Author: Rae

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Digging Deep

I had a full day off Sunday and the weather wasn’t great; cold that eventually turned to rain. I decided that it was a stay in day to knock off a to-do list that I’ve been ignoring for months: emptying out all the overhead cabinets (except the pantry ones) and reorganizing everything. It was kind of a funny thing to do when I just got to a new city I’m itching to explore, but it makes sense. Now, I can enjoy my summer.

When I moved in, I essentially put everything where it fit. I knew where things were, but getting to some involved the risk of avalanche. Opening up one of the bins in the dining area was a suicide risk after moving as every time I did so a huge book would fall out!

By this point, I knew where I need things to be and which cabinets are a pain in the you know what to get into (glares at the ones over the dinette). So, I took everything out and put it back in again. It sounds like a huge job, but none of my cabinets were bursting with stuff, so it didn’t take long at all. I was especially glad to get the ones in the kitchen done as putting away dishes was becoming increasingly annoying. I also took piles of books that had been lying flat and put them upright, scattering them throughout the rig. At some point, I might decide to better organize the books, but I have so few of them now and only four places to check, so I’m not sure the exercise would be worth the effort, especially since books come and go.

It stands to reason that when I stumbled into the kitchen this morning to make a cup of coffee on automatic pilot, I had a hard time finding my coffee supplies. Until I remembered that I put them in another cabinet for easier access. 😀

I love reorganizing my home; it’s just as satisfying as moving!

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Midnight Sun, Redux

Here is another picture taken a midnight last night/this morning. It’s obvious that the sun is low to the horizon and there are even hints of ‘sunset colours’, but it’s still daylight out!

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I’ve decided that since I don’t start work until 9:30, I’m not going to get up before 9 and my bedtime is going to be midnight to one AM so that I’m at least working with my natural night owl circadian clock and not fighting two enemies at once.

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Saturday Evening Ice Cream Stroll

For some unfathomable reason, last fall I was able again, after about three years of not being able, to eat ice cream. Since then, I’ve been making up for lost time, but keeping moderation in mind. 🙂 I really enjoy going out for an ice cream and a stroll on a sunny evening, especially at the end of a work week. So, when I saw the manager come in with an ice cream this afternoon (after leaving me all alone in the office!), I asked her where she got it.

Turns out that Dawson City has a proper ice cream parlour. Whitehorse doesn’t have one!!!

This store is called Klondyke Cream & Candy. It’s located on Front Street.

I’m told that the cost of living in Dawson City is about 15% higher than in Whitehorse, but I have yet to see that in luxury items like restaurant food and booze at bars. Even so, I was surprised to discover that a one scoop regular cone of ice cream here is just 2.50$. Two scoops are 3.50$. Add a dollar for a waffle cone. The selection of flavours was impressive (they even had an excellent copy of my favourite Baskin Robbins flavour) and they have soft ice cream, frozen yoghurt, milkshakes, etc.

It’s going to be so nice to bike into town one or two nights a week, get a treat that won’t even nudge the budget, and partake in dairy goodness as I walk along the Yukon River enjoying the late day sun, which, really, isn’t all that different from the routine I formed when I was in South Surrey. Just substitute ‘Pacific Ocean’ for ‘Yukon River.’ 😀

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On the Move Again

After two full work days at Bonanza Gold, I decided that three weeks of work here wasn’t going to do it for me. So, I had a chat with the manager and I’m now here for three months. This meant that a 15A non-sewer site was no longer going to work for me and I moved to a much nicer FHU site with less traffic. Moving tends to suck, but in such circumstances, it’s a Good Thing. I now have trees, shade, a place to park the car next to the rig, and I don’t have to go dump every week meaning that I can really hunker down for the season.

So, I’m spending the whoooooooole summer in Dawson City!!! I’m taking two and a half or so weeks off in July to do the Chilkoot, of course! I’ll leave the rig here where I have a million cat sitters available to me and go to Whitehorse and back by car.

I don’t think I’ve said this in a while so:

I LOVE THIS LIFE!!!!