Igloolik024Mar

The paramedic working in Emerg gets off at 8a.m. when he is relieved, and needs a ride home. Sure it is a whole 2 blocks...but he's tired...and it gave me a chance to take a few snaps for the album. This view is out the side of the centre by the front door. Farthest at the back of the photo is a ridge- thats where the cemetary is that I may have had a picture from last year. Further up that road accross is the dump- no pictures there! I did a pan on video, but 14 seconds is too big a file. Five seconds is to big a file to send. Am I doing this right?? These next two pictures are the highschool and the arena. The school is quite modern and nice- and I hear is well equiped. I've only been up the driveway, next to the front field, where one of the nurses stuck her truck off of the driveway... I'm not criticising- been there. It has been a challanging last few days driving wise. The snow fall almost daily blowing and drifting, followed by a couple of days of mist and over...

By the end of the four day Easter weekend, followed by "Hamlet Day" Tuesday roads and parking lots were a mess with drifts and snow accumulations. No-one moved a grader or plow for the five days except maybe at the airport. And yes- I did get stuck...again. The nice on call suspervisor for Municiple Services jumped into his truck and came right to pull me out. UGH. Thats three times this year. I'm embarassed. So what do you do with a free evening, two hours to kill and nothing on tv? You bake cookies!! Yes, they were as good as they look. I did only have a few (really!) I baked them for staff and brought 24 into the lunch room. They were gone by afternoon so I have to think they were successful. Between having two roomies and the other guards that come and go on their rotations, there were five open jars of peanut butter between the cupboards. Now theres not. Wonder what to try next.

..Red skys at morning- sailors take warning. I have wondered if that saying came from British maritimers- they'd be looking west, not east...so does it still apply if you are looking east? or is it an east coast US saying? Does it matter? I always enjoy the red sunrises here, or in the late Fall, the constant red horizon. But back to the red skys at morning, I have found that more often than not, rain or snow or foul sailing weather is on its way. Yes, the snow came. Only a few inches blew around, but mixed with occassional fog was enough to cancel the flight in on Friday. Which means there was no fight out. Which means that the dentist and his assistant got to stay the weekend and work the Easter weekend. Ahh the realities of working up north. Much quieter today, Sunday- only one patient in so far today. I have knocked on wood. It was nice returning to Igloolik and finding that about three quarters of the medical staff and almost all of the local staff are the same as whe...