Spring Skiing

Spring did come! Lovely skiing weather.

We were out at the Chadburn Lake trails just behind our house in Riverdale. We skiied down to Miles Canyon which is where during the Gold Rush folks worked up their courage before testing their rafts in the Whitehorse rapids. The rapids have since been tamed by the damn.

spring?

Hey, has anyone seen spring? Could you send her our way? We've had the longest cold stretch I can remember here in the Yukon. We have had around 6 weeks of -30 plus wind chill. Perhaps that should be minus wind chill. I decided after one very nasty chilling walk to work that my cold weather cut off is -34C including wind chill. One tragic morning as I glared at the thermometer on the back deck I made a mistake about the temperature. There is a HUGE difference between -17 and -27. At this time of year I have a hard time believing that winter will ever stop.

Baja California Sur

Just back from Baja and boy am I ever happy that it isn't -40 here in Whitehorse. Went for a lovely ski at lunch and feel that all is right with teh world.

Garlic Leg of Lamb on Potatoes recipe - Food - Canadian Living

Garlic Leg of Lamb on Potatoes recipe - Food - Canadian Living

How time flies

The snow is here to stay now. Since last week we've had about 18 inches of lovely white stuff. I really do love fresh fallen snow. The sound of peace to me. The world gets quiet you can hear everything because the noisy rushing of cars is dulled by the insualtion of the snow. Chris and I skiied around the Millenium trail which starts at the bottom of our streets and runs a loop around the edges of the Yukon River. To make it more fun we skiied a couple more kilometers into downtown and had coffee and a muffin at a lovely shop called Baked. Then we skiied back home. Right to our door. I had been meaning to ski to work for many years. yes years. I finally did so on Monday. Sadly, by then, everyone had shoveled and ploughed, erasing our lovely and hard made tracks from the day before. It would probably have been faster to walk. Tomorrow I'll try a slightly different route and see if it works out better.

Snow!

I was planning to bicycle to work until the 1st of October. Yesterday the snow was still on the ground as I made my way to work, but not falling. Today it is a blizzard out there! Very nasty wet stuff. The garden survived yesterday's dump, but not sure if it will survive today's. We've had a good run of it this year with 6 millimeter plastic.

Out Buildings

It has always been my thesis that one cannot have too many out buildings. They keep the house tidy, while being a haven for things that a dedicated pack-rat simply cannot throw out. We are now the proud posessors of 1 finished shed, two enormous wood sheds and the foundation for what we are calling a 'shack'. The shack will be all weather with the possiblity of heat and electricity depending on a variety of factors including the zoning, building code and easement owner (our local utility company).
This state of affiars is a vast improvement over the former site of trench warfare that was what the backyard looked like. It was a lesson to us all, do not allow a boy in the backyard with a digging machine. The idea of digging holes overwhelms whatever good sense said boy may posesses and the concept that you need to put the detritious dug from the hole somewhere never occurs.