Monday, December 10, 2007
The world is different now
By the time I had sufficiently recovered to get up and around, 8 days had passed since the beginning of the storm. I'm a bit ashamed to say that I milked it for awhile, taking my sweet time to climb out of bed and begin making myself useful again. I had no idea that the world I lived in had been...
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Saturday, December 8, 2007
The wind changes direction
One of the inescapable influences in our lives in that region where the nor westerlies that blew down from the arctic circle. They were petrifying winds, capable of deepfreezing just about anything instantly. Many a person ended up as an instant human popsicle if they let their guard down, far too...
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
We almost said our last goodbyes
After we had finished our hot chocolate, it was time for me to harness the dogs once more and head out to the trapping line. I didn't have a map of the area or anything so sophisticated as that, I did carry a compass but rarely used it. Instead a sixth sense develops in a person that spends a lot of...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Fun in the snow
The Saturday morning following the trade for the snowshoes, I couldn't help but laugh as I pulled the dogsled in beside the Robinson house. Every square inch of the small valley the house was built in was covered with snowshoe tracks. They had been practicing walking in snow with their new footwear....
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Sunday, December 2, 2007
The whalebone flute
After the Saturday morning deliveries became routine, with my new employers laying out their ground rules and my continually keeping them apprised of realities, it wasn't long before we were all on the same page. As new persons to the region, they had grasped firmly what they could and could not do,...
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Saturday, December 1, 2007
It was time to head home, I dreaded the thought
After sipping hot chocolate for about an hour and getting to know my new neighbors a bit, the time had come to re-hitch my dog team and head home. A little incident took place as I was rousting the dogs in the mud room from their sleeping positions. Apparently no one had noticed that I had carefully...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Meeting the boss
I spent the week after receiving the $20 making plans with my mother as to what we were going to do with it. Ammunition was running low, I was down to about a dozen rounds, making the decision for some of the newfound wealth fairly easy but what to do with the rest was a bit of a quandary. A box of...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
My new job as a delivery boy
At the time, my family's net worth was the $17 in food credits we had on account at the trading post. As puny as this sum may seem in today's dollars, it represented 2 weeks of groceries if our diet could be supplemented with game. We were ahead in that department as well with a fully stocked...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
So much for my neighbours > > >
When I think of the vision that I sculpted in the twilight back in those days, my ability to intimidate groups of people simply by my appearance, I cannot help but think that some of that image remains. It is long gone, I know it, but the memory itself stops me continuously from being a whimp. By...
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
Rock and Roll way back when?
In the past here on Blogit I have blogged about some of my college roommates who formed a band and had a taste of fame and fortune in the music industry. A "taste" is the key word, their first album went instantly platinum, propelled by one hit song, their second album which failed miserably trashed...
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