Physics 101: Bodies in Motion...

Hello Everyone,
We had a little bit of excitment today when we had a Cat clearing the ice off the parking lot in front of the store. When you look at a Cats tread's they are designed to have incredible traction going forward and backwards, but when you put it sideways on a incline it has alot of skates enabling it to move sideways effortlessly. The result is the pictures above, a cat collects a ski-doo and impales it around a post. No one was injured in the filming of this incident, please don't try this at home.
Take Care,
CG

Sunday Musings

Hello Everyone,
The good weather continue's and the town is a hive of activity with all the mine meetings going on and all the locals heading to the land while the nice weather lasts. I remeber while I was at Wal-mart, we'd constantly have What were they thinking moments when recieving new frieght, Well here at baker we have the topper. Yesterday while unloading our planes frieght we found someone had the wisdon to ship us a Lawnmower for our spring selection. Now that will be useful as soon as someone ships a lawn up here.
Christopher is still plugging away at potty training without success, Melissa is learning and doing her first cross-stich projectand I'm out of things to say.
Take Care,
CG

Spring In Baker

Hello Everyone,
Its a beautiful spring day in Baker, however I don't think winter is done with us, not by a long shot but it was a great day outside. Just a couple of photo's from today. The kids on the Honda have set a new record for me, all six were able to leave on the ATV and not a adult to be found... As I've said things are different here.
Take Care
CG

Proud to be Canadian?

Hello Everyone,

Recently we have all heard stories of Keesathawan where governmental incompetence resulted in contaminated drinking water in a aboriginal community. A friend of mine from Baker Lake was recently transfered to a small community in Keewaywin Ont. Upon his arrival he was warned not to drink the water. It seems a few years ago water tests found that the water table in this area was contaminated with Uranium. No attempt's seem to have been made to provide this community with clean water. The fish in this area are all contaiminated and shouldn't be eaten, which would lead me to speculate that all wildlife would share this assessment. The store provides pure water to the community but how safe can it be to shower,wash dishes or any of the other daily activities in which we need water. Why do we allow people to live in this condition? Because it isn't in the news? Because these people are less desearving than others who live in cities? When you turn on your TV your shown appeals from various organisations to assist providing water to african communities that exist where no water is found, and we voluntarily send money to assist these people when we have the same troubles in our own backyard and we do nothing. It seems growing up in Southern Ontario we were insulated against these realities by our own well being. We feel free to complain of wait times in hospitals and the state of our roads when we promote these conditions within our own communities.
I'm sorry for the preachy tone of this post but I wanted to express some of the shame I feel myself towards my own ignorance of the plight of our native communites. Sit back have a glass of water and appreciate it, not everyone in this country can.
Take Care
CG