Well here's the video of the ice on the Yukon river. If u listen closly u can hear the ice grinding against the ice on the shore. I"m wondering how long it will take to totaly ice over. Today was a sunny day which of course means taht it will be cold. Started out at -25 and now is -16 so warmed up a bit. I will add more video's of the river freezing over as it get more on it.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Frozen river
This is a river we go over when we go into the village, Its mostly frozen and as it gets colder it will freeze mostly all over. Last year they nearly had the bridge undermined with high water, and large ice blocks, but they were lucky and the river went down and the bridge is ok. I'll get video of the yukon river as it freezes over. When we went into Whitehorse yesterday we went to Wal-mart and i needed an adaptor for my camera to hold the memory card, a dumb thing sony did years ago, and they had one with a 2 g card and now.. yay i can take over 1000 pic's. soo much better and i have another card so i can take it with just incase i need back up lol.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
settling in more
Hummm Maby i should change the name of this from trip to Carmacks to here at last lol.. cause not doing that ever again. when i go to get the last of my stuff im flying and shipping my stuff back here and flying back. No more 4 day driving trips for me. Bill and i might drive places in the summer but we will be able to take turnes which is much better. and will have a human to talk to unlike my trip here with only buster and Kyia to talk to. not so good :) My computer room is all done now. Just need some shelves up to put stuff on and i have a shelf to put in the living room somday also. I'm trying not to think of all the work i have to do at the old place. UG there is alot that can go to the kids or get sold in a yard sale and what does not get sold or taken can go to the second hand store and she can deal with it.. tired already lol.
Bill came home for lunch and i have a video of him playing with Buster. He realy likes buster..
they had a good time as u can see lol had to rescue the hat finally.. :)
Bill came home for lunch and i have a video of him playing with Buster. He realy likes buster..
they had a good time as u can see lol had to rescue the hat finally.. :)
Sunday, November 1, 2009
halloween and video of place
well that was fun. waited all evening and finally had 3 kids come. so we have some candy for us...lol
the places are not too near each other so makes going from door to door tough. in the village there are houses closer together so the kids prob went there and they ahd a party at the rec center for the kids so could keep out of the cold. it was -6 here last nite :) and snowing still.
so ma adding a new video of the place. a kinda tour..lol enjoy lol
Saturday, October 31, 2009
settling in
Well its been near 2 weeks here and its gotten better. i know my way around to most palces and bill has shown me some of his fav spots to relax, the views that he has shown me are awsome. I have settled in and my puter room is squared away and the pets have there pillows and blankies to lie on. We tried to set up my tv but the satalite will not let us run a splitter and use the 2 tv's so till spring and we get a new sat dish with the 4 coaxal attachments on it, we will jsut make do for now.. its colder here of course but i do not mind it at all. We went shopping in Whitehorse for fppd etc and I got winter boots and a realy nice winter jacket. fleece lined and down filled. warm.. :) we do the main part of our shopping in Whitehorse as the store here is too expensive for alot of shopping. so its a whole day to do that. 2 hrs there and 2 back.. so we shop and eat and take our time. I have feen the phesents and played with the 2 outside dogs, Sasha and Spirit, and had to find the escape spots of Dell, on of the little dogs, she is an escape artist and not always easy to get back in the yard.. she's funny. Kyia is not fond of the snow unless we are walking and she can run. Buster does not care of course but when it gets colder, will be a different story.
As for Bill and I. Its going great. Nice to have someone in my life again to share with. and he is sweet and funny. we are going to have a good life and there is lots to do when it gets nice out, like camping, fishing and when he gets the snow moblie fixed. we can go out on that. will be fun.
Have met alot of his friends and they all say pretty much the same thing, "have heard alot about you." lol bill has told everyone ablut me coming up to be with him. His best friend invited us over for dinner. was great him and his wife own a b & b that is realy nice and we had a great roast beef dinner with potatoes etc yummmm. they are realy nice. well still have more time to settle in and will be looking for a job in a bit unless my ui kicks in.. lol am liking the time off to be honest. am being the homemaker.. and its kinda fun for a change. anyways. enough for now.. maby add more later after i've been here a while.
As for Bill and I. Its going great. Nice to have someone in my life again to share with. and he is sweet and funny. we are going to have a good life and there is lots to do when it gets nice out, like camping, fishing and when he gets the snow moblie fixed. we can go out on that. will be fun.
Have met alot of his friends and they all say pretty much the same thing, "have heard alot about you." lol bill has told everyone ablut me coming up to be with him. His best friend invited us over for dinner. was great him and his wife own a b & b that is realy nice and we had a great roast beef dinner with potatoes etc yummmm. they are realy nice. well still have more time to settle in and will be looking for a job in a bit unless my ui kicks in.. lol am liking the time off to be honest. am being the homemaker.. and its kinda fun for a change. anyways. enough for now.. maby add more later after i've been here a while.
needed password ug
well its been a long tiime since i did this, i could not remember my password and jsut never realy tried to get it again.
i have been here 2 days less than 2 weeks. Not long at all but sorta seems like quite a while.
getting to know the village and where everything is. Its beautifyul here. kinda wild and rustic.
talk about frountier land. village is tiny, mainly a gas stop along the way to somewhere else, like Dawson city and alaska etc. The animals have gotten used to each other but we have no introduced the big dogs to each other yet. soon though. cats have finally pretty much stoped hissing at each other.. good sign..lol. as for Bill and I, its getting better all the time. have to remember we only realy met 3 times but have been talking for over a year. He is who he is. no pretence's at all. can't remember what last post was but was probly before the van broke down.
That was kinda icky. I started having trouble at alice pass, with the oil lite coming on and the engine ticking at times. got more oil and in fort nelson i got some stuff that was realy think and would give the engine more life. worked for a while but i kept coming around corners and there were elk and big horn sheep and of course i had to stop for them as honking would not make them move. They were after the salt on the road. and then the lite stayed off but was getting more ticking. Stoped at Rocky mtn lodge and called Bill and told him that he would have to come and get me. That the Van was ticking and would not make it. I told him i would try and get to next phone but if i didn't call him, please come and get me..:) as the van would be dead. The cell phone didn't work here a=either.. rockys and all lol. Well i made it to the horsprings and it was closed and no phone so i went on trying to make it to Watson Lk. HaH!!! the van died 5 k's from there. ug.. let it rest for a bit and tried to start it and it turned over and then went.. clunk clunk bang... lol. i got out and looked and there was oil coming from the sides of the engine etc. so i blew the heads etc.. van was offically dead. i flaged down some ppl and asked the fella to please call Bill when he got to Watson Lk and tit was ok to call collect. He would have taken me and the dogs with them but i could not leave all my stuff... so they left after making sure i had food and water. as long as it was lite out it was ok. when it got dark then it got scarie.. i was in the middle of no where.. litterly.. 206 k's from watson lk and many hours from Bill. i had no idea if the ppl had gotten ahold of Bill and i knew Bill was on his way but how tired was he and what were the roads like nad how long till he got to me. I happened to have my book on my mp3 player so i listened to it and it realy helped me get through the hours.. i got gave the message to the ppl at 2:30 and bill got there at 12 :30. 10 hrs it took for him to get to me. I was never so glad to see anyone in my life. and he was releaved that i was ok too. what he thought of was getting to me as i was out there on my own..and i didn't like being out there on my own.. :). gave him a big hug when he got there and we sat in his truck for a bit to warm up when started loading my stuff into his truck. the cats in their kennel went tion the back seat with my plants and the blankets on the back seat for the dogs.. all my totes and boxes finally fit in the truck and we tarped it and away we went... bill was soo tired but wanted to get to watson lk at least... 206 k's away ..... well we made it and it jsut started snowing when we got there.. we had a bit to eat and then parked and slept for a couple of hours. Not enough but all we could manage.. had sorta breakfast and left watson lk. ug the road jsut out of town was a sheet of ice.. u could have skated on it, no problem.. we fish tailed a few times down a small hill and Bill got it under comtroll and pulled over to the shoulder and got out to see how slippery it was , and wow...bad.. we drove along the side many miles. There were trucks all along the hwy stoped cause could not go up or down the hills. The worst Bill has ever seen it. We drove like that for a long time not going over 30 k ever.. usually less. as the road allowed. finally about half way to whitehorse the roads got better, sanding etc helped alot of course. We stoped in Whitehorse for food and much needed coffee for Bill. got supper for home cause had no intention of cooking.. and we left for Carmacks. This made Bill feel better as he knows the road well and knew taht it was only 2 hrs to home. My poor cats had not been out of teh kennel at all in the 4 days and the dogs had had some out time but were mainly in a small place in the front of my van and in a small space in the back of the truck.
roads were good and we made good time home. got here at 6:00 monday the 19th of oct. sigh was soo happy to be here. we let my dogs out while we unpacked the cab of the truck then put them back in and unloaded the back. my puter room was a great spot to put it all. nicely out of the way. Dogs were then let in house and checked the p[lace out and then we let his dogs out and they all got along great. cats were on my puter room and finally out of the kennel. there was a bit of snow on the ground here and i had seen pic's of it all but it was not the same as seeing it on my own. Its very wild and rustic and beautiful. i love it here and it will be a great life for us.
i have been here 2 days less than 2 weeks. Not long at all but sorta seems like quite a while.
getting to know the village and where everything is. Its beautifyul here. kinda wild and rustic.
talk about frountier land. village is tiny, mainly a gas stop along the way to somewhere else, like Dawson city and alaska etc. The animals have gotten used to each other but we have no introduced the big dogs to each other yet. soon though. cats have finally pretty much stoped hissing at each other.. good sign..lol. as for Bill and I, its getting better all the time. have to remember we only realy met 3 times but have been talking for over a year. He is who he is. no pretence's at all. can't remember what last post was but was probly before the van broke down.
That was kinda icky. I started having trouble at alice pass, with the oil lite coming on and the engine ticking at times. got more oil and in fort nelson i got some stuff that was realy think and would give the engine more life. worked for a while but i kept coming around corners and there were elk and big horn sheep and of course i had to stop for them as honking would not make them move. They were after the salt on the road. and then the lite stayed off but was getting more ticking. Stoped at Rocky mtn lodge and called Bill and told him that he would have to come and get me. That the Van was ticking and would not make it. I told him i would try and get to next phone but if i didn't call him, please come and get me..:) as the van would be dead. The cell phone didn't work here a=either.. rockys and all lol. Well i made it to the horsprings and it was closed and no phone so i went on trying to make it to Watson Lk. HaH!!! the van died 5 k's from there. ug.. let it rest for a bit and tried to start it and it turned over and then went.. clunk clunk bang... lol. i got out and looked and there was oil coming from the sides of the engine etc. so i blew the heads etc.. van was offically dead. i flaged down some ppl and asked the fella to please call Bill when he got to Watson Lk and tit was ok to call collect. He would have taken me and the dogs with them but i could not leave all my stuff... so they left after making sure i had food and water. as long as it was lite out it was ok. when it got dark then it got scarie.. i was in the middle of no where.. litterly.. 206 k's from watson lk and many hours from Bill. i had no idea if the ppl had gotten ahold of Bill and i knew Bill was on his way but how tired was he and what were the roads like nad how long till he got to me. I happened to have my book on my mp3 player so i listened to it and it realy helped me get through the hours.. i got gave the message to the ppl at 2:30 and bill got there at 12 :30. 10 hrs it took for him to get to me. I was never so glad to see anyone in my life. and he was releaved that i was ok too. what he thought of was getting to me as i was out there on my own..and i didn't like being out there on my own.. :). gave him a big hug when he got there and we sat in his truck for a bit to warm up when started loading my stuff into his truck. the cats in their kennel went tion the back seat with my plants and the blankets on the back seat for the dogs.. all my totes and boxes finally fit in the truck and we tarped it and away we went... bill was soo tired but wanted to get to watson lk at least... 206 k's away ..... well we made it and it jsut started snowing when we got there.. we had a bit to eat and then parked and slept for a couple of hours. Not enough but all we could manage.. had sorta breakfast and left watson lk. ug the road jsut out of town was a sheet of ice.. u could have skated on it, no problem.. we fish tailed a few times down a small hill and Bill got it under comtroll and pulled over to the shoulder and got out to see how slippery it was , and wow...bad.. we drove along the side many miles. There were trucks all along the hwy stoped cause could not go up or down the hills. The worst Bill has ever seen it. We drove like that for a long time not going over 30 k ever.. usually less. as the road allowed. finally about half way to whitehorse the roads got better, sanding etc helped alot of course. We stoped in Whitehorse for food and much needed coffee for Bill. got supper for home cause had no intention of cooking.. and we left for Carmacks. This made Bill feel better as he knows the road well and knew taht it was only 2 hrs to home. My poor cats had not been out of teh kennel at all in the 4 days and the dogs had had some out time but were mainly in a small place in the front of my van and in a small space in the back of the truck.
roads were good and we made good time home. got here at 6:00 monday the 19th of oct. sigh was soo happy to be here. we let my dogs out while we unpacked the cab of the truck then put them back in and unloaded the back. my puter room was a great spot to put it all. nicely out of the way. Dogs were then let in house and checked the p[lace out and then we let his dogs out and they all got along great. cats were on my puter room and finally out of the kennel. there was a bit of snow on the ground here and i had seen pic's of it all but it was not the same as seeing it on my own. Its very wild and rustic and beautiful. i love it here and it will be a great life for us.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
start of second day
morning ug its 7 am and i've been awake for a bit. will be out of here by 7:30
weather up to fort nelson is nice today and tomorow there will be snow in whitehorst and watson lk
but will take it easy.. as im driving in the day time... :)
should be in fort nelson buy about 7 515 miles... try to up date tonite but will see if i get wifi etc..
weather up to fort nelson is nice today and tomorow there will be snow in whitehorst and watson lk
but will take it easy.. as im driving in the day time... :)
should be in fort nelson buy about 7 515 miles... try to up date tonite but will see if i get wifi etc..
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