat on a boiler system. So far it has been a large learning curve, not only for us but it also for the first mechanical contractor. Smokin’ Joe wasn’t much on new things,…
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Ah Spring
What a gorgeous evening it was yesterday. The weather cleared in the late afternoon, the wind dropped off, and it eased into a perfect evening. Bird song, Lapland Longspur, Snow Bunting and Horned Lark, rose up and took the place of the patter of rain. Now it feels like spring. Leah, Travis and I went…
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What Desert?
It has been raining all day. One of those steady, never letting off, rains. It actually has been raining on and off since Sunday. My fault really, we washed the truck for the first time since last fall. Arctic Bay is part of the High Arctic desert, averaging less than 6 inches of precipitation a…
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Purple Saxifrage
The snow around town has pretty much disappeared. We are in a bit of a solar oven here, and tend to lose our snow earlier than much of the area around here. My in-laws just snowmobiled to Hall Beach and back last week, and they were still able to travel over the land portions of…
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Panelization
The roof, is complete. It is hard to believe, but it is finally done. Yesterday the last panel was put on the spare bedroom of the B&B, and that, for all intents and purposes, marks the end of one major part of the project. The spare bedroom was kind of an afterthought. When we originally…
