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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Reduced version of blog is back

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 Thanks, everyone, for your advocacy. This pared-down version of the blog is what I am comfortable leaving public in today's situation. ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Overnight lows were -35 C

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 With the wind chill, it felt like -45 C. If you are from the States and don't know Celsius, -35 C is 30 below F. You probably already k...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Quiz of the day: what's this?

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Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Larry the Lynx comes to dinner

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  I looked down the driveway the other day and here came Larry the Lynx strolling along, just a cool cat strutting his stuff. When he got to...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Where did Ojibwe get canoe birchbark?

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There are moments in winter that are just spectacular When we came to Thunder Bay in 1979 one of the first things I learned was that Nipigon...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

An incredible survival tale from 1869

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 I ran across this story in the Nipigon Museum blog. It's about an old, handicapped Ojibwe woman named A-GAT. The story comes from a Hud...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Beautiful skies morning and night

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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

I am charged-up about electric chainsaw

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  MSA 60 Stihl is now my go-to chainsaw I just came inside after a morning of clearing survey lines with my battery electric chainsaw. At ju...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Loons, spruce seeds and fishing

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  Black spruce seed Perhaps the best news of the summer is that the loons successfully nested on Red Lake. The resident pair near our cabin ...
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Monday, September 30, 2024

Warblers are feasting on fall sweets

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The weather here in Northwestern Ontario has been incredibly hot for this time of year. We have had daytime temps of 28 C which is in the 80...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

So close to finishing but we came home

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  The front room just needs the kitchen stove and fridge moved into it and all the trim. Scene off the deck the night before we left. We are...
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Friday, July 19, 2024

Striving to move into new cabin

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I have the deck built on the front of our new cabin now and next will make the stairs that allow us access to the front door. As soon as tha...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Is summer finally making an appearance?

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 The forecast shows highs in the lower 20s C. If true, it will be the first of the season. We have been plagued with rain and cold. Daytime ...
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Saturday, May 25, 2024

Nature notes so far this spring

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A couple of friends from camp spotted a cow moose in Gooseberry Bay, just a hundred meters north of our cabin, a couple of days ago. This is...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Long underwear weather so far

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We had a couple of sunny days at the cabin since arriving last week but mostly it has been cold and wet. There were even snow flurries yeste...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Making a landing strip for white pine seeds

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I scratched up some bare dirt alongside my trail  We have six white pine on our 65 acres in Nolalu and I would like to have more of these ma...
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Sunday, May 12, 2024

Making affordable moves to electricity

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Stihl MSA 60 battery chainsaw cost $350 We will only be taking one vehicle to Red Lake from this point and that will be our eight-year-old D...
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Thursday, May 9, 2024

Red Lake ice-out was May 7

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 Warm temperatures and, more importantly, a high wind took out the ice on Red Lake and all the other water bodies except Trout Lake on May 7...
Monday, May 6, 2024

Ice-out Red Lake -- it's happening

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  EOSDIS Worldview pic today, May 6. Ice mostly gone Brian was able to fly from the river, over the ice and into open water in the narrows a...
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Saturday, May 4, 2024

Wooden lure maker now has website

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Nolalu wooden lure artist Dwayne Kotala has started a website where you can see and order his lures on-line. The site is still under constru...