The Arctic Post

I just wanted to write one last post as the end of the year approaches. 2011 has been a year of change for us as we have moved on to other adventures.

This then officially concludes the updating of The Arctic Post. We will keep it up and running for a few more years as it might give information about the Arctic to people unfamiliar with what happens there.

We would like thank everyone that has made our Northern experience an amazing one and hopefully we will be back one day to live in the Arctic once again.

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This evening we were invited over to Mario and Lise’s place for dessert. It was a great evening. While we were there they said there was another reason for inviting us over. Lise had painted us an absolutely gorgeous painting as a going away gift! We were very surprised and love it! We can’t wait to hang it in our new house.

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We got back from our house hunting trip yesterday. Overall things went really well. We saw 9 houses in one evening.

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A few weeks ago we had some furnace problems because an ice dam had formed atop the chimney. The wind was blowing a down draft in it and shutting the furnace off and blowing some carbon monoxide inside the house. After attempting to get some workers to come chip it off, Mario decided to get a ladder and do it ourselves. No one seemed interested in helping us. I spoke with the fire chief and he was very helpful in lending us one of the fire truck’s ladder as we didn’t have one tall enough to reach the chimney. Long story short, Mario went up there chipped the ice off and everything went back to normal, until today that is…. Read the rest of this entry »

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This past week Etienne went to the school to play badminton with a couple of the teachers and his boss.

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Yesterday (Saturday), Glen called me and said that he was going to build an iglu for Kaya and Iva in their “backyard”. He figured that he had good enough snow to build blocks. Since he needed someone to help him cut and carry blocks (aka a slave) he called me. I figured that it would be a good way to spend the afternoon so I agreed. I also took pity on his sockitis (wink, wink). Carly and I got dressed and, dog in tow, we walked across the street and helped him build his first iglu of the season. It was the first one ever for me since last year I didn’t get to partake for some reason. Here are a few photos mostly taken by Carly. Enjoy!

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Now that the foodmail program is over, I have told Etienne to buy any and all decent (non-spoiled) produce he sees at the store. He has come home with a couple interesting (produce and non-produce) purchases.

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I always knew when we moved up here that our time would come to move. I just didn’t realize that it would come this soon!

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This is a picture of what our fridge looked like this morning!

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Today Etienne showed me this article he read from the Globe and Mail. I had a chance to read through it today. It is a really long article, but definitely worth the read.

It’s about the History of Nunavut and an explanation of why the territory is plagued with social and economical issues. There really isn’t a lot of finger pointing or someone trying to save the world in it. It is more information of what the journalist found while traveling through the territory interviewing different ranks within society.

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