http://www.shirleyofthenorth.dunderbug.com One girl's odyssey into the Yukon Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:19:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a couple of quite cool weeks, we are having a little canicule. I ran into my landlord and his family at the pool. Just his two little girls had been laying down their towels, features obscured by their sunhats; I was thinking how charming little french girls are, and ... http://www.shirleyofthenorth.dunderbug.com/?p=294 As I wait for the muffins to bake: I am amused at the quotes and misquotes from the news coverage of the massive avalanche and mudslide near Meager Creek. These quotes are taken from the online version of a Globe and Mail article today, with a publish date of Monday, ... http://www.shirleyofthenorth.dunderbug.com/?p=289 I'm trying to blog a little more regularly. But in getting online tonight I paused at the Montreal Gazette website, which had a lead story about evidence being released into the public domain now that the Pickton trial is over and the remaining charges against Robert Pickton have been ... http://www.shirleyofthenorth.dunderbug.com/?p=244 (This is actually a post from last week; one of those posts I just don't publish anymore but OK I'll give it a try) I had a good talk last night with my friend ____ , who needs a pseudonym now that she reads my long abandoned blog! We ... http://www.shirleyofthenorth.dunderbug.com/?p=239 (from Sunday, this post but I wanted to check before posting the link) oh so many months ago my friend the golden boy returned from Burning Man, and from three splendid weeks driving the desert, the Oregon shore, and the little beads of rural islands (farms! art!) strung together by small ... http://www.shirleyofthenorth.dunderbug.com/?p=233 It's been bothering me that I haven't been writing these last months, in this blog or anywhere. And somehow I've become stilted: pissed off that I'm not as eloquent these days, I just don't start, waiting, deluding myself that my silence is storing up power, like some Hindu god ... http://www.shirleyofthenorth.dunderbug.com/?p=231 I went on a ski trip for three days this weekend. It should have been easy--under normal conditions it's four to five hours between huts. But it was seven degrees and raining. I hadn't really thought about it: what difference does rain make except more of a ... http://www.shirleyofthenorth.dunderbug.com/?p=211 I flung my windows wide today for the first time in weeks. I had come back from a walk--in Park Lafontaine, sitting on a cleared bench, snow almost at seat-level, the sun was too bright for me to look anywhere, I had had to ... http://www.shirleyofthenorth.dunderbug.com/?p=206 I don't know if it will stick, but tonight is the first real snow of the year. Leaves still linger on a lot of trees, although more are on the ground than on branches, multicoloured coats cast on sidewalks, in gutters, and ruffling the great lawns of Parc Lafontaine. ... http://www.shirleyofthenorth.dunderbug.com/?p=203 My friend Duhane phoned tonight as I was packing for a bike trip. He sold me my new bike. The trip is its first real road test. I told Du that I was packing pretty light. "Take the dresses out," he said. "How did you know?" I ... http://www.shirleyofthenorth.dunderbug.com/?p=202