Happy Labour Day Weekend!
Markus and I have been having a fairly laid back weekend so far. I managed to laze about until 10:30 before Markus tricked me into getting up with his stealthy, Ninja coffee pot.
Next, we headed out onto the land for a couple of hours to collect some blue berries and to try to get on top of one of the large hills behind our house. It never ceases to amaze me how beautiful the surrounding area is. The hill we were climbing is a rather large rock. I could be convinced that this is what it would feel like to be walking on the moon....no trees anywhere to be seen.... seemingly, random large puddles of standing water on top of the hill... the incredible gusts of wind that threaten to carry me off of the hill... Here's Markus trying hard not to be blown away.
While Markus and I were on our adventure this afternoon a posse of kids came up to us to see who we were. We are still obviously new in town. I think we glow of "newbyness". Anyhow, they were pretty nice kids out picking blue berries. The boys were obviously bored with the fine art of berry picking though because they decided to follow us on our climb. They really liked the digital camera and kept asking Markus to "make my picture." They are definitely not camera shy! Here's a picture that they took of us while we were out and about.
When we finally got to the top of the hill the view was breathtaking:
Anyhow, we came home, ate some left over chili and after a much needed nap I tried my hand at pretzels. Oh, we went to buy yeast from the local Northern Store and were a little surprised to find that we had to ask for yeast from behind the counter. Silly us. Yeast is a key ingredient in wine and beer making. Since this town is technically dry it is a controlled substance. There's a lot of other crazy little surprises that you bump into around here. For instance, check out what we found in front of our house this morning:
Today Markus is going out fishing in a large canoe for Arctic Char. Yesterday the people who went out caught 30 fish, so we'll see if he manages to bring back supper.
Anyways, I've got pretzels to bake and lessons to plan. Until next time.
Tootles!
posted by Markus & Colleen at 6:44 PM
4 Comments:
Wow, what is that? Some sort of animal skin?
That view looks breathtaking...that's some pretty amazing scenery...and I'm not surprised by Markus wanting to go climbing nearby hills. Hey Markus, remember Ios? (Wish I had come on that climb...)
Also, Colleen, while I was reading this post, I showed Heather the picture of you crouching down in the grass. She hadn't read your post yet, but she asked "Is Colleen watching grass grow because they ran out of stuff to do?" ;)
Oh wow. Looks suitably rugged up there.
Reminds me a bit of the rocks around Manitoulin except they have trees growing out of them.
Hey Colleen and Markus!
Sounds like you guys are having a blast up there.Have you seen any polar bears yet? I'm kinda wondering if they are as big as my dog or not.....
Its funny because while you guys were being blown away, we, here in Dryden recieved 30 above weather and I managed to get my first sunburn of the year! In september! yeah, I am not impressed.
So... Animal Skin? boy with knife?... connection?
Mom is sending you guys a parcel, and she's sending some yeast... maybe you can make a couple extra bucks and start dealing ;) hehe. Inukjuak's crack.
Anyway, Have a good weekend!
Sonja
I think the REAL hot commodity here would be Pepsi. I hear that soon they won't be flying it in anymore but it'll have to come by barge. Since the kids are addicted to it (all of them drink it daily) it'll be ridiculously expensive once supplies run low. If I get the cheap RC cola sent up and sell it for a couple dollars a can, I could make some real money. Of course, I would only do this if I was a morally depraved man...
Hey Sonja, want to ask mom if she wants to send us 1000 cases of pop?
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