Rae | September 4, 2010
I misjudged how much cat food I was going to need to finish off the season and found myself having to buy a bag here in Dawson. The best place to buy pet supplies is the Home Hardware, so that’s where I went. They carry the small bags of Whiskas, the food my cats eat. [...]
Rae | August 25, 2010
Fall crept up on the Klondike while I was in Inuvik. We’ve had beautiful, hot, afternoons, but the nights are cold and the mornings cool. It feels like mid-October in western Quebec. I started work early this morning, so it was a real pleasure to be done for the day at 2. I went to [...]
Rae | August 4, 2010
After cruelly taunting us for months, summer has arrived in full force! It wasn’t even noon today that I raced back home to shut the windows and roof hatches and put the AC on auto. When I came back a few hours later my grateful cats were lying under the air vents. It’s so hot [...]
Rae | May 25, 2010
I’m slowly settling into my spot; but I haven’t done nearly as much as I would have thought by now. I work 42 hours a week at the RV park in theory, but it’s really closer to 45, and then I do 10 to 20 hours at my contract. It’s this big workload that has [...]
Rae | May 25, 2010
Today started off slooooooowly. I needed to go in at noon, rather than my usual eleven, so, of course, I woke up quite early by my standards: quarter past nine. I then made up for that by spending more than an hour in bed with the cats reading, checking my email and getting work done [...]
