The Old Man Part II

Well Dad finally made it to Cape Dorset. In order of the pictures 1- The plane arrives, 2 - After 14 hours of flying and needing a smoke, 3 - Relaxing on the couch. Nice to see my Dad after almost two years. Tomorrow is the 10 minute tour and some more photos. Can't talk anymore got to go.

Pangnirtung Flood

Take a look at the site Baffin Blogers. The link is on the right in blogs we like or use the link below in this post. They are showing pictures of the flood in Pangnirtung and the two bridges that are being affected by the permafrost being worn away. Pangnirtung is currently in a state of emergency because the town has been cut in half with water, sewer and dump on one side and the stores and offices on the other. Simply amazing what is going on there. Check it out.

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Lucky Guy

As I was looking for a picture of my Mom & Dad, in our wedding photos, I came across the one below and realized what a fortunate, lucky guy I am. I Love You Michele.

The Old Man Part 1

My father will be here in two sleeps. Michele and I are getting excited because we haven't seen him for over 1 1/2 years. He is coming up to hopefully find work with Housing Corporation or with the local hamlet office. He is planning to spend the next four years or more here before going back to New Brunswick for semi retirement. I have already been asked to ask him to do some crackfilling when he gets here. I was told to drop him off from the airport and they will house and feed him. LOL. There are only a couple of experienced guys here and they always have more work to do than they can handle. He is a journeyman carpenter who ran his own contracting company from 1974 until 2006. With his experience he shouldn't have a problem finding work. Part 2 will be when he arrives on Thursday afternoon.

Distant Precipitation

There is always misinformation regarding the north and one of those is that the Inuit have 20 different names for snow. Actually all languages have different names for precipitation for example slush, blizzard, drizzle, downpour, hail, blowing snow, etc. are all names for rain/snow precipitation.

Well today as I was looking up the weather forecast for the week and the local weather conditions, as observed at the Cape Dorset Airport at 2:14 pm EDT today, state the weather condition as "Distant Precipitation". I guess the precipitation is coming down but it isn't very engaging. Yes I know that it probably means that there is rain/snow in the distant coming towards us or going by us but the description is what I find amusing. Distant precipitation LOL.

It is little things like this that put a smile on my face and remind me how much I love it here.

Midnight Sunset

Here are some photos of the sun setting at midnight. It doesn't get completely dark just a twilight for a couple of hours. Cape Dorset is just below the arctic circle so we don't get the bright sunshine 24 hours a day. But we still have to cover our windows with garbage bags or tinfoil to keep the sun out. I liked the way the sunset is reflected in the water puddles. The bottom photo is how pink the sky was about 15 minutes to midnight.

Snow In June

*sigh* It's snowing again.

Without Googling the answer, name the band that had an album titled "Snow in June"

*hint* Think up here and fish. :)

Answer is in the comment section.

Fog Sometimes Is Nice

I will let the pictures speak for themselves I don't have the words.

Ice &Clean up

Things have been quiet in town lately so here is an update to an earlier post regarding the ice melting and breaking up. The old post is from May 18 and is called Canadian Tire. When you compare the photos you can see that a lot of the ice has melted. You can still get around this open area to get to Baffin Island.

On another note the Hamlet of Cape Dorset has hired some locals to clean up the garbage around the community. When the snow melts all the garbage from the winter melts out with it.

Burning Sensation

We had company over on Sunday and I decided to make lunch for everyone. I was trying to push the grill back to make more room to prepare the food and my hand slipped on the bottom. (Note to self - clean the greasy bottom of the grill). I only touched the side of the plates for a split second. Well you see the results on the right. Stung for a bit when it happened now I am trying not to break the blisters.