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Spring forward
Anxious to get back at it after the winter, we went out in mid-April to the cabin. After shovelling out the snow from inside, and with the help of my father-in-law, brother-in-law, Travis and others, lifted the fourth wall into place. It was quite obvious, but not at all unexpected that the Tyvek installed on…
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The other way
Time lapse in more light. This time from the cabin to town.
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The last (Ha!) cabin wall and end of the season.
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley, Things don't always go as planned. That, and "it will cost more and take longer", are pretty much givens in construction. At least in my experience. About a month into the project, and now into mid-September, I was ready to build…
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Getting there, the video
I thought I'd put up a short time lapse of a trip to the cabin, from our house, by road to Victor Bay and then over the sea ice to the cabin. Now that we're getting more light back, I should do a daylight version.
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Getting there
The cabin is on Victor Bay, over the hills from Arctic Bay. Now Victor Bay has an easily accessible area, about 4 kilometres by road over the town. Historically this is where people set up camp in the late spring and into summer. Because of its topography Arctic Bay is a bit of a solar…
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Walls, and, well, change
The trouble with going back in time like this, for a story on building a cabin, is that you lose much of the opportunity for the really interesting stories. Building alone means being innovative, and on occasion f-ing up and having to deal with the problem you created. There are a few of those stories,…
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The cabin on the Tundra
Way back in the origins of this blog, part of the impetuous for writing it was to document the construction of the Bed and Breakfast we were making. Hence the title. I learned a lot in those days of building. From knowing almost nothing about construction to being a passable carpenter. That was in no…
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Poetry inaction
So, I haven't done a thing since reactivating the blog. And perhaps that's another thing I need to work on. I truly miss the communities that sprang up around blogging. One thing I've done more of since leaving this place has been to try my hand at poetry. I've long wished I could express myself…
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Let’s see, where was I?
A lot has happened in the social mediascape since last I updated this blog. I mean it has almost been 11 years and things move fast these days. But it seems like a good time to revive it. For me. I'm not sure there'll be an audience anymore, but I also didn't think there'd be…
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Love’s labour lost
It is easy to anthropomorphize animal behaviour, to see the selfless act in what is really just the biological imperitive, the need to pass on one's genes. Or the vicious act, depending on the behaviour and our own values and perceptions. Often these behaviours are hard wired in, and just as often we don't know…
