Sunny but cold

Sunday - today the temperature is minus 40. But we're fortunate, no wind chill. Wood smoke from all the chimneys curls straight into the air. And the sun is out - rises above the horizon at 11:30 now, although there's light in the sky at 9:30 a.m. The orange ball is dazzling as it moves in a straight line along the horizon just above the distant snow peaked mountains, and then slowly sinks behind the horizon around 3 p.m. But it's light until 4:00 p.m. now. Each day there's longer daylight. While it's up there's a pink glow on the mountains and there's heat in the sunlight.

Ate caribou ribs last night - put in a pan with a bit of oil, add a potato cut in half and cover. Cook slowly in the oven at 245 degrees for 6 hours. Delicious!

Caribou are at Crow Flats and people are driving out there on their snowmobiles to hunt. Takes about five hours to get to where the caribou are. One hunter sank through the deep snow and through overflow ice that hadn't frozen completely with being insulated by the snow. He managed to get his machine out and unfrozen. People are anxious for fresh caribou meat.

Susan

one more week

the weather seems to be changing to cold. lots of ice fog rolling in. everyone is in winter mode. but the sun hit the mountain on monday and today the far edge of town had some sun for a few minutes so spring is approaching even though it is 3-4 months away. we have enough wood in our yard for the winter so ok.
have a great day
barry

First Blog From Old Crow

Good day to everyone. We just signed in so this is more of a test than anything. Old Crow, Yukon, Canada, is north of the arctic circle. We are a community of 300 mostly First Nation residents. The First Nation is the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.
Our community web site is www.oldcrow.ca
Have a great day. The temperature today is -30C.
Please feel free to ask questions.
Barry and Susan