Mid-May Updates

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It's May. 

This is a wonderful thing, because the snow left this month.

Fare-freakin'-well!

You know, when I got here I heard a great many... shall we say? "Northern Myths."

For example:

"It gets cold in the winter, but there really isn't that much snow."

Riiiight.

"The darkness is really short-lived.  It's kind of nice.  You'll like it."

Hmmm.

"Spring happens, and poof!  The snow just evaporates and disappears.  It hardly rains in the spring."

Let's just say that I think the arctic temperatures may affect Northerners' memories of Northern winters a tad...

We can call it survival.

Maybe it will happen to my memory!

It sure is nice to be back outside playing without layers and layers. 

Admittedly, we are still in favour of winter hats and wool socks on many days. 

And, boots.  We love boots. 

It's been rainy, lately, which reminds me of Halifax, except that Yellowknife has a very COLD rain, not the humid, foggy rain of Halifax.

Wait?  Do I miss the foggy fog?

Daddy has been diligently observing the ice melt in the lakes. 

He's a wee bit anxious to take the boat out on the water! 

Not much longer... but, not yet. 

He has been tempted to take the boat to the boat launch just to launch it and take a picture of it in the lake with the ice around!

He saw this fellow in the Canadian Tire parking lot...

Ah!  Yes, Canadian Tire... the universally accepted location for Canadian men to bond, grunt, and talk about ways to trick big fish with teeny tiny brains into biting onto bait... a multi-billion dollar industry.

I think Eli felt some hopefulness when he snapped this picture.

Yes, life is good in May when you can play on the equipment with no mittens on. 

No mittens makes scaling the big rocks in the playground much easier, too. 

We hope you are having a great spring, where you are!