Sunday Musings

Hello Everyone,
Well, Things are progressing along here. we are preparing for sealift, so lots of re-aranging of the warehouses. We expect sealift on or around Sept 15. Its a beautiful sunny day with a high of 10 C however with the wind it won't feel like that. Christopher has started to come down with our cold, Around 4 this morning he woke us us because his eye had sealed shut with eye goo and this had caused him great distress, But mommy made it all ok.
Hopefully if we're all feeling well this week, I'll take Melissa out on the land and teach her how to shoot safely, while christopher is in Daycare. Since some have expressed concern over the keeping of a gun in a house with a child, I thought I'd describe some of the measure's we've taken to ensure Christophers safety. First the rifle is kept in a gun cases with 2 combination locks on the outside, If he gets past these he will find the bolt of the gun removed and a lock laced through the chamber stopping the bolt from being reinserted. The gun also has a key controlled trigger lock preventing all access to the trigger. The ammunition for the rifle is kept in another locked box hidden in the laundry room closet, on the top shelf. If some one broke in the house it would take us about 15 minutes to get everything together and unlocked in order to use the rifle. However the rifle is not to protect us from intruders it is to protect us from wildlife concerns.
We can still see snow from our front porch, this is a intentional rub at those of you suffering through unbearable heat down south. It has actually been a very cool summer, on the days when the sun is out , it has been too wind y to really enjoy the sunshine.
Things have been undergoing changes at the store and I'll inform you all of them when I'm able, however I expect our next step in the journey to come in early October
Take Care,
CG
P.S. I'm running out of topics, so feel free to fire some questions at us.
P.P.S. The photo with ice in the bay was taken on July 1st.

Belated Posting

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Well its that time of year when sitting at the computer to do this blog is taking a little extra willpower and as of yet I've been losing. The Bay is a hive of activity lately, yesterday the first Beluga whales were spotted in the Bay and later that day there was a Orca hunting in the Bay. I really wish I could post pictures of these events however since you never know where the whale's will surface and they only surface for a instant to take a breath, it's becoming apparent that wildlife photography of underwater animals really sucks. My camera can't focus fast enough before the shot is gone.
Work is progressing along, but we're still uncertain about what the future will hold or when that future will be thrust into the present. Sickness is still wandering around town and has left its effect on our household, we just got over the flu and now we all have colds. I guess we were all a little weak after the relief and more suseptable to what was going around. There was a funeral today for a infant that died yesterday, sad. SID's is susupected but the body is being shipped out to Edmonton today.
The teachers are all back and school started on august 4, Which affected our lives as that was also when Daycare opened and Melissa got to take a well desearved break.
The other day I did a delivery to one of my associates houses and it was quite a experience, The North sufferers from a terrible shortage of public housing. Repulse Bay is one of the worst communities in Nunavut with 5.1 people per single bedroom. This Cabin where my associate and his 6 sisters and mother and father live, is approx 14X12, is located about 3 miles of rocky tundra from town. the "Cabin" plywood building biult ontop of 8 skids has no plumbing, heating, water, electricity or anything else that would make life liveble. His sister have to walk about a hour through difficult terrian to get to school, and to top it off they are in a area frequented by Polar bears.

Anyways I'll see if I can find a couple of photo's to include of the area in which my associate lives,
Take Care,
CG

Christopher's Birthday Cake

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As of ten minutes ago...

One Exhausting Month

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Sorry for the long delay between Posts however it has been a very long month. Replacing both the local managers has truely wiped me out. I fell to the flu on Friday and only put in a half day at work and Saturday was worse, I only went in to open and close the store. Sunday Dave and Dianne returned and I haven't really been out of bed since, but I'm finaaly starting to feel human again. And as usual I infected my family with the flu but they seem to have recovered alot faster than I was capable of. Here are some photo's Melissa took of the random daly moments in Repulse Bay, Nunavut.