A week with Jess Sellers

Jess is a good friend whom we met many years ago in the Rouge. We worked together numerous times for FRW and send postcards back and forth from our travels (Jess does a lot of traveling). So it was exciting when she said that she wanted to come up and visit us after her apple picking and pine and morel mushroom harvesting contract (with a pit stop in Toronto to change equipment, including warm clothes).

In preparation for our upcoming visitors, we salvaged wood from the Transformation Station, and built a 4-shelf unit to hold our camping gear, so that we have more room in the coat room for people's luggage. The dogs soaked up the sun as we worked in the backyard last Sunday.

They are the cutest squinters!

Jess and Colin spent their days exploring and working around our place. They took the dogs up Montana Mountain in Carcross, and although it was a cloudy day, there were some incredible sights. There were even some caribou sightings, which Jess caught on film.

Thursday was a perfectly sunny day, in celebration of the last Fireweed Community Market.

Colin and Jess spent another productive day doing things around home on Friday, and then we packed up for a trip down to Skagway, Alaska. We heard that Sasquatch Prom Date was playing at the Red Onion Saloon, a band that Tricia, Sam and Lauren had seen play in Dawson in July.

We can see out the back again!

Sasquatch Prom Date, a Whitehorse rockabilly band. So awesome!

Jim Robb is a Yukon artist who draws/paints local sights and characters

 We camped in downtown Skagway at an RV Park, which was a convenient stumble home from the saloon. After breakfast, we stocked up on (relatively) cheap liquor, and headed back to Canada. We spent some time on the Pass, the magical spot in northern BC that looks like another planet.

Jess departed this morning, and we are now catching up on sleep and getting ready for Justin and his sister Lilian, who arrive tomorrow at noon. Today might be the first day that we turn the heat on- sweaters and slippers are just not cutting it anymore! There was a good inch of ice frozen into the dogs' water bowls this morning, and the sun is not out today to warm the air up.

Bye for now,
Love Lauren and Colin