• Crew Stories

    Building the house up here has been a wealth of fodder for stories, and the crew has been, uh, entertaining if nothing else.  Gary and I keep saying that we have to start writing these down, which brings us to this post.  The names in this post have been changed to protect the guilty, the…

  • Travis on site

    About 90% of the joy in my life (and I like to consider myself a joyful person) comes directly from my son, Travis Mathew Alvin Avinga Evaluarjuk Kines. Travis is coming on to three years old, he was born in Iqaluit in July 2002, and flew up to Arctic Bay two days later. We adopted…

  • Sealift

    Our grocery Sealift catalogue arrived in the mail today. (We generally get mail twice a week on plane days, Wednesdays and Saturdays). If you’d like a challenge sometime, sit down and make a grocery order for as much of your drygoods that you’d use in a year. Oh, and you need to order everything in…

  • A start

    It’s a little late. I mean, we are getting close to finishing the house, and these musings should have started last August, when the ship arrived with our material. But there is still a ways to go, and there are lots of stories to share, so here is a start. My start. Welcome to the…