The Dark is Rising

That’s the title of one of my favourite young adult books by Susan Cooper. Her setting was England, which is geographically northern, so the days do get short there. Here in Whitehorse the sun doesn’t rise until 11 am. I embrace the Scandinavian ethos of lighting candles to rage against that dark. It is still very hard to get out of bed in the deep cold dark. 

Christopher's Return to Nova Scotia

The last week in Pictures... Returning to Halifax...

Framing of the windows in Sarah's GRAND ENTRYWAY...

Water Supply line excavations and improvements...

The first coating of finish on the flooring in the granny suite and upstairs hallway...

Spinning an Advent Calendar

My amazingly thoughtful sister-in-law found and gifted me a fibre advent calendar from Etsy. I’m using it as an excuse to carve out some creative time during the chaos of our move. I laid in bed one morning and thought about how I wanted to spin it.  Did I want to wait until after Christmas when all of the days were open? Did I want to try and blend them?. In the end I decided that I wanted the little joy of opening each days package. And then, as time allows spin it. Hopefully that day or soon after. And what kind of yarn did I want?. In the end I decided to spin it sort of medium so that I could ply it either against itself, chain ply it or possibly ply it with another handspun. Here’s the first four days on the bobbin. 

Mountain View

I’m totally surprised to find we have a mountain view from the front windows of our tiny house. A nice treat. 

Foxy Business

It was awakened it’s some ungodly middle of the night hour by the sound of footsteps on the roof outside my bedroom. When I open the curtain there was nothing to be seen but the tracks. But this afternoon…

It seems like the fox might’ve moved into the doghouse in her absence…

He’s definitely listening to us talking about him. But not deigning to turn his attention to us.

Progress in Nova Scotia

Many thanks to our friend and property manager extraordinaire

Theresa, her helper Susan and our new Carpenters who are moving things forward at our Nova Scotia house... even while we are away. The trimwork in the apartment is pretty much done and ready to be painted. Plumbing downstairs has been completed to lay the groundwork for future connections and renovation of the kitchen and main bathroom. The outside basement entrance has been rebuilt in Red Cedar from BC. Next week... the boys plan to tackle the new front door and windows facing the oak tree at the bottom and landing of the main house stairs... 🤞

The Other Old House

We are back in Whitehorse to move from one house to another. From Riverdale to downtown. Today I took the afternoon off and packed and unpacked our bathroom. Phew! 

Not cleaned yet, but ready for living! 


No beds in the downtown house yet. So we are still sleeping in the Riverdale house. Lots has been moved and we are in the middle of unpacking.

That’s our lovey new stove we just had installed. I think it makes the room. 

 We can’t unpack some things because we are hoping to get a few things in place, lime spray foam, carpet and shelves! 🤣