Survivng the Winter

Well it has been a very long time since we have updated this blog and for those who care I do apologise for that.
So where to begin, well first up Cath and I had a great time over Christmas and really enjoyed spending some quality time with my Cousin and her family, since we have got back there has been so much that we have been getting up to.
Catherine has been busy making a pair of Moosehide Mocasians with Beaver fur trim, I think she has really enjoyed making them and has been working with one of the Elders who has been helping her with the more difficuly parts (probably most of it). Catherine has been off to Fort Simpson for a fiddling camp (that's the musical instrument obviously) and has relly got into Cross country skiing nd  bit of Biathlon as well. As for me I have been keeping as busy as I can with a dodgy back, that's right all the problems with ny groin and it turns out I had never pulled or torn it, in fact I have a slipped disc in my back which is a bit of a bitch really, but now I know I can look after it a lot better, and hipefully get a scan and get it sorted when I get home. I have also been out Ice fishing, it was awesome took the Skidoo out to a lake around 20km away and then sat there looking at a hole for 4 hours in the freezing cold, no fish surprisingly; still the view was amazing, and ripping a snow mobile over a frozen lake at near 100kph was pretty exciting. Getting there was no issue, although on the way back I did have a slight altercation with a tree who in my view swirved dangerous before I hit him.

I have kind of left the kitchen behind and am now mostly working in the new community library, it's going to be great once we have updated it a little (getting rid of the Hanson Biographies and atlas that still have west and east German), I am really enjoying helping sort it out, buying new books, laptops and magazine suncriptions, also electronacally filing all the books and recatagorising the shelfs. It seems like a lot of hard work, but hopefully it will be something that has a lasting impact in the community.

I also have lots of travelling in the coming months off to Yellowknife for a week on Tuesday to take a couple of students to a heritage fare they are taking part in, then we are off Snowboarding at Powderking (near Fort st John) during spring break. Then we might be off to Hay River, Fort Simpson and Grand Praire for some up coming Soccer compitions (not sure how the girls team I am coaching will do but you never know).

As for the winter, well I think we have lots of snow, but everyone is gutted that we have had so little, we have also got through the worst of the weather we have had a few days when the temperature has been below -45 (more like -55 with windchill). The temperature is kind of crazy it was +5 one day and a couple of days later we are back to the -20's.

OK so quite a long update, but now we are house sitting and hve loads of internet time we will try to keep it more updated and put on ll our pictures we have saved up.

Hoping that Dave has not messed up Britain too much for when we get back