July Gardens

I love my gardens, but sometimes they get a bit out of control. This year we've decided to renovate one of the gardens to get rid of weeds and grass.

Asian Greens Galore!

This year I tried a new garden vegetable - a bunch of them actually - a series of Asian greens. I don't even remember what their names are any more, but they are delicious and very productive. So far we've had 8 big bags of goodness this week alone.

Delicious Lunch

Christopher made a lovely lunch today with our Yukon raised roast chicken.

What does Chris DO for a living anyway?

This one is a hard question to answer ;-)

The last week Christopher spent camping with his buddy, friend and mentor Douglas on the land overlooking the Yukon River at Minto in Selkirk First Nation Traditional Territory.

This was a gathering of Three Generations of Northern Tutchone Men passing on Traditional Knowledge, Stories and Traditional values.  Doug and Chris Organized and facilitated the gathering.  It is fun and lots of work at the same time.

We built rafts, skinned and cut up beaver, cut up moose, built drums, took the hair off a moose hide, told stories, etc.

+32 and Thunderstorms

Finally we are (so far) having the kind of summer we expected when we moved to Whitehorse.  In ten years there have been only 3 or 4... sigh.

It is baking hot during the day up here up to +32 in the shade and has been for several weeks... YAHOO!!!!!  Along with the sun and hot comes fires and afternoon thunderstorms that cause fires...

Take a good look at this one, it knocked all the beautiful blossoms off our Maydays and apple trees :-(

This is the view from our deck looking at our neighbour's house and their kids outside experiencing a real storm.

It then turned to hail making our yard white.

Sunny Days

We've had some lovely sunny days here in Whitehorse. The trees are finally green, the lawns are filling in and the first of the seeds are up in the vegetable garden. There are times when i think summer will never arrive. Once it does I try to really enjoy it. Hope you are enjoying your summer.

The many positions of the Co-Pilot

In general, it is only me who gets to see the many interesting (and often painful looking) positions ISLA adopts when she sits and lays in all over the truck when road tripping all over the Yukon.  I wanted to begin this post with  the first one I have ever recorded...

I hope there will be many more to come and I hope you find it as entertaining as I do (even though I am captive in a truck with her).

Christopher