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The man I most wish I was
I've often said that I am a very lucky man. I've long known that. And a good part of the great life I've had, and the type of man I am falls at the feet of my father. Many of my fondest memories surround him, from Saturdays at McLeod's lunch counter, to walks in the…
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Whew…
Am I ever glad that summer season has drawn to a close. It seemed like it would go on forever.
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Not ready for Hollywood yet…
Townie Bastard is one of my daily reads, and he recently posted on his attempt to write his first novel. Or rather on the frustration of discovering that what you thought was pretty good, still needs work. I can relate. For the most part I quite like my screenplay, and in general it's been pretty…
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I and the Bird #77
Hey man! It's the Byrds. Er rather the Birds. Head on over to the delightful Great Auk – or Greatest Auk? for all of the Birds hits. You know, songs like To everything Tern Tern Tern, there is a season Tern Tern Tern. It's all there in this edition of I and the Bird. Act…
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Permafrost
One of the features of the Arctic is rather, well, featureless. At least in terms of features we can easily see, but permafrost is an essential characteristic of the Arctic. It is a feature that allows plants to survive in the desert that is the High Arctic, and a force which shapes our terrain, and…
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More Kiggaviarjuk
It's funny just what you can miss in the excitment of things. Today when I was going through some of my photos from my hike the other day I looked at this one, which appears in the previous post, and wondered just why I took it. I zoomed up to the actual pixels and just…
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Yes, that is snow…
Believe it or not there is a mountain across there. A huge low pressure system is parked a little south west of us right now, after leaving snow on much of the rest of Baffin Island. Want to bet that mountain will be white tomorrow morning?
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Kiggaviarjuq
With Leah and Travis heading off today out on the land for a week, and with the House being completely booked between today and the middle of August, I thought I had better take advantage of a free day to go for a bit of a hike, and see the Kiggaviarjuk. So before everyone else…
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I love it when a plan comes together
I'd been planning to get out to do some bird surveying for the past little while but have been mostly thwarted. A couple of blown tires and other responsibilities have kept me from spending any real time. And birds from the south should be arriving these days. So my plan was to get a babysitter…
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Friday construction post – Prettyfied
Here is the (almost) complete Gas Box from the last Friday Construction Post. On Saturday I sided most of the box, but it was a slow process, or slower than it should have been. Because the box doesn't have consistent dimensions each siding board had to be individually measured, and then the end cuts painted.…
