Week 2..

Surprise! I'm back. Although I haven't been able to get a picture of any yet, I've seen arctic foxes about 4 times already. I was thinking that maybe I haven't seen any hares this time yet was due to the number of foxes around. But I just thought- those hares are about the same size as the fox and I'll bet would put up a good fight. So- nothing to do with that. Maybe a big lemming population season? This was outside of the Centre the night of one of last weeks blizzards. It doesn't reflect the 90km wind speed- I thought of videoing, but standing outside...well it just didn't seem worth it. I did manage to get stuck twice last week- both in drifts and both during blizzards- go figure. Both times a back hoe had to pull me out. It is my intention to try a little harder to avoid a third time.

Celebrating Christmas was nice- I enjoyed the phone calls and facetime. I do have to admit i would have much rather been at home for the family time. I miss you guys.. There was a nice Christmas dinner put on by the nurses at one of the residences. The regulars planned ahead and prepared a whole dinner- Christmas tree and decorations as well. The Mounties and our Security attended, and even a 2 year old boy who liked to play with his trucks- and then throw them.

These photos are of- 1. St Philips Anglican church. Looks kind of different with the dome structure, and maybe looking a little run down. Can't tell you anything more about it- I couldn't find anything on line about age or architecture. The other is of course the local Northern Store. Pretty quiet there at 3 in the afternoon. I haven't decided which is better here- the Co-op or Northern. Both have pretty small selections. Nice though that the 2 are less than a km apart so you can check both out if looking for something in particular.

So here is the moon over the next door neighbours house. My walk today was to head up to the highground at the edge of the hamlet so I could give you a better impression of the place. Umm, no. The high ground isn't high enough and everything gently slopes toward the water. So, without a plane or drone (Liv?) it's not going to work. Anyways- it was a nice walk.