Monday, October 6, 2008
Now Sydney gets adopted - sort of
On our way back to the Robinson house, even the fact our dogsleds were loaded with the largest yield of fish we had ever had, I was feeling a bit gloomy. It had taken me 3 years to work my way up to a 10 dog team, it lasted all of 5 weeks before I was back down to 6 dogs. It was not the act of...
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Monday, September 29, 2008
More big things asked of me
When we arrived back at the Robinson house, Mummu was sitting at the kitchen table with a small crowd around him. This was the first time he had hobbled from his bed since his beating and though in pain, was enjoying the attention he was getting. Sydney, the two girls from the Northern Algonquin...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Big things asked of me continued
Walking from Sister Neverhadaman's office with Mummu's file under his arm, Mr. Robinson asked us to get ready to leave, his mind seemed to be percolating with thoughts. Bundling up our two passengers, Sydney and I headed the dogsleds back to the Robinson house. It was a clear, moonlit evening, with...
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Big things asked of me
Not much happened over the next couple of days, I went back to school and kept an eye over my shoulder for janitors. It was erie, nothing happened, no one even mentioned Mummu's beating. Sydney stayed with his class at the Robinsons. I made a couple of trading post runs for Mr. Robinson but about 4...
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Mummu's new life
By the time we arrived at the Robinson house, Mummu had drifted back into unconsciousness, his eyes had blackened but it seemed as if the swelling around his face was going down. As we pulled under the overhang behind their house, Mr. Robinson and his wife Hanna met us there, they were visibly...
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Our new business venture
Arriving late enough in the afternoon at school to be certain we missed the last class we pulled the dogsled up behind the school mess hall. 9 fresh, large white fish handed to the head cook made us welcome visitors but everyone we encountered looked rather surprised to see us being so co-operative...
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Monday, May 5, 2008
The ice fishing business - pros and cons
When we headed to our cabin from our first day of laying ice fishing stakes, we were both nearly exhausted. A 13 year old and a 14 year old had just spent the day turning a brace and bit by hand into about 2 feet of ice, then sawing the holes bigger and shaping them. It was hard work, our first 10...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
So much for our educations
We spent a good part of the morning going from class to class to tell all the children of our adventures. Working in descending order, the first grade class was last on the list, entering the door to the classroom about a half dozen little Inuits came charging out of their seats and playfully...
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Returning to school
It made the most sense to stop at the church first, drop off one dogsled, then proceed to the Robinson house. This way we could harness my sled at the Robinsons and then have us both return the other church sled. The first part of the plan went very well, we stopped into the church compound, dropped...
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Friday, January 18, 2008
The hunting trip
Around 11:00AM we found the entire hunting party contingent waiting for us at the meeting place. There were 14 dogsleds including ours, manned by the Metis from Manitoba and several other men from our village. Sydney and I were the only young people in the hunting party, everyone else was well into...
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