weekend update

So, hey. Hi!

I have had trouble lately knowing what to say on this blog! Unfair since I devour others' blogs regularly and always enjoy hearing even banal day to day doings. Heh, I typo'd banal and left off the "b". I went ahead and fixed that to avoid unnecessary googling.

Did I tell you bunch that I'm volunteering at the Humane Society? It's just up the road from work, a benefit to being located at the north end of town. My work buddy and I head out every day at noon and get a couple mutts to walk around with for about half an hour, then we head back out to the office. This has multiple benefits:

1. I'm finally actually volunteering! It has been a while since I could say that.

2. I get out every day in the most daylit part of the day, good for vitamin D and mental health as we continue to lose light every day.

3. It gives me a dose of dogs hen I can't have one myself at home. Soooooo nice.

4. The dogs love it, they get out, they get personal attention, they get socialized which helps them get adopted, and if they were abuse or abandoned, they get one more good human experience to counteract their previous experiences.

5. My buddy is going to adopt one (then maybe another) of some of our faves! Vicarious success!

6. I get exercise myself, AND out of the office. Every day. So good.

The Humane Society up here as established from an estate donation, and it's the only no-kill shelter north of 60. I found out that one of my favourite dogs to walk is not up for adoption because he's only on loan, sort or. It turns out the humane soc. has a deal with one of the emergency women's shelters, so they'll take in the pets of women who have had to flee home on very short notice. The pets are cared for then returned when the women are able to care for them again. I can only imagine how important it would be to have the unconditional love of your own pet. So they do good work.

The humane society will be my charity donation this year. Go humane society!

Sooooo, what else? Today is the annual Spruce Bog craft fair for locally made goods and I'm heading out with Christmas on the mind. I have no idea how expensive it might be, of what will be there, or what...hopefully it's cool and affordable!

Tomorrow I head out to volunteer on a dog mushing race, which include kid races, a 'pet dog race" (i.e. dog with NO mushing experience or breeding, and ski-jouring, where someone gets kitted up for cross country skiing then straps a dog on and flies down the trail. Should be interesting..plus it's sponsored by the local brewing company as well as the local Arctic Char fish hatchery so we'll see what happens!

Back soon..with pictures! It's been -20 and it looks like we live in a snow globe at the moment. Beautiful.

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So, I got a nice comment selling viagra and so on on my last post, so I've enabled the stupid word verification thingy. Also, I don't know how to erase comments, so if you want cheap viagra, go ahead and click through.

Super boring

So what! Nuttin' honey.

I went to Winnipeg last week for work. It was cool, I met lots of northerners...seriously northern northerners...Nunavut, NWT, Yukon, Nunavik. A woman a few seats away form me was taking notes in Inuktitut. I have never seen that script flow off the end of the pen and I spent a good deal of time sneaking peeks at her paper, just watching her write.

I sometimes catch myself watching APTN (Aboriginal People's Television Network) broadcasts in First Nation's languages...so interesting and incredible to hear. Here is a picture of Winnipeg, the big city disappearing as I flew into the night. The thing about flying north is....nothing nothing, nothing OH a light! A tiny community! Nothing nothing nothing....

Winnipeg from my hotel room. The bed had one of those sleep numbers beds with a remote so you could control the firmness. Nice idea, in theory. In reality, my digital reader thing was broken and I spent two night trying to get the two halves of my bed to have the same firmness, even just to get it close. The motor was loud and I didn't like too much choice. Just like the relief of going to Quiznos. You ask for a sandwich they give it to you, and if you don't want mayo it's your own damn problem.

I was very happy to see Whitehorse spread out under the plane, and I was happy I packed carry on only and waltzed home myself. It took me about 4 minutes to walk home. I had bought a super warm down coat at the MEC in town and not I'm just waiting for it to be cold enough to wear...

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Starting two days ago a work buddy and I have taken to popping over to the local Humane Society to walk dogs over lunch. When the weather is bad I suppose we'll socialize cats. I love it. I love getting the chance to hang out with dogs and cats and feel like I'm helping. And the walking is really nice too. It's a lovely solution to get me out of the office and to do some volunteering. I'm donating a big bag of diet cat food that Ludwig has made clear is inferior. I like the idea of this shelter, the only no-kill shelter north of 60. Oh also, they took a case to the supreme court over a dog called Trevor...possibly the only such case in Canada? Google Whitehorse and "Trevor the dog" and marvel at the north ;-)

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How normal is everything else? I smuggled my vermicomposting to work as well as my sweet pepper plant, and they are both doing well. It's so warm there! Anyway my worms definitely need to have a baby boom and I think I need to bring them more mushy fruit and veg to start them off. Go little worms !

C'est tout!

5 things

1. Of all the benefits to doing yoga at home, the best is being able to fart freely

2. It surprised me how happy it continues to make me to have stackable recycling sorting bins in our basement

3. I hate putting nails into the walls. I always things it's going to cost us our security deposit.

4. I wish Yukon would sort out butchering laws so I could get local meat easier. It's stupid to ship it from Calgary.

5. I enjoy that, other than mountains and the Yukon River, my view from work is the enormous setting sun biker logo of the Yukon Harley Davidson store.

Bam II