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Up early this morning, to get ready for the last of the drive to Yellowknife! After, a walk around Manning before getting back in the car around 9:30 am! After getting gas, we set out for the drive, and before you know it, we were crossing into the Northwest Territories and the 60th parallel! And the bugs were there at the border to greet us! Thank goodness, Mel told me to gas up everytime I saw a gas station and to watch out for bison the road! Where I stopped for lunch was the last gas station I saw until I [View Full Entry]

julie and otis - julie phillips | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 20th 2009 | 71 Views | [diary=429753]

Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories
Northwest Terriotories

There are so many things that I will remember about the Great Northern Arts Festival. The art was varied and impressive. We were able to watch the native artists working on beadwork,yarn, painting and stenciling. There were carving tents to watch the stone, antler and bone carvers. We were able to see several pieces in differnet stages of the creative process. Friday night we attended the ArtCirq. It is a circus performed by members of a small communtiy in Igloolik. It was very entertaining! On Saturday I attended a workshop on Digital Photography. I look forward to doing some unique t [View Full Entry]

Ed and Michelle - Michelle Wulfe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 21st 2009 | 30 Views | [diary=420827]

Stone Carver
Stone Carver
Stone Carving

We made it back to Fairbanks for a couple days to recoup. We wanted to get to the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, so we drove like crazy to get here.... We went almost 400 miles the first day from Fairbanks to Tok, over the Top of the world Highway To Dawson City. Took the ferry across the river and spent a night in Dawson. We got on the Dempster highway, unsure of what to expect. After the experience on the Dalton Highway, we got new tires and hoped for the best on our next 500 mile dirt road. The [View Full Entry]

Ed and Michelle - Michelle Wulfe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 17th 2009 | 64 Views | [diary=419570]

Moose
Brown Bear
Welcome

Hi everyone, happy new year. Sorry for not writing in so long. Things have been a little bit crazy. Over Christmas holidays Dakotah and I travelled back to Kamloops for two weeks of visiting. We had fantastic visits with our friends and Family making trips out to Salmon arm, ice fishing, Clearwater for Church one Sunday and New years eve. But this trip also ended up being a trip of discovery. As I learned that Tim and I will not be planning a wedding anymore. It was a tough holiday season but I know that with God's leading I will be [View Full Entry]

Kelly and Kotah - Kelly and Dakotah | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 24th 2009 | 43 Views | [diary=366721]


The winter is actually here now. It snowed about 20 centimeters yesterday. I finally figured out how the people here say there is lots of snow here. They really dont get many snow falls but it never melts so there is accumulation. The walk to work was cold today (minus 18) and I have not bought a proper jacket yet so I have improvised. My scarf gets wrapped up over my head and I wrap a long piece of fleece around my bum because my jacket's not long enough. Ya, I look a little ridiculous but I'm warm. That minus 18 [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 31st 2008 | 181 Views | [diary=340122]

View from my Office window
Yellowknife Golf Course
Yes that Faireway

Well, My week. I went out to Edmonton Monday night for a Job interview Tuesday Morning. I spent some great time with my friend Sue. It was fantastic to meet her wonderful little boy. The interview went well and Sue and I did some shopping in the Big City. I flew Canadian North Airlines, What a fantastic service. You get a real meal and when they serve drinks you they give you a whole can of pop. I wasn’t too excited about sitting on the runway for an hour on the way home though. Initially it was because we were waiting [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 4th 2008 | 50 Views | [diary=330591]


What a good day. Mary and I went out to her cabin on River Lake. I let Mary know that I wanted to get out of town this Saturday. She let me know that she had to get out to bale out her boat and invited me to come along. Dakotah and Mary's daughter have become good friends so Dakotah hung out with her while Mary and I and the dogs went out the Ingram trail, one of the two roads out of Yellowknife. We bailed her boat out and took a ride over to her cabin. That is a beautiful [View Full Entry]

Kelly and Kotah - Kelly and Dakotah | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 27th 2008 | 61 Views | [diary=328331]

Me at Mary's cabin
Overlooking Prelude Lake
Forest of the trail...

Light rain. Fog. Nippy. Location:Yellowknife Temperature:5 °C Comfort level:-8 °C Dew point:4 °C Barometer:1000 millibars Humidity:93% Visibility:5 km Wind:41 km/h from 240° Southwest by west Last update:Tue 8:00 AM MDT Light rain. Fog. Nippy. is not how I would describe the weather here today!. It is miserable. It feels like the temperature and moisture of a Vancouver Rain Storm in December. But add to that a gale force wind. I can hear the sideways rain pounding on the side of our office building, feel the walls shake and see the trees bend over with the wind that howls around th [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 24th 2008 | 60 Views | [diary=326942]


We finally got out and took some pictures of the wobbly roads. They built ON the BOG and disrupted the permafrost. It’s a really weird experience driving on these roads, the pictures really don't do it justice. It feels a lot like you are driving on a roller coaster. Like that kids elephant ride at the PNE. We can’t believe that the road has sunk so much in places and the concrete doesn’t crack, it just bends down and sinks into the ground. Oh and I got some pictures of a couple of guys working on building a house too. It's [View Full Entry]

Kelly and Kotah - Kelly and Dakotah | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 22nd 2008 | 66 Views | [diary=326106]

Dakotah's 1st Parka
Building on Bedrock
There'll be lots of Stairs!

This week Its funny that the main thing I have the urge to talk about is my walks to work in the morning. It was rainy and cold here almost all week. It warmed up to 4 degrees Celsius this afternoon. There are digital signs up on the street that tell you temperature. Yay. The school board sign also shows the day of the week in English, French and one of the Native languages here. I haven’t figured out what language it is yet. The puddles on the road were frozen solid on Monday morning but in many ways it reminded [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 20th 2008 | 42 Views | [diary=325438]

Morning City View
The digital sign I see every day