Office Christmas Eve Pot Luck

After all the arrivals, consumption and enjoyment, I caught a quick pic of the still groaning board and the santa tracker with no one else in the photo -

Merry Carding

One of my favourite Christmas gifts this year is a new set of hand cards. I was inspired to use them. 

Happy Christmas!

Christmas Tree Hunt

 We all love the smell of a sub-Alpine Fir - it smells like the essential oil of balsam (essentially the same tree). Getting one requires a bit of a trek, because you need to get high enough to be in their growth habitat, the sub-alpine. We trucked our way out past Carcross along the highway looking to spot likely trees. We found a great patch near the BC border. We weren't the first to harvest there, a couple trees had been topped before, growing a second lovely Christmas tree.

 The intrepid hunters return!

Christmas Wish

I wished for a white Christmas this year - it was looking very brown/grey. I got my wish! 

It is snowing 🥳

Van Duesen Festival of Lights

Wildlife Window Dressing

This shop in Mount Pleasant (Main Street) has this wonderful window display that looked like taxidermy but was felted wool. 

A New Christmas Tradition

I think it is a new Christmas tradition to make Christmas cookies and watch Harry Potter movies.

Yarn pics

Just a few pictures I took for an upcoming sale. This past year was pretty productive for yarn spinning. 

Up-cycled Office Supplies

Or, what to do with old typewriter parts. We have a day at the office I was digging deep in the back of the miscellaneous cover looking for an extension cord, when I found a whole pile of old typewriter roller balls. Some of you are likely to know better than I but after the letters on sticks stage of typewriter, IBM came up with this radical concept of a ball that would rotate in the middle striking against the tape, marking the letter on the page. Apparently these were extremely popular in my office, as were all the various fonts. They were 16 of these roller balls in an old Bay bag. Initially I was just gonna chuck them in the garbage but then I looked at them again and I thought they looked rather like Christmas ornaments. Then I had the ferry light Apiphany. The hot glue gun I made a string of lights with typewriter balls!

SNOW!

Yesterday we had a record breaking snowfall in Whitehorse. Somewhere around 13-18 cm. There was enough snow to close arterial roads and severely delay transit. I enjoyed a snowy walk home with a neighbour who also rides the bus. We agreed it’s fun when the car driving world is mildly disrupted by weather and you get shaken out of the everyday commute. 

Winter Mornings In Yukon

It happens every year on one of our walks in the morning in winter that we are reminded how beautiful our morning sunsets are.  They are too early in the summer to see unless you are partying super late... not really an option any more at our age;-).  The best part is that we can be super proud of ourselves for getting up before the sunrise... even if it occurs at 0830 ;-)... in addition to the beauty of the sunrise.

Takhini River Ranch

We arranged to buy beef, pork and lamb from the fabulous farmers who run the Takhini River Ranch - Scott and Jackie Dixon (farmers of the year this year). They have a beautiful location and treat their animals really well. We took the opportunity to meet the meat. 

Our lamb is in there somewhere. Sadly they are hair sheep not fleece sheep but come the spring I’m going to go check them out anyway. Just in case that very black sheep has wool...



This is the Dorper ram. With one of their quarter horses. 



The very friendly barn cats have their own heated cottage. 

The view of the takhini valley and mountains is special.